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"Wikipedia's articles are no place for strong views. Or rather, we feel about strong views the way that a natural history museum feels about tigers. We admire them and want our visitors to see how fierce and clever they are, so we stuff them and mount them for close inspection. We put up all sorts of carefully worded signs to get people to appreciate them as much as we do. But however much we adore tigers, a live tiger loose in the museum is seen as an urgent problem." --WP:TIGER
Contents
- 1 New discussion
- 2 Only 994874271 articles left until our billionth article!
- 3 Depiction of Wikimedia Foundation destroying Wikipedia with Visual Editor, Flow, and Mobile App
- 4 Bernie Sanders
- 5 I appreciate the wording
- 6 Important message copied from WT:RD
- 7 I am confused about a deletion you made
- 8 Insightful
- 9 My role
- 10 DRN help needed and volunteer roll call
New discussion
Only 994874271 articles left until our billionth article!
We are only 994874271 articles away from our 1,000,000,000th articleGuy Macon
--Depiction of Wikimedia Foundation destroying Wikipedia with Visual Editor, Flow, and Mobile App
--Guy Macon (talk) 01:51, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
Bernie Sanders
Guy, thanks for the advice. At the moment I'm not interested in pursuing it. The closer's responsibility should be to gauge consensus - the strength of the arguments matter insofar as they convince the community, not the closer. Apparently what we have instead is a super-opinion - ultimately all that matters is the opinion of a single admin - it's an admin-as-jury model rather than admin-as-judge. It should be obvious (and worrying) how easily that's abused. Putting any more effort into what is effectively a roll of the dice seems pointless. I appreciated your input in the debate, always well-reasoned and the car/ford analogy was hilariously accurate. Take care. James J. Lambden (talk) 21:00, 15 March 2016 (UTC)
I appreciate the wording
at JW talk p. DGG ( talk ) 06:29, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
Important message copied from WT:RD
I understand that some users on here may be familiar with user called guy macon on here. I have been asked by a family member to pass on the message that Guy was involved in a traffic incident a few hours ago. His situation is serious but fortunately he is stable. If any users wish to pass on messages of support, I will try and pass these on to his family.
Thank you for any support during this difficult time. Lynda — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.230.108.156 (talk) 10:21, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
- This is false information. I have been in no accident of any kind and me and my Subaru are just fine. --Guy Macon (talk) 13:00, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
- Probably best to delete the messages as trolling. I erred on the side of caution, but glad that all is well. Ghmyrtle (talk) 13:03, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
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- I try not to give Trolls the attention they desire by deleting run-of-the-mill trolling. Best to ignore the troll. --Guy Macon (talk) 13:11, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
I am confused about a deletion you made
I would like to understand what you did so I don't repeat the error again. You removed my blog URL from my User Page and labeled it: (Deleted scoop.it blogspam.) I am not a super experienced editor so I can't quite figure out what was going wrong here. Was scoop.it spamming someone? Thank you for your help. Have a good day. NegMawon (talk) 22:12, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
- If you look at my edit history[2] starting at 17:04, 16 February 2016 and ending at 20:34, 16 February 2016 you will see that I removed 130 instances of scoop.it spam that day. See WP:BLOGS and WP:LINKSPAM.
- If you would like to learn more about what is and is not allowed on your userpage, see WP:UPYES and WP:UPNOT. --Guy Macon (talk) 02:00, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
Insightful
For all my minions talk page watchers, here is a new XKCD comic about Wikipedia: http://xkcd.com/1665/ --Guy Macon (talk) 14:25, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
My role
At the biography article (Marjorie Cameron) is wholly procedural—I was at JW's Talk page for a separate reason, noted that a book author's query had caught JW's attention, looked to the article's Talk page to see what the status of the issue, and on seeing that JW's perspective was not considered, produced his comment (and my concurring opinion) at that Talk page—so that the two responding editors, at that Talk page, would no longer dismiss the concerns of the over-cited book author.
Otherwise, my opinion is stated in my Talk, there; I think the best way to proceed is to move paragraphs in clear violation (one source, close paraphrases drawn entirely from the author's work) to Talk, leaving placeholder section stubs, then to guide repopulating the sections from a small set of sources (rather than just the one). This spoke as a former Prof, and not as a Wikipedian. This redaction of clearly violating paragraphs will go a long way to satisfying the concerned book author, and will make clear you are serious about compliance with WP:VERIFY. We have recently taken the fully plagiarised Dixie Walker in the same direction, and it seems to be working (stub in place, material slowly repopulating).
Otherwise, note, if you go to the book author's Talk page (an IP page), I let him know that while the issue of overuse could be addressed, his specific demands for including and excluding things would likely not be to his satisfaction. See that statement, there. I also encourage him to register.
Cheers, Le Prof. Leprof 7272 (talk) 04:02, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
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