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| About me? Eclectic scholar, published author, and all around nice guy, but I won't list details as Wiki guidelines discourage self-promotion. | About me? Eclectic scholar, published author, and all around nice guy, but I won't list details as Wiki guidelines discourage self-promotion. | ||
| Update May 3, 2005: As a result of consistently poor decisions by admins I've dealt with, general disgustedness with attempting to try to keep articles unbiased in spite of the unceasing assault of editors who are clearly only here to advance an agenda of some sort, and pretty much the universal lack of recognition for all the time and effort I put in trying to make Misplaced Pages a better encyclopedia, I just removed several hundred items from my watch list. I'll probably take most of the rest of them off later. I can't go cold turkey, but maybe gradually I can do something actually worthwhile. There just seems no point to even trying to deal with things they way this place is set up. I'd be much better off devoting my time to projects where the gradeschool kids, raving nutjobs and followers of fringe belief systems can't just rewrite everything at a moment's notice and then paint you as the bad guy for trying to enforce even just a minimal level of standards. | |||
Revision as of 02:13, 4 May 2005
I'm recently registered but have been making changes to selected articles for well over a year now. I was afraid registering would mean I'd spend a lot more time than I want working on all sorts of articles... and it has, oops, but I got sick of seeing IP numbers up there when I made changes.
I'm mostly here to improve articles on mythology and Jack the Ripper, as a lot of posters got their information from extremely bad sources. Unfortunately both fields are full of books by people with little to no actual knowledge on the topics and just regurgitating things they read in earlier poor references, so a lot of people read these things and end up knowing less than they did before they started.
I also have a lot of other articles I'll look at here and there as they come up.
About me? Eclectic scholar, published author, and all around nice guy, but I won't list details as Wiki guidelines discourage self-promotion.
Update May 3, 2005: As a result of consistently poor decisions by admins I've dealt with, general disgustedness with attempting to try to keep articles unbiased in spite of the unceasing assault of editors who are clearly only here to advance an agenda of some sort, and pretty much the universal lack of recognition for all the time and effort I put in trying to make Misplaced Pages a better encyclopedia, I just removed several hundred items from my watch list. I'll probably take most of the rest of them off later. I can't go cold turkey, but maybe gradually I can do something actually worthwhile. There just seems no point to even trying to deal with things they way this place is set up. I'd be much better off devoting my time to projects where the gradeschool kids, raving nutjobs and followers of fringe belief systems can't just rewrite everything at a moment's notice and then paint you as the bad guy for trying to enforce even just a minimal level of standards.