Talk:Computer shell
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The "See also" section seems a bit overdone. Might want to trim that down a bit. DavidB4 (talk) 12:48, 30 December 2015 (EST)
- OK, I've cleaned it up. Now, as a full-fledged editor at Conservapedia, you're ready for "the talk".
- There's an enormous amount of garbage here—complete articles and huge "see also" sections and the like, put in about a year ago by User:TheAmericanRedoubt, commonly known as "TAR". Basically, he was a survivalist, and attempted to turn the place into a survivalist blog. He filled a huge number of pages with the sort of stuff that you saw. He apparently believed that we should all quit our jobs, cash in our assets to buy guns and bullets (that's why you see so many pages on those topics), and move to "free states" like Idaho, living "off the grid" to survive the apocalypse.
- A number of people complained about his behavior on the Community Portal, sections 16 et. seq.; note my lengthy complaint in section 18.
- He was given block rights. He basically terrorized the whole place for several months. The admins, who should have been trying to keep CP true to its mission as a resource for students, did nothing.
- He plastered a huge block of stuff in many places (I think I once counted the same block in 45 places) in various article pages that had nothing to do with him. You can see a sample on my talk page at sections 23 et. seq.
- Then he disappeared. People asked about him, and Cons claimed to be in some kind of communication with him, and that he had indicated that he would come back in September 2015. He didn't. So I am now trying to clean up the mess.
- 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 multiple people use an account, it makes the task even harder. :) 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?--DavidB4 (talk) 15:00, 6 January 2016 (EST)