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Re: AMA: Steven Pruitt, a Wikipedian with 3M edits

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Sounds like a really humble and level-headed guy. Kudos for all the selfless hours he has put in for the greater good.

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User Aka[1] in the German Wikipedia follows Steven with only 30,000 edits behind in the main namespace.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Aka

[2] some statistics:

English Wikipedia: https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm

German Wikipedia: https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaDE.htm

Re: AMA: Steven Pruitt, a Wikipedian with 3M edits

#24

It's a bit sad that this guy mainly came into the spotlight because of some Twitter user making fun of his appearance and not because of his work.

For some humble self-reflection: You just brought the spotlight on his apparently-noteworthy appearance here. This was not discussed by anyone here and at least for me, nothing that would have come to mind.

Re: AMA: Steven Pruitt, a Wikipedian with 3M edits

#25
post #24

It's a bit sad that this guy mainly came into the spotlight because of some Twitter user making fun of his appearance and not because of his work.

For some humble self-reflection: You just brought the spotlight on his apparently-noteworthy appearance here. This was not discussed by anyone here and at least for me, nothing that would have come to mind.

I don't think GP is agreeing with it, or that it requires "humble self reflection": the Twitter thing made Reddit's front page (which is seen by many more people than the CBS and HN combined, and is incidentally where I first heard about it as well).

You can step off that high horse now.

Re: AMA: Steven Pruitt, a Wikipedian with 3M edits

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post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For some humble self-reflection: You just brought the spotlight on his apparently-noteworthy appearance here. This was not discussed by anyone here and at least for me, nothing that would have come to mind.

I don't think GP is agreeing with it, or that it requires "humble self reflection": the Twitter thing made Reddit's front page (which is seen by many more people than the CBS and HN combined, and is incidentally where I first heard about it as well). You can step off that high horse now.

Leave out that last sentence and you’re making a cogent, convincing argument; the insult adds nothing and takes something away.

Re: AMA: Steven Pruitt, a Wikipedian with 3M edits

#29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think GP is agreeing with it, or that it requires "humble self reflection": the Twitter thing made Reddit's front page (which is seen by many more people than the CBS and HN combined, and is incidentally where I first heard about it as well). You can step off that high horse now.

Leave out that last sentence and you’re making a cogent, convincing argument; the insult adds nothing and takes something away.

it only takes something away from illogical people
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