[WikiEN-l] joining John

[Richard Holton]

On 9/7/06, Mark Gallagher <m.g.gallagher at student.canberra.edu.au> wrote:
>
>
> G'day Mgm,
>
> > Did I miss something?
> > Why do you want them removed?
> > You're not leaving are you?
>
> Well, sort of.  My pattern the last month or two has been to appear once
> (occasionally twice) a week, act really crabby, do some stressful grunt
> work (clear CSD and AfD backlogs, yell at some idiot from CVU, etc.),
> then piss off again for another week.  It's not fun, and it's not
> sustainable.
>
> I still use Wikipedia for research, particularly at work (the list of
> Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory was a life-saver
> recently), and if I spot something that needs correcting, I correct it.
>   So I'm not gone.  And I'm still subscribed the list.
>
> But I don't intend to hang around AN/I and suchlike and get involved in
> the political fighting and so on.  And I don't intend to do anything
> that involves me getting snappy and biting someone's head off unfairly.
>   And I *don't intend to do anything adminny*.
>
> This isn't "goodbye", and it certainly isn't [[meatball:Goodbye]].  I
> just don't have the time or energy I used to have, and am not interested
> in putting the limited reserves I have to use on Wikipedia, particularly
> since I don't feel I'm doing much good.  So, I'm scaling back my
> activities.  And I don't think my account should have admin privs if I
> don't intend to use them.


Mark,

While I respect your decision to scale back your activities, might I suggest
that you retain your admin privs? Even if you're not going to remain
involved in the politics, or actively looking for "adminny" tasks to do,
it's always a good thing for Wikipedia to have trusted people who can do
those extra things (alter page protection, deleted pages, etc.) when it's
obviously called for.

This is just a suggestion. Don't feel obligated to explain if you stick with
your original decision.

-Rich
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