So wikipedians like me who have (unsucessfully) supported the userboxes are all bad people just clogging up the system?
Molu
Message: 6 Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 14:00:09 -0400 From: Jimmy Wales Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] "should not be written by an interested party" To: English Wikipedia Message-ID: 4458EFA9.9070700@wikia.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Steve Bennett wrote:
Any idea how often people edit their own articles? That is, how frequently an outsider publicly makes it known that they are editing their own article? Once a day? Once a week? We could always have a set of processes for these situations, where users who are good with the kid gloves can take them by the hand and help them get the best out of an awkward situation. There is still the problem of becoming aware of these situations.
Agreed, fully, with both the problem and the general direction of a solution.
WP:OFFICE should be a last resort, and long before we get to that point, we need a way for non-partisan, good wikipedians, who (despite the userboxers and myspacers clogging up the system lately) are still very much in control of the project, to find and concentrate some very strong brainpower on these articles.
G'day Molu,
[stop bloody top-posting, please]
So wikipedians like me who have (unsucessfully) supported the userboxes are all bad people just clogging up the system?
Well, that depends. I've never seen you on Wikipedia, TMK, so you're going to have to answer this one yourself. Let your conscience be your guide ...
Do you: a) Edit Wikipedia first and foremost, and very occasionally decorate your userpage as a fun diversion, or b) Edit userboxen first and foremost, turning your attentions to Wikipedia only to "vote" on TfD or DRV and make acerbic and utterly ignorant comments about hard-working admins? Do you resent the fact that people consider Wikipedia an encyclopaedia, even though the "anyone can edit" tag implies that if you want to treat it like MySpace no-one should be allowed to stop you?
If you answered 'a' to that one, then you're one of the unfortunate victims of the way the userbox situation was handled. If you answered 'b', seriously, fuck off and don't come back until you've re-adjusted your way of thinking about this project. Wikipedia is not a hosting service.