Ben Croshaw to be deleted Wikipedia admin on a rampage
#1
Posted 11 December 2006 - 09:42 AM
http://www.andrewfader.com/
I don't quite understand the process to stop it, and hurling abuse certainly won't help - but if you understand Wikipedia and how it works, why not go help save them?
Ben's page
http://en.wikipedia....iki/Ben_Croshaw
The AGS news about this
http://new.bigbluecu...p?topic=29391.0
m0ds
#3
Posted 11 December 2006 - 03:36 PM
EDIT: Anyone checked out this guy's webcomic yet? I know we're not supposed to personally attack him, but this deserves a huuuge LOL, as he seems very proud of all that shitheap he makes.
EDIT No. 2: Does anyone else think that people who say shit like "I am an administrator (meaning I can block users and delete pages) on several Wikis" should NOT be administrators (meaning they can block users and delete pages) on several Wikis?
This post has been edited by David-kyo: 11 December 2006 - 03:45 PM
#4
Posted 11 December 2006 - 03:42 PM
I say we stalk him, kidnap him while he sleeps, then get him into an underground bunker or something, where we hire a quite huge man to brutaly rape him!
Who's with me?
Quoting other forumers in your signature seems to be the latest craze around here...
My Last.FM profile.
#6
Posted 11 December 2006 - 04:01 PM
Well it shows his name is trying to speak for his actions. Trying to fade away other people's work. Isn't it time he should be fading away?
This post has been edited by Deepsycher: 11 December 2006 - 04:10 PM
#9
Posted 11 December 2006 - 05:22 PM
Yeah, I really don't understand why Wikipedia keeps purporting administrators to be "just like you guys but with more responsibility! If anything they have a bigger mop!! LOL" when in fact as soon as they are granted powers they go completely saddo tosser and devote the rest of their lives to blocking and reverting vandalism etc. and, in fact, acting like kings.
#11
Posted 11 December 2006 - 08:37 PM
Any reason Wikipedia is doing all this now?
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#12
Posted 12 December 2006 - 07:03 AM
Yeah, that's exactly what I've been meaning to ask before. He did mind when JackDark (or whatever his name was) posted some shit about the music in TN. But I guess it's one less problem for him if the page becomes non-existent (is it?). However, the reason we should still do something about this is that it's not only Yahtzee who's affected by this asshole's rampage, but a lot of other freeware game-makers, who, perhaps, do give a shit if their page gets deleted.
#13
Posted 12 December 2006 - 09:23 AM
UPDATE: THE 7 DAYS A SKEPTIC ARTICLE HAS BEEN DELETED! WE MUST FIND SOURCES (wtf?) TO RE-CREATE IT!
#14
Posted 13 December 2006 - 11:57 AM
Not to play the devil's advocate there, but while I think some of these articles deserve to be on wikipedia, I do find some to be kinda redundants. All of Yahtzee's games entries could easily be put in one single article about Yahtzee. Same for Dave Gilbert's games which could easily be both in his entry. There are some that do deserve to be deleted since it's simply nothing but pimping or because it's simply not notable enough in the amateur adventure game community, let alone the AGS community, thus don't have their place on wikipedia.
It's good to see that while the guy seems to be full of himself on his website, he is at least consistent to vote "Delete" on his own wikipedia article.
#15
Posted 13 December 2006 - 07:53 PM
EDIT: Ohhhh, is that what the above post was referring to? Er, sorry. I made a nearly identical comment as well.
This post has been edited by AdamM: 13 December 2006 - 07:56 PM