Maybe if you turned it into a general rewrite tag that can be used on
all articles, it might be kept...
Mgm
On 11/12/05, Tom Cadden <thomcadden(a)yahoo.ie> wrote:
--- "Alphax (Wikipedia email)" <alphasigmax(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
As someone said in #wikipedia the other day: "the
deletionists go around
deleting stuff; the inclusionists just whinge on
wikien-l about how bad
it is." So: stop complaining, and start telling
people *why* they need
to be kept.
Unfortunately the greek chorus of deleters all group
around chanting ''delete, delete delete. Begone you
nasty template'' like something out of Lord of the
Flies.
And they don't like anyone saying 'Hold on a minute'.
You get the image they all turn around and mutter in
unison: did someone dare speak on our page? How dare
he? He isn't one of us.' lol
Notifying the creator/last editor of such templates
would be a Polite
Thing To Do. But no, it's far easier to subst: and
{{d}} something,
because that way you can get away with it.
I'm beginning to think they do it that way in the hope
people who might disagree with them won't notice.
When recently a whole blitz of Irish templates were
put up for deletion by the one user (He seemed to be
having one of his 'and today I will wipe out Ireland'
moods) I dared to contact Irish users to suggest they
look at the proposed deletions. One of the deleters
went beserck. How DARE I "spam" users to tell them
about the deletions. She went on and on and on and on
in the "How dare I" rant in message after message.
Obviously users are meant to have psychic powers to
know that she and her colleagues had now picked Irish
templates for wipeout. And for daring to disrupt the
smooth running of deletions by bring aliens who might
vote 'no' onto the page. (She made snide comments
about how they were all doing my bidding when they
dared disagree with her.) she promptly nominated a
another template I had created on the page even though
WP was perfectly happy with it and using it all
over!!!
The Deletioners and their antics makes Lord of the
Flies sound positively heavenly.
Thom
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