On 4/3/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Heh, someone suggested a similar overhaul for AfD about six months ago, and they got shot down in flames.
Happens :)
March 2006: Two semi-edit wars
Ouch. What's a semi-edit? :)
(That should be semi edit-wars...)
Or semi-edit-wars? "Edit wars" is never hyphenated by itself. Anyway!
on [[Spock]] and [[Star Trek]], accused of violating NPOV.
Presumably at this point you would see diffs where the alleged NPOV violations take place.
Yeah, or even just a date. The idea is to just give potential voters a starting place to look at stuff that might be interesting, rather than everyone starting from ground zero.
On a side note, I don't see why people are so damned precious about making sure that NPOV is perfectly applied for 100% of their edits - so what if someone's edit biases the article a little bit, if they've just added a rather large amount of useful information? I thought this was a wiki - someone else can always fix it later...
Totally agree, as long as it's done in good faith, and preferably with self-awareness. I've certainly added info on music groups that I like, with edit summaries like "Added info, someone please de-POV". I don't claim to be able to write about my favourite bands with total impartiality, but I can avoid removing info, or claiming impartiality!
Large number of apparently helpful contributions on [[Brian Peppers]] and [[Moldova]].
Good. Demonstrates ability to communicate with other editors on controversial articles. (Unless their contributions were "{{db-bio}}" and "#REDIRECT [[Romania]]" respectively.)
No, you idiot, anyone contributing to an article on Moldova should not be an admin!!!
Well, at least there would be a sensible debate, rather than people simply taking unstated prejudices into the voting booth. I bet there are voters that see that an editor has edited some sex-related article, and immediately form a conclusion, regardless of whether they were simply performing routine maintenance like typos of interwiki links.
:Yes, I saw this edit war on [[Spock]], he behaved like a total prat. [[User:PeanutGallery1]]...
Presumably there would also be "I asked this user to apologise [42] and he refused/did so [43]. ~~~~" with this.
You would hope so.
April 2006:No contributions, except for deleting the word "anti-semite" from 6 articles.
You also are using English instead of Esperanto :)
Sorry I didn't catch that?
Steve