User:Ventifax

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• Well, I've stumbled on Wikipedia's deletion process, & discovered I can spend a lot of time going through the list, arguing about keeping things, rather than doing research & improving pages. I find it infuriating. On the one hand, I want to stop the efforts of presumably well-meaning people who want to delete Gnuff as "non-notable." On the other hand, not only would I rather be working on the entries, but I think that it actually does more good to build pages up slowly from small stubs rather than burning them out for being apparently underwhelming. I guess this makes me both broadly Inclusionist & Eventualist.

• Then again, maybe my problem is that I have tended to edit according to what Wikipedia appears to be (a vast array of useful information very freely contributed), rather than what its rules call for (an open-content Web-based World Book); these are two entirely different things. I'm thinking I need to get out of here & do some real research & writing where my hands aren't tied, since I'm fighting the wrong fight in the wrong place.

• I didn't even vote on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Teri Sue Wood to save my stub. Apparently I could have just saved it. I just don't care. I'm pretty much done with editing here. I may still correct obvious vandalism & errors when I'm looking something up, but that's not worth signing in to do. So maybe this is goodbye. Ventifax 05:02, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
• Or maybe I was being an overly dramatic arrested adolescent. I guess I don't have to avoid WP altogether. I'm just having to rethink what I want it to be, expect it to be, & what I'm willing to do about it. Ventifax 23:09, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

• Well, I've been unwilling to edit Wikipedia at all for over a year. I'd still use it for quick reference, but I just didn't want to get involved. I just couldn't get on the site to edit, whatever promises I had previously made. A few times I even found obvious errors & just refused to fix them. I'd come to hate this site that much. But tonight, I looked at Nadia Turner & found that apparently, not long after I gave up & left, someone actually got her page going again, & it exists now. That mollifies me somewhat. Ventifax (talk) 07:13, 5 June 2008 (UTC)