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HEY, EVERYBODY FROM WIKIEN-L! HOW Y'ALL DOIN'?Just in case you happened to follow the link Mr. Nobs posted on your fine mailing list, directing you to the posting just above this one, please remember that Nobs is currently under a somewhat unique form of posting restriction here, and I suspect it was for that reason that he felt it necessary to link to this thread instead of
one that was perhaps more appropriate. Sorry about that! (IMG:
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And just in case nobody else has bothered asking, could I make a polite request? Couldn't you guys just, like, apologize to Nobs or something? Or just take back whatever it was you said about him, sort of? He isn't going to stop any of this, y'know, until you do. He isn't bothering us here, not anymore at least... I'm monitoring his posts for libelous statements, and while you guys probably think everything he says is libelous, so far he's managed to avoid anything overtly actionable, at least in my opinion.
I also have the power to remove supposedly personal information about various would-be anonymous people from this website, and am willing to use it, but you folks have to go first, okay? That's because
you started it all, and ultimately, that's what Nobs seems to be trying to say here. (And failing miserably as usual, I might add!)
And don't you people
ever get tired of creating situations like this? I know Nobs is a royal PITA, but what do you expect, if you keep insisting on shooting yourselves in the foot?
Saturday, March 3, Approx. 6AM UTC
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And as long as I'm at it, please allow me to point out that no one in their right mind (and not that I don't necessarily include Nobs in this category) would attempt to suggest that Mr. Yanksox and Mr. Ken Myers are the same person, or that anything Ken Myers wrote here could have influenced Mr. Yanksox to "suddenly" decide to delete the Daniel Brandt article. Yanksox had, in my considered opinion, become increasingly frustrated with Wikipedia's self-destructive policies over a long period of time. Also, this wasn't the first time an administrator had deleted that same article as a "parting gesture" - the previous attempt was made by a user named "Hoopydink," as I recall.
In closing, I'll just repeat something I've already posted elsewhere on this site. The only way the internal WP squabbling over this will ever stop is if the Brandt article goes away completely. We could stop discussing it here altogether, and the squabbling would still go on and on and on, because this is a moral issue, not a content issue. There will always be sound moral justification for getting rid of this article, and little or no sound moral justification whatsoever for keeping it. The people voting to delete are the ones who are guided by their sense of morality, and while Daniel Brandt may be a thoroughly unpleasant individual (to you folks at least), so are a lot of people - and in my experience, they usually get that way because others just won't let them get on with their lives in peace.
Thanks for your time!
(Written 30 minutes after the bit just above this one)
Well I, for one, would like to propose a warm round of cyber-applause for Nobs, who went out of his way to find a highly appropriate thread in which to post this latest piece of information. YAY NOBS! (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/smile.gif)
As pleased as I think we all are about this, I nevertheless feel compelled to ask something. Nobs, you're not trying to suggest that anyone here should be
surprised to see a diff in which Slimmy uses a misleading edit summary to disguise her deletion of another user's discussion entry that she finds personally inconvenient, are you?
Surely not!As for the matter at hand, a cursory check of the various contribs and page histories involved shows that
User:Jnc, apparently a long-time administrator, actually did defend you to some extent - and also
User:Rangerdude as well. He's now essentially left WP, having been run off by the edit-warring tactics of
User:Barberio, who in turn has only recently been run off by the administrative "cyberbullying" tactics of
User:Radiant!... who himself quit Wikipedia for several months,
exactly a year ago today, over... well,
who knows? Just the usual crap, looks like.
To some extent, your own situation is just more of the usual crap too, Nobs. I'll grant that it's unusual in some respects, but the devious, arrogant, and hypocritical behavior of the WP high mucky-mucks is not one of them, I'm afraid.
Ahh, well! On and on it goes...