On 03/11/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/3/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
What policies/procedures/guidelines on en:wp strike you as just awful? Please list and elaborate.
This could be in any of purpose, current wording, ineffectuality or just being a completely bad idea. Or anything else that makes it just awful.
Parts of Wikipedia:Username
"Names that can be confused with other contributors" tends to be overused. It is common practice on the net for people when a user name is taken to use the user name followed by some number. We need to accept this.
Random anecdote: some years ago, my then-girlfriend's little sister got an email address. It was on Hotmail, I think - she took something like "nickname43" as the username. On being asked - what, was "nickname" not available? - she told us that she thought *everyone* had a number at the end of their names on the internet...
Office Actions:
Not happy with DCMA take down stuff being dealt with through normal deletion rather than oversight deletion. I don't like the idea that I could accidentally restore stuff deleted due to DMCA notices.
On the other hand, it's very handy to see the page *was* deleted, so admins can handle queries about it, and if you oversighted all the revisions this might not be the case.
Would it be simpler just to delete it and say "DMCA takedown" in the deletion summary? You'd be hard pressed to restore something without having read the delete log...
...alternately, if we don't want to make the exact details of "copyright holder used actual legal methods" widely public, but are happy with explaining things to admins only, it could be worthwhile to blank the article and write a brief explanation on the newest revision before deleting the page, then refer to this in the edit summary. If nothing else, it flags up an immediate problem if you restore the old version without looking - because you'll have a discussion page not an article.