Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Carl Sagan
Work in prog right below
Before me and you go any further: I'll read your opening statement and answers to the next two. I'll then go to your user page. There are certain things not uncommon on user pages that, if I see them on yours, will end the RfA for me and you there and then. I may !vote if you've got enough IRC buddies to shove you through but otherwise I'll be gone. I won't be going onto the talk page and then start plodding through contribs and that. These certain things give a reliably accurate impression of the editor and hence their likely incompatability - or plain inability - with adminship and its responsiblities. Don't need to see them all; some are worse than others but the idea is clear :
1. Flashy signature. Who the hell do you think you are, that your pronouncements are so important that their author must be instantly recognisable - indeed, must stand out as must as possible from all other text on the page? And anyway, its the pixel = of that 9 year old girly-girl phase of using different coloured pens to write every other word, drawing little hearts for dotted i etc. 2. Userbox overload. Invariably lined up along the right side of the screen, single row, scroll down down down page after page. because Wikuipedia editors need to know all that pointless childish shit. Your favourite foods, how many brothers you have, you like sunshine oh and you like rainy days too. If you're not actually a particularly self-absorbed pubescent bore then you have the mind of one and I don't want to see what you're going to do with tools like, say, blocking someone. 3. I also do not want to see self-important and/or self-justifying statements (usually at the top of the page) that go on about some injustice done to you or rehash some argument you had, for ewamples. Someone who cannot even stop to see how this sort of thing looks - not only at RfA but to every user that goes there? Nope.
Too many see Wikipedia as a MMORPG, with adminship as a trophy. For their mates as well.
QUOTING Boris, from August 2010):
I've had this opinion for a long time, but recent observations on Wikipedia politics make me want to state it:
So go ahead, think to yourself whether or not you contribute to article space...decide if the time you spend on Wikipedia contributes to creating a comprehensive and useful reference work.
Or more bluntly: if you're being a useless prat, stop. If you haven't touched an article in the past hundred edits, what in the world are you doing here?
Aug 2004 death in Philadelphia (by starvation and infected pressure sores) of 14 year old Danieal Kelly who had cerebral palsy. Following a Grand Jury investigation, nine people (both parents; city DHS staff and supervisors; staff and supervisors and owners of the private agency contracted to provide SCOH) were indicted and subsequently tried. Criminal charges ranged from involuntary manslaughter to reckless endangerment to criminal conspiracy and perjury. Guilty verdicts on agency staff were reached in 04/10 - awaiting sentencing June 2010 (good time to do article). the Grand Jury also made 2 major recommendations: establishing an Ombudsman and radically opening up the DHS confidentiality to increased transparency and scrutiny.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Carl Sagan
Work in prog right below
Before me and you go any further: I'll read your opening statement and answers to the next two. I'll then go to your user page. There are certain things not uncommon on user pages that, if I see them on yours, will end the RfA for me and you there and then. I may !vote if you've got enough IRC buddies to shove you through but otherwise I'll be gone. I won't be going onto the talk page and then start plodding through contribs and that. These certain things give a reliably accurate impression of the editor and hence their likely incompatability - or plain inability - with adminship and its responsiblities. Don't need to see them all; some are worse than others but the idea is clear :
1. Flashy signature. Who the hell do you think you are, that your pronouncements are so important that their author must be instantly recognisable - indeed, must stand out as must as possible from all other text on the page? And anyway, its the pixel = of that 9 year old girly-girl phase of using different coloured pens to write every other word, drawing little hearts for dotted i etc. 2. Userbox overload. Invariably lined up along the right side of the screen, single row, scroll down down down page after page. because Wikuipedia editors need to know all that pointless childish shit. Your favourite foods, how many brothers you have, you like sunshine oh and you like rainy days too. If you're not actually a particularly self-absorbed pubescent bore then you have the mind of one and I don't want to see what you're going to do with tools like, say, blocking someone. 3. I also do not want to see self-important and/or self-justifying statements (usually at the top of the page) that go on about some injustice done to you or rehash some argument you had, for ewamples. Someone who cannot even stop to see how this sort of thing looks - not only at RfA but to every user that goes there? Nope.
Too many see Wikipedia as a MMORPG, with adminship as a trophy. For their mates as well.
QUOTING Boris, from August 2010):
I've had this opinion for a long time, but recent observations on Wikipedia politics make me want to state it:
So go ahead, think to yourself whether or not you contribute to article space...decide if the time you spend on Wikipedia contributes to creating a comprehensive and useful reference work.
Or more bluntly: if you're being a useless prat, stop. If you haven't touched an article in the past hundred edits, what in the world are you doing here?
Aug 2004 death in Philadelphia (by starvation and infected pressure sores) of 14 year old Danieal Kelly who had cerebral palsy. Following a Grand Jury investigation, nine people (both parents; city DHS staff and supervisors; staff and supervisors and owners of the private agency contracted to provide SCOH) were indicted and subsequently tried. Criminal charges ranged from involuntary manslaughter to reckless endangerment to criminal conspiracy and perjury. Guilty verdicts on agency staff were reached in 04/10 - awaiting sentencing June 2010 (good time to do article). the Grand Jury also made 2 major recommendations: establishing an Ombudsman and radically opening up the DHS confidentiality to increased transparency and scrutiny.
Lived
England
Cornwall
Finland
Israel
Florida
New York
Stayed
France
Italy
Greece
Sweden
Denmark
USSR
Newfoundland
Yukon
B.C.
Alaska
Washington
California
Visited
Scotland
Isle of Man
Holland
DDR
Luxembourg
Switzerland
Ukraine
Monaco
Spain
San Marino
Yugoslavia
Turkey
Egypt
Jordan