I think RickK will be back. RickK was truly dedicated in a unique way. He actually went out of his way to be an asshole. He didn't shy away when the situation warranted, and even when the situation didn't warrant it, he was there to offer an officious, dismissive snide remark. Only in Wikipedia is someone's foulness so celebrated and allowed to truly shine. This was truly his place, his home. He will be back. He has nowhere else to go. Nobody else will put up with him, even the worst customer service call center would have fired him on day one.
This was his support group. With few exceptions, you people are the pettiest tyrants I've ever known, much worse than college RAs. He'll be back. He needs you to validate him.
What a colossal clusterfuck Wikipedia is. All this effort put into an encyclopedia that will never be finished, will never make any money, will never have any credibility.
Outy.
From: "Tony Sidaway" minorityreport@bluebottle.com Reply-To: minorityreport@bluebottle.com,English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] Thank you RickK Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 01:39:54 +0100 (BST)
Alphax said on July 5:
Michael Turley wrote:
I'm always disappointed when I hear of people leaving, but I'd rather have an unstable person leave because of a failed admin nomination than promote an unstable person to adminship. At least this way, the instability has only driven a single user away.
Um, you seem to forget the case of RickK - an unstable admin who left
and deleted pages when they went...
This is a great inflated bubble of an argument.
Firstly we're told that RickK was unstable. No evidence is presented.
Secondly we're told that RickK "deleted pages" when he went.
Well actually all RickK did when he went was delete his user space articles. As he was a member in good standing when he left, he was surely entitled to do so. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=delete&...
I object strongly to the characterisation of RickK as an unstable administrator. He was one of the best we've had, he worked long and hard, and he finally decided he'd had enough. I wish he would come back, but if he's had enough then we should be thanking him for his long and faithful service. Which I do gladly. Thank you RickK.
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