User talk:Mark Kim

I prefer clean comments. Please don't watch this page as I consider that to be harassment. The additional rules I have is no name calling and no "wiki-bullying". Thanks.

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Notification AN/I

You should be aware that Crossmr (talk · contribs) has requested administrative intervention regarding your past incivility:

• Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Mark Kim continues uncivil behaviour.

You're a valuable contributor usually, but it appears that you're often provoked by others. I was reading what people have said to you people said to you and some of the comments were very upsetting. However, it is very, very important to stay civil in the face of such behaviour. Your opponents can use it against you to ignore and dismiss your arguments.

Regarding this AN/I request that Crossmr posted, don't worry too much about it. You won't be banned or indefinitely blocked just from this, though continuing on this road will lead to more trouble and eventually an indefinite block. Just focus on your future behavior and you'll be fine. –Gunslinger47 18:26, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Can you provide any diffs of the comments you find upsetting? I was reviewing this case on AN/I and the diffs provided there by Crossmr only show Mark is very easily provoked. Maybe you would like to tell your side of the story at AN/I.

On an unrelated note: no one needs your permission to watch your talk page, since you don't own it.--Atlan (talk) 15:58, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Anon from Singapore

Note: This topic was originally called "Civility"

In the future please refrain from referring to editors as "untrusted". An editor is by no means considered untrustworthy just because they don't have an account. A minor change such as that didn't warrant such a negative labeling. [1].--Crossmr 14:37, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

It was likely a vandal who did excessive cruft-editing. At this point, I'm going to have to consider this as being harassment. — Mark Kim (U * T/R * CTD) 15:34, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

You can revert that and make that change without referring to the editor as such. Regardless of who you think the editor might be, a change of "a bit" to "a lot" is not vandalism. That is a content dispute.--Crossmr 15:45, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

I take editing patterns very seriously, and that anon's editing pattern was noticeable. — Mark Kim (U * T/R * CTD) 18:01, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

His edit pattern is immaterial. Referring to an editor as "untrusted" in an edit summary is neither civil nor necessary to fix the content issue.--Crossmr 18:27, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Still, this IP should not be reverted without prejudice due to its edit history alone. Wikipedia is ideally very leniant and forgiving of its contributors. This idea is partially covered under WP:AGF. –Gunslinger47 22:59, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

The user, known as "S8823140F", a.k.a. Denise Christie Chan, apparently utilized that IP address to "fly under the radar" to damage the IP's reputation for being a good editor. There will be people who will have a wanton disregard of WP:Verifiable, WP:NOT, even WP:VSCA. Some users who have created Wikipedia accounts in the past decided to demonstrate their wanton disregard by editing as anons. There are also responsible anons who don't commit such wanton disregard.

There has been some good anons who are resourceful and try their best to keep their cool here in Wikipedia (I've seen some good anons in some articles that I watch), but this anon from Singapore, who is usually Denise Christie Chan (wikipedia account S8823140F, likes to "fly under the radar" as an anon) likes to demonstrate their wanton disregard of WP:NOT and WP:VSCA by putting nothing but cruft on the article, even damage the talk page with all crystal-ballism that I had to revert/remove a couple of times. Because I know what this anon has been doing on Time Crisis 4 pretty much before (and judging from the cruft removal notices this anon has been receiving), I believe that caution should be used and anons be monitored heavily to ensure that they do not damage Wikipedia. Wordiness also came to mind as well, as all RVs/RMs had been WP:VSCA.

Therefore, I believe that anons have to be monitored carefully to ensure they do not damage Wikipedia, as there have been anons who've been showing wanton disregard by vandalising and/or damaging the articles. Dell and Bose are high-profile brand names and in the past they've been severely damaged. Other articles also have been damaged as well, though articles that have been damaged in the past was not from a resulting vandalism act, but rather a heated dispute. — Mark Kim (U * T/R * CTD) 00:11, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, User:S8823140F appears to have a history IP sock puppet abuse, as seen here. As for the IP, it appears to belong to SingNet meaning it's likely utilized by many more people than just S8823140F. You're right that this situation and others like it should be watched very closely to preserve the integrity of articles. It's very important, and is good work. However, you cannot be indiscriminate. Look closely and try to keep any good edits. If you don't like an edit, revert it and explain what's wrong with the contribution itself in your opinion. –Gunslinger47 01:02, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Comment

The reason why that anon's edits were easily reverted is because of a couple of things: wordiness, cruft, crystal-ballism, WP:VSCA, WP:Verifiable—the anon had a wanton disregard of WP:V and WP:NOT. — Mark Kim (U * T/R * CTD) 23:59, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

All those things clearly don't apply to this very small edit you reverted. Also, who is to say this IP address is always used by the same person? An anon's long-term edit history is irrelevant because IP's aren't bound to a person. Anyway, you failed to assume good faith, which is considered a paramount principle of Wiki-editing. No need to keep defending it, just let it go and don't do it again.--Atlan (talk) 00:28, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Your edit was to restore a sentence to equally fail WP:V. Whether that sentence read "a lot" or "a bit" it was inherently unverifiable. If you were that concerned about the edit meeting WP:V you should have removed the entire sentence. Instead you changed it to read what you wanted, and insulted the editor while doing so.--Crossmr 03:10, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

No, the anon apparently did not know how to spell. Judging that you won't stop your wikibullying, I am going to have to declare your act as being harassment Crossmr. Sentencing DOES COUNT in Wikipedia. — Mark Kim (U * T/R * CTD) 04:51, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Don't let other editors upset you. Crossmr is not going away, so you'll have to find a way to work with him peacefully. If you get upset, then you lose virtually by default. –Gunslinger47 05:13, 20 June 2007 (UTC)