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| ==About DreamGuy== | ==About DreamGuy== | ||
| Usually what I end up doing is undoing really bad edits by other people: spam, hoaxes, trying to put their own opinion into an article as if anyone else cares, and so forth. | Usually what I end up doing is undoing really bad edits by other people: spam, hoaxes, trying to put their own opinion into an article as if anyone else cares, horribly pointless trivia and so forth. | ||
| The good thing about Misplaced Pages is anyone who spots something wrong can change it. The bad thing about Misplaced Pages is all the people who want things to be wrong (either from bias or cluelessness) |
The good thing about Misplaced Pages is anyone who spots something wrong can change it. The bad thing about Misplaced Pages is all the people who want things to be wrong (either from bias or cluelessness) can easily do damage that takes multiple good editors five or more times the effort to undo as it took the bad editor to do in the first place. | ||
| ==The eternal struggle== | ==The eternal struggle== | ||
| ] | ] | ||
| ''The Misplaced Pages philosophy can be summed up thusly: "Experts are scum." For some reason people who spend 40 years learning everything they can about, say, the Peloponnesian War -- and indeed, advancing the body of human knowledge -- get all pissy when their contributions are edited away by Randy in Boise who heard somewhere that sword-wielding skeletons were involved. And they get downright irate when asked politely to engage in discourse with Randy until the sword-skeleton theory can be incorporated into the article without passing judgment.'' | ''The Misplaced Pages philosophy can be summed up thusly: "Experts are scum." For some reason people who spend 40 years learning everything they can about, say, the Peloponnesian War -- and indeed, advancing the body of human knowledge -- get all pissy when their contributions are edited away by Randy in Boise who heard somewhere that sword-wielding skeletons were involved. And they get downright irate when asked politely to engage in discourse with Randy until the sword-skeleton theory can be incorporated into the article without passing judgment.'' | ||
| ::::'''—], from ''' | ::::'''—], from ''' | ||
| <small>'''Fun trivia: After I added this section and graphic they have been reused on a number of talk pages and even expanded into the essay ]. It even led to someone ] after someone who was not paying attention thought that the reference to "Randy in Boise" was ] someone else's secret, real-world identity.</small> | |||
| {{clear}} | {{clear}} | ||
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| ⚫ | ==Useful things== | ||
| '''Two I made:''' | |||
| *fictionlist - for nonfiction articles overrun by lists of fiction/music/popular culture making reference to the topic | |||
| *fictioncruft - for fiction articles that just has way too many nonnotable examples listed | |||
| ===Unlinking=== | |||
| For seeing just how many pages a spammer got to, or how many pages use a ridiculously bad site as a source for information: | |||
| ''']''' | |||
| Sites that probably need to be removed as references and external links in most cases: | |||
| *.aveleyman.com | |||
| *.bestthinking.com | |||
| *.filmreference.com | |||
| *.findagrave.com (it's annoying how many people put this in) | |||
| *.wisegeek.com | |||
| *.paintinghere.com | |||
| (I'm sure there are tons I just don't remember right now. I'll add more later. I'll eventually make this a running log so that I go back and check links I previously removed to see if they found their way back again.) | |||
| See also ] | |||
| ===User warnings=== | |||
| Full list: | |||
| ''']''' | |||
| ===Templates for article improvement=== | |||
| ''']''' | |||
| And when there's a bunch on the same article: | |||
| ''']''' | |||
| <!-- still working on this, hiding for now: | |||
| ===Lost causes=== | |||
| Things I used to try to work on improving but which proved impractical to really accomplish but which I'll list here to see if I ever feel like banging my head against a wall again: | |||
| *Making sure Misplaced Pages articles accurately differentiate between ]s, ]ers and ]s when they are mentioned. Articles on specific mass shootings frequently use the terms interchangeably. I would frequently go through and fix multiple articles, only to have somebody come back and mass revert everything. ] was the worst offender of the lot. Someone finally renamed that to ] to avoid some of the problem, but it is still littered with errors and questionable sources and ]. | |||
| '''Tagging articles/sections:''' | |||
| *advert - article reading like ad | |||
| *plot - plot summary overly long | |||
| *cleanup-laundry - overly long lists | |||
| *examplefarm - listcruft | |||
| *external links - for just too many | |||
| *cleanup-spam - for the hardcore bad links | |||
| *trivia - for section named trivia | |||
| *unencyclopedic - whole section/article needs to go away | |||
| *disputed & disputed-section - factual problems | |||
| *POV & POV-section - for the pushers | |||
| *importance - article not encyclopedic | |||
| *importance-s - section | |||
| *I used to edit ], but unfortunately a gang of people I had reverted in the past decided to tag team so that any edit I made, even such minor things as to correct the spelling on authors' names, was blind reverted nearly instantly. These same people had regularly made group accusations on WP:ANI against me, filed false sockpuppet reports, etc. If I made an opinion known about something this group would from then on oppose whatever that was, no matter it was. For a while if I found something outrageously wrong I would hand it off to someone else to go change it so they wouldn't know I was the one who spotted it, but I eventually gave up even looking at the article because it was too frustrating. | |||
| '''Tagging specific lines:''' | |||
| *fact - cite source here, please | |||
| *who - who says this? | |||
| *POV-statement - this part here is biased | |||
| *or - somebody is just pontificating here on their own, aren't they? | |||
| * | |||
| '''Warning users:''' | |||
| *] has templates for warning editors that what they are doing is not allowed | |||
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| <!-- useful link to hold onto: http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Misplaced Pages:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Arbitration_enforcement&diff=200624864&oldid=200624161 shows editors agreeing that Arcayne has been harassing me, that people complaining are trying to game the system, etc. Current Arb enforcement discussion http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Misplaced Pages:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Arbitration_enforcement&diff=228271398&oldid=228270687 get link to update when that closes --> | |||
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About DreamGuy
Usually what I end up doing is undoing really bad edits by other people: spam, hoaxes, trying to put their own opinion into an article as if anyone else cares, horribly pointless trivia and so forth.
The good thing about Misplaced Pages is anyone who spots something wrong can change it. The bad thing about Misplaced Pages is all the people who want things to be wrong (either from bias or cluelessness) can easily do damage that takes multiple good editors five or more times the effort to undo as it took the bad editor to do in the first place.
The eternal struggle
The Misplaced Pages philosophy can be summed up thusly: "Experts are scum." For some reason people who spend 40 years learning everything they can about, say, the Peloponnesian War -- and indeed, advancing the body of human knowledge -- get all pissy when their contributions are edited away by Randy in Boise who heard somewhere that sword-wielding skeletons were involved. And they get downright irate when asked politely to engage in discourse with Randy until the sword-skeleton theory can be incorporated into the article without passing judgment.
Fun trivia: After I added this section and graphic they have been reused on a number of talk pages and even expanded into the essay Misplaced Pages:Randy in Boise. It even led to someone getting in trouble after someone who was not paying attention thought that the reference to "Randy in Boise" was outing someone else's secret, real-world identity.
Useful things
Unlinking
For seeing just how many pages a spammer got to, or how many pages use a ridiculously bad site as a source for information:
Sites that probably need to be removed as references and external links in most cases:
- .aveleyman.com
- .bestthinking.com
- .filmreference.com
- .findagrave.com (it's annoying how many people put this in)
- .wisegeek.com
- .paintinghere.com
(I'm sure there are tons I just don't remember right now. I'll add more later. I'll eventually make this a running log so that I go back and check links I previously removed to see if they found their way back again.)
See also Misplaced Pages:External links/Perennial websites
User warnings
Full list:
Templates for article improvement
Misplaced Pages:Template messages/Cleanup
And when there's a bunch on the same article: