Talk: Sarah Lane

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For a previous debate over the deletion of this article see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Sarah Lane.

Sarah Lane

maybe i am out of the loop....is the Sarah Lane article for real? It looks like a joke to me, but then I looked at the page history. It has been around for a while, and names i recognize have edited it. what is the story of Sarah Lane? Kingturtle 07:45, 5 Nov 2003 (UTC)

We don't usually write about the history of Wikipedia in the main namespace. Move it to meta. But yes, it's for real. We had a huge number of imitators vandalising monkeypox. We had a protection/unprotection war -- some editors thought the newcomers should be welcome, others thought they should meet resistance when they try to vandalise things. -- Tim Starling 07:54, Nov 5, 2003 (UTC)

Sarah Lane, demoing Wikipedia on TV, thought it would be a bright idea to demonstrate a bit of vandalism, inserting "Just a test" into the "monkeypox" article see the diff on 11 Jun 2003 at 22:53. Twelve seconds later at 23:05, someone else reverted it see the diff. Her twelve seconds of fame, though, inspired a lot of imitation and the article had to be locked for a bit. I'm not sure it belongs in her article anymore, it really is a footnote. -- Someone else 07:59, 5 Nov 2003 (UTC)

• "seconds" -> "minutes", surely Just call me Picky

Sheesh. Sarah Lane should have gone to The Screen Savers and added pertinent information. In a word, it was lame of her to demonstrate mindlessness instead of demonstrating a desire to create something useful. Kingturtle 08:03, 5 Nov 2003 (UTC)

That's what I thought, and I emailed her and told her so (see Talk:Monkeypox), but Eloquence was more of the view that any publicity is good publicity. -- Tim Starling 08:21, Nov 5, 2003 (UTC)