Je suis tout à fait d'accord. C'est surtout un manque de respect et de considération envers l'auteur.

Ça doit cesser immédiatement !

The problem of the sentences of pliiganto is in fact even worse than the problem of orphan sentences.

The indicated name creates the illusion that there is an author in the background, who feels responsible for this sentence, where in fact there isn’t any such person any longer. There is a sentence added two years ago (ore even more) written by a man who ceased to contribute more than a year ago. Since then all attempts to contact him failed. Here comes some background information:

As I was told pliiganto was critizised during his active period, because he added a huge amount of monolingual esperanto-only sentences. Maybe his name pliiganto (meaning; somebody who makes the number raise ) is to be understood programmatic and his primary aim was to push the number of Esperanto sentences higher and higher as fast as possible.

Certainly a similar motivation is a driving force of some contributors in other languages too, and maybe in a certain extent of very many of us. I even believe the spirit of competition plays an important and positive role in the evolution of tatoeba. On the other hand it’s clear that numbers can’t substitute quality. In the end everybody has to ask himself how much effort and attention should be paid to quantity and how much to quality.

But to complete the picture I mention that, several other esperanto contributors expressed concern about the manner of adding huge amounts of sentences in only one language without any translation, especially if this language is esperanto. The idea behind this is that the foremost aim of applying esperanto at tatoeba shouldn’t be to run a publicity show about the greatness of this language. Their opinion is rather that the foremost task of esperanto should be to facilitate translations into as many languages and bind together languages unconnected until now. I can “subscribe” this intention and I’m convinced indeed: working in this direction esperanto -speakers make a modest but considerable contribution to the inherent aims of tatoeba.

By the way: I am grateful to Ludoviko, who recently expressed his concern about thousands of still untranslated sentences and urged to attack this problem.

Many of these sentences, of course, don’t present any problem. You translate them and can be glad to know that there are some (long time!) orphans less, the more if translations into further languages follow soon, as often happens.
Other sentences already at first look give you a clue why they still are untranslated though meanwhile one, two or three years has passed. To translate sentences with errors and/or without a meaning you can understand, is neither attractive nor possible and would make no sense.

I repeat: beneath the orphans are very good sentences (How nice to get them translated at last!), there are sentences who are quite good, yet not quite correct; but what presents a major problem is a third part. There are some sentences without any conceivable meaning at all. Sometimes you find even single words or two or three words who form as its best an fragment but not a sentence. There are other sentences, still confusing and enigmatic, but where you can try to guess what the author probably liked to be the meaning.

The usual procedure is to make a comment, to recommend changes or if necessary to ask for explanation. Only if there has passed a long time without a reaction a Corpus Maintainer is allowed to make necessary changes (s)he or another contributor had proposed. And this happens seldom, because in general the authors improves his sentence in one or another way or delivers an explanation.

In the case of the pliiganto sentences a general agreed exception is practiced. It makes no longer sence to write comments or messages to someone who is apparently inaccessible or prefers not to answer for more than a year while many attempts to contact him failed.

Et voici d'autres, découverts par Shishir :
http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentence...57278#comments
http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentence...56850#comments
http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentence...39056#comments
http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentence...41807#comments

SacredCeltic's repeated complaints are protests against tyranny. When you who have the power to alter and delete sentences not your own do so with no basis but your own judgment--no matter what notification you give or how long you wait--you act as tyrants.

Of course you intend to serve the community. Who doubts it? But who decides whether your actions serve the community? If the answer is you alone, then you are a tyrant, however benign.

Another model is possible. You need not execute the entire judicial function alone. You need not serve your own judgment. You can instead choose to take no privileged action unless support for that action has been expressed by others (and if a vigilante clique develops, you can choose to require support from outside the clique).

Say what you think should be done. Try to drum up support for it. Wait for support to appear. What's the hurry? Every day, bad sentences slip further into the background of the ever growing corpus of good sentences. Besides, when you add a comment to a sentence ("Dreck here"), you achieve most of what is achieved by deletion; and if you add a same-language translation, you achieve most of what is achieved by alteration. If final action is delayed, even long delayed, small harm results.