User talk:69.164.70.243

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[edit] Ancient weights and measures markup

You are making the article unreadable.

; term : definition of term
term
definition of term
* list item
  • list item
''italic/emphasized/foreign word/term'', '''bold/strongly emphasized'''

italic/emphasized/foreign word/term, bold/strongly emphasized

Is Wikipedia:How to edit a page (or Wikipedia:Lists) that hard to find and understand?

rktect
inverse Pi 05

* Thank you !: * for the explanation

If you don’t like definition lists, use tables (Wikipedia:Tables). Christoph Päper 14:47, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

  • I'm an old dog learning new tricks so please be patient

(I'm told my handwriting is good...)

[edit] Your contributions are being reverted

Because:

  1. You do not follow Wikipedia conventions wrt to how an article should look like.
  2. You constantly do major changes to article markup, making it totally impossible to follow the changes. One of the points of the Wiki system, is that it should be possible to find out who wrote what.
  3. Do massive additions to articles without regard to the content already there.
  4. Add great amounts of original research. I'm sure your theories about the great connectedness of all sorts of units are magnificiant, but for an encyclopedia we can only bring information that is verified and generally accepted.

The purpose of Wikipedia is to build an encyclopedia. It is not a place for people to keep their personal notes. Sorry. -- Egil 15:53, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] what happened to discussing things before you change them

rktect 8/4/05 what happened to discussing things before you change them?

I can tell you exactly what happened with that:
Just for pure technical reasons, since you do not bother to respect the Wikipedia conventions for discussion pages, it is in fact in practical terms impossible to discuss with you. As a trivial example, take the above line that you added to my discussion page. Instad of following the conventions, you banged it into the middle somewhere. To find out what had happened, I had to use the history feature to investigate. This is my personal time I would much, much rather have spent on more interesting stuff. When it comes to more complex scenarios, like Talk:Ancient_weights_and_measures, your discussions have simply FUBARed that page, making it useless.
I really have huge problems with your contributions. I have tried to keep up, but it is a daunting task. Not helped by the fact that you haven't bothered to get a user account. And I regret to inform you after long consideration, my conclusion is that I am now by default considering all your contributions as damaging. That is the reason I have added some of your articles to Wikipedia:Votes for deletion. Please take time to review the comments added there, to see what the consensus of other wikipedians is. For instance at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Mile Standards.
Please also review very carefully what Wikipedia has to say about original research. My impression is that much of what you do is your original research. Fine as that may be, Wikipedia is NOT an arena for explaining to the world your marvelous thoughts about the great interconnectedness of ancient units of measure, etc etc.
Even when you add genuine information that is fitting for an encyclopedia, your sloppiness and lack of care makes the contributions worthless. Let me take Ancient Hebrew weights and measures as an example. You claim 1 tofah (hand) is 95.25", your punctuation, grammar and markup is beyond recognition, to the degree that for instance the area chapter is totally unintelligible. Yes, I could have gone through it and cleaned up after you, and had it been only this one case, I wouldn't have complained. But the product of your amount of contributions and your sloppiness would make it take more time than I have to be your janitor. And I care enough for Wikipedia that I cannot leave it as is. -- Egil 05:13, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
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