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			I am somewhat more active on this project than I used to be.
	The admin previously known as Snowspinner.

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	==Expertise and deletion==

	If you can verify for me that you are a subject expert in a subject considered notable enough to include on Misplaced Pages, I will, on your say-so, close any deletion debate as "keep" within your field of expertise, and will undelete any articles within your field that you say are notable.

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	==User recovery==

	If you need access to a Misplaced Pages article that has been deleted, ask me. If it's not a copyright violation, libel or similar, I will make the text available to you.

	Note that using the text to recreate the deleted content is speedyable, and using it to keep it hanging around in your userspace has gotten editors penalized before. But that's your problem.

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	==Other stuff==

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	"Deficiency in judgment is that which is ordinarily known as stupidity, and for such a failing there is no remedy." - Immanuel Kant

	Is it ] yet?

	{{pic of the day}}

	==Memorable Moments==

	A few milestones from my talk page.

	=== Barnstars ===

	] ]]]
	, I hereby award ] this ] for exhibiting just the right amount of whimsy at just the right moment. ] 21:29, 2005 Mar 26 (UTC)]]

	===Sysop===

	After a new record of 62 votes in your favour at ], you are now an ]. When you get over the shock of having such a scary number of people voting for you, you should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the ] before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the ]. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the ] helpful. Good luck. :) ]] 17:56, Jul 31, 2004 (UTC)

	===Lir===
	Don't talk to me. ]

	==Common Sense==

	Misplaced Pages policy, or, at least, what exists of it in a codified fashion, is exceedingly well written, flexible, and, on some occasions, manages the rare feat of being funny as well. In general, though, official changes to policy are slow to come, and are most effective when they follow from things that are already semi-common practice. In other words, policy is descriptive, not proscriptive, and practice may change before policy.

	There is a school of thought within Misplaced Pages that there exist policies that are not written down. I am a firm believer in this school of thought. The rules of Misplaced Pages are not a suicide pact, and attempts to slavishly follow the rules when one of the rules is to ] is an exercise in absurdism.

	To put it another way, from IRC:

	Raul654: oh, and snowspinner, I've come to a conclusion
	Raul654: making policy on wikipedia is hard
	Raul654: because there are people who oppose any common sense measures
	JamesF: Raul> Indeed.
	Snowspinner: Yes. I came to that conclusion as well.
	Raul654: I have decided that it's better to shoot first and ask questions later ;)
	Snowspinner: Cool.
	Snowspinner: I'm in that camp too now.
	Raul654: seriously
	Raul654: don't worry about making common sense policy
	Raul654: just do things with common sense
	Raul654: and wait for policy to catch up

	Use common sense.

	==I'm not a goddamned inclusionist==

	Last time I did newpages patrol, my delete rate was over 2/3 delete.

	I am not a goddamned inclusionist.

	I agree to ] all my contributions as described below:

	{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

	All we are saying is give jackbooted fascism a chance.

Latest revision as of 18:43, 17 December 2021

I am somewhat more active on this project than I used to be.