User talk:128.194.211.65

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The warnings on this page were removed because every time a web browser on this machine goes to wikipedia, it says there are new messages, when clearly, the messages have been seen and are no longer new. According to the 'vandalism' page, it is not vandalism to remove comments from your own page--it's just 'frowned upon'.

From what I understand, I have a user page, and a talk page. These are 'my' pages, not yours. So, if erasing your comments makes you frown, that's your problem. If you want to see my edit history, you know where to find it. It will be a short history, as this is will be the last edit from this user and 128.194.211.65. I don't understand how the encyclopedia that 'anyone can edit' can harass people for erasing comments on their own talk page. Furthermore, I don't understand the rediculous attitude displayed over a website that claims 'you can't break Wikipedia. Anything can be fixed or improved later.' These quotes come from your introduction page--it even goes so far to say 'don't be afraid to edit!'

I have never been a vandal. A vandal is a hacker--someone who illegally breaks into your system and changes things that they have no right to. All edits I have made were done using the edit tags that you put in every section of each article. They are the same tags that your site encourages people to use.

Clearly, you don't want wikipedia to be edited by everybody. You want it to be controlled by a handful of admins that will write things your way. That may not be a bad thing. So, why not be consistent and keep wikipedia from being edited by the whole world? You would never have to worry about a random stupid comment being inserted in an article, and academics might sooner consider your website to be a legitimate quotable source of information.

Since wikipedia's philosophy would never allow this, you need to understand something---wikipedia can never be vandalized by people using an edit box because the design of the website allows everyone to add, delete, remove, and/or edit anything. What you call vandalism is really people using the website, in the manner in which it was designed, outside of whatever rules of decorum that somebody has set up. In other words, instead of going through a lengthy online debate and coming to a consensus, somebody decides to click edit and change things because the site encourages it.

I'm not trying to justify wikipedia vandalism. All I am saying is that if the few stupid comments I made are really 'vandalism', then perhaps you need to change the system so people are forced to go through a lengthy discussion process before adding anything to an article. In addition, since wikipedia is an imperfect system, I suggest that if you call someone out on 'vandalism,' you shouldn't harass them in the manner that I was. Jasdfawef 02:36, 30 January 2007 (UTC)