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On this day, 12 years ago...

Wishing Bumm13 a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Lepricavark (talk) 00:23, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for your edit!

Thanks for your edit on Pratt Institute! State abbreviations can be difficult for non-Americans to understand off hand (I am not american but do know NY but some other abbreviations I might have to look up haha). --TheSandDoctor (talk) 04:48, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

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Changing links

Hi, I've noticed you've made a whole series of edits of the sort that WP:NOTBROKE specifically advises against. Please read through this and refrain from this sort of change in the future. Thank you. --Deacon Vorbis (talk) 22:19, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Again, please stop. Your edits are disruptive. The guidelines at WP:NOTBROKE are very clear. If you have a problem with them, then you can take them up at the talk page there, but until those are changed, you have no basis for making these changes. --Deacon Vorbis (talk) 02:00, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

I would strongly suggest that you, as a relatively inexperienced editor, refrain from making edit reversions of dubious value. You have no business reverting my punctuation fixes because you (wrongly) interpret them as WP:NOTBROKE. Further reversions of such edits without proper reasons may require escalation of dispute resolution. Bumm13 (talk) 02:02, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

My edits are perfectly fine, it is your reversions that are inappropriate. Please stop your disruptive reversions per WP:POINT. Bumm13 (talk) 02:04, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

Your edits are clearly violating WP:NOTBROKE. If you want to escalate this, then please be my guest; it might be a helpful way to proceed. But first, the policy in question seems pretty clear, and you haven't tried to explain why you think the policy doesn't apply. --Deacon Vorbis (talk) 02:10, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

Deacon Vorbis is correct that consensus prefers that links to redirects not be altered. Deacon is incorrect that this is Wikipedia policy (WP:NOTBROKEN is a guideline), and it's probably a waste of time to revert every single edit of this type. But honestly Bumm13, you're making extra work for yourself with all these "reverse disambiguation" edits. You're a long-serving Wikipedian who knows the ins and outs of this encyclopedia. We would all benefit from your talents being applied to more productive edits. Ibadibam (talk) 00:21, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

@Bumm13: please do take note again of this well-intentioned effort to inform you about WP:NOTBROKEN. Please also review WP:MINOR, as marking edits that depart from consensus as "minor" may be taken as editing in bad faith. Ibadibam (talk) 00:25, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

@Ibadibam: WP:NOTBROKEN is not policy, period. And it was a minor edit, saying otherwise is being really pedantic. Your time could be better used fixing Wikipedia in a proactive manner rather than policing/micromanaging my edits. Thanks. Bumm13 (talk) 00:39, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for your quick response! I only performed a revert to get your attention, and you don't have to worry about me hounding your every edit. But I'm troubled that you seem to be so cavalier about flouting a guideline that is the product of longstanding consensus. Ibadibam (talk) 01:19, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

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Hey bumm13

:P - FlightTime (open channel) 22:27, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

Hey! long time, no talk Bumm13 (talk) 22:29, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

Yes. Glad to see ya around :) - FlightTime (open channel) 22:37, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

"Formatting fix"

Bumm, I don't understand the point of your edits like this one. The redirects serve a good purpose, allowing the source text to be simpler, and even allowing the possibility of a more specific article replacing the redirect in some cases. Piping and other tricks to avoid an existing appropriate redirect is seldom a good idea. Dicklyon (talk) 19:01, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

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I owe you no explanation for cleaning up bad formatting. Saying my edits are unconstructive just because you don't like them is a bit over the top. It seems I run afoul frequently with "wiki-rules-lawyers" who think such edits are worth getting worked up about when there has been no consensus (please don't link me to WP:NOTBROKE or WP:NOPIPE as those are not decisions based on any actual consensus.). Maybe you should find something useful to do instead of admonishing long-time editors? Bumm13 (talk) 22:56, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

I see you've ignored this advice before. Walter Görlitz (talk) 01:23, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

Unfortunately, Bumm13 is doing this for ages and has thereby caused tremendous damage to the project. I and other editors have had long discussions with him reaching as far back as 2013, and I am sure he has been doing this before.

• User talk:Matthiaspaul#Reversion_of_my_edits_to_SuperDrive_article
• Wikipedia talk:Redirect/Archive_2013#Restoring_links_to_redirects
• Wikipedia talk:Piped_link#"It_is_generally_not_good_practice_to_pipe_links_simply_to_avoid_redirects"

It has been explained to him in kind words, all the good reasons for why we have these guidelines were given, but he either just ignored the advice or gave arrogant responses like in the example above. I never saw him giving an explanation for why he is doing this, except for that he thinks he can, because he thinks he is not bound to editing guidelines.

--Matthiaspaul (talk) 20:19, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

Bumm13, you do owe the community an explanation! Save the time, there is no reasonable explanation, so what you do owe the community is an apology for all the grief and damage you created (and continue to create) by these kinds of edits!

Unfortunately, a very significant portion of your edits are actually about such "format fixes" against WP:NOTBROKEN, WP:NOPIPE and MOS:NOPIPE. These are long established guidelines which have community consensus at least since 2006, possibly earlier. They were not set up arbitrarily and out of a sudden, but based on specific and very good reasons:

• to enable more insightful reverse lookup,
• to improve categorization and allow for attributed links,
• to gain insight into the usage distribution to optimize article titles,
• to significantly ease possibly neccessary contents reorganizations,
• and to keep the interconnections in a robust state maintainable far into the future

(most of which is not possible with piped links if they are used for more than the typical afix-blending for which they are fine). Always use the right tool for a purpose! This all has been explained to you in details more than once, so you know the reasons well and there is no need to repeat all this here again. If you found new special cases where you think piped links are preferable over redirects beyond those cases already discussed in the guidelines, please bring them up on the corresponding talk pages so they can be evaluated by the community and possibly be integrated. And, no, this is not wiki-lawyering and asking you to stick to rules just because they exist - it is asking you to adhere to these rules because there are very well-founded and far-sighted reasons for why these rules came into existance in the first place - the project would long have become unmaintainable due to its growth if we wouldn't have those rules (and 99.99% of the editors would adhere to them). Piped links don't scale like redirects.

You are, not accidently, but deliberately acting against these long established editing guidelines, and you are not doing it once (perhaps because out of an occasional need for a special fix for some unusual situation per WP:IAR), but all over the place. Over the many years you do these edits, you have been pointed to these guidelines by many fellow editors (including long-time and highly experienced editors in perfect standing), but to no avail.

This is not an acceptable behaviour in any editor, new or long-time, and it is in particular not acceptable in someone which has been given admin access - as an admin you must be absolutely trustable and a role-model of integrity, but by ignoring the community and acting according to your own rules, you are, unfortunately, the opposite of it. This behaviour is what causes other editors to leave the project in frustration, and potential new editors to never start editing here. It puts Wikipedia in a bad light.

I hate drama and have much better things to do, but if you don't stop this behaviour, it really might be necessary to spend the time to have you desysoped and blocked from further editing so that the community no longer needs to spend time to recover articles where you applied your "format fixes". Please understand that these kind of "fixes" are not only not necessary and no improvement to the articles, but they are actually causing damage to the project!

So, Bumm13, please have an insight and just stop it - stop it now and forever - instead of forcing the community to stand up and stop you. As you wrote above, there are better things to do, and I'm sure you can make useful content contributions instead of upsetting the community against you by trying to fix things that are not broken. Such a waste of energy...

--Matthiaspaul (talk) 20:19, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

You say "you hate drama and have much better things to do"... so why don't you go do them, then? Build an encyclopedia instead of harassing a fellow editor over a non-issue. Bumm13 (talk) 21:13, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

"has thereby caused tremendous damage to the project" -- Bollocks. Quit with the whiny hyperbole. Bumm13 (talk) 22:28, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

I'm here because you hinder me (and other editors) from working on the better things more efficiently. I once again ran into a series of your "format fixes" and decided to visit your talk page and not just silently repair your "fixes" as I did so many times although I am so tired of your ongoing violations of our editing rules. And then I saw that other editors have also complained about the same behaviour. This problem is what needs to be fixed.

Please don't take this as harassment because it isn't. I have zero interest to hurt your feelings. I'm here because your edits put sand in the gear and are hindering other editors from being more productive than they otherwise could be and ultimately because our readers don't get the quality of service they otherwise could get. You are just not listening to the advice given to you by so many editors over all those years that it is unavoidable to adjust the tone to reach you: It isn't a non-issue, Bumm13, it is a serious problem! Can you hear us? Please let this sink in.

You obviously don't want to hear that (and I have no fun at all to tell you) but these edits are causing damage to the project, they destroy valuable infrastructure and keep other editors from being even more productive. We have guidelines which are very clear about how it should be done, and your edits are violating them. That's why we are here. That's why this must stop.

If it is a non-issue for you, than it should be trivially easy for you to stop it, you will have more time for productive work, and the other editors have nothing to complain about and can happily continue with their productive stuff as well. It would be so much more fun working together on an encyclopedia...

You even have an interest in technical topics, so you should not have difficulties at all to follow the arguments and accept the limitations of piped links in a project this large - even though ultimately our personal opinions don't matter, because for as long as we have these guidelines they are binding.

--Matthiaspaul (talk) 23:53, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

You speak of these "violations of our editing rules" while showing no actual consensus for your assertions. I brought up discussion about this matter back in 2013 and – guess what? – there was no consensus on the matter! You clearly see only what you wish to see (text displayed as an "established" rule or policy), actual consensus bedamned. Bumm13 (talk) 23:59, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

Our guidelines reflect community consensus, they are there for you and anyone else to read and follow. Consensus regarding the relevant points hasn't changed in far more than a decade. As a courtesy, I already cited the relevant statements from the guidelines for you years back - it would be a waste of time to do it again. Don't get me wrong: If I could sense that you are trying to improve your editing behaviour and just have a difficulty to understand something, I, like any other helpful editor, would be more than willing to help and explain things to you. But, unfortunately, what I sense is a fundamental unwillingness to accept that guidelines are binding for you as well - so spending any more of my precious time on this would be just a waste of time. You will be held responsible for your edits.

--Matthiaspaul (talk) 01:41, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

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