User talk:AWhiteElk

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TY for the links and the welcome Cirt! I don't know that I will stick around long enough to be called a Wikipedian. I've no interest in seeking out articles to edit. And my interest in taking time to share information here has diminished drastically over this issue of wanton deletions. Good, useful info lost to the masses because of the opinions of a few. In the case of Triple-A it came up as the 4th listing in a Google search. That speaks of notability to me. It tells me that there are many people interested and involved with it. Yet four peoples opinions caused the deletion of that article??? Community Consensus??? BAH! Four people out of a global community who use wiki as a reference does not make for any kind of communal consensus that I can respect. Furthermore, I think some people play at being important by going around and witchhunting articles to delete. They justify deletion with lip service to Wiki policy while violating the spirit of those policies. I think the avid deletionists do as much harm to wikipedias credibility and usefulness as do the vandals. So I don't know about investing much time here. But I will spend some more time researching this and trying to better understand this deletion phenomena before I turn my back on this aspect of the net community. AWhiteElk (talk) 05:07, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Userfy request

 Done, in response to userfication request - please see User:AWhiteElk/TripleA (computer game). Cirt (talk) 07:44, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Recording quick draft thoughts to later expound upon

A place for the quick recording of tangeant thoughts (be free to comment if you wish)

Vigilante Deletionism and Notability Censorship

The value I place in an encyclopedia comes from the discovery of information previously unknown or little known to me. The way some people explain wiki'fried notability... makes me think of the uselessness of using my old Encyclopedia Britannicas to find stuff that was so commonly referenced elsewhere that I had no need to use an encyclopedia in the first place! I understand the importance of verifying truth. But qualifying notability should not be based on finding a host of existing reference sources. The less referenced information is, the more important it becomes to reference it. If wikipedia is truly about the referencing of information; then I would think that dedicated wikipedians would be more interested in qualifying the truth of wiki-info versus being caught up in the debate of how important or how popular it is.

Notability is subjective. No-one has the right to censor the information I have access to. It irks me to know that wiki policy is such that people can, and do declare what is notable to the rest of us. And it outright pisses me off to learn that there are users at wiki who actively seek out and destroy communal contributions in what I see as a perversion of wiki policy. These vigilante deletionists play the role of thought police whether they consciously attempt to or not.

Vigilante Deletionists: Wikipedians taking a destructive editorial role by putting articles up for deletion when other constructive routes such as "clean-up, stub, verify, etc" are more appropriate.

So these Vigilante Deletionists go around 'culling the herd' by putting articles up for deletion while other options are available. They take the destructive route over the constructive route. Therefore I think of them as vigilantes fracturing the community as opposed to civil servants servicing the community. It sucks to lose access to info I might be seeking simply because it got torched in someones witch hunt. But thats life. This thing is open to the masses and the masses suck! Thats what we have administrators for. In the context of wiki admin... an admin responsibility to us is to moderate our diverse opinions into an actionable decision. I see that some fail, or perhaps don't even bother trying very hard. When an admins first action is to delete an article rather than provide the people with an opportunity to correct a policy violation, then that admin has failed. If a vigilante deletionist nominates an article for deletion, the admin should step in when other options are better suited.

This issue of lack of notability deletions works against wikipedias credibility and usefulness. If a wikipedians true motivation is to protect the wikipedia, then I don't see how their first action against an article is for a destructive deletion rather than any of the constructive options as outlined by wiki policy.

Oof so much for recording a brief thought before I get back to researching this wiki deletion phenomena. Oh well back to work... AWhiteElk (talk) 00:19, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

File copyright problem with File:Tripleareleasemodel.png

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Oops I thought I had provided everything. My only other image was uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, I Think its alright? Going back now to attempt to figure this out... AWhiteElk (talk) 04:30, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Is fixed? Added 'PD tag' and removed 'no license' tag AWhiteElk (talk) 04:58, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Re:How to delete 1 image within a file history?

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TripleA

There was a userfied copy of this article at User:AWhiteElk/TripleA (computer game). The article was posted again recently, and deleted per WP:CSD#G4 as a repost of material deleted at AfD. User Veqryn (talk) requested that the new version should be userfied for him, and I have done this at User:Veqryn/TripleA. His version was so similar to the one in your userspace that it was clearly based on it, so in order to maintain the contribution history I have done a "history merge" so that there is now only one version which contains the whole contribution history. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 11:07, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

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MfD nomination of User:AWhiteElk/TripleA (computer game)

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