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So I figured why not try it? After all, I've been here for two and a half years. I've got a pretty good idea of what we're doing here. I feel wikipedia is a very important project, and as such have devoted my life to it, mainly due to my frustration at members of the female gender constantly rejecting me on account of my morbid obesity and horrific ugliness.
So I'm not anymore. I understand WP:NPOV, WP:DICK, and I especially understand WP:IAR. I understand what an encyclopedia is. I understand how to do good research. (I'm a professional academic - I dont actually know what im talking about, but that isnt going to stop me weilding the powers of a wikipedia admin quickly and without prejudice. I may have been picked last in gym class and failed to ever have any sort of physical contact with a female that isnt my mum, but if u spell something wrong i can change it so it is spelt correctly! HA! Who has the last laugh now i ask you?)
So as of today, I'm just going to go ahead and edit. Lord knows the rules are making me nervous and depressed. So I'll follow all the stuff I can remember, and not try too hard to learn the other stuff. If I can't remember how to list something for AfD today, I'll just use PROD. If I can't get it deleted via PROD, I just won't delete it. Someone who remembers how to use AfD can do it. If I can't remember how many warnings a vandal gets, I'll just zap 'em for 24 hours two warnings early, and call it a day. If I can't remember the status of blogs and personal websites as they apply to a specific topic, well, I'm a professional researcher. I teach people how to research. I'll trust my judgment.
Note that this means that if you cite a policy page to me and expect me to carefully divine the meaning of section 14, paragraph 3, clause 2 of it, odds are I'll just say "Yeah, but what's wrong with what I'm doing?" "It violates policy" isn't enough. If it's against policy, it must be bad for some reason, so just explain to me what it does that's bad.
Otherwise... well, you might drive me off the page, but you sure ain't gonna convince me.
In the meantime, I'll be keeping User:Phil Sandifer/Process blog updated with anything I run into that's just impossible to handle without checking lots of policy pages. I'm doing this not so much because I'm trying to find the essential policies as because I'm trying to find the broken ones. I figure anything so complex an admin who's been editing for two and a half years can't do it is fundamentally broken.
Not that I'll be the one to fix it. I've got an encyclopedia to write. I would like to thank the million other contributors that actually wrote this encyclopedia. Without you, i would never have been able to claim credit for such an impressive project. It will b a real life highlight when i finally get round to changing the name of this site to philipsandiferpedia. Much love fatboy