Ni 20px Please come back please RickK since you left your status as my favorite Wikipedian grows every day On the night that so soon became your last you stood steadfast against an edit warrior and his tiresome copyvio spamming despite protestations that 3RR justice ought to be drawn out to all participants no matter which side they were on or the justness of the cause Rick we miss you Please come back t c m 08 19 July 14 2005 UTC A Simple Plea Please return We need you here This page proves it talk 5 pillars 02 09 July 16 2005 UTC Support Seconded parley Thirded Los Ba os Rick next time you re on I 5 can you check to see if the signs say Los Banos or Los Ba os per my one sided discussion at Talk Los Banos California Send me an email if you just wanna lurk Thanks Talk 22 08 July 19 2005 UTC Vandal activity down since you left Rick it s interesting to note that since you left vandalism on Wikipedia has gone down It s clear that you and those like you simply act to frustrate and abuse legitimate users whose angry responses can be classed as vandalism giving you an increased sense of self importance We don t need that we need more quality editors not more volunteer vigilantes That s the biggest absurd I ve ever heard Indeed it is my impression there is considerably more vandalism now The edits of the sockuppet above would be one small example talk Indeed I ve blocked more in the last day than in the previous 18 months as an admin which can only be due to the RickK and Heph gap Complaining about RickK and Heph is like having an allergy and wishing you didn t have an immune system Talk 18 40 July 20 2005 UTC I find it hard to believe one editor even one so prolific as RickK can have much of an effect overall Do contributors on either side have any non anecdotal evidence that suggests otherwise Pete If memory serves Angela did a survey a while back Feb or March of 2004 where she sampled the number of blocks each admin had given Rickk had almost as many as the next 3 people combined 19 19 July 20 2005 UTC Personally I frequently saw his edits and he left a useful note on my talk page correcting me for something Isn t it obvious to everyone RickK created a whole entourage of sockpuppets then vandalised with them then blocked them Just to fulfill his self aggrandising dreams He made fools of us all just to prove that he was brilliant Don t you hate him Kill RickK kill RickK kill RickK I can safely say that ever since RickK s departure I have been faced with reverting five times the vandalism I did prior which still dosen t come close to his legendary vandal fighting troll combatting and trash disposing Nonsense I wish him and his many sockpuppets stay out To Raul654 now that I can believe Statistics on the effect of handing out bans liberally would be great to have Pete My experience in the Wikiworld has shown RickK to be abusive of other users authoritarian consistently reverting other peoples edits without apparent reason and unwilling to join a debate on a given subject when his arguments were confronted Personally I m glad he gave up Rick it s interesting to note that since you left