Wikipedia: Missing Wikipedians
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This is a list of Wikipedians who, for various reasons, are unfortunately no longer an integral part of our community.
- -- April - last edit Dec 02, 2003.
- She edited a page in July. She's probably busy with her own wiki project (see her user page.)
- 168... blanked his user page and was presumed to have left on March 7 2004 following disputes arising from the handling of "subvandalism" (see e.g. DNA)
- Abigail-II, left 13 June 2004, blanked talk page and left message on Village Pump, explaining that too many people were deleting material without discussion on talk pages.
- Archivist last edited 3 February 2004.
- Ark30inf 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."
- Brandon.irwin left on July 23, 2004, saying he felt that the project was fraught too much with errors and inconsistencies.
- Corvus13 "Fine. I give up. Delete everything I've ever written. There appears to be some personal thing here where if you're not part of the clique, you're not welcome. Goodbye."
- Daniel Quinlan left without warning on December 16th 2003 after becoming convinced that the NPOV policy does not work.
- Efghij - last edit Nov 17, 2003.
- Finlay McWalter - "gone to Rutland", last contribution September 5, 2004
- Gianfranco disappeared in February 2003 after making thousands of contributions in the English Wikipedia.
- Hcheney - last contribution August 10, 2004.
- Graham Chapman On page titles to be deleted: "OK, I'm out of here, too many fuckwits and their egos to be bothered with"
- Imran - Last edit: 3rd November, 2004 to say "Note: I am (as of Sept 04) curently inactive on Wikipedia".
- Isis (February 2003) - got into a legal dispute with another contributor and quit over it
- Jacobgreenbaum last contributed 24 August 2003
- Jazz77 - last edit Aug 31, 2003.
- Jennifer, last contributed 3 April 2003
- JHK - last edited 4 Nov 2003; parting words: " Every time I come back, it's the same old stuff, the same old tired people trying to push their agenda...Over the past few days (August 2002)...I feel that my integrity has been questioned by a group of people who refuse to provide even the least amount of information about themselves. If it's not any fun, and the dread of finding out what the next day brings is much more evident than any emotional or intellectual reward, I see no reason to spend my time here.
- Jnc disappeared on March 26 2004 without saying why. !!!(Actually he dropped in today 4 Sep 2004)!!!
- I wasn't upset at anyone or anything like that; it was just a combo of i) being stressed out in my real-world life, and ii) having overloaded on Wiki-editing, so I just took a break. I wasn't reading my Talk: page, but that's why I list my email contact on my User: page. Trust me, if I had decided to bail for some reason, I'd have definitely said why! So if I go silent again in the future, don't read too much into it. Noel 08:00, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Jor - left
- Jose Ramos - last edit 23 Mar 2004, not known why
- Jumaca - last edit on 11 Sep 2003. From what I gather from his (her?) talk page, he (she?) was interested in topics from Colombia, although he did very little contributions and none to those topics. --Fibonacci 21:28, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- LA2 left the Wikipedia project on May 21, 2001 after a disagreement with LMS on whether Wikipedia is a dictionary or not, and whether the distinction between an encyclopedia and a dictionary is even a useful one. He then did nothing for a long while, and finally on October 1, 2001 opened his own shop (in Swedish) at http://susning.nu/ using a slightly different policy. He is now a valued contributor to the international and wikipedia mailing lists.
- Larry Sanger (March 2002) - The philosopher himself, and the only (formerly) paid Wikipedia employee --was instrumental in guiding the WP to where it is today.
- Lee Daniel Crocker - last contributed 27 Jul 2003
- Appears have, returned as of June 2004, for one edit, then vanished again. Burgundavia 08:23, Jun 26, 2004 (UTC)
- Lizard King Told me by email he has chosen to leave the wikipedia due to the harassment he recieved over contributing his drawings and sketches. Sam Spade 06:24, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- Lypheklub - had his request for adminship rejected because he had not been here long enough, and left shortly thereafter.
- Maximus Rex - last edit: 31 Jul 2004 - deleted his user page right before he left
- MichaelTinkler - last edit: 2 Sep 2002.
- Mirwin - last edit: 15 Sep 2003
- Notheruser left on 17 August 2003 giving no reason, but stating "I'm taking an indefinite break from Wikipedia."
- Very sad. Notheruser was a great contributer. Ilyanep 17:00, 25 Jan 2004 (UTC)
- Optim: 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)
- Orcalover - Last edit: December 19, 2003
- Piotr Wozniak left with no bad feelings, see his homepage for his detailed explanation.
- Rbs - has not posted since March 11, 2004. No explanation. I hope he is ok, and that he returns soon. Kingturtle 00:41, 10 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Did some editing in July. Probably not "missing", just an infrequent denizen of the wiki. Isomorphic 03:38, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Rei - Last edit: July 19, 2004
- Renata - Once a regular contributer now a long term dissapearee.
- Rotem Dan - 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)
- Scipius - last contributed 29 June 2003.
- Secretlondon - "I don't edit here any more.", 22 July 2004
- This really sucks, IMO. A lot. If anyone wants details, see the entry about her departure in his LiveJournal at [2]. blankfaze | (беседа!) 09:12, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Secretlondon was really nice to me when I was a wikin00b, even though I am an American rightist. PP! --Merovingian
Talk 06:11, Sep 11, 2004 (UTC)
- Skellam - blanked his userpage and unsubscribed from WikiProject on 16 Nov 2004; no reason given. JFW | T@lk 18:01, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Someone else - last edit 22 Nov 2003.
- Soulpatch - last contributed 7 Mar 2003.
- SteveDay dissapeared in May 2002.
- The Warlock - left comment on user page
- Uriyan - the original uri. last edit: 1 Aug 2003.
- Vancouverguy - On Feb. 20, 2004 , "I think I've officially "disappeared" now. You can call me a "missing Wikipedian" although I might edit anonymously."
- Wik: Last edit May 21, 2004
- WojPob - Last edit: June 8, 2003
- º¡º aka 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."
- Chameleon left 20th November 2004 over a vandalism dispute. He claimed to have been blocked by American administrators three times.
See also Wikipedia drop-outs for some more detail on some past "drop-outs" and Wikistress for some suggestions on how to avoid burning out and needing to leave in the first place.
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