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== Resignation from Misplaced Pages ==


When Misplaced Pages first started, it was a very nice project. You could contribute to existing articles or start new ones, and it was fun to watch other users improve on what you had written -- expanding it, making it clearer, adding more information, etc. It really worked well for a number of years.


But those days are over. I've found lately that if you try to contribute anything at all, somebody immediately deletes your contribution, citing some obscure violation of the minutiae of thousands of Misplaced Pages rules and policies. I've sometimes spent hours and hours arguing with someone over making even the tiniest change to an article; then after having soundly won the argument, had my contribution deleted anyway. Start a new article on some topic, and it gets almost immediately deleted. Try correcting or adding to an existing article, and your edits are immediately reverted. Try to look up an article you wrote a few years ago, and it's gone. There's just no point in spending time on the Misplaced Pages project anymore, when anything you do is immediately deleted. After many years of contributing to Misplaced Pages, I've finally had enough of fighting with these self-appointed deletionist Misplaced Pages topic police. I won't be contributing to it anymore, and will be joining the increasing number of people who are abandoning the Misplaced Pages project. ] (]) 02:53, 17 November 2011 (UTC)


=== Update, June 2012 ===


I've recently tried making a two very short
"test edits" on Misplaced Pages, just to see if conditions have improved here
in the last year. They haven't. In fact they've gotten worse -- much
worse. My two very minor edits were deleted almost immediately after I
posted them. In the early days of Misplaced Pages, I originated a number of
new articles, and most of those articles are still around today. But
I'm completely convinced that I could ''never'' do that today. If I
were to try to start a new article today, there would be a race among
"administrators" to see who could delete it first, like sharks going
after raw meat, and they'd cite some arcane jargon like WP:XYZ or WP:ZZR
as their justification. Sadly, it looks like Misplaced Pages has reached the
stage where it's now completely overrun by of a band of antisocial
Misplaced Pages nerds, whose lives revolve around rigorously and
ruthlessly enforcing their personal interpretations of thousands of
Misplaced Pages rules and policies. I guess it makes them feel important.
But unlike them, my life isn't centered on Misplaced Pages, and I don't have
the time or patience to deal with these busybodies anymore.


My plans for the future are:



* I don't plan to contribute anything to Misplaced Pages anymore -- not even minor edits or corrections. I won't be donating money to it anymore either.

* I may join a Misplaced Pages alternative such as instead.

* From now on, any ideas I have for new wiki-like articles will be posted on my personal Web site at , instead of here on Misplaced Pages. There they'll be protected from the hoards of idiotic Misplaced Pages nerds. I've also posted there some articles I wrote for Misplaced Pages that have since been deleted. ] (]) 23:15, 26 June 2012 (UTC)







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After six years of editing on Misplaced Pages, I've decided to quit the project. I am no longer willing to make contributions to Misplaced Pages articles.


Misplaced Pages was a nice project when it started, and I enjoyed working with other editors to contribute new material and improve what was already there. But things have changed drastically on Misplaced Pages in the last few years. The entire project has been taken over by bullies who seem to lack any common sense or interest in improving Misplaced Pages. Instead, their only goal is the ruthless enforcement of their interpretation of thousands of Misplaced Pages rules, regulations, and policies by deleting anything they deem non-compliant. This endless wiki-lawyering has created an openly hostile environment, and it has become almost impossible to contribute anything at all without having it immediately deleted, or to participate in a discussion without being threatened. Misplaced Pages has become "the encyclopedia that no one can edit".


I've been involved in quite a few projects in my life, both paid positions and unpaid volunteer projects. I can say, without hesitation, that '''Misplaced Pages is BY FAR the most hostile work environment I've ever been involved with.''' The Misplaced Pages "administrators" are the worst of the lot. Many of them seem to be only interested in acquiring power and authority within Misplaced Pages, and bullying other editors with threats to have them banned or blocked. Anytime you attempt to contribute to an article, your motives and credentials will be questioned, and your edits will be immediately deleted. If you complain about the instant deletions, these administrators will retaliate by searching your edit history and deleting your previous Misplaced Pages contributions one by one. I have personally gotten caught in some of this crossfire from time to time, and even had one administrator vandalize my user page. I recently caught another administrator rifling through my edit history for the sole purpose of looking for something he could threaten me with. It's no wonder that Misplaced Pages is hemorrhaging editors.


Consequently, I've decided to quit Misplaced Pages and devote my energies elsewhere. Also, I've started a Misplaced Pages alternative called , where I'll be posting new encyclopedia-like articles from now on.


It's a shame it's come to this, but Misplaced Pages just isn't the same project that it once was. ] (]) 03:18, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

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Name: David Simpson

Location: Maryland, United States

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OFFICIALLY RETIRED
This user is no longer active on Misplaced Pages.



After six years of editing on Misplaced Pages, I've decided to quit the project. I am no longer willing to make contributions to Misplaced Pages articles.


Misplaced Pages was a nice project when it started, and I enjoyed working with other editors to contribute new material and improve what was already there. But things have changed drastically on Misplaced Pages in the last few years. The entire project has been taken over by bullies who seem to lack any common sense or interest in improving Misplaced Pages. Instead, their only goal is the ruthless enforcement of their interpretation of thousands of Misplaced Pages rules, regulations, and policies by deleting anything they deem non-compliant. This endless wiki-lawyering has created an openly hostile environment, and it has become almost impossible to contribute anything at all without having it immediately deleted, or to participate in a discussion without being threatened. Misplaced Pages has become "the encyclopedia that no one can edit".


I've been involved in quite a few projects in my life, both paid positions and unpaid volunteer projects. I can say, without hesitation, that Misplaced Pages is BY FAR the most hostile work environment I've ever been involved with. The Misplaced Pages "administrators" are the worst of the lot. Many of them seem to be only interested in acquiring power and authority within Misplaced Pages, and bullying other editors with threats to have them banned or blocked. Anytime you attempt to contribute to an article, your motives and credentials will be questioned, and your edits will be immediately deleted. If you complain about the instant deletions, these administrators will retaliate by searching your edit history and deleting your previous Misplaced Pages contributions one by one. I have personally gotten caught in some of this crossfire from time to time, and even had one administrator vandalize my user page. I recently caught another administrator rifling through my edit history for the sole purpose of looking for something he could threaten me with. It's no wonder that Misplaced Pages is hemorrhaging editors.


Consequently, I've decided to quit Misplaced Pages and devote my energies elsewhere. Also, I've started a Misplaced Pages alternative called Nanopedia, where I'll be posting new encyclopedia-like articles from now on.


It's a shame it's come to this, but Misplaced Pages just isn't the same project that it once was. SimpsonDG (talk) 03:18, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

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