User:Law seems to have left, based on tiny hints like a massive fuck-off banner reading "RETIRED" on his userpage. No idea why - from the looks on the talkpage, none of the regular Wikipedia users know either.

This may explain it:

http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?s=&sh...ndpost&p=190408

Ahh, hadn't seen that. A pity to see him go, really, but if he wants to leave, he wants to leave.

Unfortunately for many people, Wikipedia is very much the Hotel California. You can enter, but you can never leave!. Because of that, people here and on Wikipedia tend to be cynical of Wikipedia goodbyes. You pretty much have to be banned and your IP range blocked for an eternity to truly leave Wikipedia. That or grievous injury or death.

Hopefully, Law can break the addiction and move on.

Eh, he will be back. Thanks for the pissy drama, Law -- things were getting a bit slow.

Is Law another lawyer by any chance?

And just why is Wikipedia so attractive to lawyers?

He isn't a lawyer. One of his early posts said he was an accountant working in tax law or something.

Apparently lawyers hate functioning legal systems.

I asked this very thing elsewhere. I'd expect there to be a lot of computer geeks, and maybe some scholars, but lawyers seems a bit off.

Newyorkbrad is a lawyer and Cool Hand Luke is a law student. I don't know about the other arbitrators. Scared yet?

Question: How many lawyers can fit at the bottom of the ocean?
Answer: Not enough.

Stephen Bain is either a lawyer or very close to being one. Of the arbitrators whose identities we know, that's it.

Law is not a lawyer. I think he said on his RfA that his username comes from a character in a video game.

Also WJBscribe, and I think Michael Snow too.

Alot more lawyers around than doctors anyway. Not sure what percentage of the parent populations that actually equates to though.

You may have noticed that in RL there is something of a recession.

Lawyers are employed lots in boom times, where the expenditure on them is worth the value they bring in; busy and rich companies will throw money at litigants to make them go away. Lots of liquidity in the market place allows people to gamble on trying to grab what others are too foolish to lock up. When things go bad nobody wants to spend money on trying to squeeze a bit of cash out of a company that is going belly up. Those foolish with their cash are now holding a whole pile of empty.

There are a lot of lawyers with quite a bit of time on their hands, at the moment. Accountants are busy whether or not the economy is doing good or bad - but something like WP provides them with all the safe "risk" that breaks the ennui of their lives...

Doctors are fab. If there are any on WP, it is because they are brilliant and want to share.

I sincerely hope you're wrong about this, because the last thing Wikipedia needs is a gang of newly-minted Wiki-lawyers, manipulating behind the scenes and typing endless AN/I garbage.

Swatjester will soon be graduating law school, and Smith Jones says he's a lawyer who is a "specialist in International Trade and surrogatcy law and expert on procedural administration".

Smith Jones is a joke account. Good chance of it joking about being a lawyer too.

BS. Smith Jones can't even construct a complete sentence.

Tekken 4. If you suggest that his pepper beef is too damn spicy he'll bust your ass for it. Let me find the video...

Oh, I don't think he's a lawyer, I was just reporting what he said.

I do think he's a performance artist.

It wouldn't surprise me.

Perhaps Milton Roe and I could go up against him in a song parody contest.

Ah, yes. Well, I think he's just annoying. Humor similar to that of Raul654 with his Ceiling cat. Categorize those under "unfunny".

Law's departure is pretty unfortunate. It seems Wikipedia's vast ocean of shit eventually sucked him below the current. I wish this didn't happen as often as it does to users with clue.

The ones with clue have to put up with all the idiots surrounding them. It's only reasonable that they decide to leave once in a while to get the hell away from them.

"If you lie down with dogs, don't be surprised if you get up with fleas." —Benjamin Franklin

I'm generally a jovial and somewhat crass figure, but I'd like to point out that I don't quite understand this remark. Granted, I might be able to empathize with the sentiment behind it, but to me drama is not what I created. I did what I thought to be the norm - to retire with a template.

I wish I could entertain the community here and on WP with a statement on my userpage about philosophies that go into depth about my trials, my views, and my trying to fight the good fight. I wish it entailed my loss of faith in a system that had a foundation in decency, and it was the decline and irreverence that led to such an abrupt departure.

However, I was strolling (not trolling) the roof of my building here in San Diego (taking a 'wikibreak' from administrative duties), about a month ago. My journey to enjoy a menthol cigarette and a bottle of Stella Atrois was met with an unusual breed of female who was a goddess in form and style, enjoying a glass of merlot. As we talked I realized that her physical attributes were only met with what I consider a perfect amount of subdued intelligence, a healthy pessimism and a laugh that was quite intoxicating.

One month later, I find myself infatuated, and excited, railroading all plans I had to take my newfound Master's degree and move home. This seemingly unadulterated Siren has invited me to share her life, move in with her, and stay in San Diego. What started as a tryst has evolved into something one can only see as a long-term partnership. I fell in love and what's more, I realized that the break I took from this thankless title and 'duty to none' had resulted in such good circumstance, that I felt I no longer needed to focus on my contributions to Wikipedia, but what other great things lie outside my Internet?

So basically, yeah. I want to stay and contribute here because I feel I can add to the social interaction by virtue of my time and position on Wikipedia. So while I am quite content with my retirement from WP, I look forward to spending time here when time allows, and when I feel that I can contribute.

I do not understand the sentiment on my talk page because I think that I was not the greatest of administrators. I do not adhere to CIV, and want it destroyed.

I have a huge problem with BLP because editors cannot help but add information that is defamatory and what I consider to be insanely inappropriate. It also should be stated that I feel the same about bios of dead people, because estates and descendants have to deal with the same repercussions that are created by bullshit additions. WP is not responsible to handle any biography, and they only adhere to BLP for legal reasons, and not moral ones.

I also find AGF to be the worst of any rule, because it is what your spouse cries when you catch him or her in bed with another person. "AGF! It's not what it looks like." That's an insult to my intelligence. AGF is a license to portray yourself as a doormat - and a dumb one. That's not my thing. It's stupid, insulting, and makes everyone 10 IQ points dumber. AGF is makes everyone look stupider and if people spent less time on CIV and AGF'ing, I feel that as in real life, things would run smoother.

So yeah, this was too long to read. And yeah, it basically boils down to the fact that I found a chick with a killer smile and a huge rack, but if that is the legacy I leave, I'm pretty fucking happy with that.

Congratulations on having solved the problem of Oxytocin Deficit Disorder.

The users with clue all left a long time ago. Law just found clue (hopefully).

I really can't think of a better reason than that to retire from wikipedia. The admin treadmill is pretty thankless anyway. God knows, there are precious few of them that I'd piss on if they were on fire. The feeling's probably mutual though to be fair.

Well good luck. After all Wkipedia is to an encyclopedia what that kind of partialization is to a caring relationship.

Well, Franklin had quite the sex life. He's my favorite Founding Father, for certain!

You're getting him muddled with someone else starting with F.

What makes you think so?

I'll bet it made for some really hip parties to sit around naked in hot tub and snort coke through $100 bills that all have a picture of YOU on them. That was about how famous he was in France.

Oh dear another person in need of a humerus transplant.

Tough solutions. It's either cold turkey WP, or put in nipple rings.

The editor treadmill is just as thankless, if not more so, as far as I know. People try to apply bullshit 'policy' universally and that is unrealistic. Let's block everyone for incivility. However, admins spew oral defecation when it comes to the blocking of content editors - namely they should be treated the same as other users. No. That's not real fucking life. You and OR and even Giano may get incivil (which I applaud), but you get fucked for it, just as if you were everyone else. It's always stressed that this is not a democracy. Good, stick to that. Admins need to stick with that. If a substitute teacher pissed in the corner of a room, fire the fucker. If a tenured professor did the same, I'd let him finish, show him to the bathroom, and when he was done relieving himself of his pressure, I'd figure out where WP went so wrong as to elicit this type of behaviour.

I'd piss on you, Malleus.

TMI.

BTW, Law's back. I just about p---ed myself reading the thread. Perhaps I need to investigate if there are exercises for that?

And because of that thread, Durova states she will never seek adminship ever again due to the sexist nature of thread.

It's safe to come back, !!. That is, if you are not already back.

I think somebody once said self-immolation is the only effective way to stop others from pissing on you.


Well, gee... if somebody wanted to be a bitch about this they could go whine to Jimbo right now (asking to have him desysopped again "on the theory that no admin would ever behave like this") and probably succeed.

Who?

Dear god I think I actually agree with Durova about this guy's maturity. She goes about it in her usual drama-whoring way, but the point about this immature moron being an admin is still valid.

And why does he need to be an admin to "unfuck" that article? This showing-off-for-girlfriend is about as bad as drunk editing (which I assume we'll see next from this guy).

FT2, obviously.

What a loss of drama!

Oh. I didn't see the natural connection between Benjamin Franklin and FT2.

There are.


I'm considering being a bitch in the form of protecting RFA/Durova_2 per user request. I'm so sick of the women on this project crying about the alleged gender bias. Suck it up and quit bitching. Granted, the thread was about muscles most of the women on this project have never heard of, much less intentionally flexed for the purposes of toning them up, thus it is understandable this would hit a chord. Still, no one on the project has the right to be unoffended, and she's only found herself upset because 1/ she chose to be and 2/ she loves starting drama where none exists.


I think you just witnessed drunk editing, moron.

See what I did there?

Let me get my video camera -- this could be the next big viral video!



There is nothing like a dame!

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=310822421 Look at the end of the page.

Apparently, we will not be seeing a photo of Durova proving she can pull a loaded pickup truck with one of those things attached to a chain.

Just imagine it, in the theater of your mind, !!.

Can somebody write a Wiki on salt it to help Durova when she needs to explain she wants something gone, and not even thought about, ever ever again? As in the fields of the Cartheginians in the Punic wars?