User:Chachu207

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Contents 1 Articles 1.1 Started 1.2 Contributed 1.3 Working On 2 Things that Wikipedia could improve on 3 Licensing 4 Userboxes 5 Misc

[edit] Articles

[edit] Started

• Thurgarton
• Anti Terrorist Policies of the British Police
• Gregory Currie

[edit] Contributed

• Operation Kratos
• Typhoon class submarine
• Special Air Service
• SRR
• DJ Aakash
• Rye Harbour
• Flying and gliding animals

[edit] Working On

• Epperstone
• Nottingham High School

[edit] Things that Wikipedia could improve on

• Instruction creep. The overly long instruction pages actually put me off from following accepted conventions. It just takes so long sometimes to find out how to do things correctly. Even though you sometimes see references to m:Instruction creep in those pages, they still keep growing. The results are that either (a) I go against the rules, or (b) I just don't bother fixing things that I know are wrong.
• Vandalism. To be honest, I used to find it fun to hunt for and squash vandalism. It's great that the intelligent design of this project means it's usually as easy to undo vandalism as it is to do it in the first place. (If only physical vandalism in real life were as easy to rectify.) However, vandalism is now really annoying me; it's absurd that a large part of people's editing time is taken up with countering it. As maybe 99% of vandalism is from anonymous IP addresses, I now believe all posting should be from registered users. I think some of the proposals in anonymous users should not be allowed to edit are extreme: such proposals undermine the whole point of the project. Allowing people to remain anonymous behind a nickname is fine - in fact, absolutely necessary as many people may not wish to be publicly identified (I ceratinly don't). Generally I do like the approach of User:Anastrophe-wikipedia, though I don't see the necessity for even requiring an e-mail address. The basic principles should be:
  • New users must have a relatively pain-free experience—both in signing up, and in making initial postings.
  • A campaign of vandalism must be a painful experience for the vandal.

[edit] Licensing

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[edit] Userboxes

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[edit] Misc

Picture of the day
	A statue of Louis Agassiz, a Swiss-American geologist, after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, on the campus of Stanford University. It is said that when the earthquake struck, "[the statue of] Agassiz stuck his head underground to find out what was going on in the earth below and with his finger pointing saying, 'Hark! Listen!'" Photo credit: USGS Archive - More featured pictures...

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