User:Howabout1
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I will be away from June 22nd to July 3rd or 4th. Don't hesitate to put anything on my talk page or e-mail me. You can vandalise this page too. I'm sure some other user will revert it.
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Hi, welcome to my page. I came to wikipedia on Jan. 22, 2005, but I messed around without a user name for a little before. I make a lot of redirects, welcome new users, remove junk off talk pages, and vote on VfD pages. I'm a mild inclusionist. My Score (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Are_You_a_Wikipediholic_Test) is 106. Also, I like to monitor the new pages list and put vandalism pages on speedy delete. I also am part of the welcoming committee. I spend some time on simple english wikipedia under the same name as here. Note: this page is a little unorganized.
To Do List:
- VfDing, speedy deleting, expanding, and cleaning up new pages.
- Creating redirect pages.
- Undead-ending dead-end pages
This page has been vandalized: 3 times
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Picture of the day
WikiPedia:Picture of the day/January 8, 2009
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Accomplishments
- I have undead-ended (wow, a suffix, a hyphen, and a prefix) 3 pages
- I have welcomed 120 people. May 2 was my record day: welcoming 20 users
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Wikipedia quotes
Here are some quotes from wikipedia users. I only have one now, but I soon will have more.
- "What a nerd. I mean, who hangs out at an encyclopedia‽" -Knowledge Seeker (Referring to himself, but I think it applies to all wikipediaholics, or at least me.)
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Wikipedia Principles
I stole these from Everyking, but I think they are good.
- Sysops should avoid making threats. Don't talk in terms of power. Don't treat adults like children, and don't treat volunteers like servants or slaves.
- Edit wars are bad, but they aren't the end of the world. They happen, and they always will. Generally, just ignore them and let the participants work things out themselves. Protect pages in case of severe disputes. Only block in cases in which one user is clearly opposed to what can be considered a general consensus and is not willing to respect it. The 3RR is a disastrously bad policy.
- Don't be afraid to criticize. But criticize your own mistakes even more harshly than those of others. Think in terms of good and bad contributions, and the general effect of one's work: has one helped more than one has hurt, or vice versa? When someone makes an error, point it out, but remember his or her good work as well, and respect that highly. Likewise, don't be ashamed to admit mistakes, because no one is right 100% of the time—if you are only wrong 1 out of 10 times, then it doesn't hurt to acknowledge the one time, if there are 9 others that stand in your favor.
- Notability is an important principle for us to consider as an encyclopedia; however, we should have our minds set on inclusion and consequently keep the standard of notability low. Keep out only that which is entirely trivial. When this in question, err on the side of inclusion.
- Wikipedia is a democracy—or if it isn't, it should be. General votes are a good thing, insofar as they are necessary where consensus fails—and consensus naturally becomes harder to achieve when more people involved (yet having more people involved is a good thing). Shadowy Arbcom rulings are undemocratic and unproductive.
- Generally speaking, punitive logic is destructive and inimical to the core principles of a project like Wikipedia. Blocks and bans are occasionally necessary, but only in the most extreme cases. Increasingly, Wikipedia is moving towards a general structure in which the Arbcom effectively decides everything, and the Arbcom makes rulings which are absurdly harsh—and those harsh rulings are then interpreted as severely as possible and quickly put into practice by gleefully eager admins. This is an extremely harmful tendency that should be resisted and criticized; in fact, it could be considered the most serious problem that we presently face. By imposing this kind of negative structure on ourselves, we drive off existing contributors, deter potential contributors, and leave the remaining contributors bitter and locked in an endless succession of personality feuds and revert wars.
Or, to put the six principles in a much more basic, if somewhat oversimplified form:
- Respect
- Tolerance
- Criticism
- Inclusionism
- Democracy
- Fairness
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