Wikipedia:Rouge editor

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Rouge editors (also known as rouge users or rouge non-admins)

give up in disgust and leave the project to its proper, good-old-boys'-club echo chamber. No rouge editor has ever seen anything posted on Uncyclopedia
.

How to identify rouge editors

Rouge editors are the non-administrative

rouge admins. They annoy all admins, including Jimbo, as well as other editors, because – although not outright wikianarchists – they just don't need no stinking[3] mob-rule permissions or admonitions. They may also be fairly easily hounded into violating #2 of the Wikipedia:Trifecta
; this is a good way to smoke them out.

Rouge editors differ from rouge admins primarily in

crucial changes you and your friends demand
in their behavior.

Rouge editors and rouge admins are, however, united in opposition to

total bollocks. They simply think you're probably in one of these buckets, and really don't want to hear it
.

The seriousness of the threat

There are many hues of rouge editors – and they could be editing Wikipedia right now, with more contentment and productivity than you!

Lack of administrative prerogative or other privileges doesn't stop the collective menace of rouge editors from editing millions of articles, in ways that sometimes don't fully adhere to the exact letter of every rule.

The frightening thing is, every new editor is a rouge editor until rounded up and

.

Rouge editors, even after several warnings from admins, may just say, "oh,

ArbCom case involving all rouge admins at once,[4] although the editors promise to ignore ArbCom regardless of the case's outcome. They will also vandalize the userpages of all rouge admins on April Fools' Day,[5] and get away with it
.

Scarlet letters

To identify yourself as a rouge editor, just act like one and go about your editing business. Or add one of the following userboxes to your userpage (or better yet to someone else's):

{{User rouge editor}} gives you:

This user is a
Rouge editor
.

{{User:UBX/rougeeditor}} yields:

This user is a
Rouge editor
.

{{User:Adolphus79/UBX/RougeNonAdmin}} provides:

RNAThis user is a rouge non-admin


Note that {{

just here for the entertainment value
).

A rouges' gallery

Known instances of rouge editor grafitti, a.k.a. vandalism!

  • Who needs a mop?
    Who needs a mop?
  • Prole and proud!
    Prole and proud!
  • You disagree?
    You disagree?
  • lmao!
    lmao!
  • What?
    What?
  • Who needs a mop?
    Who needs a mop?
  • Rouge editors only bow to the King!
    Rouge editors only bow to the King!
  • Don't make us eat you.
    Don't make us eat you.

Footnotes

  1. People's Front of Judea
    .
  2. ^ By user Koyaanis Qatsi (talk · contribs), at the historical Wikipedia:Rules to consider, 04:00, 18 September 2001 (UTC).
  3. Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  4. Order 66 (Star Wars)
    .
  5. ^ Please note that April Fools' Day on Wikipedia is very serious business; consult Wikipedia:Rules for Fools carefully.
  6. ^ fnord

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See also