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=Its True Allan's Mom dose live there! Check your facts! |
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== Pet Peeves == |
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* '''I am not particularly interested in "putting myself over"''' Who really gives a damn how many contributions I've made, what articles I've started (46, apparently ), what credentials I have with which to beat you over the head that '''I''' am so much cooler than '''you''', or anything other than whether I know about what I'm talking? I'm proud of my work here, and tickled by seeing it recognized, but I'll never post a puffed up list of the articles I've helped bring to FA/GA status (a number, so far) or listing my DYKs (five, so far). I'm more into improving stubs than into creating new articles. What Misplaced Pages needs more than sheer page count is improved '''quality''' of articles. Many editors seeking a catchphrase that makes for an easy slur call this "deletionist." |
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* '''I am extremely particular about grammar, spelling and the non-use of diacriticals.''' I see no reason why time-honored grammar usages are invalidated just because today's typists are lazy sods, and if you have a burning desire to put umlauts and diacriticals over proper names, go over to the foreign language Wikipedias where such usages are proper -- this is the English Misplaced Pages, last I checked. (And don't bullshit us; they don't use diacriticals on non-North American en-language websites any more than in Canada and the US.) |
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* '''I care strongly about documentation.''' If you assert it, you should be prepared to back it up, with a non-Misplaced Pages verifiable source. If you can't, you should retract it. |
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* That being said, '''computer verification isn't the be-all and end-all of everything.''' An ] was filed sometime ago against an author who had jack for Amazon.com sales ranking and not many Google hits. No kidding, folks, he wrote several popular books in the Seventies and early Eighties, pretty much nothing since, and his stuff's gone out of print. Any number of prominent Victorian authors have Amazon rankings which aren't anything about which to write their descendants. |
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* '''Subjects that should be ''prima facie'' grounds for CSD:''' dorm buildings, bands or wannabe auteurs with Myspace pages for lead Google hits, game/fan/mediacruft that received less than ten minutes of screentime or ten pages of action, MMORPG gaming guilds, elementary schools, any portmanteau "X in popular culture" list ... gods, I could go on for a bit. |
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* '''Articles that should be blocked from CSD:''' Articles within six hours of their creation, unless they're blatant vandalism, hoaxes or attack pages. It drives me nuts to see articles CSDed or AfDed four minutes after their creation, and from watching ], many articles are CSDed ''seconds'' after creation. Folks, Misplaced Pages doesn't give prizes for the first ones to file a CSD. What is your freaking hurry? (Alright, now I realize that this is a hallmark of people shilling for admin. You're getting a firm Oppose from me.) Can we give these people ''some'' chance to improve their articles? |
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* '''People who pick over this user page for ammunition to use in AfDs and other discussions:''' If you think this means you, you may well be right. Needing to find some dirt to fling because you can't win on the merits of the argument is a sure sign that a collaborative encyclopedia is not the environment for you. Maybe Britannica is hiring. |
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* '''There should be a guideline with equal force to ]''' - that in their own turn, newcomers have a duty to act respectfully, courteously and with maturity, to make an effort to acquaint themselves with Misplaced Pages policies and guidelines, and to assume good faith on the part of existing editors who seek to apply them. |
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* '''"!vote" is politically correct weasel-wording''' - Yeah, yeah, I know we're not supposed to be "voting" on things, although no one's told the RfA process, and the screams of rage when admins at XfD make policy-over-consensus determinations are palpable. That being said, let's get a grip. The dreaded letters V-O-T-E don't vanish by virtue of putting extra punctuation in front of them, and doing so reminds me strongly of my bunny ducking her head underneath a towel and pretending no one can see her. Plainly we need a word that means "registering one's opinion in such a fashion that (usually) comes down on one side of an issue or another." "Vote" is a recognizable candidate for such a word. Chill, folks. |
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* To steal the wording from another editor, and in the same fashion as above ... "] is not a suicide pact. If someone writes a post with blatant personal attacks, signs another user's name, then starts posting in multiple places calling for the banning of the innocent party, they are a troll. Calling them such is not a failure to AGF: it is a logical deduction." It's maddening how often the aggressor gets off scot-free in the ensuing chaos, because blame-the-victim is SOP. |
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* '''Finally, I care about research.''' This is an encyclopedia, and not only do we have an obligation to know about what we're talking, we have no right to vote or make edits in willful ignorance -- if you insist on being ignorant, go hang out in a blog instead. It drives me nuts to see AfDs filed on articles where the nom could -- and ''should'' -- have taken five minutes to follow up a few Google hits and realized the genuine notability of the subject. It drives me just as nuts to see "seems notable," "seems non-notable," "looks good" and their ilk. Translation = you don't really have a clue. You're really just guessing off of a five second glance at the article, swallowing any presumption whole and racking up a quick meaningless edit on AfD. News flash; no one will give a damn five years from now about your edit count. We are supposed to be building an encyclopedia here, not playing some geeky MMORPG and competing for Game High Score. |
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== Postscript == |
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== Postscript == |
Hello! I'm a fifty-something paralegal living in the Boston area. My Wikiactivity centers around hockey -- I'm a longtime statistician and sometime member of SIHR -- but I'm interested in everything from military history to politics to roleplaying games (and no, not in the console games that marketing departments insist on calling "RPGs").
