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My name is Scott MacDonald (well, maybe) and I am a recovering Wikipediholic. For the sake of my work, family, and sanity, I have given up this unhealthy addiction to a project of questionable ethics - and no desire to fix them. With one minor exception, I have been clean since December 25, 2009; see my contributions for evidence.

Will I be back? I don't know. I hope not. Messages may be left here, and will be read periodically. However, I am unlikely to respond to project-related messages.

--Scott Mac (Doc) 14:58, 24 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion

Instead of deleting an obviously notable article, why not simply find a source for it? It is a waste of energy to have to recreate an article simply because someone didn't want to do a simple google search for a source.--TM 23:07, 20 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to source the unreferenced BLPs - there are tens of thousands of them, though.--Scott Mac (Doc) 23:17, 20 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

My hero

That's all i got.Bali ultimate (talk) 23:56, 20 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Jolly good!

Glad to see you back in action (if only briefly, as I suspect). Your recent administrative work is superb. :-) --MZMcBride (talk) 00:44, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Stop

Mass deletions in the face of a current debate about mass deletions, which is presently "no consensus" at best, is clearly disruptive. There is zero justification for proceeding with mass deletion now whilst that debate is progress.

If you absolutely want to, set a deadline a couple of weeks' hence where you'll resume unilateral action if no serious process for dealing with unsourced BLPs has materialised. Until then, please stop. Or I will have to block you, and someone on the other side will unblock you, and what will that achieve? Rd232 ^talk 00:59, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No progress will be made in two weeks (ses Flagged revisions for obvious example). I have worked on BLPs for over 3 years and no significant progress has been made. These articles have been unreferenced for THREE YEARS and nothing has happened. The community is quite incapable of doing anything ethically responsible here, and thus I decline to enter into pointless debates with those who have oproven to be ethically irrepponsible people. "Community consensus" is something I have learned by bitter experience to hold in utter contempt. The ONLY way to change wikipedia is direct action. If you block me, then that will cause drama and disruption. That's your choice. But drama and disruption is far more likely to do some good here than more waffle with an irrepsponsible community. I give notice that I consider any long-term unreferenced BLP to be fair game for deletion, and I call on all resoponsible admins to join me in this position.--Scott Mac (Doc) 01:07, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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	If you absolutely want to, set a deadline a couple of weeks' hence where you'll resume unilateral action if no serious process for dealing with unsourced BLPs has materialised. Until then, please stop. Or I will have to block you, and someone on the other side will unblock you, and what will that achieve? [[User:Rd232\|Rd232]] <sup>[[user talk:rd232\|talk]]</sup> 00:59, 21 January 2010 (UTC)		If you absolutely want to, set a deadline a couple of weeks' hence where you'll resume unilateral action if no serious process for dealing with unsourced BLPs has materialised. Until then, please stop. Or I will have to block you, and someone on the other side will unblock you, and what will that achieve? [[User:Rd232\|Rd232]] <sup>[[user talk:rd232\|talk]]</sup> 00:59, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

			:No progress will be made in two weeks (ses Flagged revisions for obvious example). I have worked on BLPs for over 3 years and no significant progress has been made. These articles have been unreferenced for THREE YEARS and nothing has happened. The community is quite incapable of doing anything ethically responsible here, and thus I decline to enter into pointless debates with those who have oproven to be ethically irrepponsible people. "Community consensus" is something I have learned by bitter experience to hold in utter contempt. The ONLY way to change wikipedia is direct action. If you block me, then that will cause drama and disruption. That's your choice. But drama and disruption is far more likely to do some good here than more waffle with an irrepsponsible community. I give notice that I consider any long-term unreferenced BLP to be fair game for deletion, and I call on all resoponsible admins to join me in this position.--[[User talk:Scott MacDonald\|Scott Mac (Doc)]] 01:07, 21 January 2010 (UTC)