[WikiEN-l] New quest account: User:MyPasswordIsYELLOW

Wed Feb 5 15:06:14 UTC 2003

I think it's just a way to be anonymous. Maybe to avoid to be sued in
Delaware.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jimmy Wales" <jwales at bomis.com>
To: <wikien-l at wikipedia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] New quest account: User:MyPasswordIsYELLOW

> Daniel Mayer wrote:
> > You are now being quoted Jimbo:
> > http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MyPasswordIsYELLOW
> >
> > Can we stop this before it gets out of hand?
>
> It strikes me that the very idea here is silly.  Anyone can login
> and change the password *from* yellow to something else.  If any of
> these accounts does anything bad, that account can be banned for it.
>
> I just don't see what the author of these is thinking.
>
> I have no problem with deleting these as fast as they show up.
> We can treat it like any other vandalism.
>
> --Jimbo
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