geni wrote:
On 11/3/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
What policies/procedures/guidelines on en:wp strike you as just awful? Please list and elaborate.
This could be in any of purpose, current wording, ineffectuality or just being a completely bad idea. Or anything else that makes it just awful.
Parts of Wikipedia:Username
"Names that can be confused with other contributors" tends to be overused. It is common practice on the net for people when a user name is taken to use the user name followed by some number. We need to accept this.
Except that "on the rest of the interwebs" people with usernames of the form (word)(number) where (word) is common don't tend to run into each other; on Wikipedia they *do*.
Wikipedia:Ownership of articles
Should be Wikipedia:Ownership of content. I tend to feel we have a problem if people are asking permission to edit images.
Actually it's "best practice" to not upload a modified version of an image over the original unless the modifications are lossless and trivial.