User:Propaniac
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[edit] About this user
(You can pretend these are in userboxes if it makes you more comfortable:)
- This user used to have a ton of free time at work, which she filled for awhile by browsing Articles for Deletion, and then voting on Articles for Deletion, and then nominating articles for deletion, and then cleaning up articles, and then cleaning up disambiguation pages. Along the way she created a bunch of articles, as you can see below.
- This user is an admitted fan of bureaucracy and rules and order and enjoys taking chaos and ugliness and making something neat and practical out of it. This does usually involve some kind of deletion.
- However, this user does try to keep a sense of perspective about Wikipedia, and eventually realized that life was too short to spend energy arguing on Talk pages, for articles she doesn't even give a fig about, with people apparently incapable of reasonable discussion of a difference in opinion (but very capable of reverting edits with a reason that makes no sense or has any connection with reality).
- This user still performs occasional cleanup or other editing, but spends more of her time (of which she has less now, as work's gotten busier) on a separate project about something just as trivial, but that she enjoys.
[edit] Article I'm developing or fiddling with right now or most recently:
[edit] Articles I've created:
- Peter Lerangis
- KaleidoScoops
- Mini Page
- Sarah Marshall
- Johnny Fox (performer)
- Holly Twyford
- Raise A Native
- Da Capo Press
- William S. Holman
- Mellody Hobson
[edit] Stuff in the Manual of Style for disambiguation pages that everyone except me will continue to ignore:
(This section is a relic from when I spent a lot of time cleaning up dab pages. It's still true, though.)
- Disambig pages are supposed to help users navigate to the article they want as quickly as possible. Therefore, each bluelink does not need a paragraph of text summarizing the content of the linked article.
- There is no need to list entries on a disambig page for which it is very implausible that someone will go to the disambig page instead of that article. For example, someone who wants to read about the bookstore Barnes & Noble is unlikely to think the article will be located at Noble. Putting crap like that there makes disambig pages too cluttered to use for any reasonable purpose.
- There should be one bluelink per entry.
- Redlinks should be listed only when it is very likely that an article will be created at that link in the future.
- Redirects are preferable to piping in disambig pages.
