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Talk:Collateral damage

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Dude! What the hell's going on here?! My article was nice in it's final form -- which I had uploaded only 2minutes before you deleted it!

Listen... I think there's been a misunderstanding...

Try to follow this timeline.

  • 1200est: alphafactor creates 'collateral damage' article and puts in only 3 words or so
  • 1221est: krade comes across article, 'collateral damage,' and deletes since he sees only 3 words in it
  • 1222est: alphafactor has finished drafting his 'collateral damage' article and then posts it only to be asked if he 'means to re-create it' since krade had deleted it 60seconds earlier thinking there was nothign to it
  • 1229est: ymirlah notices that someone tried to recreate a deleted article and re-deletes it not realizing that it was a good article
  • 1230est: alphafactor shocked to see his 'collateral damage' article has vanished
  • 1234est: ymirlah (presumably) tries to create some freakish article on 'collateral damage'
  • 1248est: alphafactor looks at ymirlah's freakish article on 'collateral damage'
  • 1302est: alphafactor comes to this discussion page with a serious 'WTF?!' look across his face.

Ymirlah, could you please restore my article? I was rather pleased with it. If you won't, at least tell me you looked at it first. Thanks. --AlphaFactor 12:09, 19 January 2009 (CST)

  • If you are for real, that was a shitty article and completely lacking in quality and humor. lrn2ED plz. If you're a troll, well played.
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 »»What 12:18, 19 January 2009 (CST)

  • Ok, KillHamster, for the sake of argument: (1)please tell me what you saw when you viewed my article. I have the feeling you did NOT actually see mine, but saw something else. (2) Can you SPECIFICALLY tell me what you found wrong with it, assuming you saw what I had actually made?

--AlphaFactor 12:35, 19 January 2009 (CST)

  • What I saw? What I saw was 443 bytes of shitposting. More specifically, unnecessary gore, a played out attempt at a joke using the classic photo of a Vietnamese village being napalmed, five completely unrelated memes, and no humor whatsoever. I'm sure you're proud of your attempt at being funny, but we've higher standards here than /b/.
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 »»What 12:40, 19 January 2009 (CST)

  • Hmmmm. You know, I don't think you were looking at my posting. When I was finished with it, I think it was about 3paragraphs long. Hamster, if you're so able, please give me the source-code you saw. I'll from there edit the article and make something worthwhile. --AlphaFactor 12:54, 19 January 2009 (CST)


Secondly, the thing is that if we can't see any hope for an article, we aren't going to let it stay. If we ignore shit new articles, it is quite possible that nobody will notice them and they will just sit there, rotting away and producing malodorous foulness. When a new article fails to understand wiki formatting, grammar or, for christ's sake, humor, it's going to be lucky to last that 20 minutes. Ensure that you use Show Preview. Make sure that any edit you commit to the wiki is worthwhile. Don't use "Save Page" as a drafting tool. Draft pages on your own machine and make the fucking edit only when it's good. I've written a new page and protected it for a week. If you want to edit it after that, go ahead. But don't ruin what there is there, and make sure you use the intervening week to learn how to use ED. (this was posted by Ymirlah on Krade's page)

Ymirlah, methinks we best keep the discussion confined here. As regards your response message to me...

If we ignore shit new articles, it is quite possible that nobody will notice them and they will just sit there, rotting away and producing malodorous foulness.

THAT actually does clear up my frustration considerably. Thanks, I appreciate it. Alright, I'll edit the article and make something worthwhile. Could you retrieve the article-source-code for me that I had used, please? If nothing else, it'll confirm for me that the article you deleted was in fact the article I made, and not one of the wierd intervening edits that've been popping up kinda spontaneously. --AlphaFactor 12:51, 19 January 2009 (CST)

  • No can do, that page was made up of some grade A AIDS. Face it, it sucked. End of discussion.
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 »»What 12:55, 19 January 2009 (CST)

      • Uh-huh. KillHamster, your little 'blargh' commentary was out of line. Save that for trolls and other people that can't be reasoned with. You know full well I'm level-headed. Hamster, if you're so able, please give me the source-code you saw. I'm just curious to know what it was you saw -- if it was really as terrible as you're alleging, I'll recognize it as being so and won't incorporate it. Post it in my user-page. I'll take it down from there a little later. Appreciate' it. --AlphaFactor 13:21, 19 January 2009 (CST)
  • The line is where a Sysop says it is. KH and I differed in our strategies to deal with today's fucktard #21776. This is not for you to comment on. You have been warned about continuing this. Find another article, move on. Now. --yirimyah ♠ æ 13:26, 19 January 2009 (CST)
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