On 8/3/07, Armed Blowfish diodontida.armata@googlemail.com wrote:
On 03/08/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 03/08/07, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
If anything, getting involved in arguments like this actually increases my editing output. I find that doing large amounts of repetitive and uncontroversial work, such as categorization, format tidying, reference markup, etc., is a great way to work off the frustration and annoyance. I don't _like_ it, though, so I wouldn't exactly recommend it as a motivator.
A proposal: everyone who posted to this discussion must fix up ten articles from each of [[Category:Cleanup]] and [[Category:Category needed]]. Including me.
- d.
Erm, hi, banned user here.
Armed Blowfish
Pick one or two goodies (perferably in the sciences) and send me them plus a single good source for each that would help clean them up, and I will do two clean-ups in penance for you.
I'm going to write a really good article from scratch as my own penance, because that would be more fun and confer more glory upon me.
KP
On 03/08/07, K P kpbotany@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/3/07, Armed Blowfish diodontida.armata@googlemail.com wrote:
On 03/08/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 03/08/07, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
If anything, getting involved in arguments like this actually
increases
my editing output. I find that doing large amounts of repetitive and uncontroversial work, such as categorization, format tidying,
reference
markup, etc., is a great way to work off the frustration and
annoyance.
I don't _like_ it, though, so I wouldn't exactly recommend it as a motivator.
A proposal: everyone who posted to this discussion must fix up ten articles from each of [[Category:Cleanup]] and [[Category:Category needed]]. Including me.
- d.
Erm, hi, banned user here.
Armed Blowfish
Pick one or two goodies (perferably in the sciences) and send me them plus a single good source for each that would help clean them up, and I will do two clean-ups in penance for you.
I'm going to write a really good article from scratch as my own penance, because that would be more fun and confer more glory upon me.
KP
Thanks, but I've already put far too much blood, sweat, and tears into Wikipaedia, and I don't believe it's been appreciated... although perhaps now is not the best time to talk about that. In any case, I've said what I've said to help people, and I don't think I've been entirely unsuccessful.
Armed Blowfish
On 8/3/07, Armed Blowfish diodontida.armata@googlemail.com wrote:
On 03/08/07, K P kpbotany@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/3/07, Armed Blowfish diodontida.armata@googlemail.com wrote:
On 03/08/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 03/08/07, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
If anything, getting involved in arguments like this actually
increases
my editing output. I find that doing large amounts of repetitive and uncontroversial work, such as categorization, format tidying,
reference
markup, etc., is a great way to work off the frustration and
annoyance.
I don't _like_ it, though, so I wouldn't exactly recommend it as a motivator.
A proposal: everyone who posted to this discussion must fix up ten articles from each of [[Category:Cleanup]] and [[Category:Category needed]]. Including me.
- d.
Erm, hi, banned user here.
Armed Blowfish
Pick one or two goodies (perferably in the sciences) and send me them plus a single good source for each that would help clean them up, and I will do two clean-ups in penance for you.
I'm going to write a really good article from scratch as my own penance, because that would be more fun and confer more glory upon me.
KP
Thanks, but I've already put far too much blood, sweat, and tears into Wikipaedia, and I don't believe it's been appreciated... although perhaps now is not the best time to talk about that. In any case, I've said what I've said to help people, and I don't think I've been entirely unsuccessful.
Armed Blowfish
Well, I don't generally do things because I think they'll be appreciated, and I suspect you don't either. Still, let me know if you're ever particularly concerned about an article that needs proper sources, and I'll be glad to look at it.
KP