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| Misplaced Pages and it's editors and administrators are not interested in creating something useful or promoting knowlege. For them Misplaced Pages is no different from Myspace but instead of collecting friends, the object is to collect edits. The more edits you do, the more likely you are to be nominated for Adminstrator where you will have even more power. The easiest way to collect edits is to find new articles that are flawed and nominate them for deletion. Do not waste time improving an article. Just nominate it for deletion and move on. Having your signature appear once in 1000 articles is more valuable than having your signature in one article 1000 times. I repeat, do not waste time improving a developing article or providing constructive criticism. Nobody is here to teach or learn.--] 14:03, 25 January 2007 (UTC) | Misplaced Pages and it's editors and administrators are not interested in creating something useful or promoting knowlege. For them Misplaced Pages is no different from Myspace but instead of collecting friends, the object is to collect edits. The more edits you do, the more likely you are to be nominated for Adminstrator where you will have even more power. The easiest way to collect edits is to find new articles that are flawed and nominate them for deletion. Do not waste time improving an article. Just nominate it for deletion and move on. Having your signature appear once in 1000 articles is more valuable than having your signature in one article 1000 times. I repeat, do not waste time improving a developing article or providing constructive criticism. Nobody is here to teach or learn.--] 14:03, 25 January 2007 (UTC) | ||
| :Hi Sand Squid. I am busy trying to respond to your <nowiki>{{helpme}}</nowiki> request. In the meantime I will try and reply to your above post consctructively.<br /> | |||
| :I agree that there are quite a few admins on Misplaced Pages that just go around looking for articles that they can nominate for deletion. There are users who boast on their userpages that they have "..nominated ''x'' amount of articles for deletion and in most cases they were usually deleted" as well as providing some lists on articles they were responsible for deleting. And I suppose that's good, because there are a lot of articles on wikipedia that actually need to be deleted. But then there's also the problem that many admins would rather not '''improve''' problem articles, they would just rather delete them. I've been involved in a '''major''' feud with an admin over an article that was deleted that could easily have been fixed. If an article has a problem I think that '''templates''' should be put up that warn readers what the problems are so that they can fix them. So yes, a lot of administrators are lazy and are prone to just want to delete.<br /> | |||
| : The good news is, that they normally have to follow some rules about deletion. There are certain guidelines on when you can delete an article. And unfortunately a lot of the time wikipedia users don't understand those guidelines '''and''' those silly admins don't properly explain which guidelines they were following when they deleted the article '''and''' new and inexperienced users can be rather confused even if they ''do'' explain which guidelines they are using. For example there's something called ]ing, which basically means to delete an article and stop users from recreating the article. There's something called G4 which allows admins to delete articles that are recreated if they are very similar to a deleted version of that article. <br /> | |||
| :I also assume you know about something called ] which is a process that happens in most cases that an article is deleted, where other editors that are familiar with wikipedia deletion policy can discuss whether or not that article should be deleted.<br /> | |||
| :Anyways, if I am going to help you with this matter, I will need some more information. What is the deleted article that you are referring to, and why do you think it should not be deleted?<br /> | |||
| :Once I have that information, I can find out why the article was deleted, what wikipedia policy they cited, did the article go up for Articles for deletion, etc.<br /> | |||
| :Let me know what I can do to help ] 16:01, 25 January 2007 (UTC) | |||
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What I have learned in my first few months at Misplaced Pages
Misplaced Pages and it's editors and administrators are not interested in creating something useful or promoting knowlege. For them Misplaced Pages is no different from Myspace but instead of collecting friends, the object is to collect edits. The more edits you do, the more likely you are to be nominated for Adminstrator where you will have even more power. The easiest way to collect edits is to find new articles that are flawed and nominate them for deletion. Do not waste time improving an article. Just nominate it for deletion and move on. Having your signature appear once in 1000 articles is more valuable than having your signature in one article 1000 times. I repeat, do not waste time improving a developing article or providing constructive criticism. Nobody is here to teach or learn.--Sand Squid 14:03, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
- Hi Sand Squid. I am busy trying to respond to your {{helpme}} request. In the meantime I will try and reply to your above post consctructively.
- I agree that there are quite a few admins on Misplaced Pages that just go around looking for articles that they can nominate for deletion. There are users who boast on their userpages that they have "..nominated x amount of articles for deletion and in most cases they were usually deleted" as well as providing some lists on articles they were responsible for deleting. And I suppose that's good, because there are a lot of articles on wikipedia that actually need to be deleted. But then there's also the problem that many admins would rather not improve problem articles, they would just rather delete them. I've been involved in a major feud with an admin over an article that was deleted that could easily have been fixed. If an article has a problem I think that templates should be put up that warn readers what the problems are so that they can fix them. So yes, a lot of administrators are lazy and are prone to just want to delete.
- The good news is, that they normally have to follow some rules about deletion. There are certain guidelines on when you can delete an article. And unfortunately a lot of the time wikipedia users don't understand those guidelines and those silly admins don't properly explain which guidelines they were following when they deleted the article and new and inexperienced users can be rather confused even if they do explain which guidelines they are using. For example there's something called WP:SALTing, which basically means to delete an article and stop users from recreating the article. There's something called G4 which allows admins to delete articles that are recreated if they are very similar to a deleted version of that article.
- I also assume you know about something called Articles for deletion which is a process that happens in most cases that an article is deleted, where other editors that are familiar with wikipedia deletion policy can discuss whether or not that article should be deleted.
- Anyways, if I am going to help you with this matter, I will need some more information. What is the deleted article that you are referring to, and why do you think it should not be deleted?
- Once I have that information, I can find out why the article was deleted, what wikipedia policy they cited, did the article go up for Articles for deletion, etc.
- Let me know what I can do to help Rfwoolf 16:01, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
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