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| * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Previously_banned_user Previously_banned_user] worked on Columba Ryan [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Previously_banned_user]. The account was blocked before the article was completed, by checkuser [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/block&page=User%3APreviously+banned+user]. The checkuser was challenged, on the grounds that there was no abuse, but the the objection was that it could be used "be used to fight vandalism, to check for sockpuppet abuse, and to limit disruption of the project"[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Previously_banned_user]. | | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Previously_banned_user Previously_banned_user] worked on Columba Ryan [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Previously_banned_user]. The account was blocked before the article was completed, by checkuser [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/block&page=User%3APreviously+banned+user]. The checkuser was challenged, on the grounds that there was no abuse, but the the objection was that it could be used "be used to fight vandalism, to check for sockpuppet abuse, and to limit disruption of the project"[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Previously_banned_user]. |
| * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:The_Cement_of_the_Universe The_Cement_of_the_Universe], working on and trying to complete the same article [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Peter_Damian]. Absurdly, the article on Ryan was nominated for deletion on the grounds it was written by a banned user [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Columba_Ryan&oldid=314943937]. | | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:The_Cement_of_the_Universe The_Cement_of_the_Universe], working on and trying to complete the same article [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Peter_Damian]. Absurdly, the article on Ryan was nominated for deletion on the grounds it was written by a banned user [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Columba_Ryan&oldid=314943937]. |
− | * User:Beeblebrox reverts edits by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Short_lived_account Short_lived_account] as follows | + | * User ''Short-lived account'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Short_lived_account] was a short-term account created to fix Wikipedia's problem about the birth date of Duns Scotus - given as 1270, 1265, 1266 in the same article and 1264 in another article. On discovering that SLA was a 'banned user', User:Beeblebrox reverted these edits as follows |
− | ** Changes the birth date of Scotus from 1265 to 1264 (as well as recreating a dead link to John Pecham), with the comment "Reverted 3 edits by Short-lived account identified as vandalism" [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greyfriars,_Oxford&diff=342767078&oldid=342476230] | + | ** He changes the birth date of Scotus from 1265 to 1264 (as well as re-creating a dead link to John Pecham), with the comment "Reverted 3 edits by Short-lived account identified as vandalism" [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greyfriars,_Oxford&diff=342767078&oldid=342476230] |
| ** Reverts edits by Short-lived account to the Scotus article [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Duns_Scotus&diff=342767071&oldid=342552308] that revert the birth date of Scotus changes Scotus from 1265 to 1264. | | ** Reverts edits by Short-lived account to the Scotus article [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Duns_Scotus&diff=342767071&oldid=342552308] that revert the birth date of Scotus changes Scotus from 1265 to 1264. |
− | ** Thus maintaining the inconsistency in Wikipedia's version of Scotus' birth date.
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| == Civility == | | == Civility == |