[WikiEN-l] Expect a Miracle

[Fred Bauder]

> From: "Poor, Edmund W" <Edmund.W.Poor at abc.com>
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 11:10:24 -0500
> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Subject: RE: [WikiEN-l] Plautus
> 
> Okay, I thought about it.
> 
> I'm unblocking Plautus, and I take full responsibility for him as a
> "parolee" per your terms below.
> 
> Kind of like Frodo and Smeagol.
> 
> Wish me luck.
> 
> Uncle Ed
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org
> [mailto:wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Erik Moeller
> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 10:09 AM
> To: wikien-l at wikipedia.org
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Plautus
> 
> 
> Ed-
> 
> you're probably right. Plautus is just a misguided individual. All this
> 
> calling other users "dumb motherfuckers" and "fucking ignorant assholes"
> 
> has to be expected from a confused newbie. After all you yourself once
> created a "Fucking asshole" account to make a point, remember?
> 
> Surely it is acceptable to lose 10 devoted, creative Wikipedians if we
> can  
> keep a single crackpot around. I should really stop being so judgmental
> 
> and leave the important decisions to the people who got their priorities
> 
> straight, instead of looking at silly things like polls and hard
> evidence.
> 
> If Ed believes that an individual is reformable, then we need to all sit
> 
> back and let the spirit of Sun Myung Moon work through him. I can't wait
> 
> to see you do your magic, Ed!
> 
> I have just one condition.
> 
> If this whole thing blows in your face, I want you to take full
> responsibility for it. That means that I want you to go through every
> single page Plautus satire edited in the last few days, to take diffs of
> 
> these edits and fix them if necessary. That includes erased comments on
> 
> talk pages, something he is very fond of.
> 
> How about it, Ed? Do you want the whole community to share your faith,
> or  
> are you ready to fix things up if that faith turns out to be mistaken?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Erik
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