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As of 18 October 2007, SMcCandlish is Active.
I'll reply to your message within 24 hours if possible.
[edit] Things and stuff
[edit] Funniest things I've seen lately on Wikipedia
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- (A comment posted at WP:COUNCIL/P, on a proposal for a "WikiProject Life on Mars"; if you don't get why this is hysterically funny, just move on - it's a SciFi geek thing.)
- (Did you know?... That there are very, very strange vandals lurking in Wikipedia?)
- 11:07, 26 March 2007 83.253.36.136 (Talk) (→Performance of FAT 32 - moved spam down)
- (An edit summary from Wikipedia:Village pump (policy). Needless to say, the next editor's summary read "deleted spam".)
- (Someone upset about grammar flames that were wasting people's time and being a distraction posts a distracting time-waste in the form of a longwinded and meticulously-researched grammar flame about it (plus a second shorter one!), all in support of the grammar flaming of the starter of the grammar flame; in the process, re-opening debate to yet more grammar flaming in the pointless sub-thread being complained about (dormant for over a day), and to which the poster was not even a party to begin with. I couldn't make this stuff up!)
- 05:46, 21 February 2007 Gracenotes (Talk | contribs) (→Template:Barnstars - *stabs kittens*)
- (An edit summary in response to "no, don't delete the barnstars!" panic replies to a TfD on a useless template simply relating to barnstars. I awarded Gracenotes a Barnstar Point for that one.)
- (I'm not sure Wikipedia's account-creation CAPTCHA database should include every word... >;-)
[edit] Smartest things I've seen lately on Wikipedia
- "Anyone who adds material to an article, but cannot be bothered to cite any sources, is being discourteous to the other editors who later have to try to find reliable sources."
- — Donald Albury (talk) 11:42, 24 January 2007 (UTC) (Wikipedia talk:Speedy deletion criterion for unsourced articles#Userfy is a good option, accessed January 31, 2007)
[edit] Allegedly clever things I've thought up lately
- "If one grinds an axe long and hard enough, there is no axe any longer, just a useless old stick."
- (A pseudo-Taoist response to cranky complaints that relate to incidents so long ago no one should care any more; concise version: "Grind axe too long: no axe.")
- (A response to angry accusations of wrong-doing that self-evidently apply at least equally and usually much more accurately to the ranter.)
[edit] Personal
I am Stanton McCandlish, a web developer (among other things), and an avid Wikipedian. For more about me, see my Personal subpage.
[edit] Wikitivities
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[edit] Stuff I'm largely responsible for or heavily involved in
[edit] Projects
[edit] Articles
- Three-ball — Article about the poorly-documented modern pocket billiards folk game, about 95% my material. Help wanted!
- Five-pins — Article about the carom billiards game popular in Italy and parts of South America. I wrote it from scratch after someone posted a (terrible) machine-translation of the (good) Italian article; mine is now better than the original Italian one. Help wanted from someone fluent in Italian.
- William A. Spinks — created from scratch; every single thing in it is reliably sourced.
- Sandbox (software development) — A coding safety process. Created this article. I crack up when someone mistakes it for the Wikipedia:Sandbox.
- Albinism — Was already a not-bad article when I got there, but I work on it a lot, especially sourcing the science, and defending it from constant vandalism.
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- Pleonasm — Article on redundant expressions in language. About 70% or so of that text is mine.
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- Blackball (pool) — Mostly my work, building on skeletal, unsourced material originally interpolated into Eight-ball. Help wanted!
- Folgerphone — an experimental musical instrument. Created this short article (a stub, but sourced). Someone's disputed a major fact, on the Talk page. Help wanted from anyone who knows anything at all about Folgerphones.
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[edit] Gallery of contributed images
Some of the images I've contributed under GFDL/CC (and sometimes PD) are displayed as thumbnails in my Gallery Page.
[edit] What I'm thinking (feedback requested!)
[edit] To-do list
[edit] Wikawards
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| The Running Man Barnstar |
The Working Man's Barnstar |
The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar |
The E=MC² Barnstar |
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For your many, many fine cue sport related edits.
--Fuhghettaboutit 23:30, 9 February 2007 (UTC) |
For all the arduous work on Cue sport
68.239.240.144 23:46, 20 February 2007 (UTC) |
Awarded to SMcCandlish for sleuthing out sockpuppets being used to subvert RfA.
—dgiestc 20:05, 11 April 2007 (UTC) |
Awarded for your tireless work on articles relating to the field of pigmentation. Rockpocket 09:23, 17 April 2007 (UTC) |
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On 2 March 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article William A. Spinks, which you created or substantially expanded. |
This user helped promote the article Cornershot to Good status |
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| The Angry Tarsier of Appreciation! |
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A Barnstar Point |
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For awarding me a barnstar, I hereby giveth unto you one angry tarsier of appreciation. Thanks!
--Fuhghettaboutit 21:29, 12 December 2006 (UTC) |
This barnstar point is awarded to SMcCandlish for giving me a barnstar point!
GracenotesT § 01:12, 27 February 2007 (UTC) |
I, Λυδαcιτγ, award Stanton McCandlish the Minor Barnstar Point for the creation of said Barnstar. |
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| What not to do on Wikipedia just because you disagree with someone: |
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I hereby award this barnstar for your disruptive MFD nomination.
—freak(talk) 13:00, 4 May 2007 (UTC) |
[edit] What I'm up to in general on Wikipedia
On Wikipedia, I mostly do the following in lieu of large-scale article authorship (though I do have some major ones planned and three under my belt):
- Setting up a WikiProject and making it work
- Making substantial contributions to existing articles (and sometimes creating new ones) on topics I know a lot about
- Shepherding the growth and health of some particular articles that need it (and, in some but not all cases, about which I care a lot)
- Correcting typos, grammar errors and readability problems
- Weeding out unverifiable, or incredible and unsourced, claims
- Adding missing salient information
- Moving articles that violate the WP article naming conventions
- Correcting outright factual errors
- Improving cross-references, categorization, etc.
- Improving consistency of formatting
- Removing redundant wikilinks
- Removing pointless (Wikipedia is not a dictionary!) wikilinks — everyone already knows what "eye" and "the sun" mean, in most contexts in which they appear
- Removing minor, childish quasi-vandalism (smart-aleck remarks in articles, etc.) — I like to document these in the Talk pages, since they often are actually funny
- Reverting and repairing intentionally destructive vandalism, especially that by religious or other zealots, slanderers, the foul-mouthed, and the discriminatory
- Tagging outright vandals' talk pages with countdown-to-blocking warnings
- Repairing semi-vandalism edits in the form of deletions of long-standing passages without explanation, or the inexplicable addition of large chunks of questionably relevant or unsourced alleged facts, especially attacks against living article subjects, fanwanking and crackpotism.
- Copyediting, encylopedizing and formalizing any juvenile, colloquial, non-neutral or poorly thought out language in articles
- Fixing miscellaneous "bad stuff" - vanity/marketing language, crystalballing, etc.
- Proposing (and sometimes performing) merges of redundant articles
- Adding obvious missing redirects and making sure they go to useful places
- Educating misinformed arguments (per logic or Wikipedia policy) on Talk pages
- Trying to resolve circular disputes on Talk pages
- Defending articles from AfD when the reasoning for the deletion is specious, expecially "NN per nom" me-tooism.
- Nominating truly atrocious crap for AfD (or for SD, or just prod'ing them)
- Learning a lot concerning things I didn't know about, on all sorts of topics!
- Having a good time!
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On the non-"political" side, I am largely an exopedianist with little interest in the socializing aspects - I get that from other aspects of my life. I'm largely a WikiGnome, though I have taken part in some fairly extensive policy debates.
[edit] Editing
When editing, I virtually always try to improve existing material rather than remove it - with regard to paragraphs, subsections, etc.; but when it comes to redundant wording, I'm pretty merciless.
If you really want to know my WikiPolitics: I'm in the inclusionist (to an extent) and immediatist camps, which I guess isn't a very common combination. But I also recognize the validity of the eventualist strategy (though it is rapidly becoming moot), even if I prefer to get there via immediatist tactics. Worse yet for pigeonholers, I'm also a mergist and a structurist to a strong degree. If all that sounds contradictory, you're just picking the wrong aspects; I have no trouble syncretizing all these concepts into what for me is a consistent and intuitive approach to the issue. At any rate, I'm generally not a deletionist or exclusionist except when it comes to gibberish, spam, vandalism, falsification, copyright violation, non-neutral glurging or flaming, and egregious violations of WP:NFT, WP:NOT and WP:COI.
When it comes to facts in articles, I generally err on the side of leaving them in (provided they actually do pertain to the topic of the article and are not a rambling aside) but tagged with {{Fact}} or a related inline template). I'm a rambler and aside-maker myself on Talk pages and such, but I typically have a much more focused view of what form an article should take and what direction it should go in; my Talk verbosity will not at all be found in my article prose; they are different worlds in my realitytunnel. I think articles should be genuinely educational, not just vaguely curiosity-satisfying. That said, I am in wholehearted support of the idea that large, complex articles should be shortened by splitting the article up into smaller ones and using {{Main}} to cross-reference them under now-summarized subsections. But I also feel that super-short wannabe articles ought to be folded into their overarching topics a level higher.
[edit] "List of ..." articles
On the "lists" controversy - should "List of [x]" articles appear in Wikipedia at all? - I say "yes, for now". I'm the principal maintainer of such a list here, and it has narrowly survived an AfD once already. The opinion on it is very polarized; you either love it and work on it a lot, or hate it and want it to disappear. I've seen similar polarization on other "List" articles. This is leading me to three conclusions:
- The lists are genuinely useful, and arguably encyclopedic, or hardly anyone would fight to keep them, and they do fight hard.
- There is no consenus in sight on the issue of whether this article type really is "encyclopedic" enough to retain. It's pretty close to a 50/50 split and seems likely to remain that way.
- The best solution is probably the creation of a new WikiLists project with its own criteria, guidelines and policies, and the eventual moving of most lists in Wikipedia to WikiLists (the only ones that would remain would be those of cold, hard facts, like monarchs of Britain or dates of US space flights or whatever.)
[edit] Usability peeves
My gripes with the software/system/community from a utilitarian & ergonomic perspective:
I really detest the bottom-posting convention on Talk pages. It is a severe usability problem (of "user-hateful" level) and is silly and counter-intuitive. It also conflicts with the instructions at most XfD processes, which usually (but not always - is there no end to the inconsistency?) want new nominations to be top-posted.
I also think Wiki* need easier-to-use documentation. One should not have to search the encyclopedia for something like "Wikipedia:Editing" or manually wade through nested link after nested link in the left menu's "Help" browser. Every page should have a context-sensistive "Help" feature, and there should be a help search function here, that only searches materials categorized as help documents, Wiki*-meta information and the like. I'm not the first to make such an obvservation, of course.
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This user is not a Wikipedia administrator, but would like to be one someday. |
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This user deals with edits, deletion, and creation of pages individually instead of unilaterally and encourages others to do so. |
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This user feels that criteria for adminship are generally too low |
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This user has had 3 pages put up for deletion. Most of the time, they were deleted. |
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This user is bold, but not reckless, in updating pages. |
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Note: SMcCandlish's comments on Wikipedia are a work in progress subject to the Thread-mode Disclaimer.
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[edit] Where I am in Wikispace
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