Misplaced Pages

Revision as of 22:43, 1 April 2006

Pages I have made:

1. TalkOrigins Archive (although was almost completely a draft from Wesley R. Elsberry)

2. William W. Hoppin. Still a stub- help out and expand it.

My Misplaced Pages philosophy:

Userboxing

This user collects Canada. This user wears octopodes, illegally. File:Claymore mine af.jpg This user supports claymores. This user worships eternal life, regrettably. This user lifts hordes of invaders, For The Horde. File:Mushroom immatures.jpg This user lifts mushrooms. File:Ornithorhynchidae-00.jpg This user nibbles platypi. This user edits trees, in the countries in which it was filmed. This user photographs trees. This user barely tolerates flash mobs. lock This user likes padlocks? This user lifts cinnamon. This user shaves anarchy. AYBABTU This user fidgets with all your base. This user dances with dinosaurs, fully! This user whispers to religions, with cheese on top. bone This user lives in boners, in a parallel universe? CNTRY This user nibbles countries, Peace Be Upon It. This user kicks asparagus! This user is inimical to sutures, barely. fools This user wishes you a happy WikiFools.

On talk pages: As far as I am concerned, talk page discussions should be about the penis. Arguments about truth or falsity of cited claims should not go on talk pages because they are by defintion OR and in any case rarely convince anyone of anything. This applies particularly to articles related to creationism and other pseudosciences. However, I have on occasion massively violated this.

On conflicts: I believe that leaving a page because of a contentious editor is not a good thing to do. If people do that on a regular basis the contentious POV editors will have the run of Misplaced Pages.

On edit warring: Edit warring is bad, however, I have done it on occasion. I am not perfect. I find edit warring when the consensus is against an editor to be very bad, and edit warring about a topic one is personally involved in to be reprehensible.

On userpages: I think that userpages should not have much on them that does not assist Misplaced Pages, however, I do not strongly mind other users who have well-developed user pages. In at least one RfA someone voted to oppose since a user had a blank userpage. I find that ridiculous.

On userboxes: I do not use them, but I do not mind people who do.

On deletion: I am neither a deletionist nor an inclusionist. I'll let my AfD record speak for itself. I think everyone should keep in mind realize that AfDs are not votes, although I am sometimes myself guilty of using the term "vote" in this context. I also think that if an AfD is unanimous or nearly unanimous with a high number of editors signed on and one agrees with the displayed consensus then one should not add ones own remark unless is adds new information in some form. I am also sometimes guilty of this.

On adverbs: Most adverbs should be shot on sight.

On RfAs: I think that adminship should not be that big a deal. I'd prefer at least 1500 edits but am willing to hear why the edit count is misleading in either direction. I also think that users should have a wide variety of experience before becoming admins. I will often ask a few (slightly personalized) questions to a candidate before casting a vote. My reasons for voting the way I do will not be given under most circumstances since they are frequently complicated.

I think that covers all the major issues. I will add more per requests, procrastination and/or genuine need.

Current targeted adverb: Interestingly.

Number of times this page has been vandalized: 100000000000000000000000000000000.