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I have spontaneously reached the same conclusion that Jimbo has reached, namely that Wikipedia needs deepening, not widening. In particular, I am horrified by the amount of unreferenced material on Wikipedia. I guess my feeling as to what should be on Wikipedia is markedly more conservative than most editors. Wikipedia is not a random collection of information. It is an encyclopedia. It is a tertiary source. Everything on here ought to link back to secondary sources. What I'm doing these days is mostly removing material that doesn't conform to what this encyclopedia is supposed to be and flagging using templates deficiencies in articles. I really don't feel I have the time to actually add references myself in the cases of topics I don't know much about, which, naturally, is most topics. I tend to avoid any disputes with people who cherish their little gardens of original research on Wikipedia, and when they challenge my deletions, I just leave them to it. Disputes are another thing I don't have the time for. I'm waiting for a case to come up where I think it is important enough to argue over.
The thing about my wikistress is that I don't really feel stressed, but only because I avoid all stressful interactions on Wikipedia these days – I just confine myself to small edits. But I know that if I were to start getting into the mud of editing conflicts I would quickly go crazy.
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I hereby award you this barnstar for your work on Michel Foucault as well as your tireless small edits, vast in number, that make Wikipedia a better place. Now go work on your thesis! Grace 02:15, 16 June 2006 (UTC). |
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This user will disagree with anyone who puts two spaces after a period, because the correct spacing, of course, is one space after a period! |
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