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Do not leave messages here, they will be ignored and/or deleted. I am in the process of leaving Misplaced Pages.

I've issued a short block (24 hr) of your account. I realize you are in the process of leaving the project and I sincerely hope you don't see this as insult to injury, but the blanking of your contributions and nomination of the articles you've created for speedy deletion is doing more harm then good here, thus I've issued a block to stop this from occuring. Please understand that this is preventative, not punative and not in anyway a judgement of you or your contributions here.. I understand if you want to blank this comment, but I just wanted you to know why this block was issued. Regards,--Isotope23 20:32, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

I appreciate your tone, but I do have to say I'm not happy with the timing. I was in the process of posting a comment to your talk page, explaining that I was through removing my edits, when I found out about the block.

I really don't care about the extra work I've created. I spent a few hours this weekend adding some content to articles, and then the next three days debating them on various talk pages. I've contributed more than my fair share of work adding good content to this site (see all the various articles on philosophers that I started or contributed to), so tough luck if people now have to do some work in response.

The whole problem with Misplaced Pages is the "community" and its hostility toward people. This is the second time in as many years that I've decided to quit wikipedia (I've been an editor since 2002, under another account and anonymous edits, and have started well over 100 "good" articles and edited thousands more) and this time I won't be coming back. I'm also a sysadmin and mediawiki hacker (I've contributed to the source) and will simply set up my own mirror site for personal use, and will never visit wikipedia again.

Bill Clark (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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I'll tell you what, based on your comment above about being done removing content I'm cancelling the block. While I don't agree with your contention about extra work (not all of us restoring your deletions were directly responsible for you having to spend an inordinate amount of time defending your articles), and I'll take you at your word that you are done for good, if you change your mind the account is here and open if you ever decide to come back. Sorry you had such a negative experience.--Isotope23 20:47, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

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