Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:36:33 +0000 From: Nick heligolandwp@googlemail.com Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Happy birthday to me... To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Well, that's probably going to generate a lot of "No" responses.

I'm probably way to generous today for some reason, but would there be any objections to unprotecting Flameviper's talk page and letting him edit an article of his choice on his talk page ?

I know his latest message is once again trolling and we're all getting pretty fed up of him, but the guy seems to have some interest in editing Wikipedia in addition to his love of trolling us all on a regular basis.

*sigh* I'm not trying to troll... I understand why everyone gets pissed off all the time, and it's because I constantly whinge about being banned. But it just sucks to be in this position, because I can't edit the encyclopedia, I can't go on a forum (which is admittedly not your fault), I can't go on IRC, all that's left for me to do is to go on the mailing list. Pre-emptive counter to "go outside": I do, often, and it sucks.

But I suppose that I'm pissing everyone off, even though it's not my intent. Just as well, I don't like this any more than you do. It's more painful to write this than it is to read it, trust me. I'd just like to get this over with, so that I can go back to editing the encyclopedia. Then I could talk about things that actually mattered on the mailing list, instead of watching through the frosted glass of banishment. Yes, I know that sounded cheesy as hell. No, I'm not going to go back and erase it.

Seriously, though, I'd really like to just go back to Wikipedia, perhaps under my Two-Sixteen account.

Could you just give it a try?

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