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User:Kumioko/TOC
re curtaintoad
Hi,just want to say thanks on behalf of my son curtaintoad, your comments in the discussion about autistic editors helped to restore his high regard for wikipedia..he had been feeling pretty low about being blocked.
There have been a few users writing supportive comments and they have had a big impact on him, yours were particularly helpful.
So, once again, thanks :)
WendyS1971 05:30, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
- Your welcome. Kumioko (talk) 07:54, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
Comments like this from editors with this kind of attitude make me question WTF I am still doing here!
Its edits like this one and this one that make me wonder why I am even still here. I tried for years to build a project so that editors would collaborate and make the place better and all I get for my troubles is shit like this. Kumioko (talk) 13:51, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
- OK, big Diddily-Iddily. - I have opposing points of view on both these issues.
(If you are unaware of Ned Flanders on The Simpsons, that opening was lost on you)
- WPUS etal - You've done something wonderful with that, provided a forum for the small and ignored projects. Or in the case of Texas, a big whopping state with a virtually dead project. The most recent posting I see over there is Alan Lefting posted about discussion for renaming state categories on parks. It was the perfect place for him to have posted this. Agree with that particular discussion, don't agree, it doesn't matter. It's the best example of what you created - one centralized gathering place for any discussion belonging to the state projects, whether or not any given state is a member. There are some states that may never have an active project again. But WPUS gives a singular editor a place to post a discussion about some little-noticed state. You did a really good thing, and it just might last a long time. If somebody wants to break out of WPUS, and they have the votes to do it, just wave a fond farewell. It's on their shoulders if they later discover their individual project has scant participation.
- Rich Farmbrough. I've noticed. I sympathize with Rich on what he's going through. But I haven't posted, because I just don't feel knowledgeable about the subject matter. But I want him to be able to get up off the mat again. There's never been a doubt in my mind that you have empathy for Rich because you have been similarly flogged. OK, somebody else noticed that and made what could be interpreted as snide comments. As we used to say in high school, "Big Wow...(yawn)..." People can say anything they want about that. Rich probably appreciates that he has someone in his corner. Rich has tried to help me with a couple of things - volunteered, in fact. I suspect Rich has helped a lot of people over the years. I read his talk page, and I wonder where those people are. You and a couple of other people seem like lone lights in the darkness. If somebody notices that and doesn't like it, so what? I'm glad you're on Rich's side. Somebody needs to be.
- Notice to Lurkers here: Don't assume I need to be enlightened about Rich Farmbrough. If you are the type who assumes that if you just explain it, the heavens will open and I'll understand all the grievous sins he's committed - I ain't interested. I've read it all. I know what started it way back when. And I've a pretty good grasp on what the situation is now.
- Who gets whacked and who doesn't. - Like everything else in life, it all depends if you have the right people on your side at the right time. I've just been amazed at some of the peacocks who manage to float by, those who regularly get blocked and instantly unblocked by someone else. There's so much B.S. and testosterone overload on WP. This is not meant to detract from the good-faith work admins and bureaucrats put into trying to do things right. But, man oh man, I'm amazed at what slides by.
- — Maile (talk) 00:47, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks. I wished more people felt that way. Kumioko (talk) 16:26, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
- Maybe they do, and for a variety of reasons haven't said so. In re to WPUS, those who are able to utilize the forum over there might not even be aware that you made that possible. And as for Rich, it would be preferable if things hadn't reached the point they did way back when he originally got his tools taken away. This has been festering for years, if I recall. I remember reading about it before it ever hit the Signpost. I'm not in the dark about what he's done. But I also don't believe in kicking somebody when they're already down. In regard to the current stuff, it really takes someone with knowledge like you have to voice the error of this. Quite frankly, a lot of people probably don't want to become targets by association. You know how it is. Just because they aren't coming forward doesn't mean they don't agree. — Maile (talk) 01:49, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
- K, don't listen to the sniping, you're doing fine. If you do decide to use a script to enforce a wikibreak, please make it short enough that you'll be able to offer us your good judgment during the second round of the RfA RfC. - Dank (push to talk) 21:22, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
Fake move requests
Kumioko, I know you're familiar with WP:Don't disrupt Misplaced Pages to make a point, so can you please not disrupt Misplaced Pages to make a point? Either take a break from editing or don't, but please don't troll us as an IP. 28bytes (talk) 17:02, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
- That wasn't me. That IP as well as .58 are Proxy Ip's for the Navy used by tens of thousands of people. As surprising as this might be and as much as some may wish they were, most of the edits that come from those 2 IP addresses are not and never have bene me. Even though I was accused of it and the assumption was made that I am the only one in the Navy to edit here. Also, I haven't even looked at WP except to change my template from Semiretired to Retired. The only reason I even knew about this message is becausse I got an Email notification on my phone. This message is all the more reason I don't need to edit here anymore. Its obvious that any edit made from this IP will be accused of being me so its better I just stay away. 138.162.0.45 (talk) 19:50, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
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