Poppafuze

A Personal Appeal to Wikimedia Founder Jimmy Wales

Dear Jim,
You have gotta be out of your mind. I'm never, ever going to give a goddamn dime to this house of cards. Every intricately wrought jewel of correctness I have ever placed here was undone by someone whose ego rides on their self-appointed ability to make some page their own personal crusade. Every page is the lowest common denominator of its field, whittled down to that way over time just like pebbles in a stream. Every "citation" just somebody else's web page anyway.
It's truly a sandcastle, and your offer doesn't even include a deed. The notion that I would give real money to a million idiot crusaders with a million different chips on their shoulders is insane and insulting. I have had enough of being helpful.

Poppafuze (talk) 21:39, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

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What do you think of this: User:Mike92591/draft. I'm starting to have second thoughts about it. What do you suggest? Mike92591 01:26, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

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I don't want to get into a full edit war, so that is the last reversion that I'm doing. Please do not change the method back to Terrorism before discussing the issue on the talk page of the article and seeing that a consensus is reached. So far, there has not been a consensus to flatly label SSCS as a terrorist organization. Djk3 (talk) 16:29, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Oh, and my edit summary got cut off. It's unsurprising that the people whose actions SSCS opposes say negative things about them, and we can't take their words as support for the label. The laws do not support the label either, unless SSCS is convicted of breaking those laws. Finally, the label of "terrorism" is very different from the label of "eco-terrorism," at the very least in connotation, and any claims that SSCS is an eco-terrorist organization should go into the body of the article and be very well supported before SSCS is flatly labeled a "terrorist" organization in the infobox. There is currently one such claim in the article, but I think that it needs much more support before definitively labeling SSCS as a terrorist organization. Djk3 (talk) 16:36, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

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