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Hi, you protected your talk page, so I can't leave a message there. Saw your msg on talk:latex, if you look at the Latex article you will see there is now stuff about clothing as well. by the way are you on Wipipedia? --Mistress Selina Kyle 04:47, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

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Vandalism
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Using edit summaries or comments that are uncivil, inappropriate or otherwise unconstructive {{subst:uw-bes1}} {{subst:uw-bes2}} {{subst:uw-bes3}} {{subst:uw-bes4}} {{subst:uw-bes4im}}
Page blanking {{subst:uw-blank1}} {{subst:uw-blank2}} {{subst:uw-delete3}} {{N/A}} {{N/A}}
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Misleading edit summaries {{subst:uw-mislead1}} {{subst:uw-mislead2}} {{subst:uw-mislead3}} {{subst:uw-generic4}} {{N/A}}
Frequent or mass changes to genres without consensus or reference {{subst:uw-genre1}} {{subst:uw-genre2}} {{subst:uw-genre3}} {{subst:uw-genre4}} {{N/A}}
Image-related vandalism {{subst:uw-image1}} {{subst:uw-image2}} {{subst:uw-image3}} {{subst:uw-image4}} {{subst:uw-image4im}}
Improper humor in articles {{subst:uw-joke1}} {{subst:uw-joke2}} {{subst:uw-joke3}} {{subst:uw-joke4}} {{subst:uw-joke4im}}
Censorship of material {{subst:uw-notcensored1}} {{subst:uw-notcensored2}} {{subst:uw-notcensored3}} {{subst:uw-generic4}} {{N/A}}
Ownership of articles {{subst:uw-own1}} {{subst:uw-own2}} {{subst:uw-own3}} {{subst:uw-own4}} {{subst:uw-own4im}}
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Inappropriately changing pronouns of BLP subjects {{subst:uw-pronouns1}} {{subst:uw-pronouns2}} {{subst:uw-pronouns3}} {{subst:uw-generic4}} {{N/A}}
Disrupting the taxonomy templates {{subst:uw-taxonomy1}} {{subst:uw-taxonomy2}} {{subst:uw-taxonomy3}} {{subst:uw-generic4}} {{N/A}}
Talking in articles {{subst:uw-talkinarticle1}} {{subst:uw-talkinarticle2}} {{subst:uw-talkinarticle3}} {{subst:uw-generic4}} {{N/A}}
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Uploading unencyclopedic images (image vandalism) {{subst:uw-upload1}} {{subst:uw-upload2}} {{subst:uw-upload3}} {{subst:uw-upload4}} {{subst:uw-upload4im}}
Triggering the edit filter {{subst:uw-attempt1}} {{subst:uw-attempt2}} {{subst:uw-attempt3}} {{subst:uw-attempt4}} {{subst:uw-attempt4im}}
Behavior towards editors
Not assuming good faith {{subst:uw-agf1}} {{subst:uw-agf2}} {{subst:uw-agf3}} {{subst:uw-npa4}} {{N/A}}
Harassment of other users {{subst:uw-harass1}} {{subst:uw-harass2}} {{subst:uw-harass3}} {{subst:uw-harass4}} {{subst:uw-harass4im}}
Personal attack directed at editors {{subst:uw-npa1}} {{subst:uw-npa2}} {{subst:uw-npa3}} {{subst:uw-npa4}} {{subst:uw-npa4im}}
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Adding promotions of objects or ideologies (also spam)
Using Wikipedia for advertising or promotion {{subst:uw-advert1}} {{subst:uw-advert2}} {{subst:uw-advert3}} {{subst:uw-advert4}} {{subst:uw-advert4im}}
Inserting fringe or undue weight content into articles {{subst:uw-fringe1}} {{subst:uw-fringe2}} {{subst:uw-fringe3}} {{subst:uw-generic4}} {{N/A}}
Not adhering to neutral point of view {{subst:uw-npov1}} {{subst:uw-npov2}} {{subst:uw-npov3}} {{subst:uw-npov4}} {{N/A}}
Paid editing without disclosure under the Wikimedia Terms of Use {{subst:uw-paid1}} {{subst:uw-paid2}} {{subst:uw-paid3}} {{subst:uw-paid4}} {{subst:uw-paid4im}}
Adding spam links {{subst:uw-spam1}} {{subst:uw-spam2}} {{subst:uw-spam3}} {{subst:uw-spam4}} {{subst:uw-spam4im}}
Inserting factual inaccuracies and/or libel
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Triggering the abuse filter by attempting to vandalize {{subst:uw-attempt1}} {{subst:uw-attempt2}} {{subst:uw-attempt3}} {{subst:uw-attempt4}} {{subst:uw-attempt4im}}
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Shirley Graham Du Bois
Shirley Graham Du Bois (November 11, 1896 – March 27, 1977) was an American-Ghanaian writer, playwright, composer, and activist for African-American causes. Born in Indianapolis to an Episcopal minister, she moved with her family throughout the United States as a child. After marrying her first husband, she moved to Paris to study music at the Sorbonne. After her divorce and return to the United States, Graham Du Bois took positions at Howard University and Morgan College before completing her BA and master's at Oberlin College in Ohio. Her first major work was the opera Tom-Tom, which premiered in Cleveland in 1932. She married W. E. B. Du Bois in 1951, and the couple later lived in Ghana, Tanzania and China. She won several prizes, including an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for her 1949 biography of Benjamin Banneker. This photograph of Graham Du Bois was taken by Carl Van Vechten in 1946.Photograph credit: Carl Van Vechten; restored by Adam Cuerden

Problems with Wikipedia

The following are mirrored from User:BlankVerse's page, who's sentiments here I agree with. I have not personally had any problems with admins, but I do see it as a problem that the system is so open to abuse currently. The user base is so large, there are always people who will act differently once they feel they have power over people.

Once a user becomes an admin, they are free to do anything they wish


Why is this page black?



  1. Because I am mourning the loss of civility and and the loss of too many good editors from the Wikipedia.
  2. Because the Wikipedia has become a victim of its own success and its internal mechanisms for helping maintain civility have not scaled well.
    1. Requests for comments now generates more heat than light.
    2. Even some members of the Mediation Committee admit that it is not working and skip Requests for mediation and go on to the next step.
    3. Finally there is Requests for arbitration, which takes forever to make decisions, and seemingly refuses to take on the bad behavior of some administrators unless the admin's behavior is so egregious that it can't ignore it.
    4. I will not even attempt to enumerate the other dysfunctional areas of the Wikipedia, such as Articles for deletion.


Just one part of the solution: There are some editors who don't necessarily need to be banned, but just need a time out, which is why the Wikipedia has a temporary blocking process. Well admins are editors too, and they also occasionally step over the bounds of appropriate behavior for editors. What is worse is that they can use their admin tools to do their misbehavior.

Right now there is no quick and effective way to punish a misbehaving administrator or even stop their misbehavior. If another admin blocks them, they can unblock themself. If an article is protected, they can edit it anyway. If they are in a revert war, they can continually use their rollback tool. And they can do all of this basically with impunity.

Because admins are trusted members of the Wikipedia community I feel that their misbehavior must be taken more seriously than those actions of other editors. There needs to be a small group of trusted supervisor administrators who have the ability to temporarily block misbehaving admins from doing any editing for periods of time up to a week and removal of admin powers for at least a month based upon the severity of the misbehavior. Any further misbehavior would be grounds for permanent removal as an administrator and they would have to reapply at Requests for adminship.

(Also, the number of admins is growing so large, and the Wikipedia is growing so complex, that it would be a very good idea to have volunteer "mentor" admins to help show the newbie admins the lay of the land.)
Look at the Requests for adminship page. It says, "Admins...are held to high standards, as they are perceived by some users as the "official face" of Wikipedia." Unfortunately the first part of that statement is not true. Instead, because they are admins, they can do practically anything they want without facing any consequences in almost all cases of admin misbehavior. Because they are admins they are given much more slack than other Wikipedia editors for any of their misbehavior. This needs to be changed.

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