[WikiEN-l] Thank you RickK

[firstname lastname]

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 at bluebottle.com>
>Reply-To: minorityreport at bluebottle.com,English Wikipedia 
><wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
>To: <wikien-l at 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&user=RickK&page=
>
>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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