Heh, it's great to see some humour and common sense in amongst all this paranoia and finger pointing.
On 14/06/07, Mark Gallagher m.g.gallagher@student.canberra.edu.au wrote:
G'day Kurt,
On Saturday 02 June 2007 11:47, Brock Weller wrote:
[BJAODN]
The problem is these are massive GFDL violations.
Except they're not, as has been explained several times already on this
list.
The "GFDL violation" thingy was just a crock he invented so he could put
forth
a justification of what was really a blatant power-trip.
You already know this, so I'm really pointing it out for the benefit of other readers who may not fully understand the true horror that is Wikipedia.
The vast majority of admins, with the obvious exception of The Cunctator and MarkGallagher, both of whom are good chaps, do very little but plot and scheme for ways to abuse their power. In fact, just the other day I overheard Stephen Bain plotting on IRC to make article creation banned for all users who aren't Bureaucrats, just because he thought he could get away with it. John Lee asked him not to, because the increased scrutiny it would bring would interfere with his plan to force all en-wiki editors to switch to Malaysian English. This was just minutes after David Gerard murdered Jimbo Wales' appointed successor with an icepick.
And does anyone remember SlimVirgin's dastardly plan to hand the keys to Wikipedia over to the animal rights lobby?
With all this skulduggery, it's a wonder admins get any time to actually work on the encyclopaedia. Oh, wait ... isn't that a common complaint, that admins never get time to edit? I ... I see it all so clearly ... and now ... I think my life may be in danger.
By the time you read this, I may well be dead. If my bloated corpse turns up in the Molongolo River, somebody please block Jeff Raymond for me for no good reason. And for heaven's sake, Kurt, get yourself to a place of safety. You could be next!
Cheers,
-- Mark Gallagher "'Yes, sir,' said Jeeves in a low, cold voice, as if he had been bitten in the leg by a personal friend."
- P G Wodehouse, /Carry On, Jeeves/
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