Talk:The Scott Mills Show
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Scotts a bit of a fatty. . Is he? Have you seen him in the flesh, or are you making your judgement from photos?
[edit] Offical complaint to the BBC
I have made the following official complaint to the BBC:
- I wish to make a formal complaint in regards to your radio show "The Scott Mills Show". On January 19 they made various edits to the free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia that were false and/or ridiculous (for instance, they wrote "Edith has been romanticly linked with an ironing board." on the Edith Bowman article).
- I can provide exact links of where they did this, we maintain an audit log of every change that we make. They also had to create an account "Joshworkinghard". When they log in to the site, they are expected to follow certain site policies: these can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines One of the policies is our policy on adding absurd or ridiculous information, which we class as a form of vandalism. They appear not to have followed this policy.
- My complaint is that a media organisation appears to have decided that it is OK to vandalise our website, with the participants seemingly paying no thought to the consequences of their actions, or the reputation of the BBC. After all, I was not aware that the BBC, a respectable institution, condoned and encouraged vandalism!
- Would Scott Mills and Mark Chapman create an account on Kuro5hin or slashdot and then proceed to add malicious or ridiculous information? There are similarly easy ways of gaining accounts on these websites, methods in which you will not be identified. The point that Scott and Mark were apparently trying to make was that anyone can edit the website with impunity.
- Perhaps I should put this a different way. You can go to a public space where there is no surveillance underway, grab a can of spraypaint and then vandalise the wall. You would do this with impunity. Does this mean that the DJs of radio shows should broadcast that they are vandalising public property because they can get away with it? I think that the answer here is fairly clear.
- So, to summarise: I would like to make a complaint about the conduct of your employees, Scott Mills and Mark Chapman when they vandalised various pages, of which I can provide detailed evidence. I would like to know what the BBC's position is on the deliberate vandalising of Wikipedia, or of any other website that are publicly available. Does the BBC encourage or condone such actions?
- Finally, I would like to request that you cease and desist from such actions. We provide a valuable service to the public, and while we have some issues of vandalism from individuals, we NEVER expected to see such an august institution as the BBC participating in such petty and irresponsible actions.
- Cordially,
- Chris Sherlock
- Wikipedia Administrator
I was not aware that the BBC condone vandalism. Does this mean that Scott Mills and Mark Chapman will be creating a slashdot or kuro5hin account to deliberately vandalise those websites? Ta bu shi da yu 02:18, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
I don't think this is a necessary complain, to be honest with you. I think this is a case where we just have to not take Wikipedia so seriously. It wasn't as if they started the vandalism - they just noted that it was going on (and, addimtedly, taking part). But it was just a laugh! Robdurbar 08:37, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
dont u think ur takin it a bit 2 seriasly....maybe u shuld just drop it....ny way, it makes ur web more intrestin!
[edit] Merging
Moved to Talk:Scott Mills; that is where the merge tag directs you Robdurbar 17:04, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Angry Pizza Man
Isn't he the "nastiest man in the world" or "angriest man in the world" rather than nasty pizza man (although that is what he is) Pickle 16:06, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
