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Wikipedia:Stress alerts

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Instructions

If you notice that a Wikipedia user is showing signs of stress, taking a wikibreak, or considering leaving the project altogether, please add the user to the appropriate list below so that the Esperanza community can intervene with encouraging comments and suggestions. You are welcome to add your own username to any of the lists if you wish to receive support from the community. Or if someone else has added your user name to the list and you wish to be left alone, you may remove yourself from the list.

Each entry should remain on this page until the issue is resolved or for approximately one month. "Leaving Wikipedia" alerts that do not succeed in encouraging prominent users to stay with the project should be archived to the list of missing Wikipedians.

Stressbusters has some suggestions for actions you might take in response to these alerts.

Current alerts

Recently Returned

These users have recently returned to Wikipedia after breaks. (If you're removing yourself from one of the other categories below, feel free to add yourself to this one.)

User: Comments: Date:
The Ikiroid Returned, but still on semi-wikibreak. Not much free time. 18:14, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
User:Deryck Chan Job on the Cantonese Wikipedia is less exhausting as I've expected. Reduced to a quarter-wikibreak. 00:53, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
User:RyanGerbil10 Unexpected plea bargain gets my friend off the hook and ends WikiBreak far sooner than previously hoped :) 06:06, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
User:Mmeinhart Has returned with a new username, User:OSU80. 17:36, 9 April 2006 (UTC)


Leaving Wikipedia

User: Reason: Date:
User:Adrian Buehlmann Has Quit 14:20, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
User:Juppiter Says on his user page that he's leaving Wikipedia because of an issue with User:OrphanBot. 21:41, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
User:Colin_McLaughlin User page says "Too many cooks spoil the broth" 02:45, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
User:Jtkiefer Deleted user page; confrontation at WP:RFB 18:39, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

On Wikibreak

User: Reason: Date:
User:Haza-w Off on holiday, back April 18. 11:40, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
User:Quadell See userpage; at least breaking as a result of debate regarding date linking. May leave. March 27, 2006
User:Kilo-Lima On exam-wiki-break: As you could tell, I have exams in two weeks (time of typing), but still try to contribute; only small edits though. 21:30, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
User:Zeerus Having some personal problems and moving to a new home, should be settled soon, on break until further notice. 03:35, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
User:Srikeit Upgrading Internet connection from Dial-up to Broadband. Currently have neither (mumble grumble). Also going on vacation. Will make small edits & will be back completely on April 18. 05:12, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
User:Fang Aili I realize this might be a bad time to go on wikibreak, but I don't think any more questions will be posted at my RfA, and I really, really have to attend to real life concerns right now. Anyone who catches me editing should message me to get the hell offline. 18:24, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
User:Where On wikibreak as per his userpage 8 April 2006
User:Ian13 Back after exams 10 April 2006

Stressed Users

User: Reason: Date:
User:Rschen7754 RFC that is suffering from biased users and going south. 19:30, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
User_talk:Colignatus User in trouble 07:09, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
User_talk:Go for it! I feel persecuted! Instead of simply giving up in frustration, I've decided to stick around and fight back (within the acceptable means provided by Wikipedia). I'm in need of the advice of a veteran user on something I've been working on for quite some time. I undertook a complete overhaul of the Community Portal, on an open editable page, only to have someone revert it to a version of the page that existed months ago. Then along comes an admin and protects the page. Not knowing what all my options were, I called for a vote to get the page changed back. I didn't get any positive feedback until I posted that announcement - up until then I felt like I was continually being yelled at and scolded. My talk page reads like a punching bag. My question is: is there anything we can do to change the process bias of the talk page system which seems to promote criticisms and complaints over praise and encouragement??? --Go for it! 19:43, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
User:Natalya Lots of exams coming up, not enough time to study, leading to not nearly enough time to contribute. 18:49, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
User:The Minister of War Happened upon a sockpuppet, thought (perhaps wrongly) that an RFAr was appropriate, and now I end up defending myself against an accusation of pushing POV! Man this drains energy. 12:10, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
User:HighwayCello Too many people screaming at me... Highway Rainbow Sneakers 16:36, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
User:Pilotguy The vandals continue to insult me and send me death threats, I continue to put up with people trying to give me a sense of inferiority on my talk page, and yet I receive zero support. Enough is enough. I feel like I am wasting my time at this point. 2:26, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Sources

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