Also, let me remind you that this is 100% irrelevant. If you want, I can include all of the e-mails I have ever received from you, ronline, Bogdan Giusca, and everyone else involved here. Not all of them are exactly what I would call "respectable". Mark On 02/07/06, Mark Williamson <node.ue(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- Refije dirije lanmè yo paske nou posede pwòp bato.

You have to appreciate that people are increasingly not interested and that as this whole sorry affair continues to annoy,

he did that and that he believes it's not ok

After weeks and weeks of debate on this topic, and complaints to parties to "do something", I have decided to "do something". ... Drastic. 1. I declare that I am the new wikipedia overlord, super-administrator, and god-king. If, oh, the "community" or that "jimbo" guy wishes to appeal anything to me, it must be accompanied by a sufficient grovel. Oh, and animal/vegetable/mineral sacrifice of some kind might help, along with 20 questions about why they should be listened to. 2. I declare that since wikipedia is primarily a textual medium, and not a spoken medium, I hereby declare that what defines a wikipedia "language" will be documentation of textual expression, of a spkoken language, in a specific character set, by 1000 people or more, at any given point in time. Thus, the myriad of chinese languages, which use multiple character sets, will be available with those characters. Likewise, since romanian languages have been historically documented as using cyrillic character sets by more than 1000 people, they will also be available. 3. I declare that in conjunction with the above, patent nonsense and straw-men, like using a klingon character set for writing articles in ancient hebrew, is straight out, as there is no verifiability that 1000 ancient hebrews wrote in klingon character sets. 4. I also declare that wikipedia has no stake in debates as trivial and annoying as "you put jelly in my peanut butter!" or "you put peanut butter in my jelly!" or "you put cyrillic in my romanian!". Wikipedia is not the appropriate place to express whether or not a certain condiment *should* have been used, or that a certain character set *should* have been used. If a character set has been widely used, we should make such a language and character set combination available. 5. If people are offended that their language, and how it has been written, over time, are offended, that they build time machines to fix the problem. Wikipedia does not censor the past, wikipedia documents the past. If folks are offended that their language was written in another character set, I suggest that those who are offended travel to the past to ensure that such a thing never happened. 6. I hope that you, my faithful subjects, will abide by my decrees, or I will put jelly in your peanut butter. Signed by your new overlord, super-administrator, and god-king: -Ronabop, New God-king of wikipedia _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l

I don't know Mark personally, but this sounds strange to me ... really strange ... are you sure it was him??? The text does not read like one of his ... Well anyway: he does not try to get the Romanian wikipedia closed down, right? I suppose there are as much problems there as on any other wikipedia ... so what's the point? Considering all that stuff I read on "proposals for closing down wikipedias" - people have some quite serious problems when it comes to NPOV ... hmmm ... And if articles are copied from the Romanian wikipedia only using another script and people say articles on the Moldavian wikipedia are plain wrong also in contents ... doesn't this mean they are wrong as well on the Romanian wikipedia? Come on: stop it ... if the quality really is not good: instead of struggling and figthing care about the wikipedia where you work on and not about those where others work on (and where you do not seem to be interested in). This is valid for all who seem to have too much time for POV but strange enough too little for really contributing. Sorry, but I believe we read enough about this matter. Again: live and let live ... stop fighting - it's time to show that wikipedians are tolerant people. (This sentence is for "all" who are involved in some kind of dispute.) I am not going to write any more messages about this theme. Ciao, Sabine Jacky PB schrieb: received care and a not ignoring be personal that your Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale!

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