User talk:Milowent/History of the Article Rescue Squadron

nice history. Warts and all. I forgot about trying to merge the now defunct project.

If you want to liven up the article (but risk it be deleted) you should mention all of the RFCs behind this history.


 * User:A Man In Black is desopyed, partly for his behavior on ARS, and abandons that user name.


 * Ben, one of the most active editors ever on ARS, is blocked for sockpuppetry.


 * ANobody, another very active ARS member, is sancationed then blocked.


 * I get indefinetely blocked for a third? forth time? (twice) both are reversed, but I retire.

Also you completly leave out the Biography of Living People debate, in which several veteran editors deleted hundreds of BLPs, and Jim Wales gives them his blessing. Some of the debate spilled over to ARS. This is when it became crystal clear to me that the bullies were completly in control now, with the biggest bully being Wales, and that ARS's deletion was only a matter of time.

Completely unrelated but important to the tone of Wikipedia now and the future of ARS: Several ideological editors who have actively remove other editors contributions become admins, many with strong support. Many of these are active on the talk page of ARS now, doing everything they can to undermine and destroy ARS.

Maybe you could mention there were two (?) newsletters as a brief blurb? Okip  19:13, 20 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Somewhere in there you seem to have forgotten to congratulate notable ARS member Jclemens on becoming first an administrator and later a member of ArbCom. I assume Jimbo must have been having the smoky backroom where all decisions are made redecorated on the weeks where those actions slipped by? Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) - talk 11:37, 26 October 2011 (UTC)