[Wikipedia-l] User pages

Tue Nov 26 01:38:47 UTC 2002

Zoe wrote:

> What about the case where Lir attributed a quote to me on her User 
> page that I never made?
>
> Zoe
>
You should certainly have a right to defend yourself when attacked 
personally.  A simple "I did not say this" should do or "See the talk 
page" where a longer response is needed.
Ec.

>  Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
>
>     There is only one instance that comes to mind where I would make
>     minor
>     changes to somebody's user page, and that is to fix broken links or
>     multiple redirects incidental to a change somwhere else on Wikipedia.
>     Even there a piping to the correct title while retaining the
>     appearance
>     of the user page is often to be preferred.
>
>     Eclecticology
>