The v-word (was: [Wikipedia-l] User pages)

Mon Nov 25 15:53:31 UTC 2002

On Monday 25 November 2002 10:36, Poor, Edmund W wrote:
> I would really like everyone to stop throwing around the word
> "vandalism" except in the narrowly-described cases of:
> * scribbling graffiti, like "Hi, I'm a newbie"
> * deleting a page without explanation
> * obvious obscenity

"Hi, I'm a newbie" is not vandalism. It's a newbie experiment. OTOH IMHO, 
repeatedly changing Athens to Istanbul in [[Greece]] is vandalism, though it 
is none of the above.

phma