Not every person who acts like a jerk on Wikipedia is like Lir/Vera Cruz/Susan Mason -- thank God -- but sometimes a valuable contributor can start down that dark road without thinking.
I'd like to direct the more senior, respected people on this list to the discussion that I have been involved in on the [[Wikipedia talk:Timeline standards]] page. Egil & I have had a difference of opinions on how to handle various annual entries prior to AD 1 that are too small.
There are a lot of points to this discussion, but the one that has made me angry is that when told by the ``let's restore the annual entries back to 2000 BC" group (well, pair -- Stan & I) that 550 BC is not a good cut-off date to drop annual entries, Egil's response was ``On basis of criticism that 550 BC is a somewhat odd year, I've changed the cutoff to 500 BC."
I was at the point of dropping the whole discussion -- & probably would have had he accepted a cutoff of 600 BC -- but I feel Egil has acted with a certain lack of graciousness. (And yes, I am using understatement here for effect.)
So would one of the more senior, respected people on this list that I am petitioning look over our disagreement & either:
a) explain offline to Egil how he behaved in a less than courteous manner; or
b) tell me offline to get a life.
In the best of all worlds, I would like to win my argument, have annual entries back to 2000 BC -- even if they don't have content at the moment -- & see George Bush impeached. I doubt I'll see any of that actually happen, so I'm willing to settle with someone talking Egil & hopefully convincing him to move this cutoff back to 600 BC.
No further discussion on the mailling list is needed, but if I could get an email offline from someone that she/he is looking into it, I'll be happy.
Geoff