User:Petesmiles/Impertinent Research

Put out to pasture....
Thanks to the below, and I've now put this out to pasture - if you're interested in chatting more about any issues, just drop me a line..... - Petesmiles 05:47, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Hello everyone, and thanks for visiting this little corner of the wiki.
I've been very interested in some of the wiki currents and eddies rolling around our fair encyclopedia of late, and wanted to do a little bit of research.

I know it's a bit rude, but would you mind telling me how old you are?

This info is of course wiki-public, so only submit it if you really don't mind. If you feel like saying something about why you don't fancy telling everyone how old you are - go right ahead....

Also, the youngest editors should be careful about giving exact ages or other identifying information per WP:CHILD guidelines. (thanks to User:Newyorkbrad for pointing this out)

I'm an admin, and this is How Old I am

 * 44 KillerChihuahua?!? 10:09, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 34 Dina 10:40, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 24 ˉˉanetode╦╩ 12:01, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 18 &spades; P  M  C  &spades; 15:34, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 23 Natalie 15:35, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 18 ^ demon [omg plz] 23:57, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
 * In my 40's. Newyorkbrad 03:18, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
 * In my 40s. Infrogmation 03:39, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 51 You're never too old to Rock'n'Roll if you're too young to die. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 05:06, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 30 Waggers 15:25, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm a non-admin editor, and this is How Old I am

 * 56 Kittybrewster  (talk) 10:24, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 31 Petesmiles 09:09, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 15. I wonder if you are going to have a prize for the youngest user participating anytime soon? ;) SMC 15:28, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 24. Sancho (talk) 20:34, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 21 - M ask [[Image:Flag_of_Alaska.svg|20 px]] 00:56, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 160 million (cretaceous), but have very youthful personality.   bishzilla      R O A R R!!      07:59, 4 April 2007 (UTC).
 * 14. 70.88.111.65 12:07, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Signing again after login: ~Crazytales 12:08, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 22 --Random832 13:28, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

I don't want to tell you because......

 * People make assumptions about editors based on age, sex, career field, and any other little personal tidbit they can gather; these are generally irrelevant to the quality of editing or the communication between editors. I would consider responding to this question in an anonymous forum where my answer was not linked to my user name; however, right now, the sort of people who like to try to figure out things about people have put this page on their watchlists.  Risker 13:03, 3 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I'm a sysop who specializes in complex investigations and dispute resolution, which means I spend a lot of time dealing with the small percentage of troublesome Wikipedians. Some of those people would construe anything in bad faith.  They sometimes insist I'm Russian or communist because of my username and I really don't want to give them anything else that they could twist.  Durova Charge! 20:52, 3 April 2007 (UTC)