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I would like a just & fair opportunity here on this RHETORIC list to respond to two statements made by Hank on the PNEWS-L digest (which doesn't allow posting of rebuttals or any clarification of misunderstanding): PNEWS-L Digest - Fri, 25 Jun 2004 Subject: News re: Wiki etc... "Someone put up a page and called it PrematureClosing. Nothing is "prematurely" closed. It is closed when I say it is. The same person did something with her links yesterday which caused me hours of extra work to locate the difficulty in the database and fix it." - HankRoth "When I have to start doing html purges to keep PHP working right and going into MySql to run down pages with missing links, then I think it is appropriate to consider locking down some pages. So to the person who says I close pages prematurely, don't push me. (Don't piss me off)" - HankRoth I am the person who put up the page "PrematurelyLockedPages" - I wanted to open a new page to find out & discuss the rationale for "locking" pages before anyone had a chance to respond to controversial questions and pronouncements; so why should that be considered a sinister thing to do on a 'collaborative' Wiki?. As for the LINKS - I was the first one one who raised the question "What is happening to my pages? Things are disappearing and I don't know why." I was asking for help in trying to understand a system that was brand-new to me. I was NOT fooling around with the links - the links used to work just fine, and then, mysteriously, they didn't anymore. I was trying very hard to follow all the protocols of Wiki and you, yourself Hank, wrote on my personal page that you thought I was doing just fine. I left that commentary on my page, as well as other commentaries you made. Then 'somebody'(I accused no one in particular) removed all the commentaries from my personal page without my permission and without explanation. Hank had assured me that I could keep whatever I wanted to on that page because it was also a personal weblog, so I intended to keep a running history of communications about any Wiki problems I was having. Then my personal page completely disappeared! Next thing I know, there are two NEW pages up (Paxdora and PaxdoraPansapiens) which are both completely BLANK - and because there was no longer a history for those pages, I was forced into a position where I had to write all over again (to the best of my memory) whatever had been on the PaxdoraPansapiens page. (I don't recall ever setting up a "Paxdora" page, but when I first tried to establish a user ID at Golem's Wiki, I used the name Paxdora, but something wasn't working right back then and it didn't go through. When things were fixed properly, I signed in with a CamelCase name, as suggested, and my user ID became PaxdoraPansapiens, which I authenticated and used for my personal page.) Fortunately, Google had cached my original personal page, so I was able to copy the information verbatim and repost it at my Wiki "PaxdoraPansapiens" page (or maybe it was the "Paxdora" page, I don't remember now). Since I had two pages up that were apparently operational, I figured I'd use one just for my profile and the other for a running weblog for history and intercommunications with other members. Perhaps that was a bit "hoggish", but I didn't intend to do anything wrong. Did I mess up by trying to link one page to the other? I didn't see any problem there, because the internal links DID work just fine. Then, suddenly, both the pages were "locked" and I was prevented from accessing the 'edit' function. I think it would be a reasonable thing for anybody to become extremely frustrated and aggravated by this happening to their pages without notice or any advisory of 'wrongdoing' or having any kind of further communication or guidance in the matter. I must insist that I did not knowingly/wittingly/intentionally have a hand in that business about pages and links disappearing. Goof-ups, okay - I am a computer nitwit, I can't write a thing in HTML code, and I know almost nothing about working in software programs, so the only thing I am capable of is "following the instructions on the box". I made some initial mistakes at the beginning, but I was finally getting to know the ropes until some rules started being changed and things started to unravel. I had no idea that you thought I was being intentionally malicious, Hank, and I certainly wasn't doing anything to "piss you off" or wreck your database (or whatever). I have no motive or reason to sabotage or screw up a wonderful project that I believed in and wholeheartedly tried to promote on this list. For the sake of fairness, justice and better understanding, PLEASE let me have my say to clear up any erroneous notions about my character and intentions. Let's play nice, as you say, Hank...I really don't want to perceive you as being an intolerant autocrat. Please don't disappoint my still fine feelings about you. Thank you, and Respectfully, Paxdora Pan sapiens and Pantheist (not a "pansiens") (Pantheism: a non-theistic philosophy/religion, similar to Taoism, that reveres the Universe and Reality. It is NOT a belief in 'god' or in 'many gods', a common misconception compounded by the fact that a few dictionaries still refuse to expunge that terribly wrong definition, in spite of persistent efforts by the WPM and the UPS to undo the damage. 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