Under cover of the New Years festivities, the Rambling Man has snuck back into Wikipedia.
It is only 1 January, and the sad fuck has already made 88 edits. That's been in just under four hours. He will probably top 200 by the end of the day. Must have a lot of unspent addiction to work through.
Anyone expecting an explanation for his mysterious dissappearance, well, what a fool you are.
Rather than apologise to those literally five users who expressed sadness that he might have retired, he's simply blanked their messages of concern, and replaced it with a typical sort of post, half egotistical, half menacing.....
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... =876217628If not explained by his usual love of playing games, quite why people needed advance warning he was going to be back in twelve hours, is a mystery. Perhaps this was a case of him getting drunk, having a moment of weakness, and using it as a way to ensure he feels like he had no choice to return. He can't go back on a drunken promise, right? People would be so disappointed. That nobody noticed the good news, is not important.
Perhaps he meant he would be returning much later in January, but then his addiction took hold and he simply couldn't wait. The fact he was absolutely desperate to immediately start broadcasting how many "LIVE ERRORS" there were once he got back in the saddle, suggests not. Must have been a bit of a disappointment that in reality, even though nobody noticed the good news he was coming back, they noticed his ERRORS so quick he wasn't able to glory in it for any time at all.....
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... =876284280Sad fuck. Never was the phrase "get a life" so apt.
As that implies, he has restarted his mothballed ERRORS project with gusto, and certain scumbags, chiefly Ealdgyth, have already enthusiastically begun to act on it. If he has noticed the absence of it didn't result in anything bad happening, nor did it result in those same Administrators doing any error hunting themselves, he is of course not prepared to admit it. He will see it as confirmation of him being indespensible, when in reality it shows he is merely being used. As every editor in Wikipedia is.
Dude doesn't even realise that they were watchlisting his ERRORS page and therefore acted upon it quickly, so they either aren't similarly watching his talk page, perhaps due to the endless stream of self-reinforcing nonsense, or they saw the notice of his impending return, and didn't care enough to respond. Embarrassing either way.
With his tantrum project and other edits in full flow, he has still not restored his user page. Perhaps he has forgotten he even deleted it? He certainly doesn't appear to be embarking on a career of that of a deliberate troublemaker as many such redshirts do, but his level of ordinary assholery surpasses what many of those disaffected users went on to achieve. We can assume he intends to carry on being his normal self. His user page will likely be restored the next time he has something really big to complain about. Because that is what it is there for, after all.
We can only guess at what lies he will tell about the reason for his festive holidays, and his return. For now, he is pretending like it never even happened. And that is to be expected. The fact that he tried to make people think he had retired after failing in his campaign to get his hardened restrictions lifted, and nobody really gave a shit, least of all to start a campaign to have them rescinded, has to be pretty embarrassing.
He left it a while, and when nobody started to notice his absence from Main Page quality control at all, he must have really started to panic. Even I had begun to forget about him, although I only didn't notice his notice of impending return because I have a life. The Wikipedians who service his tantrum page, don't. Ealdgyth is already past 80 edits today. But had he done it tomorrow, I likely still would have missed it.
The lies have already begun of course, before he has even actually talked to anyone. Before he left, he claimed his new restrictions meant he couldn't even review GAs anymore, lest he be blocked, because obviously you can't review someone's work without questioning their comptetence. In his mind anyway. It is garbage, he likely knew it was garbage, and the fact his user page now displays this banner......
GAN review service, at your service
Feel free to leave requests for reviewing GANs, I seek nothing in return. Just add the request in a new section on this talk page, and I'll do the rest of it.
.....seems to confirm it. He could of course be trying to encourage people to request so he can find says of testing the restriction, in the hope his fears come true. You don't think he's that sad, that desperate, that buried in his own ego? Just read this thread, you will find confirmation that he is that person, and more so.
Before he left, he did of course also promise he would be revisiting those unacceptable restrictions with an ARCA of his own. That obviously won't be happening now he has returned, because even if he isn't setting out to get himself trapped, we know as a rule that TRM is just full of shit. Following up on his threats, is not something he is known for. Quite the reverse.
As usual, it seems there is a healthy supply of Wikipedia editors willing to eat his shit. If there wasn't, Wikipedia might actual succeed in its goals.
We'll know more when someone engages him in conversation, to ask him what's been going in, how he is. Sad fuck that He is, he will be waiting desperately for that opportunity to spill his guts, tell us his tales of woe, and how He is back to SAVE WIKPIEDIA in spite of all the terrible personal hardships he has to ensure in doing it. He just presumably spent the festive period on one of those traditional two week funerals we have here in Britain. Because if his dear old imaginary dead Grandad isn't in the ground
by now, he must be in an absolute state.
Hopefully nobody asks. Hopefully nobody gives him any excuse at all to spew forth, and he has to resort to telling us all even though nobody asked. Which will be hilarious, because normal people, the people who don't like eating shit morning noon and night, will wonder why these things weren't said the moment he came back.
Whatever he says, it won't fit the facts in the ground. Nobody will care. Lying to everyone, even living your own fantasy life where you have to actually delude yourself, is not seen as a bad thing in Wikipedia. It is arguably a prerequisite. Normal, well adjusted people, simple wouldn't put up with it.
Not that it needs saying, but the manner of his return really is pretty convincing proof he hasn't in all likelihood been away from Wikipedia at all. He will have been socking, or at least editing logged out, but somewhere well away from where he would be noticed. Nobody will have CheckUsered him, even though he has every reason to try to find a way he can evade scrutiny and just edit like he is under no restrictions at all, if only for a bit. A holiday, if you will. We all like to pretend we are someone else on our holidays, don't we? People have been checked for far less.
— SMcCandlish 20:19, 2 January 2019 (UTC)