"I can't believe Meiser still has the patience to try work on the article as his changes usually get deleted within hours. - Verdi"
Well, doesn't look like he does have the patience any more, sadly. On Meiser's Talk page on Friday, he said he's now going to give up, exhausted by Patrick Delongchamp's repeated 'delete trolling.' So Meiser has spent a long time protecting the entry from this sad little man on a power trip. Not just Meiser's own work, but the hours and hours of work of all you others who have added to and discussed the Wikipedia entry. This is what community is for. It's all about consensus and support. How can we organize to support Meiser, and persuade this troll to leave it alone? Maybe we can turn the tables and exhaust Delongchamp instead, show him that more people believe in the fuller entry than in his destructive, narcissistic little stub. I'm game. What do you reckon? This is a problem on Wikipedia, individuals who use deletion to exert a kind of tyrannical power over entries. The rule that things must be from a Neutral Point of View (NPOV) can be corrupted and abused to mean that everything that is not sourced must be stripped away. It's an incredible power, to delete everyone else's entries and just leave your own. It's a terrible abuse, I think, and achieves the opposite of what NPOV intended - one view instead of many. To justify it, Patrick Delongchamp needs to be backed by a community consensus, which he is not. I didn't know this was going on. I wish I had - it's the kind of thing that should be discussed here. The wikipedia entry always *used* to be discussed here, however painfully. Usually when someone was trying to exert too much individual influence. At the moment, it's one-on-one with Meiser and this idiot. Let's not be like the townsfolk in High Noon, leaving him to tackle it alone. Let's be like the slaves in Spartacus! Rupert Rupert http://twittervlog.blogspot.com/ http://www.twitter.com/ruperthowe/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/twittervlog/ On 30 Apr 2007, at 09:10, Rupert wrote: That's Patrick Delongchamp of the old vlog cookingkittycorner.blogspot.com which stopped last June when he and his partner broke up. He used to post quite a lot on this Group, but nothing since September, so I guess he's given up interest in Vlogs... other than telling us what is a Vlog and what is not. If you want to have a reasoned discussion with him about the rights and wrongs of this, he published his email here as patnmax at gmail Rupert On 30 Apr 2007, at 03:03, Michael Verdi wrote: This user - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pdelongchamp - constantly fucks with the entry (deleting everything useful in it). It's pathetic. I can't believe Meiser still has the patience to try work on the article as his changes usually get deleted within hours. - Verdi On 4/29/07, Jan McLaughlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has rather been decimated. > > Wow. > > Anybody? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlog > > Jan > > -- > The Faux Press - better than real > http://fauxpress.blogspot.com > http://twitter.com/fauxpress > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > -- http://michaelverdi.com http://spinxpress.com http://freevlog.org Author of Secrets Of Videoblogging - http://tinyurl.com/me4vs [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
