Wikipedia:Stress alerts

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If you notice that a Wikipedia user is showing signs of stress, taking a wikibreak, or considering leaving the project altogether, please add the user to the appropriate list below so that the Esperanza community can intervene with encouraging comments and suggestions. You are welcome to add your own username to any of the lists if you wish to receive support from the community. Or if someone else has added your user name to the list and you wish to be left alone, you may remove yourself from the list.

Each entry should remain on this page until the issue is resolved or for approximately one month. "Leaving Wikipedia" alerts that do not succeed in encouraging prominent users to stay with the project should be archived to the list of missing Wikipedians.

Stressbusters has some suggestions for actions you might take in response to these alerts.

Current alerts

Recently Returned

These users have recently returned to Wikipedia after breaks. (If you're removing yourself from one of the other categories below, feel free to add yourself to this one.)

User: Comments: Date:
User:Deryck Chan Job on the Cantonese Wikipedia is less exhausting as I've expected. Reduced to a quarter-wikibreak. 00:53, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
User:RyanGerbil10 Unexpected plea bargain gets my friend off the hook and ends WikiBreak far sooner than previously hoped :) 06:06, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
User:Mmeinhart Has returned with a new username, User:OSU80. 17:36, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
User:Srikeit Back from vacation but still plagued by connection problems. Am now partly active (RC patrolling & other assorted nastiness). 06:45, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
User:Haza-w Back from wikibreak but still relatively inactive due to computer problems. 20:22, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
User:SushiGeek Took a brief day "leaving Wikipedia" break due to some users making comments that insulted him 06:06, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
User:General Eisenhower Took a day off. Back and ready to fight vandalism 00:02, 25 April 2006


Leaving Wikipedia

User: Reason: Date:
User:Juppiter Says on his user page that he's leaving Wikipedia because of an issue with User:OrphanBot. 21:41, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
User:Colin_McLaughlin User page says "Too many cooks spoil the broth" 02:45, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
User:Jtkiefer Deleted user page; confrontation at WP:RFB. Also requested removal of admin privs. 18:39, 10 April 2006 (UTC).
User:Tvaughn05 Had userpage deleted and has left Wikipedia. 02:37, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
User:Semiconscious Had userpage and talk pages deleted, don't know why he's leaving. 22:18, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
User:Hall Monitor Has stopped editing and last few contributions spell out "Goodbye People I Will Miss You", which worries me. Wasn't sure who to contact and was directed here. 19:22, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

On Wikibreak

User: Reason: Date:
User:Quadell See userpage; at least breaking as a result of debate regarding date linking. May leave. March 27, 2006
User:Kilo-Lima On exam-wiki-break: As you could tell, I have exams in two weeks (time of typing), but still try to contribute; only small edits though. 21:30, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
User:Zeerus Having some personal problems and moving to a new home, should be settled soon, on break until further notice. 03:35, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
User:Where On wikibreak as per his userpage 8 April 2006
User:Ian13 Back after exams 10 April 2006
User:Admrboltz RL Stress Till RL stress is delt with
User:Aksi_great Is on Wikibreak till May 7 due to exams (see user page) 06:52, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
User:Jaxl Tests, papers, etc. 22 April 2006
User:David91 Is in the hospital. Who knows?
User:Makemi [1]; that's not so easy to deal with; on Wikibreak. 26 April 2006
User:Banes Per message on his user page and elections statement 26 April 2006

Stressed Users

User:Rschen7754 RFC that is suffering from biased users and going south. 19:30, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
User_talk:Colignatus User in trouble 07:09, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
User_talk:Go for it! I feel persecuted! Instead of simply giving up in frustration, I've decided to stick around and fight back (within the acceptable means provided by Wikipedia). I'm in need of the advice of a veteran user on something I've been working on for quite some time. I undertook a complete overhaul of the Community Portal, on an open editable page, only to have someone revert it to a version of the page that existed months ago. Then along comes an admin and protects the page. Not knowing what all my options were, I called for a vote to get the page changed back. I didn't get any positive feedback until I posted that announcement - up until then I felt like I was continually being yelled at and scolded. My talk page reads like a punching bag. My question is: is there anything we can do to change the process bias of the talk page system which seems to promote criticisms and complaints over praise and encouragement??? --Go for it! 19:43, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
User:The Minister of War My deadline for my MA thesis is nearing! Still a few weeks to go and pressure mounting!!! Thinking of taking an extended wikibreak to kick the habit here. 06:02, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
User:HighwayCello Too many people screaming at me and I feel like leaving because a stupid FAC... Highway Rainbow Sneakers 16:36, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
User:Guanaco Recent crippling of vandal-fighting ability. 04:48, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
User:D-Day As if the userbox wars aren't enough, having to deal with edit disputes on Keith Olbermann. That's going to get so ugly. I can tell. D-Day(Wouldn't you like to be a pepper too?) 17:49, 17 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
User:Golbez Burnout. Adminitis. Burnout. Too much vandalfighting, not enough contentmaking. Burnout. 14:54, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
User:Thewolfstar Reason:I'm new in Wiki. I've been harassed a lot and taken a lot of abuse. I've come back in an angry way myself at times, and don't like being like that. I feel down and angry because of all the fights and wars that have occurred because of my editing attempts. I need some kindness and support. thanks for being here. 21:58, 20 April 2006
User:Anonymous_anonymous I'm ill and tired at the moment. 11:28, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
User:NSLE Trying to help a friend and getting shot down by a fellow Esperanzian. This is ridiculous, and un-Esperanzial. 04:41, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
User:Mailer Diablo Poor health, compounded by pressure-cooking stress in academics as a result of poor grades, with further boo-boos in real life making things worse. 07:47, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
User:HolyRomanEmperor Involved in a contentious RFA, and thinking about leaving Wikipedia altogether. 21:19, 24 April 2006 (UTC)


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