Rattle1337

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Elonka article

Hi -- I see you blind reverted the Elonka article with the edit comment "reverting vandalism" -- As you have next to no edits here, perhaps you should spend some time learning about our policies here. Specifically, edits that remove vanity nonencyclopedic bragcruft from articles is not "vandalism" but simply the way tihngs are supposed to be done. Falesely labeling things as vandalism so you can wipe out all changes is a tactic mainly followed by people knowing they are doing something they shouldn't. From your teeny tiny edit history here, and the fact that your account was not used in a long, long time, I'd be willing to bet you are either a sockpuppet or meatpuppet of Elonka herself, a known long term problem editor here who seems to want to use Wikipedia for some egoboo voodoo to make believe she is an important person. It's best you not help her do that, as it violates policies here. Have a nice day. 172.144.114.109 06:05, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

172.144.114.109, please watch the allegations there - sounded a bit shady to me. However, I agree with you on the main content of your message - Rattle1337, please watch what you revert - the edit you rolled back was a legitimate attempt at cleaning up the article, and this was mentioned so in the edit summary. However, back to 172.144.114.109, the no. of edits don't really make much of a difference when it comes to credibility - the only thing that suffers from a low edit count is experience when rolling back, which appears to have been the case here. Cheers,  Killfest2  06:09, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi... All you need to do is Google the name of the guy as listed on his user page in combination with Elonka and you can see that they are friends. A barely used account should absolutely not make such edits to articles about their friends, as it is clearly inappropriate. Odds are good she called him in to do it for her, but if not and he just accidentally decided to show up a month later and decided to make the edit on his opown, he should know that that's not a good idea at all. 172.144.114.109 06:13, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

I am not Elonka. However, it is correct I know Elonka. We have both spoken at some of the same conferences. She is a professional contact of mine. That being said, I strongly refute the notion I am a sockpuppet. I simply do not edit as many pages on Wikipedia as I refer to.. This crap may be the reason. I am sure the admins of Wikipedia would agree that I do not deserve dealing with attempts at character assassination on my Talk page because of correcting information within the system.

If there is a better way to format the information in the article, it should be edited in line with that. However, I do not think the removal of truthful and useful information is warranted, or in any way improves Wikipedia as an information resource.

This may be a "barely used" account, but 172.144.114.109 is not even a registered user, parading around as an authority on Wikipedia page formatting. I picked up on this due to a discussion elsewhere about how people's pages were being defaced in the wake of a Binary_Revolution_Radio show on Wikipedia where Elonka was a guest. The irony is, the supposition of the show was that Wikipedia is useful, as even though page defacements and false pages happen often they get fixed quickly.

--Rattle1337 08:14, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

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