Wikipedia:Rouge editor
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This page in a nutshell: Editors have been known to annoy another editor or admin, for having the audacity to actually work toward building an encyclopedia, not being cogs in a bureaucracy, playing a MMORPG, arguing on a webboard, or making pals on a social networking site. Some editors really treat their time here as public-interest volunteer work, not a political sim, and this obviously just will not do. |
Rouge editors (also known as rouge users or rouge non-admins)
How to identify rouge editors
“ | If rules make you nervous and depressed, and not desirous of participating in the wiki, then ignore them entirely and go about your business. | ” |
— The original formulation of what became to soulless economy by rouge admins) |
Rouge editors are the non-administrative
Rouge editors differ from rouge admins primarily in
Rouge editors and rouge admins are, however, united in opposition to
The seriousness of the threat
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,
Scarlet letters
All hail
IAR! [6]
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:
RNA This user is a rouge non-admin
Note that {{
A rouges' gallery
Known instances of rouge editor grafitti, a.k.a. vandalism!
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Who needs a mop?
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Prole and proud!
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You disagree?
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lmao!
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What?
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Who needs a mop?
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Rouge editors only bow to the King!
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Don't make us eat you.
Footnotes
- People's Front of Judea.
- ^ By user Koyaanis Qatsi (talk · contribs), at the historical Wikipedia:Rules to consider, 04:00, 18 September 2001 (UTC).
- Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- Order 66 (Star Wars).
- ^ Please note that April Fools' Day on Wikipedia is very serious business; consult Wikipedia:Rules for Fools carefully.
- ^ fnord