Teresita
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| Joined: | 14 August 2007[1] |
| Last edit | 29 September 2008 |
| Real name: | Teresita Mercado |
| Age range: | 43[2] |
| Gender: | female |
| Locale: | Des Moines, Washington, USA |
| Stance: | Taoist |
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| Articles created: | |
| Misc.: | Lesbian |
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Teresita (also known as Francine) has acquired a reputation as rather an explosive drama queen, with a record of making relatively sensible edits, in between making really strange edits and even stranger talk page edits.
Teresita initially edited RationalWiki for three days in August 2007. She received a friendly block, took extreme exception to it, and flounced out.
After an absence of over a year, she returned on 26th September 2008. On 28th she added a picture of Guantanamo Bay to the "Concentration camp" article, and responded to PFoster's objection with an ultimatum that "If it goes, I go".[3] When this did not achieve the desired effect, Teresita seemed determined to follow through with her threat, then changed her mind and made frustrated attempts to erase the incident by crossing out her comments,[4] and blanking and protecting her user page.[5]
Teresita responded to the incident, and some other minor disputes, by lashing out at other editors who were making conciliatory comments on her talk page.[6] On 29th, Teresita "retired" from RationalWiki,[7] possibly as a result of the embarrassment or perceived consequences resulting from her past behaviour.
About half an hour later, she was reincarnated as "Francine Peters",[8] ostensibly a white, heterosexual Christian.[9] Unusually, Francine was made a sysop within twenty-four hours of "joining" the site.[10] However, suspicions of sockpuppetry were soon raised,[11] and she revealed her former identity.[12]
PFoster expressed surprise and humiliation, having been involved in the arguments which led to Teresita's "departure" and also nominated Francine for sysopship.[13]
Francine has gone quiet since early October, after apparently copying all of RW to her own machine (somewhere she referred to using "wget" on her Linux machine and revealed the reason for her subpages listing RW's articles).[14]
Subsequent incarnations of Teresita include Kim, who also quit over image issues, and RoundRobyn, which she created moments later.[15]
It is probable that most RW users have simply decided to ignore her antics.
A new user appears: is Xena Teresita? has a similar MO.
Mega is Teresita, Francine, Xena, et alia, and, like Queen Victoria, likes to say, "We are not amused." :-)
Almost all of her socks can be identified by the fact that she tends to put pictures of herself on her userpage.
[edit] Footnotes
- ↑ Teresita's user creation log.
- ↑ Details
- ↑ The full discussion.
- ↑ Strikethrough.
- ↑ Blank and protect. Weaseloid and Kels intervene.
- ↑ Teresita to Kels: "you're here shitting on my talk page and I can't even clean it up."[1] To Human: "what level of hell is this place?"[2] To WaitingforGodot: rape analogy.[3] On her user page: "If a sysop is making pleasant chit-chat on your talk page, that means you are being fucked up the ass somewhere else on RatWiki."[4]
- ↑ Teresita's "retirement" message.
- ↑ Francine's user creation log.
- ↑ Francine's user page.
- ↑ PFoster suggests Francine take Teresita's place as sysop.[5]. Susan demotes Teresita.[6].
- ↑ SusanG suspects sockpuppetry.[7]
- ↑ Francine's conversion story.
- ↑ PFoster's comment.
- ↑ Terra's comment.
- ↑ Kim's "retirement", and RoundRobyn's creation log.
