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*{{User2|º¡º}} aka {{User2|BigFatBuddha}} - Last contribution 4 May 2003. Left comment on Talk page: "I've wandered far afield, and am likely not to return. My illusions were reduced when I found the mailing list, and found how little was thought of me." (Has probably returned as {{User2|O^O}}, but what's it to you?) |
*{{User2|º¡º}} aka {{User2|BigFatBuddha}} - Last contribution 4 May 2003. Left comment on Talk page: "I've wandered far afield, and am likely not to return. My illusions were reduced when I found the mailing list, and found how little was thought of me." (Has probably returned as {{User2|O^O}}, but what's it to you?) |
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*{{User2|12.144.5.2}} - Louis Epstein, who posted from a fixed IP, left a valedictory address on his user page [[2006]] [[January 1]]. |
*{{User2|12.144.5.2}} - Louis Epstein, who posted from a fixed IP, left a valedictory address on his user page [[2006]] [[January 1]]. |
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*<s>{{User2|168...}} - Blanked user page and was presumed to have left on [[2004]] [[March 7]] following disputes arising from the handling of "subvandalism" (see e.g. [[DNA]]).</s> [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_arbitration/Mav_v._168/Evidence&diff=prev&oldid=3280311] |
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Revision as of 09:29, 26 April 2006
This is a list of Wikipedians who, for various reasons, are unfortunately no longer an integral part of our community.
Purpose of this list
The purpose of this list is to provide a reminder to us of those who have left and their reasons for doing so.
Please do not add people to this list who were never an integral part of the community. Most of the people in the list made well over 1,000 edits. Do not add people unless you are certain they have left, and do not add yourself.
- People who leave a goodbye message on their talk page or elsewhere, and then actually refrain for editing for at least two weeks, are likely to have left permanently and may be added to the list.
- Wait about a month before listing someone who has simply ceased editing, unless you have some other reason for being certain that they have left.
- Wikipedians who are considering leaving and those who have very recently left a stress-related goodbye message can be listed at Esperanza's alert page.
- In most cases, editors who have gradually adopted a pattern of occasional editing interspersed with long breaks should not be listed merely because they are on one of their long breaks.
- Editors who return are no longer "missing" and can be removed from the list altogether or listed in the "Not really missing" section.
- Missing Wikipedians should be added to this list by people who knew them well rather than by strangers.
- If you add your own user name to the list as one of your final edits, your addition might be reverted since it is theoretically impossible for a "missing" Wikipedian to make an edit. You are welcome to add your own name to Esperanza's alert page, but be warned that the Esperanza community will accordingly try to encourage you to stay.
Index
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
Missing Wikipedians
User-multi error: "--_April" is not a valid project or language code (help). - Last edit 2005 March 8.[1]- ²¹² (talk · contribs · count) - Missing since 2003 October 24.
- º¡º (talk · contribs · count) aka BigFatBuddha (talk · contribs · count) - Last contribution 4 May 2003. Left comment on Talk page: "I've wandered far afield, and am likely not to return. My illusions were reduced when I found the mailing list, and found how little was thought of me." (Has probably returned as O^O (talk · contribs · count), but what's it to you?)
- 12.144.5.2 (talk · contribs · count) - Louis Epstein, who posted from a fixed IP, left a valedictory address on his user page 2006 January 1.
168... (talk · contribs · count) - Blanked user page and was presumed to have left on 2004 March 7 following disputes arising from the handling of "subvandalism" (see e.g. DNA).[2]
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- Abigail-II (talk · contribs · count) - Left 2004 June 12. Blanked talk page and left message on Village Pump, explaining that too many people were deleting material without discussion on talk pages. "I've no interest in working on a system where people break down your work without discussing it on appropriate page."
- AI (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit 2005 October 15. Left following an Arbitration Committee case which banned him from Wikipedia.
- Ankur (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit 2005 March 9. Used to make great maps.
- Aranel (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit was on September 1, 2005.
- Ark30inf (talk · contribs · count) - Left on October 24, 2003 saying "I have found that if you are not here to do battle then nobody will listen to you. Thats not what I am about." He requested de-adminship and the deletion of his user page on 22 February 2004. "I then returned in late 2004 and tried to stick to just editing Arkansas articles to avoid stupid conflicts. Its an area that nobody appeared interested in at all. Then I got jumped on for the way I categorized my articles and all of them reverted before I even was given an opportunity to discuss the way I categorized my articles. I stepped on someone's pet peeve and they didn't feel like waiting to hear what I had to say. It was somehow URGENT to revert all the Arkansas categorization for some reason. Screw it. Thats my LAST attempt at Wikipedia."
- Arundhati_bakshi (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit on April 2, 2006. From her talk page: "I have decided this some time ago, because Wikipedia is no longer a nice place to be, largely because of incidents like with Pchurch, but also general lack of goodwill, POV interference masquerading itself as NPOV corections, biased admins, the applications of certain rules to certain people and articles while not applying them to others and a general atmosphere of unfairness and often outright hostility which makes any contributions feel they are done in vain. If you look through my nearly 5000 edits, you will see that I stand up for new people quite often, to have them leave after being gangbanged in a "kill the newbies" type campaign. I don't see the usefulness of working under such conditions. I am just tired of spending my time defenidng people who have bene told to do the opposite of what they are expected to do and trying to maintain goodwill among a bunch of rude users."
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- Benc (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit 23 December 2004.
- BM (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit May 2, 2005; gave no reason.
- Bmicomp (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit was on December 15, 2005.
- BrandonYusufToropov (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit February 3, 2006 due to the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy dispute.
- Bushytails (talk · contribs · count) - His father died, and he went on wikibreak until "I'm no longer crying all day".
Last edit was on November 12, 2005.He came back to make one edit on March 2, 2006, supporting User:Karmafist's RfA.
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- Carbonite (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit February 11, 2006.
- Camembert (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit February 8, 2006, stated "I don't edit here any more. I don't anticipate editing regularly again."
- Chameleon (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit December 23, 2005. Also edited as Chamaeleon (talk · contribs · count) and Helpful_Dave (talk · contribs · count).
- Chan_Han_Xiang (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit was 1 January 2005.
- CharonX (talk · contribs · count) - Left on 25 April 2006 because of userbox debates. "The 'Policy? Due Process? I have power and I use it.' attitude of some admins makes me sad. 'So what if a Template survived a TfD and was restored by a Deletion Review... We'll just keep on deleting it till the supporters give up. For we have the POWER.' I understand that they only do what they think is right. But what use is policy when even those that are supposed to enforce it, ignore it."
- ChicXulub (talk · contribs · count) - Blanked talk page on 7 September 2004 and hasn't edited since.
- ChrisDJackson (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit October 23, 2005. Started college recently, and may not have the time to assist on Wikipedia.
- Cortonin (talk · contribs · count) - Missing since shortly after 26 June 2005 six-month ban from certain articles by ArbComm. [3]
- Chronographos (talk · contribs · count) - Missing since 14 October 2005.
- CrazyTalk (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit on 5 November, 2005. Left a departure note on his user page. "Closed up shop. The three months I was a Wikiholic have sucessfully served their purpose (postponing my career change) and have now run their course. I have also arrived at this conclusion: [4]."
- CryptoDerk (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit January 30, 2006
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- Danakil (talk · contribs · count) - This extraordinary user edited for only one and a half months, from 1 August to 13 September, 2004, yet during that time he amassed 3,009 edits. Many of these were controversial, concerning name changes to computer related articles. Despite having earned the enmity of quite a few of his fellow nerd-o-nauts, Danakil was responsible for the systematic and correct categorization of hundreds of programming languages and other software related articles. His work will be remembered and missed.
- Dori (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit 20 March 2005. "I've gotten tired of the English Wikipedia. It's gotten so big that I would have to spent most of my time reverting bad edits to pages on my watchlist, and that's not fun. I'll probably be back, but not until a stable branch is launched."
- Doron (talk · contribs · count) - Contributed since August 2004. Last edit January 11, 2006; stated on User page "Took some time off."
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- Eequor (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit February 16, 2006 in which she left a note at Esperanza that said "I don't expect to come back again."
- Efghij (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit November 17, 2003.
- ElBenevolente (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit January 08, 2006, arbitrary departure occured after acknowledging a user with the {{welcome}} tag. As of April 21 2006, all attempts to contact user in question have been unsuccessful.
- Emax (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit 18 February, 2005.
- Encyclopedist (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit March 13, 2006. Withdrew his RfA as his last edit. Edit summary said that "I will not come here again. I said that I was tired, so I will sleep. Good night, Wikipedia."
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- Faedra (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit 1 January 2005. "This contributor is currently under the impression that Wikipeia is a complete waist of time. (except for a spelling lesson)."
- Fenice (talk · contribs · count) - Left January 18, 2006 after an editwar.
- Firebug (talk · contribs · count) - Left due to the Userbox controversy. There is a rather, um, explicit goodbye message on his user page.
- Fonzy (talk · contribs · count) - Retired May 2004: "I don't like change much (which some will probably know or guess why). I prefered Wikipedia more when it was smaller and I felt part of a small community, now Wikipedia has got bigger (which is great) but I dont feel as useful, or as important, I just feel like part of a mob." Made last edit on the 26th of that month.
- Freestylefrappe (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit February 13, 2006 shortly after being desysopped by Arbcom.
- Func (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit 10 October 2005. "My apologies, I am away from Wikipedia for an extended period of time." Made two edits on April 11, 2006.
- Fvw (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit 27 November 2005: excellent admin, and loved to warn people about staying in the bounds of WP:NPA.
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- Gadykozma (talk · contribs · count) - Stated he was "taking wikivacation, probably permanent" on 22 November 2004. Last edit 21 December 2004.
- Gerald_Farinas (talk · contribs · count) - After 15,138 edits from 17 May 2004 to 14 June 2005, he blanked his user page except for a note about repeated account hijackings and vandalism and then quit editing.
- Gianfranco (talk · contribs · count) - Disappeared in February 2003 after making thousands of contributions in the English Wikipedia. Edited a little in 2005.
- GK (talk · contribs · count) - Left on 14 January, 2005 with a note: "It took me way too long to realize the underlying facts about the way the Wikipedia works. In this libertarian anarchy, any process is only as functional as it's most dysfunctional participant. What that means is that in too many areas the inmates are in charge of the asylum."
- Greyengine5 (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit 4 September 2004.
- Graham_Chapman (talk · contribs · count) - On page titles to be deleted on 4 April 2002: "OK, I'm out of here, too many fuckwits and their egos to be bothered with". Made last edit later that day.
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- Hajor (talk · contribs · count) - An admin, he stated "It stopped being fun... but it was fun while it lasted. Thanks for the ride" in his last edit on November 22, 2005.
- Hapsiainen (talk · contribs · count) has been absent from Wikipedia since December 12, 2005. No further explanation.
- Harry_Potter (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit 10 April 2004. Had over 1000 edits, just disappeared.
- Hcheney (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit 24 October 2005.
- Huaiwei (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit 8 February 2006
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- Imran (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit: 3 November 2004 to say "Note: I am (as of Sept 04) currently inactive on Wikipedia".
- Isis (talk · contribs · count) - In February 2003, got into a legal dispute with another contributor and quit over it.
- Izehar (talk · contribs · count) Last edit January 16, 2006
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- JamesBurns (talk · contribs · count) - Very active AfD participant; last edit 19 August 2005. His user page and his talk page did not give any indication that he was intending to leave the project.
- Jazz77 (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit August 28, 2004.
- Jeronimo (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit September 24, 2005.
- Jewbacca (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit January 12, 2006.
- Jguk (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit February 5, 2006.
- Jimregan (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit 12 February 2005. No longer active around Wikipedia after all and now writes for Linux Gazette(.net)
- John_Fader (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit May 20, 2005 after nearly 5000 edits including regular responses at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical). Declined an offer to be nominated for admin. His user page and his talk page give no indication that he was intending to leave the project and email contact is not enabled.
- JonGwynne (talk · contribs · count) - Left after 26 June 2005 three-month ban by ArbComm. [5]
- Jose_Ramos (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit 23 March 2004; not known why. Now back after a vacation under a new psuedonym, only being disclosed to selected Wikipedians, though.
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- User-multi error: "Karen_Johnson" is not a valid project or language code (help). - Last edit 8 October 2004.
- Kate (talk · contribs · count) - declared an indefinite wikibreak on 9 November 2005 and has not edited since 6 January 2006. She will forever be remembered througout the Wikipedia community for her development of the first practical edit-counting tool. Still active on the technical side of things.
- Kevin_Rector (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit January 5, 2006
- Kimiko (talk · contribs · count) - Contributor since summer 2003; blanked her user and talk pages 2005 February 21.
- Kokiri (talk · contribs · count) - Blanked user page and talk page on 18 September 2004.
- KRS (talk · contribs · count) - Inactive since Feb 2005. Made a few sporadic edits since then, last one dating back to Nov 2005.
- Kukkurovaca (talk · contribs · count) - last edit November 23, 2005
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- Larry_Sanger (talk · contribs · count) (March 2002) - Former Nupedia editor-in-chief, was instrumental in guiding Wikipedia to where it is today. (Letter of resignation). Returns occasionally to edit his own article and to comment on the state of Wikipedia.
- Lommer (talk · contribs · count) see userpage, last edit February 20, 2006
- LordSuryaofShropshire (talk · contribs · count) A user who frequently skirted controversy. Last edit in July 2005.
- Lucky_6.9 (talk · contribs · count) Declared on February 25, 2006 his intention to leave Wikipedia for good.
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- Mark_Richards (talk · contribs · count) - last edit 10 March 2005
- Marnanel (talk · contribs · count) - Last (logged in) edit: 18 Sep 2004. Left in solidarity with his wife when she was insulted less than a week after she started editing.
- Maximus_Rex (talk · contribs · count) - last edit: 31 Jul 2004 - deleted his user page right before he left
- He has appeared on Meta-Wikipedia
- Mic (talk · contribs · count) - last edit 27 Sep 2004
- MichaelTinkler (talk · contribs · count) - last edit: 2 Sep 2002.
- Mintguy (talk · contribs · count) - last edit: 13 Nov 2004. "It has stopped being fun. The lunatics are taking over the asylum." See his userpage for more information
- MyRedDice (talk · contribs · count) - last edit: 25 Apr 2005
- He made several anonymous edits on August 31, 2005, under the IP 81.79.143.26 (talk · contribs).
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- Nabla (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit October 15, 2005 not long after becoming a admin
- Nathanlarson32767 (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit: 26 Jan 2005.
- Nickptar (talk · contribs · count) - last edit March 3, 2006
- Nknight (talk · contribs · count) - last edit: 24 Feb 2005 - has decided to leave, see the user page.
- Norm (talk · contribs · count) - last edit 15 March 2005; departed "on wheels".
- Noitall (talk · contribs · count)- last edit October 11th 2005
- Notheruser (talk · contribs · count) left on 17 August 2003 giving no reason, but stating "I'm taking an indefinite break from Wikipedia."
- NSR (talk · contribs · count) - last edit: November 28, 2005; left because of Wikipedia's growing problems with vandals (see user page).
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- OneGuy (talk · contribs · count) - last edit was on February 27, 2005.
- Optim (talk · contribs · count): Administrator and Bureaucrat. Missed since 19:00 PM (UTC), March 6, 2004. Optim came to Wikipedia in 2003 because he wanted to help with the creation of free educational material. He started 115 new articles and contributed more than 19 photos he took using his digital camera. He decided to leave because he felt fed up with some particular Wikipedians. He wishes to everyone Good Luck and PEACE PROFOUND. Optim 19:08, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- He blocked himself for a period of one year. We'll be very lucky to have him back, whenever he decides its worth it. Like all of us, he has a lot of things to do, and when he tallied up the stresses and satisfactions... The stress-o-meter was a multiple of the satisfaction meter :( Let's try to make this profoundly beneficial contributor feel as welcome and happy as possible, if and when he returns. Sam Spade 04:03, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- Oven_Fresh (talk · contribs · count) - last edit 17 Aug 2005
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- Papayoung (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit November 18, 2005. No explanation given.
- Pfortuny (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit 13 December 2004.
- Pir (talk · contribs · count) - Mostly gone, but made an edit on March 27, 2006.
- Piotr_Wozniak (talk · contribs · count) - Left with no bad feelings; see his homepage for his detailed explanation.
- Plato (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit for a while was 14 May 2005. It had been reported on this page that he had died (and he was asked about this on his talk page), but he made three edits between 1 February - 2 February 2006.
- Poccil (talk · contribs · count) - After 12,462 edits, Poccil's last edit was 2 February 2005.
- Pratyeka (talk · contribs · count) - last edit September 18, 2005
- Private_Butcher (talk · contribs · count)- last edit, December 31, 2005
- Purplefeltangel (talk · contribs · count) - This creator of the Wikihug left November 4, 2005 after conflict. Was so mad she moved a page to "On Wheels!" (a la Willy on Wheels) and was blocked for some time.
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- Radiant! (talk · contribs · count) - left on February 7, 2006 after making the statement "This is disgraceful. I do not think I shall be editing for the forseeable future."
- RadicalBender (talk · contribs · count) - an admin, last edit on November 17, 2005
- Reene (talk · contribs · count) Last edit 22 January 2005, doesn't do Wikipedia anymore. Creator of both the m:Association of Mergist Wikipedians and the Wiki Wiffle Bat award.
- Renata (talk · contribs · count) - Once a regular contributor now a long term dissapearee. Last edit 1 Mar 2004
- RickK (talk · contribs · count) - One of the most active administrators on recent changes patrol, blanked his talk page and left a rather bitter goodbye message on his user page. His exit came after a revert war where he was removing a copyright violation, in which he was blocked for violating the three revert rule by a fellow administrator. (see here)
- He appeared on Simple Wikipedia on July 21, 2005.
- He came back on December 23, 2005 to protect his user page and leave a message. --Jaranda wat's sup 05:21, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
- RK (talk · contribs · count) - last edit January 15, 2006
- Robert_McClenon (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit March 20, 2006.
- Rotem_Dan (talk · contribs · count) - last contributed 01:00, 26 Jul 2003...maybe he's over in Hebrew Wikipedia now?
- Well, since July 2003, I'm on a multiple-year wikibreak from all Wikis, I guess it's from too much wikistress/addiction. I'm still proud of my membership though! I'll be back... muhahaha Rotem Dan 10:56, 31 May 2004 (UTC)
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- Sabbut (talk · contribs · count) - Has made only a few edits after 20 July 2005; mostly contributes to the Spanish Wikipedia.
- Salsa_Shark (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit 29 January 2004.
- Scipius (talk · contribs · count) - Last contributed 29 June 2003.
- Scraggy4 (talk · contribs · count) - last edit 12 Sep 2004. Re-appeared briefly in July 2005.
- ScudLee (talk · contribs · count) - A prolific editor during 2004, ScudLee first disappeared in December 2004. Made almost 1500 edits in December 2005, then blanked talk page on December 26, 2005 and has not been heard from since.
- ShaneKing (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit 10 January 2005.
- Shauri (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit 2005 December 30.
- Shorne (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit 6 December 2004.
- Skellam (talk · contribs · count) - Blanked his userpage and unsubscribed from WikiProject on 16 November 2004; no reason given.
- Someone_else (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit 22 November 2003.
- Sortior (talk · contribs · count) - Made an admin 8 January 2005. Last edit 18 January 2005.
- Soulpatch (talk · contribs · count) - Last contributed 7 March 2003.
- Spinboy (talk · contribs · count) - Last contributed December 27, 2005.
- SuperDude115 (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit 16 November 2005.
- Susvolans (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit 31 December 2005.
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- Tannin (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit 26 September 2005.
- Tarnas (talk · contribs · count) - 1,987 edits, on indefinite wikibreak since December 10, 2005. Created some excellent sketches whilst he was here.
- The_Warlock (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit 3 August 2003, left comment on user page.
- ThomasK (talk · contribs · count) - last edit 20 October 2005; left messages on his talk page and user page.
- Triona (talk · contribs · count) - last edit 14 February 2006.
- Trollderella (talk · contribs · count) - last edit 30 November 2005; had over 2000 edits. Apparently left after 3RR block.
- Tyson2k (talk · contribs · count) - Over 1100 edits since January 2005. Last edit 2 February 2006.
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- Uriyan (talk · contribs · count) - the original uri. last edit: 1 Aug 2003.
- Uncle_G (talk · contribs · count) - Respected and prolific administrator, last edit 11 February 2006.
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- Vancouverguy (talk · contribs · count) - "I think I've officially "disappeared" now. You can call me a "missing Wikipedian" although I might edit anonymously." Vancouverguy was previously absent from Wikipedia in February 2004. He edited a bit in October 2005 and has not posted since.
- VivaEmilyDavies (talk · contribs · count) 4721 edits, last edited December 30th 2005
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- Wiglaf (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit December 30, 2005, left a sign on his userpage saying "Good bye forever".
- Witkacy (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit September 15, 2005
- WojPob (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit: June 8, 2003
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- Zestauferov (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit December 16, 2005
Not really missing
- Hephaestos (talk · contribs · count) - has been on break from Wikipedia since December 2004. He made one edit in January 2005 and more in March. He then announced that he was going to leave Wikipedia in April and came back in May to protect his user page. Between January and March 2006, he made more edits, added a vandalism count on his user page and protected his talk page.
- ManuelGR (talk · contribs · count) - last edit 1 November 2005 - does not usually edit on the English Wikipedia, his usual work is the Spanish Wikipedia.
- Merovingian (talk · contribs · count) - last edit 4 Feb 2006: " As of today I shall be severely cutting back on my time at Wikipedia, not due to anything here, but due to real-life pressures that, as I have come to realize, are more important to a high school junior than this wonderful project." Said he will return though.
- MrHate (talk · contribs · count) - has not posted regularly since August 2005
- He made a few edits in October and December 2005, and one edit on January 5, 2006 and April 18, 2006.
- Who (talk · contribs · count) Last significant edit December 13, 2005; I'm buzy with other lifely things.. I plan to return soon.