It seems Weyes has left. What a disgrace. We've never had such a diligent RC patroller, and he was more right than wrong in his crusade against excessive external links. That's another one gone after RickK. Why on earth do we fail the Wikipedians who do so much to protect our project from vandals, cranks and idiots?
Jfdwolff
J.F. de Wolff wrote:
It seems Weyes has left. What a disgrace. We've never had such a diligent RC patroller, and he was more right than wrong in his crusade against excessive external links. That's another one gone after RickK. Why on earth do we fail the Wikipedians who do so much to protect our project from vandals, cranks and idiots?
Jfdwolff
Two words:
_*ONLY HUMAN
*_ -Jtkiefer
On 7/3/05, J.F. de Wolff jfdwolff@doctors.org.uk wrote:
It seems Weyes has left. What a disgrace. We've never had such a diligent RC patroller, and he was more right than wrong in his crusade against excessive external links. That's another one gone after RickK. Why on earth do we fail the Wikipedians who do so much to protect our project from vandals, cranks and idiots?
Jfdwolff
I'm genuinely curious: in what way do you assign his absence to a failure of ours?
On 7/3/05, J.F. de Wolff jfdwolff@doctors.org.uk wrote:
It seems Weyes has left. What a disgrace. We've never had such a diligent RC patroller, and he was more right than wrong in his crusade against excessive external links. That's another one gone after RickK. Why on earth do we fail the Wikipedians who do so much to protect our project from vandals, cranks and idiots?
We don't fail them as much as they simply burn out.
Before they burn out, they increasingly feel as if they are the lone bulwark against the teeming hordes, and feel increasingly unsupported. But are we truly doing anything to them except not be as fanatical as they?
-Matt
Matt Brown wrote:
We don't fail them as much as they simply burn out.
Before they burn out, they increasingly feel as if they are the lone bulwark against the teeming hordes, and feel increasingly unsupported. But are we truly doing anything to them except not be as fanatical as they?
-Matt _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
The unfortunate reality is that eventually all wikipedia editors eventually burn out and the most well dedicated and most well noticed (dedication and prominance may or may not be related) seem to burn out faster because they put so much time and energy into wikipedia.
-Jtkiefer
From: "J.F. de Wolff" jfdwolff@doctors.org.uk
It seems Weyes has left. What a disgrace. We've never had such a diligent RC patroller, and he was more right than wrong in his crusade against excessive external links. That's another one gone after RickK. Why on earth do we fail the Wikipedians who do so much to protect our project from vandals, cranks and idiots?
Amen. Weyes was a diligent vandalism patroller, and his anti excessive-link campaign was far more right than wrong. And I say this knowing that his case was an example of a failed admin campaign.
Jay.
On 7/4/05, JAY JG jayjg@hotmail.com wrote:
From: "J.F. de Wolff" jfdwolff@doctors.org.uk
It seems Weyes has left. What a disgrace. We've never had such a diligent RC patroller, and he was more right than wrong in his crusade against excessive external links. That's another one gone after RickK. Why on earth do we fail the Wikipedians who do so much to protect our project from vandals, cranks and idiots?
Amen. Weyes was a diligent vandalism patroller, and his anti excessive-link campaign was far more right than wrong. And I say this knowing that his case was an example of a failed admin campaign.
Jay.
Unfortunately, it takes more than just good vandal patrol to be a good admin. It takes patience, and a desire and ability to deal with newbies and long time users alike in a courteous and respectful manner, even when they don't give the same. If Weyes left because of his nomination was unsuccessful, then that, in my opinion, is an indication that his temperament needed more time to mellow.
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.
Weyes is an excellent example of where the "rollback" tool should have been provided separately.
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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...
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