In Which Your Obedient Serpent is declared UNMUTUAL

[athelind]

It was a trivial thing, really. I discovered that "second breakfast" wasn't merely an invention of Professor Tolkien, but an actual meal in some cultures. This amused me enough that I went to the Wikipedia page for Hobbit to turn the reference to that meal into an internal link.

While I was there, I shrugged, and turned the references to all the

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[notthebuddha]

I am not of the Body!

I am almost brave enough to ask people like this if they are open allowing a new member into the Body. If only I could fine tune it to make sure that the f-you meaning came to mind more easily than the f-me connotation.

[athelind]

The entry was removed before I could get up and come back with a cup of tea.

Yes, but did you get a condescending form letter?

And two, what's the word for - not an Internet Tough Guy, but a guy who gets off WAY too much on being a persnickety administrative clerk for a site like Wikipedia?

Big Fish in a Small Pond?

(Why isn't that a page on TV Tropes yet? Do I have to do EVERYTHING around here?)

[hafoc]

To quote Martin Mull, speaking of the kind of roles for which he was cast:

"It's a seven-letter word that starts with an A. And it's not Astronaut because that has nine."

[araquan]

I left Wikipedia a long time ago. If I hadn't blabbed about it to you recently, I have in another guy's journal earlier today.

[notthebuddha]

At least on WP, there's a record of the buttheadedness; I usually check under the hood to see what's been contentious, and I always keep an eye on how recently the article was fiddled with.