- You know it ain't easy
- Why we are here
This project is here to build an encyclopedia. Please limit your actions here to things that help that goal. • A Man In Black 21:46, March 1 2007 (UTC)
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- Protect the encyclopedia
The volume of corporate vanity/vandalism which is showing up on Wikipedia is overwhelming.
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If we are to remain true to our encyclopedic mission this kind of nonsense cannot be tolerated. We are losing the battle for encyclopedic content in favor of people intent on hijacking Wikipedia for their own memes. This scourge is a serious waste of time and energy.
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I am issuing a call to arms to the community to act in a much more draconian fashion in response to corporate self-editing and vanity page creation. This is simply out of hand, and we need your help. • BradPatrick September 29, 2006 (→ see also: Wikipedia Signpost/2006-10-02/More CSD)
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- Assume no clue
Has anyone else noticed how spammers and other conflict of interest editors think the guidelines are for the other guy and what they are doing is "useful" and shouldn't be questioned? And they are completely sincere about that.
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It's entirely plausible that an editor can plow blithely on, unaware of guidelines. Perhaps we need a corollary to Assume good faith called Assume no clue. • JonHarder 03:27, January 19 2007 (UTC)
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- Wonkish & Arbish
We have dialogues here in two languages. Let's for the purposes of discussion call them Wonkish and Arbish.
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In Wonkish, discretion stands for certain vague and disreputable areas of policy where what should happen is not yet properly regulated. In Arbish, you have always to look behind applications of policy to see intention and the application to the mission of writing an encyclopedia.
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In other words, discretion in Arbish is read as saying that proactive admins are the main lines of defence of the project. It is much better to have them out there doing their best, taking the mop and bucket away from a few, than to do up the constraints ever tighter to preempt misuse of admin powers. • Charles Matthews 03:23, October 1 2006 (UTC)
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