User: Antaeus Feldspar
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Hello, my name is Antaeus Feldspar.
I want to die.
What's the use of any of it? you do the best you can and all you get is a kick in the crotch. There is no way to win
I am proud to be the recipient of a WikiMedal for Janitorial Services, awarded by Topbanana.
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Philosophies
GOOPTI
What is GOOPTI? It is what I used to call "fancruft". However, since so many people had it in their heads that "fancruft" was automatically a pejorative term, and even started editing pages that described fancruft and other such terms to declare that it was a pejorative term (which is equivalent to assuming bad faith of anyone using the term) it became clear that those of us who used the term simply as a quick way of saying "too much detail for something that has not yet become notable enough to deserve this level of granularity" had lost the battle.
Therefore, GOOPTI is what I will be using from now on, to denote Granularity Out Of Proportion To Influence. This is based on the principle that there is a place on Wikipedia for descriptions for television shows and video games and webcomics, but how much detail these things actually deserve is proportional to how much influence they have actually had on the real world. Examples of fictional properties that have had influence significant enough that they might deserve multiple articles: Sesame Street, The Twilight Zone, Star Trek, Doctor Who, and others I probably haven't thought of yet. On the other hand, if not much more can be said about a series than that the people who like it really like it a lot ... then perhaps it is not yet at the level where multiple articles are appropriate.
Walking Out Naked
... if people would wait four minutes to write one decent paragraph before creating an article, they wouldn't be so apt to get listed on VfD. Posting something like the first version of this article is like walking out the front door naked, and then complaining that people didn't even give you a chance to get dressed. Dpbsmith [1]
I support the proposal for Managed Deletion. The six criteria there close up many of the loopholes by which troublemaking morons can, with minimal effort, create valueless articles that under the current rules, take us a week to eliminate. Note: it appears this proposal didn't pass, which is disappointing. It also appears that the voting was already closed at the time that the proposal's existence was made known to most of us...
Feldspar's Blade Guard for Hanlon's Razor: Never be hasty to attribute to stupidity what can be adequately explained by someone knowing something you don't.
Double-check your own work, if you can. If you're going to be calling someone else wrong, it's a good idea to triple-check to make sure that you are in fact right. If you have the bad judgement to be snotty about calling someone else wrong, have the good judgement to quadruple-check.
Resources
Frequently used formatting
- External links
- {{imdb title|id=0000000|title=The Title}}
- {{imdb name|id=0000000|title=Name as it will appear}}
- {{gutenberg|no=000|name=Title}}
- Stub notices (Full list)
- Biographical: {{bio-stub}}
- Comics: {{comics-stub}}
- Computer: {{compu-stub}}
- Television: {{tv-stub}}
- Special formatting
- Listed for deletion: {{subst:vfd}}
- Stub: {{stub}}
- Spoilers: {{spoiler}}
- NPOV: {{NPOV}}
- Factual errors: {{Disputed}}
- Inclusion dispute: {{inclusion}}
- Protected: {{protected}}
- Editing in progress: {{inuse}}
Note: though I'm not sure why anyone would complain, I would just like to give credit to head off complaints; I copied this 'Boilerplate text' section from Exploding Boy.
Wikipedia:Boilerplate text seems like a better resource, however. Closer to the source, and all.
Other useful links:
Wikipedia:Template messages/All
My Scratchpad
My Scratchpad notion stolen from David Gerard
