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I'm putting this here because this is not yet transcluded on the request for adminship page. I'd be deeply concerned with having someone closing deletion debates who organises "votes" into categories. I'm open to discussion about how deletion review is more "vote-like" than our other debate forums, but it still looks very bad to me. - brenneman {L} 04:28, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Curious why putting no votes and yes votes together is a bad thing for you Brenneman? Nop data was lost - just made it more readable. That is how the votes are organized on Requests for adminship and nearly everywhere else, and it makes it easier to read. And it shows that as an admin, he'd be logical and linear in thinking. Perhaps I don't understand your concern - can you explain more? -Visorstuff 06:25, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for taking the time to ask.
The reason that it's bad in those venues is because it fundamentally misunderstands what's going on. There we're not counting votes, we are making arguments. It's the better argument that is meant to win the day, which is why the Guide to deletion expressly says not to refactor like this. There is latitude here since deletion review is somewhat less consensus-driven in its foundation, but I'd like to hear Trödel's thoughts on this.
brenneman {L} 06:48, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your reply. Not sure if I agree or disagree, as I see benefits both ways. I also would like to hear Trödel's thoughts. -Visorstuff 16:09, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
Looks like this issue has been resolved? See discussion here -Visorstuff 23:43, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

I think this is a valid concern as the vote in question started because of an organization of comments in a disputed deletion review, especially since I have come to strongly oppose "voting" in nearly all Wikipedia decisions. Since the edit to organize the votes was created by a current admin, I didn't think it appropriate to just reverse the organization so I added a seperate category and moved the comment category to the same level as the grouped comment headings.

Aaron has also asked that I explain my views on voting v concensus - since I think that is of general concern I am going to draft a response - edit it severly so it can be concise and post it as a question on the main page; however that might take a while ;) --Trödel 00:55, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

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Average edits/page      4.657
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Talk            1273
User             893
User talk       1155
Image             26
Image talk         5
MediaWiki talk     3
Template         377
Template talk    141
Category          30
Wikipedia       1030
Wikipedia talk   301

Editcountitis stats generated using Interiot's Tool. Nishkid64 21:27, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question on wikitruth and wikipediareview

Sorry for the delay in answering this question - I had to finish my In the news responsibility and work was extremely demanding yesterday. --Trödel 21:46, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank You!!!! - and my non talk page spamming idea

I appreciate your comments towards helping me be a better contributor. And as a unique (and hopefully useful) thank you (transcluded below or click to add the transcluded userpage to your watchlist):

I want to thank those that commented on my RFA nomination. However, rather than leaving each person a message on thier talk page, I want to use my efforts to contribute to the encyclopedia.

So to THANK YOU!!! I plan to quickly scan the last 100 edits (article namespace) of each editor, then pick an article that each editor has been editing frequently and to which I feel that I can make a useful contribution. The selected article will be listed below along with status. (suggestions/replacements/etc welcome - "this is a wiki").

Status of
my edits
Editor Article name
Lethargy
COGDEN
Visorstuff
CFIF
Alex (Talk)
Tawker
>Radiant<
Improv
Stifle (talk)
Deathphoenix ʕ
Shyam (T/C)
Michael
(aeropagitica)
Siva1979Talk to me
Nishkid64
Andrew Lenahan - Starblind
MerovingianTalk
Newyorkbrad
Jaranda wat's sup
Flcelloguy (A note?)
Doctor Bruno
trialsanderrors
Grue
Mailer Diablo
Terence Ong (T | C)
RyanGerbil10(Kick 'em in the dishpan!)
Ageo020 (talkcontribscount)
danntm T C
Zaxem
Williamborg (Bill)
Ligulem
El_C
Titoxd(?!?)
Blue Tie
Jpe|ob
Storm Rider (talk)
Ral315 (talk)
Themindset
≈ jossi ≈ t@
JoshuaZ
MarkSweep (call me collect)
Alai
Badbilltucker
Jayjg (talk)
Ginkgo100 talk · e@
JYolkowski // talk
Anger22
Sarah Ewart (Talk)
Quiddity
Blnguyen | BLabberiNg
SOADLuver
Bhadani
TruthCrusader
Aromanian
Pan Gerwazy