User blog comment:Ian678/erase all evidence of Mark David Chapman/@comment-31924693-20131002130106

I can understand where you're coming from, but I must disagree. Although the fact of Mark David Craphead murdering John is an unpleasant, even disgusting, one, unfortunately it is a Beatle fact and thus should be recorded on this wiki. This wiki is after all an encyclopaedia, not a fan site, so a page here is merely recording facts, not showing "respect". (If it did show respect, or for that matter disapprobation, it would be non-neutral and thus unencyclopaedic and not fit to be here.)

If I had been an admin back in May I would have given you a warning for your non-standard way of trying to get rid of this page (the official way is to tag it with a deletion notice, or open a debate, or both). However, I wouldn't have blocked you as your other edits strike me as very good ones.

Talking of admins, since the one active admin seems to not be very good (there are pages which have been in the deletion category for months; a page flagged for deletion should remain in that state for only a week or two at most) and has not been active for 62 days as of this post (and has not edited for much longer than that), I'm thinking of adopting this wiki. I think your track record (other than the one incident) is good enough for you to be another admin if you so desire, provided of course that you don't unilaterally delete the Mark David Chapman page. I direct your attention to the blog I am going to create on my user page when I finish this post, so as to start the adoption process; this step being required by the adoption procedure if there are active users other than the would-be adopter.