== Balancing our Wikipedia editing energies - "Can't we all just get along?" ==

I think we are discussing where to apply energies. Some of us are suggesting being more spacious to newbies. Let's not confuse that with clearing out spam, vandalism, and off topic contributions. These are totally different subjects. Sadly, admins use tools intended for spam, vandalism, and off-topic contributions, on newbies and oldies when they consider the content of a wiki page. I'm asking admins to leave anything that is not spam, not vandalism, not off-topic. If it's sux, is poorly written, duplicates or is unclear, leave it, and let someone edit it if you have no energy for it at the moment.

I know I'm asking for a lot, but I'm just trying to move the bar BACK to spam, vandalism, and off-topic contributions.

I appreciate that may feel irresponsible for someone to leave a crappy page alone, but that is EXACTLY what I am asking for.

How about a compromise? How about a template that says,

"Hi, I'm an experienced Wikipedian, and I'm overwhelmed at trying to edit this particular article/page/section into compliance with our goal of accuracy, appropriateness, neutral point of view, well, I challenge anyone here to write a concise summary of what Wikipedia's credo is and how to find it equally concisely documented in .. .how many keystrokes / mouse clicks? I'm up to 7 and still can't find a list with NPOV and all other criteria for editing and writing styles.

I can find http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars but I cannot find it quickly or directly from the front page. It leads to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines which then looses me in this list: 1 Sources of Wikipedia policy 2 Policy-related articles 2.1 Official policy articles 2.2 Official guideline articles 2.3 Non-official essays or proposals 2.4 Processes relating to policy, guideline, essay, and proposal articles 3 Other types of policy or consensus-related articles 3.1 Wikiprojects 3.2 Feature requests 3.3 "How to" or help pages 4 How are policies enforced? 5 Other essays and discussions about Wikipedia 6 See also says

Ooops, we've wandered away from what's expected from editors and writers.

And we wonder why people have such divergent experienced on Wikipedia?!?

How would anybody find http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Simplified_ruleset ?!?

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