thank you civility dear reader you are probably reading this because you think i'm an obnoxious clown okay the thing about wikipedia that is magical is that we are a community of equals when someone like user crossmr unilaterally deletes a large swath of content against the stated objections of a number of contributors it does dishonor to this equality when someone like user crossmr or user scobell uses a threat of authoritarian action to prove that they are right it does dishonor to this equality if you want to prove you are right use the rights of all wikipedians like user michaelas and user richard harvey edit hell when someone like user tells you you're an asshole for being an asshole or in the words of a more tactful wikipedian too bold am i contributing to wikipedia no probably not but am i honoring the spirit of equality hell yeah we can swear at eachother until the cows come home without one of us depriving the other of the powers inherent in a wiki but if i wanted to contribute to an encyclopedia run by a community of rule obsessed elites i would submit to encyclopedia britannica or look at it from the utilitarian perspective i once tried to get in a revert war and i found it was way too boring after only two rounds so i quit allowing user crossmr to get the last word until a third party emerged from the community of equals to take my place but man throwing sand in the face of a pointless authoritarian priceless i'll do it forever if you're willing to keep playing bring it on suffice it to say i have a wikipedia alter ego which has a couple serious contributions under his belt or to put it another way i have a lot of ip addresses convince threaten block don't threaten threaten threaten it just doesn't work so if you want to revert my work go for it i might argue with you i might even be uncivil but you can be certain that i won't block you or delete your contributions or even vandalize your encyclopedic content you won't find any proudly displayed thank you notes from administrators on user talk