User:Stu1131181/A Letter of Farewell

Hello. This is the Forgotten Realms Wiki user Stu1131181. I am drafting this on April's Fool Day 2019, as the Main Page seems to announce the conversion of this wiki to 3e and the occasional 3.5e. I am going to replace everything on my profile, and post this on the forum, and maybe on Reddit.

Dear Fellow Editors and Users,


 * It appears the time has come for this wiki to go wrong. I am sure none in their right mind have willed this change, except for the admins, the subject of my everlasting repulsion (not all of them. But I think you know who you are).


 * Perhaps one day however, just people will come to rule this wiki and world, and we can enjoy a happy free wiki where we are friendly and understand not all of us collect ancient useless sourcebooks as a hobby.


 * Many times I have been called of by the admins for a lesson in bureaucracy of this wiki, sometimes discreetly in the page's history. As of the writing of this letter, I have made 211 edits, starting with my edit to the 1436 DR (I added "news from Vanrakdoom") and topping it off with... hmm, looking back at my contributions it appears I have been preoccupied with clarification, forums, talks. That sort of stuff. It appears that shall end as anything non 3e/3.5e will be removed. I have just realised how handy it would be to leave links to all the sourcebooks that fit these categories in PDFs. Yes, perhaps I will.


 * I hope none will miss me too much. I am well aware none of the admins shall, as I bet like 1/100 (I know this sounds miserable, but look at their edit count!) of the edits they have (34,679 total edits for Moviesign, 7,399 total edits for little Ir'revrykal).


 * I have tried to make this wiki a better work. You can see an argument I had with Moviesign concerning ethics, the greater good, and my apparent total lack of sourcebooks here. Looking back, I'm going to leave the list of books I had, my user boxes, and my favourite  FR individuals. I hope one day I will come back to find a better wiki.


 * I must however mention those who aided me in my troubles editing. I really do sadly have only two people to mention: Saya222 and Regis87. They have both helped me on numerous occasions, providing a lot of aid. I hope I have exploited these things well and, like I already said above, made this wiki a better place. I hope I and all those who happen to read this letter will carry on the ideals I have described above and those two users have shown. I thus wish all good luck on this quest much harder than tricking Halaster Blackcloak, defeating Obould in battle, or beating Elminster Aumar in a wizardly duel.


 * I have decided I am not to support pure bureaucracy and ignorance, as I encourage other editors to do. I must however, admit, that this wiki is not all bad, and has helped me on numerous occasions. The short articles are always the best, I must say. Even the or  articles.

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 * Good luck, everyone! I shall hope with all my heart you find this wiki a better place than me, and will continue to enjoy it. I find I am unable to write a paragraph like before to confirm this, so I will stop here.

With all due respect,

Stu1131181