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Revision as of 05:32, 26 November 2006 editTankred (talk | contribs)7,836 editsm →Municipalities and regions: stubs developed to ful articles← Previous edit Revision as of 16:39, 4 December 2006 edit undoTankred (talk | contribs)7,836 edits I am leaving Misplaced Pages. It is not an encyclopedia, but just another discussion forum hijacked by political extremists.Next edit →
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<div class="usermessage"><center>'''I have decided to leave Misplaced Pages maybe for a long Wikibreak, but more likely for real. There is little room for expertise here and all our work can be easily hijacked by a mob of ignorants, who see Misplaced Pages as a vehicle of their crazy political propaganda. Yesterday, I was engaged in a dispute on ]. Academic references were ridiculed and even the definitions of the basic concepts were simply ignored. So were my requests for evidence and citations. The most likely outcome of the dispute will contradict the knowledge in the world outside that little talk page instead of reflecting it. I am not going to work under the mob rule. And if I have to choose between Misplaced Pages and the truth, I will choose the latter. This project could work if we restricted our edits only to the areas of our expertise. But this is clearly not the case. This project could work also if the community valued knowledge. But, in reality, no one cares about the truth outside his/her own limited watchlist. And no one will help you, when you are being harassed by jerks. Yesterday, my talk page was vandalized by posting an undue "vandalism warning template" and the template still remains there, without any consequences for the real vandal. Well, it is just another blind spot of Misplaced Pages's loose governance, combined with the general unwillingness of the moderate majority to oppose the few vociferous extremists. I am sorry that I spent so much time pursuing a dream of KNOWLEDGE accessible to everyone. It took me too long to accept that utopias in reality cannot work. Farewell, my friends.'''</center></div>

Here is the list of the articles with my significant contribution. The articles that I created are in bold. Minor or less significant edits (many of them resulting from my persistent effort to add infoboxes with relevant information to all Slovakia's towns), redirects, and reverts of vandalism are not included. Many of my minor edits have also resulted from the maintenance of the categories International Relations, Castles, and Slovakia (including their numerous and often messy sub-categories). I am also a member of the ]. As for my plans, I would like to cover missing topics in international relations (especially in the fields of international security and IR theory), create articles about castles and caves in Slovakia, and improve quality of the articles in my areas of expertise and interest. Here is the list of the articles with my significant contribution. The articles that I created are in bold. Minor or less significant edits (many of them resulting from my persistent effort to add infoboxes with relevant information to all Slovakia's towns), redirects, and reverts of vandalism are not included. Many of my minor edits have also resulted from the maintenance of the categories International Relations, Castles, and Slovakia (including their numerous and often messy sub-categories). I am also a member of the ]. As for my plans, I would like to cover missing topics in international relations (especially in the fields of international security and IR theory), create articles about castles and caves in Slovakia, and improve quality of the articles in my areas of expertise and interest.


Revision as of 16:39, 4 December 2006

I have decided to leave Misplaced Pages maybe for a long Wikibreak, but more likely for real. There is little room for expertise here and all our work can be easily hijacked by a mob of ignorants, who see Misplaced Pages as a vehicle of their crazy political propaganda. Yesterday, I was engaged in a dispute on Talk:Hungary. Academic references were ridiculed and even the definitions of the basic concepts were simply ignored. So were my requests for evidence and citations. The most likely outcome of the dispute will contradict the knowledge in the world outside that little talk page instead of reflecting it. I am not going to work under the mob rule. And if I have to choose between Misplaced Pages and the truth, I will choose the latter. This project could work if we restricted our edits only to the areas of our expertise. But this is clearly not the case. This project could work also if the community valued knowledge. But, in reality, no one cares about the truth outside his/her own limited watchlist. And no one will help you, when you are being harassed by jerks. Yesterday, my talk page was vandalized by posting an undue "vandalism warning template" and the template still remains there, without any consequences for the real vandal. Well, it is just another blind spot of Misplaced Pages's loose governance, combined with the general unwillingness of the moderate majority to oppose the few vociferous extremists. I am sorry that I spent so much time pursuing a dream of KNOWLEDGE accessible to everyone. It took me too long to accept that utopias in reality cannot work. Farewell, my friends.

Here is the list of the articles with my significant contribution. The articles that I created are in bold. Minor or less significant edits (many of them resulting from my persistent effort to add infoboxes with relevant information to all Slovakia's towns), redirects, and reverts of vandalism are not included. Many of my minor edits have also resulted from the maintenance of the categories International Relations, Castles, and Slovakia (including their numerous and often messy sub-categories). I am also a member of the Counter-Vandalism Unit. As for my plans, I would like to cover missing topics in international relations (especially in the fields of international security and IR theory), create articles about castles and caves in Slovakia, and improve quality of the articles in my areas of expertise and interest.

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  • first edit: 25 December 2005
  • 1,000 edits: 1 August 2006 (408 distinct pages edited)
  • 2,000 edits: 24 October 2006 (868 distinct pages edited)
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