User talk:Truth in Comedy

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[edit] Farce Side Comedy Hour Edits

Hey,

Look, I know you're just trying to make a better Wikipedia here, but you are fairly destructive about it. You don't read or reply to discussion (nobody knows why) before you make sweeping edits. You ignore the discussion page which is near heretical in my opinion. If you're going to be the Sword of Damocles and smite peoples' work, at least talk about it first!

You mark stuff for speedy deletion, which gives nobody time to fix the issue (as if every author was on Wikipedia every day, scouring what he's already written) before the content is unceremoniously and silently dumped.

What happened to Barren Mind? It's gone, I can't see any history on it. It could have been fixed. Your actions were NOT helpful in this case.

Please slow down before you wield that sword. Please. What is the big hurry?

Apparently, according to your talk archives, a horde of people agree with me. Could you at least try to work with us instead of against us?

Cernansky 22:48, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

I only mark for speedy deletion for notability. If the subject is truly notable, then it shouldn't take long to find references. I have been trying to improve a number of articles whose subjects are notable, and ironically, some of which were marked for deletion by others. This tells me I'm not the only one working on this. Unfortunately, it is generally the case that student groups are not considered to be notable and that their articles should be merged into the school article. Working on this means that I will hurt people's feelings sometimes, particularly because the articles about comedy groups are often created by the members or their friends or their webmasters, and so it's a very personal work for them, and I know many see Wikipedia as a way to get attention for their group as part of their PR. But Wikipedia is not for PR or for personal web pages. Finally, everything needs to ve verifiable. If removing uncited claims leaves the article short or even a stub, that's fine because everything in the article can be trusted. --Future Fun Jumper (TIC) 07:16, 30 March 2007 (UTC)