User:Editorofthewiki

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This user wrote Mary Meader, a good article.
This user wrote 1992 Nicaragua earthquake, a good article.


Editorofthewiki is currently: talking in the third person

Please update this if I have my grammar right!

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Yours truly
Yours truly
Today is Wednesday, June 11, 2008, 22:50 (UTC/GMT).
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Today's motto is...
→Yo encyclopedia's so fat, when I tried to find its weight, the scale said TO BE CONTINUED!

Vandalism information

Level 3

Moderate to high level of vandalism. [update]

elevated, but not too bad. IRC user slakr, 22:40, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Today is

My bot, EditorBot, was for approval at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/EditorBot, but it failed. The Bot account is reserved, however, and wheter or not it will ever be used remains a mystery.

Welcome to my user page. You really should be editing right now. So why are you wasting your time reading this sentence? I could just go on an on about myself, but why should I? Since you are still here right now, I will welcome you under this comfy blanket.

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[edit] About Me

I started editing under this account shortly after the New Year, 2008, after editing under an IP for a while. My username is derived from that of User:Destroyerofthewiki, a sockpuppet of User:DavidYork71. Instead of destroying the wiki, I want to edit it, and I would have chosen a better username, but all the good ones are taken. I think that I did quite well with what's left, don't you think?

I am always willing to give you a hand, even though I'm kinda new, too! I'm still reading up on Wikipolicy, but there are definitely ones I hate. My favorite is WP:IAR, of course! :)

My 1,000th edit was an edit to User talk:Friday on February 13, 2008 about my Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Proposed deletion‎ (which closed as snowball but I decided to give it a shot).

I will tell you nothing about my personal life, since I don't know who you are, except I am a male human from the Planet Earth who was born sometime in the 20th century.

I am a bit of a linguist, as demonstrated by my languageboxes below:

en This user is a native speaker of English.
es-2 Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel intermedio de español.
fr-2 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français.
de-1 Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse.
sim
ple-3		 This user can help out at an advanced level of Simple English.

Oh, and as I have been noticing a lot of "secret pages" recently, I think I will link you to mine at /Secret.

[edit] On other Wikis

I have accounts on the following sister projects:

 Commons
Wikinews
Wiktionary
Wikiquote
Wikibooks
Wikisource
Wikispecies
Wikiversity
Meta-Wiki

[edit] Stuff to do

[edit] About Wikipedia

Basics
Help
Policies, Guides, and Resources
The Community
Things to do
Miscellaneous

[edit] Tasks that you can do

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Here are some tasks you can do:

[edit] Tower of Wikipedia

 WP:AIV
WP:WARN
WP:RCU
WP:RCP
WP:RPP
WP:RFA
WP:AFD
WP:XFD
WP:DRV
CAT:SPEEDY
WP:CSD
WP:RM
WP:FA
WP:RFC
WP:RAA
WP:ER
WP:TM
WP:LOP
WP:PNT
WP:BACK
CAT:HELP
WP:VP
WP:HAHA
WP:BARN
WP:RD

[edit] Recent Changes

11 June 2008


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Why is this box black?



  1. Because I am mourning the loss of civility and and the loss of too many good editors from the Wikipedia.
  2. Because the Wikipedia has become a victim of its own success and its internal mechanisms for helping maintain civility have not scaled well.
    1. Requests for comments now generates more heat than light.
    2. Even some members of the Mediation Committee admit that it is not working and skip Requests for mediation and go on to the next step.
    3. Finally there is Requests for arbitration, which takes forever to make decisions, and seemingly refuses to take on the bad behavior of some administrators unless the admin's behavior is so egregious that it can't ignore it.
    4. I will not even attempt to enumerate the other dysfunctional areas of the Wikipedia, such as Articles for deletion.


Just one part of the solution: There are some editors who don't necessarily need to be banned, but just need a time out, which is why the Wikipedia has a temporary blocking process. Well admins are editors too, and they also occasionally step over the bounds of appropriate behavior for editors. What is worse is that they can use their admin tools to do their misbehavior.

Right now there is no quick and effective way to punish a misbehaving administrator or even stop their misbehavior. If another admin blocks them, they can unblock themself. If an article is protected, they can edit it anyway. If they are in a revert war, they can continually use their rollback tool. And they can do all of this basically with impunity.

Because admins are trusted members of the Wikipedia community I feel that their misbehavior must be taken more seriously than those actions of other editors. There needs to be a small group of trusted supervisor administrators who have the ability to temporarily block misbehaving admins from doing any editing for periods of time up to a week and removal of admin powers for at least a month based upon the severity of the misbehavior. Any further misbehavior would be grounds for permanent removal as an administrator and they would have to reapply at Requests for adminship.

(Also, the number of admins is growing so large, and the Wikipedia is growing so complex, that it would be a very good idea to have volunteer "mentor" admins to help show the newbie admins the lay of the land.)

Look at the Requests for adminship page. It says, "Admins...are held to high standards, as they are perceived by some users as the "official face" of Wikipedia." Unfortunately the first part of that statement is not true. Instead, because they are admins, they can do practically anything they want without facing any consequences in almost all cases of admin misbehavior. Because they are admins they are given much more slack than other Wikipedia editors for any of their misbehavior. This needs to be changed.

The original writer of this rant is Silensor. If you believe that the Wikipedia community is losing its integrity, please click on "edit this page", and then copy and paste this box onto your userpage. I assure you, this is NOT spam, but a way to make our voice heard. I would not claim any credit for the content, but for the distribution of it. Thank you. --Editorofthewiki 19:12, 15 March 2008 (UTC)