User talk:Kim Bruning/Lost functionalities

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And yet, the cup is still half full. (Radiant) 15:51, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

I. Love. This. Page. (end Steve Ballmer mimic) Though some things are probably imminent in a growing collaborative environment (loss of SQL access), much of what you describe are IMHO very real issues. Your page is a good instruction for the aspiring editor.... Q: When you mention hair-trigger anti-vandalism efforts, are you referring to the 'Bots, or the dilettantes like me who just watch and pounce when we can (sometimes armed with knowledge or experience)? TIA. — David Spalding ^Talk/_Contribs 17:21, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Nice page. I particularly like:

"The idea of a wiki is that you keep and improve articles over time. However, these days people on wikipedia expect good articles to spring into being fully formed... while at the same time banning anon users (our main contributors) from making new articles. Asking people to write articles or make major changes in their userspace is not the answer, because that negates all the advantages of having a wiki in the first place."

I recently had to defend an article on AfD that someone had tagged for speedy deletion 26 seconds after it was created. Wikipedia would not have imploded if the article had been left to 'mature' for a week, or even a bit longer. Where should the line be drawn? A week, a month, a year's worth of small edits every week? Carcharoth 13:32, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

All true, sadly true. Abeg92contribs 23:13, 25 March 2007 (UTC)