User talk:Nick-C

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The Wookieepedian 18:59, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] That individual

You should probably bring it up on Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents or Wikipedia:Personal attack intervention noticeboard. He's clearly been trying to hide his past and make himself look to be the innocent and aggrieved party, when he's done nothing but be a thorn to everyone. Good luck with it. TheRealFennShysa 23:06, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I've posted a complaint. No doubt he'll chip in with his usual diatribe sooner or later. Nick Cook 23:20, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Adminship

Nick, just wanted to drop off a note to say that I thought you were a real class act when we disagreed the other day. I was recently letting off a little steam (courteously) in an AfD about how no one seems to be able to disagree with the idea and not the person on Wikipedia, and you were pretty much the only person that came to mind that was able to keep that distinction firmly in their head when we engaged in a debate.

I hit your edit count in the hopes you'd be in a 1500ish-or-more range, but with only 74 edits, unfortunately, there's no possible way I could nominate you for adminship -- hell, a lot of people didn't feel my 1,500ish edits at the time were sufficient when I went up for RfA myself. But give me a yell after you've been here a year or so and have an edit count in the generally-thought-about range (which seems to be 2,000ish), and if you keep up that sort of civility and classiness throughout your stay here, I'd actually be fairly honored to nom you for admin, if you're interested in same.

And, in the interim, throughout my time here I've discovered a lot of little doohickie tricks and whatnots, so if you want to throw me a question about policy or on how to accomplish something technically, give me a yell, and I might have an answer for you, or hopefully could at least point you in the right direction. — Mike • 15:35, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Mike, I appreciate the offer. There's actually a few things I'd like to add to Wikipedia relating to the area where I live. Just a matter of finding the time. Nick Cook 17:23, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

From: wikipedi sucks and i left, by 'Mike' or 'WCityMike' Wiki AdM http://windycitymike.com/2006/08/02/why-i-quit-wikipedia/
First, I realized I realized the fact that the Wikipedia process for nominating new administrators was an awful, awful process that ensured nobody but the most generic, most evenly palatable individuals would get through. Just like how, with the American political system today, you’d have to be really fucking nuts to actually want to put yourself through the significant trials necessary to become a Congressperson, Senator, or President, and that’s why we’ll almost certainly never get anyone worthy of the job — well, same problem there at Wikipedia. To require candidates to be so inoffensive as to pass everyone’s personal homegrown metrics leads to inoffensive pablum. I realized that even had I tried again, I would have certainly remained unpalatable enough to the masses to once again not be passed through. And why would I want to be palatable to a process in which such bigoted opinions are perfectly acceptable?
I will tackle the easiest part of the question: why I want to excise Wikipedia from my life as a reference source. The unreliability of Wikipedia as a factual source has been addressed by many far more thoroughly than me — an example of a good essay on this subject is Jason Scott’s “The Great Failure of Wikipedia.” I see no need to simply repeat their efforts here. But for me, Jerry Holkins of Penny Arcade put it best when he described Wikipedia as “a kind of quantum encyclopedia, where genuine data both exists and doesn’t exist depending on the precise moment I rely upon your discordant fucking mob for my information.”

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