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I will no longer be participating in the Wikipedia community. I may change my mind, but probably not for a while. I will likley continue to edit articles, either signed in or not, depending on what I feel like, but I will no longer be interacting in the community at large, including policy discussions, votes for deltion, requests for adminship and the like.

The reason I have done this is because I feel like the community is ends oriented, with to many of its members unconcerned with the means.

This is related to the incident with User:Ed Poor, but it is not what he did, but how the community reacted to it.

I have never entertained the idea that poor conduct is justifyiable by seniority, a good laugh, or by the ends. The means never justify the end.

I could argue this, and hold my ground valiantly in the community.

Or, I can do what makes me happy, and not entertain something I feel deep at the core of my being is wrong.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.--Tznkai 21:59, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

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+I will no longer be participating in the Wikipedia community. I may change my mind, but probably not for a while. I will likley continue to edit articles, either signed in or not, depending on what I feel like, but I will no longer be interacting in the community at large, including policy discussions, votes for deltion, requests for adminship and the like.
-I was told doing this would make me more legitimate, but I have no desire to talk about myself at the moment.
+The reason I have done this is because I feel like the community is ends oriented, with to many of its members unconcerned with the means.
-Well. That was funny. For some reason I can't get the little vandalsim sticker back that was added as a well meaning joke related to IRC
-[[Image:Vandalism.PNG|thumb|300px|Now you're a "true good editor"!]]
+This is related to the incident with [[User:Ed Poor]], but it is not what he did, but how the community reacted to it.
-Unless that just worked. This stemmed from the idea that I won't consider myself a truly good editor until someone goes out of the way to vandalize me. And it happened for real on 6:23, 7 Jun 2005. I'm so proud. Thanks to Boothy443 for the catch.
+I have never entertained the idea that poor conduct is justifyiable by seniority, a good laugh, or by the ends. The means never justify the end.
-Oh, since some people on IRC are still unaware of this fact, I am NOT a sockpuppet!
+I could argue this, and hold my ground valiantly in the community.
-Read [[WP:AGF]]. Love it learn it, hold it like your first born.
-We should have WP:Usefull, a policy that is even more important than [[WP:NPOV]], articles must be useful and informative to the reader.
+Or, I can do what makes me happy, and not entertain something I feel deep at the core of my being is wrong.
+So long, and thanks for all the fish.--[[User:Tznkai|Tznkai]] 21:59, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
-Tznkai's Little Green Men rules:
-The LGM rule:  Articles should be written for the Little Green Men from outerspace, articles in order to be any use, need to have context.
-LGMs like it if you [[Kiss_principle|KISS]]: Keep It Simple Stupid, or if you prefer short and sweet. It is not true that the more information you have the better an article is. Information has to be obviously useful and relevant.
-LGMs are short: remove barriers for entry for the LGMs. Avoid convoluted sentences and overuse of [[jargon]].
-LGMs have taste: Information is all well and good, but it has to be more useful than it is distasteful. This is not censorship, this is civility.
-LGMs have [[Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder|ADHD]]: Articles should be as terse but intresting as possible, otherwise the LGMs get bored and leave.
-LGMs have a fear of conflict: [[Escalation]] is bad.
-LGMS are not stupid: Be descreptive, not prescreptive, give them context, don't lead them by the nose.
-Some wikithoughts:
-:Accusing someone of POV is counterproductive. Also see [[WP:AGF]]. Just neutralize and edit.
-:Doesn't matter who starts it, it matters how you end it.
-:This is not WikiScience or even WikiMainstreamScience. Its Wikipedia, which is probably analogous to WikiNeutralReporting: not "fair and balanced"
-:Single paragraph with sterile language is better than two paragraphs full of emotion. Here anyway.
-:Science is a word misused in wikipedia edits nearly as much as the bible is misused elsewhere
-:NPOV is the policy most frequently abused, probably accidentally. Quick runners up are Deletion and 3rr.
-:Refrences and Consensus. Such wonderful things.
-:The problem with Wikipedia is inherent. By their nature, wikipedians are people who wish to share their knowledge. This includes their opinions, the truth, neutrality, and other things they "know."
-:Wikipedia is not WikiTruth, its WikiSummary or WikiObservations
-:When examining the qualitiy of a contribution, the contribution itself is all that matters, not the conduct or motivation of the  contributor. :When examining the quality of a contributor, only the contributor's conduct matters, not the contributor's motivation or contributions.
-:The only time we should worry about someone's motivation, is when we're writing an article section that speaks to someone's motivation.--[[User:Tznkai|Tznkai]] 18:03, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
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-*Currently working on a rewrite for the Christianity section [[Homosexuality]].
-*Currently involved in [[Intelligent Design]], contemplating reorginzation. Will likely have to write out the whole article in userspace to provide a comparable alternative.
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-{{wstress3d|3|150|At this point and climbing.}}