User talk:Hippo43/Archives/2020/September

Goodbye

Failed to live up to my promise a couple of days ago, now it's for real (retirement). You don't have to worry about my horrible approach to editing anymore, problem is i still think (with no false modesty) there are a lot of editors (account or no account) that have it worse than me in terms of competence.

All the best to you in and outside of WP, attentively from Portugal --Quite A Character (talk) 21:24, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

What are you talking about? --hippo43 (talk) 21:25, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Me apparently not living up the standards of the encyclopedia in terms of MOS, finally i think i understood it. Since you were probably the editor who had to clean up after me the most, thought i'd tell you my decision of retiring. Only that, cheers. --Quite A Character (talk) 21:36, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Not sure why you are telling me. --hippo43 (talk) 22:29, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Nevermind, then. Erase this message should you see it fit. --Quite A Character (talk) 22:47, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Replying to your edit summary - "1 - my editing is not horrible and i know it; 2 - retired anyway; 3 - why show politeness to someone who never showed any back?"

1 - I didn't say your editing was horrible. I just improved some bad writing in a few articles. Was all of it yours? If you can't handle that, maybe Wikipedia is not for you.

2 - OK, good to know.

3 - I don't think I have been impolite, unlike your insults towards me. --hippo43 (talk) 03:26, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

Apologies for removing my entries, i thought i could do that even if in another person's talk page. Last parting words: i never said you insulted me (not being friendly does not warrant belligerence, and i agree people do not have to act like friends to perfect strangers in a working encyclopedia with editors from all around the world who most likely won't ever meet in person), and when did i insult you (maybe "stalker" was an excessive substitute for "around-the-clock monitor", but that was it)? Never also.

We do agree 100% on one thing: WP is not for me, took me 14 years to understand that, and on top of that i hate football (not the sport per se, the circus around the professional world)! About high time i quit, with the conscience i did (or tried at least) a good job overall. --Quite A Character (talk) 04:03, 3 September 2020 (UTC)