A True Story  Once upon a time there was this guy whod edited Wikipedia anonybously for many months lets call him Derek Derek edited anonymously so regularly hopped from IP address to IP address He was very happy making contributions to what he believed to be a reputable encyclopedia He worked as a journalist at a London based newspaper in the real world and in the virtual world Wikipedia was one of his many hobbies where he edited this and that and made a small difference  so he liked to think But then Derek made a huge mistake  when he tried to take on the cyber bullies  and  and came off the worse for it  It was the afternoon of Monday  April  Derek had the day off work and was online and browsing Wikipedia He happened to click on an article about the Radio  traffic presenter Sally Bowsman via the random articles button and he noticed a piece of vandalism Derek reverted it  Dereks next move was to look at who had added this piece of vandalism He knew it was against Wikipedia rules to vandalise pages so issued a user warning to the chap involved in the vandalism Derek then decided he would keep an eye on this individual so that he might revert any more vandalism that  might commit  And lo and behond  did exactly that Derek reverted more vandalism and issued further warnings Even when  made a personal attack against Derek accusing him of having a personal interest in these other articles Derek issued the appropriate warning  Things eventually got to the point where  had used up his four lives  that is he had been issued with four user warnings and still  continued to make disruptive edits Derek therefore decided to approach WPAIV and report this Derek then looked at  and discovered that he was a regular disruptive editor with rogue edits stretching back over a year  A user by the name of  promptly blocked the user But two hours later he had what can only be described as an attack of conscience and he unblocked   didnt really give a reason for this about face other than that he had made a mistake There then followed some  between Derek and Todd and  even threw in his two penneth Todd suggested Derek and Tom should chill out Derek thought that a jolly good idea and Derek even posted a friendly message on Toms talk page urging him to make sensible edits  after all unconstructive edits damage the reputation of Wikipedia and the thing which damanges Wikis reputation further is when  are allowed to continue making rogue edits willy nilly  Tom began editing again and he was soon being his old disruptive self Derek reverted the edit then decided to go back to WPAIV and report this new offence Unfortunately though this is where he came unstuck   soon accused Derek of Wikistalking and promptly decided that  and so he deleted Dereks report  he didnt even have the decency to leave it for another admininstrator to assess the situation  So Derek came away with a blooded nose for his troubles and Derek feels he has no choice now than to leave Wikipedia He posted the following message on       Unfortunately your decision is a bad day for common sense By reversing his block you have given him the green light to do as he wishes Furthermore you have also now made a personal attack against me I was trying to help clear up what I saw  when I checked his edit history this afternoon  to be a longstanding problem which nobody appears to be willing to address It seems whenever one tries to stand up to the bullies one comes away with a bloody nose for ones troubles Well on your heads be it Its unsurprising that Wikipedia is seen as such an unreliable source in the press when people such as this are given carte blanche to do what they want I am a journalist so ought to know I would request a third opinion but see little point in it and I feel I have no choice other than to leave Wikipedia I cannot be involved with a project that appears to condone this behaviour Congratulations must go to both yourself and Mr Green for this Dont bother posting a reply on my talk page because I wont be here to read it Goodnight  And so we come to the end of this cautionary tale Dont bother taking on the bullies because you wont win Wikipedia has fundamental problems and no one appears willing to sort them out