Me
I'm here to help, if I'm doing something wrong or exceptionally right tell me.
Wikiness
One could say I'm somewhat eventualist, although I've been forced to act more inclusionist in reaction to the recent waves of deletionism. IRL I'm an extreme deletionist, of course. For real, I observe a policy of "equal rights" for all articles regardless of topic. I am bothered by overseparation. I have begun to compile some tips for using Wikipedia, check them out if you're interested. I'm also an admin so if you need my help, just ask.
Although I've become more and more involved in refining various policies, I'm also becoming more and more wary of instruction creep. I might begin refining policies to reduce instruction load soon.
Here's one of the most eloquent sentences spoken about Wikipedia, in regards to the collaboration of the week.
- "After all the goal is great articles, not perfect policies." - Taxman
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Two logical laws of Wikipedia
For the following two laws, let u represent a user, the domain being all contributors to Wikipedia, and a represent an article, the domain being all pages in the article namespace of Wikipedia.
Law of encyclopedic articles about fictional topics
An article about a fictional thing (character/place/event) is enyclopedic iff the question ""Why was this thing in the story?" is answered in the article, the article is enyclopedic. Note this law applies only to encyclopedic quality, not notability
Let Q(a) be true if the article answers the above question. Let E(a) be true if the article is enyclopedic, then"
- <math>Q(a)\leftrightarrow \,\! E(a)<math>
Law of equal notability
For all users, there is a constant which marks the cutoff for notability of an article. This constant is chosen on the basis of how many pepole the topic it effects. Note this law applies only to notability, not encyclopedic quality.
Let <math>N_u<math> be the choice of cutoff, and N(a) be the number of people the article actually affects, and I(a,u) be true if the topic article a is about is notable according to user u, then:
- <math>\forall u \exists N_u [ N(a) \ge N_u \to \,\! I(a) ]<math>
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