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Who:
I have been a frequent contributor to Misplaced Pages since August of 2002. Unlike most users, who establish a single account and use it continuously, my preference has been to hold a series of personas over time. I've been the author of original articles numbering in the low hundreds, and contributed to articles numbering in the high thousands. I've had admin accounts, hundreds of "anonymous" IP addresses, and more user accounts than I could ever tally.
Although some have deduced my more obvious prior incarnations, I've always chosen to be silent about my serial personas. Who knows, it is likely some day soon I will choose to abandon this account and move on to another incarnation. But today, for once, I am acknowledging my history here.
Having been a part of Misplaced Pages all these years, and perhaps with the unique perspective of experiencing it multiple times as an admin, as a "anonymous" IP, as a newbie, and as a welcomed member of the community, I've seen it change in countless ways. I don't know if on the whole these changes are for the better.
I fear for Misplaced Pages. Particularly, I fear for the culture of Misplaced Pages. This once was a very welcoming community, where be bold and assume good faith and NPOV served us well. Newcomers, no matter how difficult, were welcomed into the fold. Most of us intuitively understood what we were doing.
Today Misplaced Pages feels like another world altogether. Vested interests appear everywhere, self-appointed watchdogs hover over articles, and punishment is meted out by the powerful with neither checks nor balances.
I know there is no turning back the clock, but I miss those days. Larry, Uncle Ed, Brion, Tarquin, Mav, Netesq, LDC, Tokerboy, Cunc, and even poor Lir, I’d like to say – it was a pleasure back then.
Ask:
- Q: What did you do in your edit? - GordonWattsDotCom
- A: I have written between the lines. - O^O
- Q: What is the meaning of "*ws*" in your edit summary? - Dystopos
- A: It means that Gordon is not the only one I have confused. - O^O
- Q: I learn something new every day, I guess. - GordonWattsDotCom
- A: Your guess is better than mine. - O^O
- Q: There are skeptics who say Greenlighting is a internet hoax. - BMIComp
- A: Are there skeptics who say Misplaced Pages is an internet hoax? - O^O
- Q: There's a sockpuppet that seems to have been set up to impersonate you. See the Sealand edit history for details. - Gene Poole
- A: Are you certain I wasn't set up to impersonate the sockpuppet? - O^O
- Q: You were being very efficient at putting up sockpuppet messages. Just looked suspicious initially. - RoyBoy
- A: Living without looking suspicious is not living at all. - O^O
- Q: If the nonsense user comes back and makes more socks, please alert me to them and I will gladly block them. - User:Mysekurity
- A: In a world full of socks, maybe I should work on improving the shoes instead - O^O
- Q: Hey, are you the same guy as User:º¡º from a while back? - User:Cuchullain
- A: I am the walrus. - O^O
- Q: Hi Wik, remember me? - User:P.D.S
- A: Sorry, wrong walrus. - O^O
- Q: Yay! A new zen-like editor! - User:Kim Bruning
- A: There is no zen. There is no editor. All is illusion. - O^O
- Q: Where do you find the time to edit? - Ashibaka
- A: Unfortunately, the time finds me. - O^O
- Q: Some are still doubting if you are º¡º. - Emir214
- A: I am still doubting if I am O^O. - O^O
- Q: If a good user returns under a new name, is he still a member of the cabal? - User:Raul654
- A: The cabal says "there is no cabal". Why do you deny this denial? - O^O
- Q: Are we not men? - User:Nightstallion
- A: Not to go on all-fours. Not to suck up Drink. Not to eat Fish or Flesh. Not to claw the Bark of Trees. - O^O
- Q: Are we not men? - User:Ral315
- A: Can we not read? - O^O
- Q: How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? - User:Ral315
- A: One chuckload. - O^O
- Q: ...? - User:Nightstallion
- A: !... - O^O
- Q: What is the difference between a duck? - User:Nightstallion
- A: Another duck. - O^O
- Q: So, what five lessons has the Chinese nation failed to learn over history? - Cúchullain
- A: There is no Chinese nation. Five times it has failed to learn this. - O^O
- Q: If Misplaced Pages were a person, what kind of personality would he have? - User:Raul654
- A: The heart of a bureaucrat, the conscience of a sociopath, the self-preservation of a tokkōtai, and the consistency of a schizophrenic. - O^O
- Q: Didn't you mean either "Quo vaditis, custodes?" or "Quo vadis, custos?"? —Simetrical
- A: You are quite observant. I did indeed mean either of those. - O^O
- Q: RickK and Willy on Wheels walk into a bar... - Bottesini
- A: These things would not happen if only they paid more attention. - O^O
- Q: It appears you were blocked by Kelly Martin for creating a page which transcluded hundreds (thousands?) of templates. - Raul654
- A: If I am punished for the sins of Kelly Martin, then who is punished for my sins? - O^O
- Q: I can boogie. - Crestville
- A: Your randomness has upset my locality, I fear my cat may be dead. - O^O
- Q: You're from my university, aren't you? - Raul654
- A: I can only say with high confidence that you are from your university and I am from your universe. - O^O
- Q: Your username no longer resembles a... Erm... Well, what it resembled last time. --69.145.123.171
- A: The face of Buddha was once immutable. - O^O
- Q: What is that which is not who you are? - Kotepho
- A: When only that which is remains, then all that is not has been stripped. - O^O
- Q: If you are the walrus, is Misplaced Pages the Arctic? - alerante
- A: Jimbo is the Walrus, Misplaced Pages is the sea, and we are all Oysters. - O^O
- Q: If our awareness existed in the spectral domain, would we still have radios? - BigNate37
- A: Do we not pollute our awareness wherever it is found? - O^O
- Q: What is the answer to life, the universe, and everything? - Evening Breeze
- A: What is the question? - O^O
- Q What is the question? - The Prophet Wiz
- A: That is the question. - O^O
- Q: Why do you presume there is a question? - Raul654
- A: Because there is a question mark. - O^O
- Q: Do you consider yourself to be missing? (see Misplaced Pages:Missing Wikipedians). - Emir214
- A: I have always known how to find me. - O^O
- Q: Well then, may I remove you from the list of missing Wikipedians? - Emir214
- A: I answer the same as when I was asked to be added. - O^O
- Q: When the stars threw down their spears, // And watered heaven with their tears, // Did he smile his work to see? // Did he who made the Lamb make thee? - Raul654
- A: Blake lives on inside his words, // Immortality thus is his. // All creation is one work, // The Lord lives on inside of you. - O^O
- Q: How Much Land Does a Man Need? - KazakhPol
- A: All that the creator provided. - O^O
- Q: Did Einstein have a stance on persons owning Assault Weapons? - Skyemoor
- A: "He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice." - O^O
- A: followed by - "He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
- A: to which I would quote Al, Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding." Skyemoor 02:52, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
A Gift:
I am overjoyed to learn of your ostensible return. When I first arrived, you were only recently gone. Perhaps it is you. In behalf of all who missed you, here is a portable shrine for all sojourners among the sentient beings. --Ancheta Wis
Abbie is Watching You
Teke 02:36, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
AWB
I think we're there now. BTW, I'm a Class III FFL and an Izaak Walton member, so don't think I'm some gun-control extremist. But I am a fan of Al Einstein... Skyemoor 02:34, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
The 3 revert rule and Timbaland
You have violated the the 3 revert rule. Whether or not you are "right", the 3RR is official policy which aims to prevent edit wars like this by forcing people to come to agreement on talk pages. There is no consensus yet saying Slashdot is a reliable source in this context. Please stop reverting and instead try and come to some agreement about this on Talk:Timbaland. Continued revert warring may get you temporarily banned from editing. —Dgies 22:30, 14 January 2007 (UTC)