On boy. Christmas came early. This is the most Drmies thing that happened in 2018......
Drmies had the category "Wikipedia sex workers" on his user oage, BECAUSE HE'S SUCH A HOOT. And a feminist. Did you know he is a feminist? Anyway, it got deleted at CfD, because stupid. BrownHairedGirl, an Administrator, did her Administrative duty and deleted it from his page, with all the relevant paperwork. Cue lots of idiotic reverting with grown ass men, including Drmies, hurling insults at her. Cue boyfriend Bbb23 getting totally confused in his rush to be Drmies' right hand man.
It's hard to tell what tipped BHG over the edge. It could have been all the locker room humour going on at Drmies' talk page while all this was happening. It could have been his blatant disrespect for his Administrative colleague. It could have been him blaming her for ruining his enjoyment of Wikipedia. Or it could have been the sight of example 3,2817 of Drmies not being aware of a basic piece of Wikipedia policy, namely you do not get to have red linked categories on your user page, not even if you think you are special.
He can hardly claim ignorance, he has been personally involved in many of the battles and debates that led to the current kludge (which, as you might have guessed, has its origins in the Eric Corbett infection), and you would have to be a moron to assume he has never investigated why some of his user space categories are now italicized (due to said kludge).
Still, if the professor keeps wanting people to think he doesn't do background reading, not even over things he gets angry about, angry to the point of edit warring and emotional blackmail, hey, I'm cool with that. More evidence of what he is all about. i.e., not remotely fit to even be a Wikipedia Administrator, barely even inside the average band of general editor population dickishness.
Anyway, whatever the reason, she'd clearly had enough of this bullshit. So she went into SMACKDOWN mode.......
(Sigh). Here we go again.
This isn't complicated: per WP:REDNOT, don't put redlinked categories on pages, and don't retain [[:Category:Foo]] on a page after Category:Foo has been deleted. All redlinked categories (on articles, userpages, or any other namespace) are listed together in cleanup lists such as Special:WantedCategories (which is where I found this one). Those cleanup lists are supposed to be (wait for it!) cleaned up, not filled with permanent entries because some editors decide to ignore a CFD consensus.
If there's some point which an editor wants to make on their userpage, there are many other ways to do it: userboxes, text, pictures, whatever. Make it humorous, whimsical, polemical or whatever. But categories either exist or they don't: placing a page in redlink throws an error which impedes the work of others. No matter how screamingly funny anyone thinks the redlinked category is, it's still impeding cleanup.
And yes, there are many many other things to be cleaned up on en.wp. That's why I think it's a huge pity that so much of the time spent by those of us who clean up Special:WantedCategories is taken up by the tiny number of editors who seem to think that their unique sense of humour or justified indignation or whatever entitles them to ignore both a consensus and WP:REDNOT and make work for others. All the time spent on dealing with that drama could spent on other editing, or on life joys such as listening to children's ukulele practice or playing with cats.
That's why Category:Wikipedians who retain deleted categories on their userpages was created as a kludge. Re-creating the category page as a redirect to Category:Wikipedians who retain deleted categories on their userpages, gets the thing out of cleanup lists, and allows the editors involved to feel v proud (or whatever) that they disregard a consensus decision and have apparently no reservations about impeding the encyclopedic maintenance work done by others. If you're happy to join that set, then all is sorted. Personally, I'd not want to be in that group, but YMMV.
I should probably make a template of the above, because it's a regular issue, tho only with a v small number of editors. Amazingly, 99.99% of editors manage to express all their talents and humour and considered views and beliefs and allegiances without trying to populate deleted usercats. They just post a thank-you notification when their page is fixed. Odd, that: how can the 99.99% be so wildly out of step? Face-wink.svg
Anyway, have a lovely Christmas and great new year. I hope a substantial pay rise comes your way soon, that any street-work in the meantime is lucrative, and that your daughter and cat continue to enrich your life. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) (contribs) 03:45, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
Strong stuff, albeit the effect of some of these clap backs is lost when seen in a place which is more frequently the venue of less couched insults and overt attacks.
She wasn't being mean in that last line, it was simply a reaction to Drmies' pathetic jokery and his tendency to over-share, as if trying to get people to sympathise with him and overlook how much of an absolute asshole he really is. Didn't work on BHG.
Speaking of which......
Also, fun fact: at my place of employment they're now finding some money for new hires, since so many of my colleagues are fleeing the sinking ship. So I was on this hiring committee, and the person that were hiring at the assistant professor level gets a salary that's actually equal to mine--and I'm associate, tenured, with twelve years in. Keep faculty happy! Hmm I see we don't have an article on the topic: Pay compression. Drmies (talk) 21:52, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
In my experience (as an observer, not a victim, obviously), pay compression only happens to people the organisation isn't all that fussed about retaining. Since it is easy to find out you are being screwed, the company takes the view that if you leave, it's no loss, and if you stay, their assumption that you were a pushover who values your undervalued job more than your self respect, was correct.
Rosie is learning how to play the ukulele, and even if she were just farting around with the cat, that'd be infinitely more exciting than working on Wikipedia right now. Bbb23, thank you--you'd be impressed with Rosie's progress on "Let It Be". And when I've had my fill of fun things here I'll come up with a reason of sorts to make the category viable, even if I have to suck some dicks to get it done. Drmies (talk) 02:34, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
What possesses someone to include their own daughter's name in a post where you joke to random strangers on the internet that you're going to have to suck some dicks?
It is hilarious to think how close Wikipedia came to electing this fool to the Arbitration committee. Can you imagine the shame in having to recuse from a Case brought to deal with those sad bastards who keep complaining about the "fun police" and creating assorted disruption to those ends, because
you are one of those sad bastards? Although this is Drmies, it is debatable he would have even recused.
Anyway, so Drmies is feeling discouraged. Ah well.
And dude, seriously......
-watching your daughter at play "even if she were just farting around with the cat"
-editing Wikipedia
I feel bad for your daughter (and your wife) that in your sad life, this is even an equation that can ever see the latter outweigh the former.
HAVE A NICE DAY.
