wow, david gerard

[Lir]

That's a name from 20 years ago!

What a disgusting individual.

It says a lot about Wikipedia that people like that are still around.

[ericbarbour]

Despite losting his main account powerz long ago, I still think he's running a sockpuppet (Maxim) that is currently serving as an arbitrator. Put THAT in your pipe and smoke it (along with some hash to make the misery a bit more tolerable).

Also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gerard_(author)

[badmachine]

looks like Gerard resigned before anyone put the boot in. link

[ericbarbour]

looks like Gerard resigned before anyone put the boot in. link

lol, and he said he would resign as bureaucrat, and no one should vote for him.....

I thought about this today and realised: if I had an RFA, would I vote for me? And the answer is, no, I probably wouldn't. Simply from inactivity. I'm not actually around here much, you'll see stretches of weeks with no edits in my edit history, and I'm not active around the various administrative boards, in fact I've been consciously avoiding them because they feel like a waste of my time. That's the opposite of what an admin should be doing.

I'm intensely busy right now and my Wikipedia editing is mostly drive-by. That's not a good way to do admin either, as this incident shows.

Given that, I've sent a note to the bureaucrats that I'm resigning my bit.

In the unlikely event I want to go for admin again, I'd do it via an RFA, in which this discussion would no doubt be a topic.

I expect to keep editing casually. Have fun and see you around on occasion.

- David Gerard (talk) 18:11, 12 July 2025 (UTC)

The pedantic little ASSHOLES paid no attention to Gerard's 20+ year history of abusing his power to protect friends and silence critics and control content. All the twits moaned about was RECENT abuses.

Won't go into details, because I've ALREADY posted his history before, and it didn't matter.

[boredbird]

Gerard helped set the expectation early on that wikipedia should be run by kooks and freaks. EVERYONE felt normal next to David Gerard. And with no obvious qualifications besides very strong opinions.

It looks like he's finally gotten serious, looks sort of normal and has written several books, reviewed in the New York Times.

And, with that, he finally backs away from Wikipedia.