User:Friday

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Thoughts of the undetermined-time-period: Wikipedia:Social networking

Slightly older: Criticism is allowed and Is Ageism OK?

A Wikipedian pledge: When contributing to Wikipedia, I will serve no master but the good of the project. I will be neutral in all things. Allegiances to any nation, religion, philosophy, or group of editors are all meaningless to me. I will judge ideas on their merits rather than on where they came from. I will not be afraid to disagree with others out of some misguided sense of loyalty or friendship. There is the encyclopedia, and nothing else.

What I do here: mainly I look at new pages and delete the junk. If the creator needs a nudge in the right direction, I try to give that to them as well. I'm not much of a writer, but deleting inappropriate pages doesn't require much skill in that area.


Stuff to work on:

Stay on top of Wikipedia:Governance reform

Wikipedia:WikiProject_on_Adminship/Role_of_admins is some kind of fast-track admin-granting process really possible?

Special:newpages

Should sceptre and ceremonial mace be separate articles?


Links: best essay ever


Unsolved recurring problems on Wikipedia:

  • We're horribly bad at picking admins. Individually we might be smart about it, but put us together and it's crowd behavior. People make friends, and then get supported by their friends. Since when is it supposed to be a popularity contest?
  • We have no good way of dealing with good editors who also do bad things. There's a huge bloc of editors who believe that past useful service excuses nearly anything. Is this problem compounded by people forming "friendships" in a chat room? Possibly.
  • People operating in certain controversial areas get burned out quickly and too often end up being part of the problem rather than part of the solution.
  • People say it won't scale. Sometimes it scales OK, sometimes not. More editors means more work for everybody? (One thing that might be needed: raise the bar for expected civilized behavior.)
  • We have a bunch of foolish editors running around Wikipedia who think that "no personal attacks" and "assume good faith" mean "no criticism is allowed."
The Barnstar of Diligence
For being an admin who uses common sense and good judgement. A person like you is hard to find around here! Keep up the excellent work. Thright (talk) 05:26, 11 March 2008 (UTC)thright