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I have decided to retire from Wikipedia. Whether I am able to go without editing Wikipedia (or not) is a different question altogether but I think it is best for everyone if I retire. Mainly, the past 2-3 months of Wikipedia has been a complete waste of time for everyone. People have forgotten the main reason for editing Wikipedia; instead 'discussions' are taking a large chunk of user contributions. Edit, then discuss is far better than discuss, then edit when by the time the discussion is over, people would have forgotten what they wanted to edit. So to stop wasting valuable time (for everyone including me), I have decided to (permanently) retire from Wikipedia. I will however, read any messages regarding current discussions in Wikipedia for the next week but I am unlikely to respond or edit any longer.

Topology Expert (talk) 11:39, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I do find these discussions somewhat superfluous, particularly the current AfD which has little merit in my opinion, but you could consider retiring for a week, for instance. Best of luck, Katzmik (talk) 12:10, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Why did you "add back" the mathematics reference desk entries for December 11 with this edit? Any changes made to the section after you did that were just lost when the archiving bot was unable to properly archive the page a second time. —

Per Steve, please don't do this. Any changes you make to a transcluded archive page should show up on the main page. If you are having caching problems take a look at

Wikipedia:Purge. Basically all you should need to do is add ?action=purge to the end of the page URL and then hit enter or the icon on your browser to access the URL. You may need to do this to both the archived page and the main page, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008_December_11?action=purge and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Mathematics?action=purge (in this order). If you continue to have problems, that likely it's a browser problem on your side and everyone else should be seeing the correct page. To resolve a caching issue take a look at Wikipedia:Bypass your cache (generally holding shift or ctrl and then hitting the refresh icon on your browser should work although it depends on your browser). P.S. While not the issue here, if you want to add an older date back after it has disappeared completely off the main reference desk page then please just transclude the archive again using something like this {{Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 December 11}}. You should generally find some transcluded pages on each reference desk main page so just copy that example.Nil Einne (talk) 12:26, 16 December 2008 (UTC)[reply

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Another way of doing purge is editing your monobook.js to include a small script which puts a "purge" button at the top, alongside edit/history/etc. Feel free to pinch the one on mine (I forget who I pinched it off). Orderinchaos 23:12, 21 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for all your contributions to the Wikipedia Reference Desk! In recognition of your work I have added your name to the list of Reference Desk Regulars. If you would prefer not to be listed, please let me know or simply remove your signature. Thanks again, and happy editing! – 74  09:52, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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