QUOTE(MBisanz @ Sun 22nd November 2009, 12:41am)
Probably worth noting that Manning is user #100, meaning he has been here for nearly all of the shit ever to occur on the wiki. Also worth noting that while I was involved in the EEML case and thus unable to help out with clerking, Manning has a rather commendable job cutting through the usual amounts of crap in these complex cases and has not done so simply by cutting out the small names, but also taking on the big names with almost no backup from the arbs, et. al., so I'm having a hard time criticizing him for bringing order to the wastelands.
QUOTE(Mathsci)
Manning Bartlett has also deleted his user page, blanked his talk page, resigned as clerk and sysop ...
Now where is that metal Wall of Remembrance for the people that Wikipedia has chewed up and spat out in various ways, over the years?
I know we put that Wall of Remembrance somewhere. Was it in Washington, D.C., or some place in Cyberspace DC? DC Comics? Bizarro World?
It's got Ryan Jordan and Larry Sanger and so on, on it. And this Maning Whatisface should go there if we get around to it.
Some are here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Missing_WikipediansBut those are only the ones that haven't been
obviously corrupted, hammered, or burned out.
MR
P.S. Checkout the snide insertions of "sic" in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essjay_controversy, whenever Jimbo does something really clueless, like refer to the user as "EssJay" or "Mr. Ryan". As in "Mr. Ryan was a friend..." (IMG:
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A really GOOD friend. (IMG:
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