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| '''Transparency''': | |||
| Off my chest: Ever since an admin admitted that a number of'' emails'' were sent over a pretty minor (yet still clumsily handled) incident, I have never trusted Misplaced Pages. How can it be trusted without transparency? Admins are just people - and some are very weak people - who unfortunately think there is kudos in a rapidly scrolling contributions page. I still edit here - but only because Citizendium turned out to be so poor. Misplaced Pages needs more admins - and admins need to be slowed down! We need to outlaw (at very least) editors and admins discussing via email. | |||
| '''Hi.''' | |||
| I've been editing Misplaced Pages, off and on, since 2006. | |||
| Did you like my edit? If you think I've messed up, give me a shout and I'll further explain my thinking. | |||
| '''''WIKIPEDIA''''' | |||
| I do my research. I'm not perfect, but I never commit to anything without thinking first whether I know enough to make my point. I use Talk pages as much as I article-edit. I dislike 'edit-count chasers' - they do nothing for quality IMO, and I've seen them create work. Misplaced Pages needs to SLOW DOWN! It will develop twice as fast if it did. When I read someone's made xx thousand edits, I'm immediately worried they won't ''properly'' read my comments! | |||
| I usually get a little put off by Misplaced Pages to be honest - so if I am making a contribution, it will be more often than not because I am very serious about it. | |||
| Misplaced Pages says Be Bold, and usually I am. I can probably lack a few graces sometimes, it's not that I'm strictly impolite. If I've got something to say, and I'm in, I'll say it. I am very logical, but am passionate too. | |||
| I like to see the funny side, but my humour can sometimes be a little dry. | |||
| '''''ABOUT ME''''' | |||
| I am a 37-year-old carer for someone with Alzheimer's Disease, and have developed a stong interest in AD over the last few years. I am also a graphic designer with publishing and copy experience (in prose). | |||
| I am a socialist. That seems to mean something a little different in the USA - so if you are American, try not to hold it against me! I am decent, honest, fair and open-minded. I'm Welsh too, by the way. | |||
| Matt | |||
| (yes, I plumbed for my name.) | |||
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| '''PERSONAL NOTES''' | |||
| Coatrack, | |||
| Core issues, | |||
| Galloway, | |||
| Pratchett FA, | |||
| Alzheimers, | |||
| Obama/madrasssa, | |||
| UK nationality guideline, | |||
| Respect, | |||
| Morning Star, | |||
| List of United States Journalism scandals/UK | |||
| MP Voting records, | |||
| Wales, | |||
| MEDMOS | |||
| CAM | |||
| Autism | |||
| '''WP (not confetti)''' | |||
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| ] - Always a good referring point. | |||
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| ] - Covers how side articles should not be created to cover information that cannot find consensus in the main article. | |||
| ] - Covers how side issues should not be used to camouflage any biased reasons for a side article’s existence (or continual existence). | |||
| ] - Advises against over-description of facts that are already simple, well-covered and conclusive. | |||
| ] - Shows how an abundance of passable citations cannot negate certain neutrality issues. | |||
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| ] - Shows how past importance and/or the possibility of future importance does not amount to Notability. | |||
| ] - How it shows ‘bad faith’ to negatively read (or misread) semantic, imperfect, miswritten or unclear details in someone’s comment - when it is reasonable to assume a positive meaning. Also - paranoia, and grouping people together. | |||
| ] - 6 decent points | |||
| ''Gaming/Disruption:'' | |||
| ] - lists how people can use various policies to actually force through their own bias, inc; | |||
| ] - ‘Bad faith’ editors who ignore disproven points, repeating their chosen tacks. | |||
| ] – Being addressed over a specific policy breach, and retorting with other policy. | |||
| ] - Putting letter before spirit of law, carefully misinterpreting policy, and using formal terms inappropriately. | |||
| ] – Using gaming tactics to block or hold back something from occurring (consensus, a point being understood, a resolution, an event etc). | |||