User talk:Dweinberger
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[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia!
Hello Dweinberger, welcome to Wikipedia!
I noticed nobody had said hi yet... Hi!
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If you have any questions, feel free to ask me on my talk page. Thanks and happy editing, -- Alf melmac 23:17, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Vandalism
In response to your defence of your vandalism. Yes, your vandalism was a smart alec comment, not a hurtful slander. So is much of the vandalism by adolescents. It's still a damned pain for Wikipedia to have to deal with it, whether it comes from an adolescent boy or a middle-aged Harvard academic behaving like an adolescent boy. Wikipedia works because the level of vandalism is just about within the bounds that Wikipedians can cope with. If it was significantly higher it would drive people away and the project would start to fail (or would never have got far in the first place). Any action which tends to suggest that vandalising Wikipedia is no big deal threatens that fragile balance and is therefore irresponsible. Publicised vandalism by a Harvard academic (I found the Crimson article very easily on Google News) is highly likely to lead to copycat experiments by students or by teachers at less well known institutions, who may think that if it is a smart thing for you to do, it will be smart for them to do it too.Piccadilly 11:55, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
