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How to extricate oneself from the tar baby. Server hung only once this time.
:[[User:SamHB|SamHB]] ([[User talk:SamHB|talk]]) 22:40, 30 December 2015 (EST)
:[[User:SamHB|SamHB]] ([[User talk:SamHB|talk]]) 22:40, 30 December 2015 (EST)
::I said probably.
::I said probably.
:::You're right. I left out that word. Sorry. [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] ([[User talk:SamHB|talk]]) 22:03, 6 January 2016 (EST)
::After all is said and done, it is often hard to predict when people will start and stop editing a wiki or return from a break in editing. And of course, if [[User:Conservative|multiple people use an account]], it makes the task even harder. :) [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 00:23, 31 December 2015 (EST)
::After all is said and done, it is often hard to predict when people will start and stop editing a wiki or return from a break in editing. And of course, if [[User:Conservative|multiple people use an account]], it makes the task even harder. :) [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 00:23, 31 December 2015 (EST)
I knew I'd seen that block around before. Thanks for the info, I'll keep an eye out for it. Is there no way to look at his/her contributions page and hunt down all of these?--[[User:DavidB4|DavidB4]] ([[User talk:DavidB4|talk]]) 15:00, 6 January 2016 (EST)
I knew I'd seen that block around before. Thanks for the info, I'll keep an eye out for it. Is there no way to look at his/her contributions page and hunt down all of these?--[[User:DavidB4|DavidB4]] ([[User talk:DavidB4|talk]]) 15:00, 6 January 2016 (EST)
:There's a lot of stuff. Looking at his contributions is pointless, because he made so many of them per article. What I do is search for one of the "code phrases" that he liked to use. The one I use currently is "nanny state". He used it a lot. That phrase simply has no business in any serious wiki, except perhaps in an article about how to write inflammatory essays. Also, look in [http://www.conservapedia.com/Category:Investments_in_Tangibles Category:Investments in Tangibles] and [http://www.conservapedia.com/Category:Survivalism Category:Survivalism]. The first of these has a lot of beans/bullets/batteries nonsense, with more code phrases.
:When you find one of his articles, there's still a lot more work to be done. Look at the edit history. You will typically see a block of 7 or 8 edits by him, followed by whatever normal stuff people may have added afterwards. The people who came afterwards may or may not have cleaned up the tar. In any case, you have to do "compare selected versions" operations to find out what he did, separate the wheat from the chaff (he also made some constructive edits, usually involving putting things in categories), and repair things carefully.
:Why the Conservapedia admins allowed him to do all this is a mystery. The folks over at RW seem to think there was some kind of link-spam hanky-panky, and that he reneged on some agreement. I have no idea about the details. And it was somehow related to one James Wesley Rawles. TAR himself (that is, [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt]]) is a different person. And his real name isn't hard to find, but I forget.
:[[User:SamHB|SamHB]] ([[User talk:SamHB|talk]]) 22:03, 6 January 2016 (EST)