User talk:John Cline

Retired This user is no longer active on Wikipedia. It is better to remain silent, or as has been said It will be used against you :) I've enjoyed the Wikipedia journey. This is an abrupt change, as circumstances have also changed abruptly. Any wiki-love flowing about should be sufficient to accomplish that I ask; "Please look after to close my connections to projects where I have formerly obligated service". Any remnants of this account may be deleted at administrative discretion. Feel free to otherwise consider it booty, or the contents of an abode, strewn about roadside, to become the takers property. I am sufficient to carry my copies in memory form. I will check in from time to time, for the cheer I will surely acquire. These will display discrete intentions in their manner. I have reached the extent of my vocabulary. In every manner where prose have gone forth; I hope they mature to some consequence, befitting their intention. I may add a thing here, in another consideration. But for now, I am spent! Having paid a price. My last two days have shown deterioration in ability, motor-function, clouded comprehension, and other concerns. If these do not regain, I am at fear to have paid up to 20% of my former self. Because I had accepted, trying to describe a glimpse of infinity; I had seen! My house, which is my account, My76Strat, is left in disarray; Intentionally. to show an effect of instantaneous vanishing. I had heard of this, but did not understand. Enlightenment comes at cost, and I have rendered the accounts payable. I do have one piece of advice; Fix the RfA process. The willingness to exact such a high cost, Is an egregious example of poor leadership, planing, implementation, and every other reasonable thing. That is not a universal indictment, as some of the very best I've known, contribute regularly. If not for them, I swear, death was potential. If it simply functioned in accordance with policy, as the encyclopedia, It could never relate to that level of stress. I may have encountered some, by my own mind; But I do advise, there is a liability there, waiting for opportunity. The unstructured employ of the program will not speak well if ever drawn to render. I knew mine was a once in a lifetime journey. I did give my best, and fullest measure, to ensure no regrets for having tried. Some proper things were recorded; So it might be observed, and show practices, contrary to Wikipedia itself. An astute observation will see the forming of words for attack, and then their use; And other techniques; To verbally beat you to literary death for nonacceptance. I do now walk with a slight drift to the left, But I trust In my faith; And know the last memories, will show my fullest, most upright stature. This is how I prefer being remembered. I may be an IP one day editing. If ever, someone was to say "you did a thing which reminds me of Strat", It would be a deep form of respect; Simply for having been remembered. And there are some I will never! forget. If my memory should cease, by dementia, there are parts of our interaction which identified directly to my soul! I will have association to these, beyond even the known things. I am proud, having left record of my hand, across Wikipedian. Wishing the very best possible, even imaginable, continence, and peace abundant! My76Strat (talk) 02:38, 18 March 2011 (UTC) Understandable, but... ...please, take time out, and then re-think. At the very least, talk to me about this. You know where I am. Yes, RfA is shit. Yes, some things about Wikipedia are awful. But you can help make them better. You already have. Have a week or whatever. But never say "never". I have expended a lot of time trying to help you. That was alturistic; I did it because I thought it'd make Wikipedia better. It did, a little bit, because you did some good things. But now...if you quit...it is all a bit wasted. That makes me very sad. So if you think I've been helpful to you, even a bit - at least, talk to me about this.  Chzz  ►  03:09, 18 March 2011 (UTC) Chzz, Of course I will talk to you, now is not preferred. Only god could separate that possibility. I did want to state: "I have read the above message", which is the first rendition, I have been festoon about my literary conscious with attack, to inform me how terrible, my writing was said: even to the extent incomprehensible. Upon my read however, I again feel proud, as it seems reasonably well written. I believe I can communicate, and I hope it touches some, because there are wrought emotions. Now either that is true or I may have lost more than I know. I swear a 9th grader aught to be able to read it. Much respect. My76Strat (talk) 04:20, 18 March 2011 (UTC) Mhm. As long as you are "OK", that's all that matters. It's only a fucking wiki. Speak soon. Get the kettle on.  Chzz  ►  04:21, 18 March 2011 (UTC) Damn it, NO! I was really hoping that you'd stay. God knows I tried to encourage you to do so, but I guess no words could repair the damage. It always comes to this. What the fuck is wrong with people?! Why don't they realize that there are real, feeling humans behind these account names?! I've seen this time and again, and I'm sick of it. The comments that drive people like you to this don't all come from trolls, they come from established and respected editors, even sysops. In fact, a Wikimedia staff member even joined in with personal attacks. What an utter disgrace. I was offered an RfA nomination myself. After your RfA, I turned it down, but after this...I may need to reconsider my own involvement here entirely. I beg you to reconsider retiring for nothing but the sake of Wikipedia. If you don't, you have my best regards. I'm sorry it came to this. Swarm X 04:26, 18 March 2011 (UTC) Fixed the above for you, because I'm pretty sure that didn't happen. ⇒SWATJester Son of the Defender 08:51, 18 March 2011 (UTC) Did you not call the user a "joke"? Strat specifically cited your comment as one of the causes of their distress. You don't have to apologize, redact, or show any remorse whatsoever. But don't insult the candidate and myself by pretending it didn't happen. Swarm X 08:59, 18 March 2011 (UTC) No, I did not call the user a joke. I said that by continuing to use excessive amounts of verbiage despite being asked not to, he was presenting himself as a "joke candidacy" rather than a legitimate candidate. It's actually quite clear if you read what I wrote clearly. That's twice you've jumped to conclusions here. Just sayin... ⇒SWATJester Son of the Defender 09:20, 18 March 2011 (UTC) Be as defensive as you want, the clarification now doesn't really make a difference. Strat even stated: "To be likened to a "joke"...had sufficient sting. To condone such indignation...without clear rebuke, was not even an option..." It doesn't matter how you meant it. They took it as a personal attack. If the first conclusion I "jumped to" was a personal attack accusation, what was the second one? Swarm X 09:33, 18 March 2011 (UTC) Poll Those who know me, know I hate polls. Those who know me also know, I like to keep things nice and simple. Therefore, in addition to any comments anyone may wish to post in specific sections; --- We, the undersigned, think that My76Strat is an asset to Wikipedia, and should reconsider retirement Voice your opinion on this editor (17/0/0) Support  Chzz  ►  05:32, 18 March 2011 (UTC) Support There's still plenty of good work that needs doing. Sven Manguard Wha? 05:36, 18 March 2011 (UTC) Support D: Noes.  IShadowed  ✰  05:42, 18 March 2011 (UTC) Support Swarm X 06:00, 18 March 2011 (UTC) Support Don't let that one time dictate your future! There is still plenty to do and many people to impact and we will surely have a hole in our lives if you don't come back. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 06:05, 18 March 2011 (UTC) Support I've never interacted with you personally, but from what I've seen, you do great things for this wiki. It would be a loss to everyone to see you go; please reconsider. Perhaps a break is all that's needed - I know the feeling. — La Pianista ♫ ♪ 06:06, 18 March 2011 (UTC) Support Wikipedia needs you! — Oli OR Pyfan! 06:22, 18 March 2011 (UTC) Support Come back and swear off ever running for admin again because you wouldn't enjoy the job. We don't call it a mop for nothing. I have great respect for those tireless admins who hold the place together, but they would be dead without the rest of us. There are plenty of non-admins with 100K edits. —UncleDouggie (talk) 07:15, 18 March 2011 (UTC) Support Wikipedia needs you, don't let that week of unfortunate events torture you. You're a good Wikipedian. --123Hedgehog456 : Create an account! 07:32, 18 March 2011 (UTC) SupportYou are a part of the community and we value your presence. The Interior (Talk) 08:40, 18 March 2011 (UTC) Support - RfA is a horrible and broken process, don't let it get you down. And it does seem that the main things you learned during it are valuable and will help you a lot in the future. Be more careful with tagging, and be less verbose, and I'm sure in a few months time you'll pass with flying colors.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 08:43, 18 March 2011 (UTC) Arbitration is Borked, too. Damned, Gold Hat (talk) 09:42, 18 March 2011 (UTC) I don't know, that Jimbo bloke nuking my comments [1]!! :). Of course, I fully support this poll. Pedro :  Chat  Support - Polls are stupid. Retirement is stupid. You obviously don't want to leave, so don't. ⇒SWATJester Son of the Defender 08:48, 18 March 2011 (UTC) Support We've lost more than enough community members though RfA. Failing at RfA does not mean you are not trusted, nor that you are doing anything particularly wrong. As Jimbo said above, don't let it get you down. If real life has changed to prevent you working on wikipedia, then go, focus on the real world. If this is due to events of the past week or so on wikipedia, forget it and move on. You are an asset to this community. WormTT · (talk) 09:21, 18 March 2011 (UTC) Support I hope that retirement is just a break. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 09:24, 18 March 2011 (UTC) Support. By getting a comment here by Jimbo about the process, your unusual RfA has actually done a greater service to the community than you can imagine. It's important that you keep editing. Kudpung (talk) 09:35, 18 March 2011 (UTC) An undeniable asset to Wikipedia. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:51, 18 March 2011 (UTC) Keep - why say in ten words, what one could say in eighty! "I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way" - Mark Twain. "I didn't write this just to get it to FA, you know" - Karl Marx. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 09:55, 18 March 2011 (UTC) Support. I accept you for who you are, excess verbiage and all. ;) -- œ™ 09:55, 18 March 2011 (UTC)