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One thing that's not clear in this story is if by "editor" she (and you too) mean the random anonymous stranger who happens to edit a Wikipedia entry, or someon

by jonemo 13y ago

One thing that's not clear in this story is if by "editor" she (and you too) mean the random anonymous stranger who happens to edit a Wikipedia entry, or someone with more privileges/authority on Wikipedia. Because if this is about random strangers starting to edit her article, the problem might not be so much about Wikipedia but about people in general.

moomin 13y ago
Yeah, because there's very little oversight on Wikipedia and just anyone can edit any page from an anonymous IP address without getting reverted in five minutes flat. Seriously, there's no army of anonymous trolls out on the Internet capable of a sustained edit campaign on a single page that just about manages to stay within Wikipedia's rules. It's editors and their sock puppets. More generally, I'm getting tired of people acting like anonymous trolls are a completely separate set of people from normal members of the community. Like it or not, they're the same people. We don't log onto a different account and suddenly become a 14-year-old boy that's scared of girls, we channel our inner 14-year-old boy. Sooner we accept that, sooner we can grow up.
forwardslash 13y ago
From the talk page[1] it looks like it wasn't random anonymous strangers but an established editor who's taken offence to her having, "the gall to complain about her articles" [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Amanda_Filipacchi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Amanda_Filipacchi
- zalzane 13y ago
  Keep in mind that's his _reaction_ to her article, after he removed links which were not in line with wikipedia reference link quality standards. If you consider the context of what that editor is going through right now, his reaction makes more sense. > Due to my policy edits in removing promotional materials from articles relating to Amanda Filipacchi, I have been harassed, stalked and threatened both on- and off-wiki. I have received death threats.

by jonemo 13y ago

moomin 13y ago

Yeah, because there's very little oversight on Wikipedia and just anyone can edit any page from an anonymous IP address without getting reverted in five minutes flat. Seriously, there's no army of anonymous trolls out on the Internet capable of a sustained edit campaign on a single page that just about manages to stay within Wikipedia's rules. It's editors and their sock puppets. More generally, I'm getting tired of people acting like anonymous trolls are a completely separate set of people from normal members of the community. Like it or not, they're the same people. We don't log onto a different account and suddenly become a 14-year-old boy that's scared of girls, we channel our inner 14-year-old boy. Sooner we accept that, sooner we can grow up.

forwardslash 13y ago

From the talk page[1] it looks like it wasn't random anonymous strangers but an established editor who's taken offence to her having, "the gall to complain about her articles" [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Amanda_Filipacchi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Amanda_Filipacchi

zalzane 13y ago
Keep in mind that's his _reaction_ to her article, after he removed links which were not in line with wikipedia reference link quality standards. If you consider the context of what that editor is going through right now, his reaction makes more sense. > Due to my policy edits in removing promotional materials from articles relating to Amanda Filipacchi, I have been harassed, stalked and threatened both on- and off-wiki. I have received death threats.