[Wikipedia-l] Re: plz let me play chess :<

Thu Nov 21 19:20:41 UTC 2002

On Thursday 21 November 2002 06:52 am, Bridget [name omitted for privacy reasons]  wrote:
> plz let me play chess with ram-man i have nobody else to play :<

I don't think the block affects your ability to edit meta. I also don't see 
why you shouldn't be able to play chess there - even develop articles for 
later importing into Wikipedia. 

I for one don't have a big problem with your edits -- many, if not most are 
quite sensible. What I do have a very big problem with is your apparent 
inability to get along with others and work constructively within the 
community and respect (however wrong you think they are) our conventions. 
This doesn't mean that you can't work to change the conventions. 

As somebody has already mentioned Cunctator disagrees with many people here on 
many points. But he does it as a community member and doesn't demean others 
or their culture and insist that only he is correct and also demand things 
(not to mention your assertion that you think most humans as "inferior 
lifeforms" and that you are the "world's foremost authority" in presumably 
everything). This type of professed arrogance, true or not, doesn't a 
community build.  And as Jonathan Walther so elegantly said " The 
Encyclopedia doesn't exist to support the community; the community exists to 
support the Encyclopedia." So with a fractured or sick community, the 
Encyclopedia suffers. 

I do wish you can come back in a week and start working with the community 
instead of against it. 

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)