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MacGyverMagic/Mgm stated for the record:
Anyway. Sean, did you tag your in progress article
with {{inuse}}?
Upon returning did you talk to Savidan about his actions?
Answer One: No, I didn't tag it. Frankly, I didn't think of it. I
literally: realized my coffee cup was empty; stood up, realized I was
using my Windows box so I was in danger of crashing and losing my work,
bent over, threw an edit summary in the box, and hit "save." When
returned after getting my coffee, I hit "edit," and saw the deletion
verbiage at the top of the edit box. Nine (9) minutes had elapsed.
Thank Cthulhu Savidan got there before ten minutes had elapsed: all of
Wikipedia might have been destroyed.
I have learned from that mistake. Never again will I add an article to
Wikipedia that is not completely and entirely perfect, with multiple
insistences of notability and scores of footnotes in place. Wikipedia
does not allow works-in-progress; all contributions must be camera-ready
for world-wide publication or they will be obliterated on sight.
Answer Two: Yes, I left a note on his talk page, and he replied on mine.
What difference does that make? Does the burden of defending
information against obliteration fall on me, the contributor? Or is the
burden on the obliterater to demonstrate why that particular information
should be deleted? Actually, the answers to those questions are
disgustingly obvious; what I should be asking is /should/ the burden of
defending information be placed on the one building Wikipedia?
/Shouldn't/ the one who wants to obliterate information be required to
at least attempt to communicate with the one who wants to add it?
The thing is, he can't mindread and it's not
uncommon for people to leave
things unfinished. If you're patrolling Recentchanges or Newpages, you don't
have the time, to recheck if someone finished their article. It will take
the speed out of your work.
0 NO3Z!!11! DON'T TAKE THE SPEED OUT!!!11!!eleventy-one
If you tag it with {{inuse}} or work on it in your
userspace, you've got a
lot lower chance of it getting deleted.
If I never contribute anything until it is utterly perfect, I'll have a
lower chance (maybe not a lot lower, I admit) of it getting deleted.
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Sean Barrett | Careful. We don't want to
sean(a)epoptic.org | learn from this. --Calvin
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