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[Nathan]

I don't even know why he uses Flickr anyway - if you have the resources to host your own images, use them.

This post has been edited by Nathan: Mon 4th December 2006, 10:50pm

[Skyrocket]

Raul is no Ph.D. (except maybe in the sense of Piled higher and Deeper). He is a candidate for that degree at the University of the Dully Aware. Lots of Ph.D. candidates haven't any time for sleeping and eating, let alone making hundreds of edits to an encyclopedia. I guess he's just smarter than the other guys at the U.

[Somey]

Lots of Ph.D. candidates haven't any time for sleeping and eating, let alone making hundreds of edits to an encyclopedia. I guess he's just smarter than the other guys at the U.

Of course he's smarter! He's Raul654! How could he not be? Why, the very idea.

I do recall him posting that he was in the crunch period and was going to have to scale back on his WP activities. Does anyone think he's actually doing that? It looks like he's reduced his article-related activities somewhat, and is concentrating primarily on making other users' lives miserable instead. To be fair, he's pretty good at both, I'd have to say!

I wonder which is more distracting, though? I would think the misery-creation would be.

[Daniel Brandt]

Some clever newbie (no, it wasn't me), realizing that I use static IP addresses for my sites, edited the "external links" on my bio that list my sites. The links are hot now, despite the spam blacklist. You will see the IP address instead of the domain name in your browser address bar on your first visit to my site, but everything else is normal.

Will Raul654 swoop down and add the IP addresses to the spam blacklist? Will he change the links in my bio back to the non-hot format?

Does anyone care what Raul654 will do? Not me.

[Daniel Brandt]

New example of vandalism at wikipedia-watch: Vandalism by Raul654, a top Wikipedia administrator

I like it because the spam blacklist talk page says that it "lists strings of text that may not be used in URLs in any page in Wikimedia Foundation projects (as well as many external wikis)." A nice direct tie-in to the Foundation, which shows direct control of Wikipedia by the Foundation.

[Jonny Cache]

Probably ought to use the "permalink" : spam blacklist talk page, as they will often edit things just to falsify what you say. Of course, that's Wikiperma, over dey, not really Perma.

Jonny

[Lir]

Raul refuses to implement any concept of actual law/civil-rights on Wikipedia, supposedly because 'trolls' will abuse it; however, clearly, the real reason is just that he likes absolutism.

It looks like he's reduced his article-related activities somewhat, and is concentrating primarily on making other users' lives miserable instead.

I find that most admins, Raul included, seem to dedicate the vast majority of their time and effort to 'admin' activities -- essentially, they do very little to contribute to the actual encyclopedia, and their main goal seems to be formatting and processing the Wikipedia into what they want, rather than actually helping others to create something.

[Jonny Cache]

Raul refuses to implement any concept of actual law/civil-rights on Wikipedia, supposedly because 'trolls' will abuse it; however, clearly, the real reason is just that he likes absolutism.

It looks like he's reduced his article-related activities somewhat, and is concentrating primarily on making other users' lives miserable instead.

I find that most admins, Raul included, seem to dedicate the vast majority of their time and effort to 'admin' activities -- essentially, they do very little to contribute to the actual encyclopedia, and their main goal seems to be formatting and processing the Wikipedia into what they want, rather than actually helping others to create something.

Here's an ediot count breakdown -- for those who like that sort of thing:

• Wannabe Kate's Tool : Ediot Count for Raul654

This counter takes a while, so hang in there ...

Highlights: 13053/39382 ~ 1/3 of his edits are in the Mainspace of actual articles.

Jonny

This post has been edited by Jonny Cache: Thu 11th January 2007, 2:32am

[guy]

This counter is quicker though less informative; I'm not sure if you can set the URL to specify the user or if you must just type in the name manually.

http://countervandalism.org/Count.php?

[Jonny Cache]

Yes, it looks like you can edit the url string, for example:

• "http://countervandalism.org/Count.php?username=Jon+Awbrey&submit=Count"
• "http://countervandalism.org/Count.php?username=Raul654&submit=Count"

Jonny

[Lir]

1/3 of his edits are in the Mainspace of actual articles.

However, of those, how many are substantive? I've examined some of Raul's edits, and I've found that time and again he is involved in editing wars over Pokemon articles -- and equally stupid affairs. As such, his actual editing performance is even worse than indicated by ediot.

[Skyrocket]

This guy is truly an idiot. Forrest Gump in a Ph.D. program.