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Question for the day: In the light of Herschel's admin nomination, is the Masked Template Guru regretting his decision to deny wanting to be an admin? Surely he would have been first choice without that post and without his Joram excursion?
Wow - that second link is to my second ever post. How time flies!
Showing posts with label joram. Show all posts
Showing posts with label joram. Show all posts
Monday, 26 April 2010
Tuesday, 2 March 2010
The Unmasked Man
So it turns out that Joram was RobinHood70 all along. He "retired" back in mid December citing "recent events" and is now talking about "drama" being responsible.
At the time, RobinHood was working on his project to kill the Lore Dictionary articles, which he did, but what other drama was there? The big debate over Elliot the Thick's Editor Id template was going on (and somebody should really delete Template talk:NPC Editor ID - it's still there long after the template was deleted), but it looks to me like this discussion on the Admin Noticeboard was a bigger factor. Basically, EtT and RH seem to have had a falling out over the job queue. Both those discussions involved EtT, so is his continuing absence the reason for RH's return?
Is there more than that? Let me know, people.
At the time, RobinHood was working on his project to kill the Lore Dictionary articles, which he did, but what other drama was there? The big debate over Elliot the Thick's Editor Id template was going on (and somebody should really delete Template talk:NPC Editor ID - it's still there long after the template was deleted), but it looks to me like this discussion on the Admin Noticeboard was a bigger factor. Basically, EtT and RH seem to have had a falling out over the job queue. Both those discussions involved EtT, so is his continuing absence the reason for RH's return?
Is there more than that? Let me know, people.
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
He is Thick! Hear his ROAR!
That's better. I had been wondering whether or not there would ever be anything worth posting about again since the site had been reasonably sane over the past few days. At last, good old Elliot the Thick saves my blog with a typical display of idiocy.
We need to go back a few days to an edit by Nx on the perennially-unfinished page about The Infernal City. It combines the book image with the infobox table and actually looks pretty good as we now have all the meta-information over to the side.
Spin forward a few days and GuildKnight likes the idea so much she does the same on all the game front pages. A few hours later, Joram takes the sensible step of making a template to make sure things stay the same on all the pages and that they can be easily changed if necessary. He then goes through and adds the template to the game pages.
Now it could be argued that this was all done without consensus. There was certainly no discussion about Nx's or GuildKnight's changes. On the other hand, the fact that Nx's change was around for two days with nobody complaining and that both GuildKnight and Joram obviously liked it enough to adapt the solution, there's pretty clearly some strong support for the new layout. Hypothetically, what would you do if you didn't like the new design? Perhaps start a discussion on the Community Portal? Ask GuildKnight on her talk page? Well not if you're Elliot the Thick.
In a remarkable series of posts, EtT first undoes all Joram's template changes, then goes through again and changes all the pages back to their pre-GuildKnight style. Evidently his little break left him with an itchy undo finger and he was too stupid to realise that the first undo made little difference. He then proposes Joram's template for deletion. Ratwar undoes it, although his edit reason doesn't make much sense; EtT reverts Ratwar; Rpeh reverts EtT; EtT reverts Rpeh, and finally GuildKnight reverts EtT. Incidentally, GuildKnight shows herself to be an expert at edit summary put downs. EtT's edit summary when reverting Rpeh was "it is not being used, it has no reason to remain", to which GuildKnight replied "it is only unused because you removed all uses of it".
I can only imagine what was happening elsewhere. I guess, for instance, that IRC was melting under the flames. Whatever happened, EtT marked himself as an inactive patroller and resigned as a mentor. He also added a quote to his user page: "All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view." The fact that he takes that attitude should prove exactly how unsuitable he is for life on a wiki. He was still checking the site 5 hours later though, when he reverted somebody else who preferred the new layout.
Is this the end of Elliot the Thick? He obviously can't stop edit warring, except this time he did it with two admins. His pig-headed stupidity and obstinacy have been exposed yet again and he still refuses to play nicely with other people.
There should be an onsite debate about Elliot the Thick and his status as patroller. It is time that this idiot had his ability to damage the site removed.
We need to go back a few days to an edit by Nx on the perennially-unfinished page about The Infernal City. It combines the book image with the infobox table and actually looks pretty good as we now have all the meta-information over to the side.
Spin forward a few days and GuildKnight likes the idea so much she does the same on all the game front pages. A few hours later, Joram takes the sensible step of making a template to make sure things stay the same on all the pages and that they can be easily changed if necessary. He then goes through and adds the template to the game pages.
Now it could be argued that this was all done without consensus. There was certainly no discussion about Nx's or GuildKnight's changes. On the other hand, the fact that Nx's change was around for two days with nobody complaining and that both GuildKnight and Joram obviously liked it enough to adapt the solution, there's pretty clearly some strong support for the new layout. Hypothetically, what would you do if you didn't like the new design? Perhaps start a discussion on the Community Portal? Ask GuildKnight on her talk page? Well not if you're Elliot the Thick.
In a remarkable series of posts, EtT first undoes all Joram's template changes, then goes through again and changes all the pages back to their pre-GuildKnight style. Evidently his little break left him with an itchy undo finger and he was too stupid to realise that the first undo made little difference. He then proposes Joram's template for deletion. Ratwar undoes it, although his edit reason doesn't make much sense; EtT reverts Ratwar; Rpeh reverts EtT; EtT reverts Rpeh, and finally GuildKnight reverts EtT. Incidentally, GuildKnight shows herself to be an expert at edit summary put downs. EtT's edit summary when reverting Rpeh was "it is not being used, it has no reason to remain", to which GuildKnight replied "it is only unused because you removed all uses of it".
I can only imagine what was happening elsewhere. I guess, for instance, that IRC was melting under the flames. Whatever happened, EtT marked himself as an inactive patroller and resigned as a mentor. He also added a quote to his user page: "All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view." The fact that he takes that attitude should prove exactly how unsuitable he is for life on a wiki. He was still checking the site 5 hours later though, when he reverted somebody else who preferred the new layout.
Is this the end of Elliot the Thick? He obviously can't stop edit warring, except this time he did it with two admins. His pig-headed stupidity and obstinacy have been exposed yet again and he still refuses to play nicely with other people.
There should be an onsite debate about Elliot the Thick and his status as patroller. It is time that this idiot had his ability to damage the site removed.
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