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| “ | People who are fighting the good fight here are sometimes threatened with a trip to ArbCom. They need our support, though. — Jimmy Wales |
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Source: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-March/066949.html
| “ | I can NOT emphasize this enough.
There seems to be a terrible bias among some editors that some sort of |
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Source: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2006-May/046440.html
| “ | If we don't have enough information to write a decent biography we need either a redirect or a short note explaining how the person was |
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Enough of this bullshit
I am tired of explaining, ad nauseum, to a specific group of people why WP:BLP is important. If you disagree with explicit emails drafted by Jimmy Wales, please take it up with him on your own. Burntsauce 21:22, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
thanks
I hope to agree with you more often. Perhaps we can figure out some working guidelines that we share. Actually, we probably do share many, because I am sure we agree on most articles, the great many we do not dispute. Even on AfD, I'd say with you that most of the articles should be either deleted outright or merged. And I'm sure you'd say with me that most of the existing articles should stay, but that almost all of them need considerable improvement. Why don't you look at my delete log, and see what I speedy, and perhaps we can talk. DGG (talk) 23:44, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
Thanks
For your efforts to improve Misplaced Pages by nominating for AFD articles about trivial fads. If they can be documented to be truly notable, then the AFD process can get refs added. Goldfish swallowing is the recent example. See also Panty raid. I just spent the morning at a library and found several books which will allow some needed improvements to the goldfish swallowing article. One from 2002 says in a substantial article "Swallowing goldfish became a wildly popular fad" in 1939 and "has become synonymous with foolish and short lived fads."(Bowling, beatniks and bell-bottoms", Thomson-Gale, 2002) Other books on fads also gave it full page coverage. It is ironic that numerous references agreee it was foolish and short lived, but it has had frequent mention for almost 70 years as an icon of pre-WW2 college life in the U.S. If a silly fad has substantial coverage in multiple reliable and indeendent sources, an AFD nom may elicit the efforts of editors to document that fact more than just tagging the article as unreferenced, although that is not the official purpose of AFD. Thanks for your courtesy and professionalism. P.S. you might find Phonebooth stuffing an interesting read: it is like the other two fads, but without the references, and also might be referenceable. Misplaced Pages is not for things made up in school one day unless they satisfied WP:N. Edison 17:21, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
WP:NOT#NEWS
So...what is the right way to read WP:NOT#NEWS? Or do you just disagree with it? Dybryd 18:54, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
- To be honest I'm undecided on what my approach toward WP:NOT#NEWS is, but its a great thinking experiment. I find that many of the line items in WP:NOT directly contradict what Misplaced Pages actually is. Burntsauce 19:51, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Nice play on words in the edit summary ;-) I found it funny :-D Scarian 21:57, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Grieg piano concerto, et al
"Popculturectomy"? I like it! (A hell of a lot more is called for here.) +ILike2BeAnonymous 22:30, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
- Google tells me there are just 13,900 more articles to be amended. Burntsauce 22:31, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
- Is it wrong that I am actively refreshing your contributions page for my own enjoyment? :) --Dreaded Walrus 22:39, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks for doing this with haruspex! Pop culture trivia lists make my head hurt too, but I usually don't have the guts to excise them. Maybe I will more. Mlouns 22:40, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
"popculturectomy"
I love you. Can you attack the rest of the cruft on my watchlist, too? - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 00:06, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
- Re: Kettle Foods--Yay! Keep on going forth boldly! Katr67 01:05, 9 October 2007 (UTC)