User:M0llusk/Old stuff
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This is the Wikipedia:User page for M0llusk who is a Bear living in Northern California and advocate of the Oxford comma.
Having been a Wikipedian for some time it has come to my attention that the Wikipedia deletion process is out of control with many editors using poor logic, contradictory logic, sometimes no reasoning at all to swiftly delete pages which in some cases are put together with much work from multiple contributors and have references, evidence of good faith, and defenders. Out of control deletion is turning Wikipedia into a refuge for junk like All your base and Cum fart while worthwhile material is deleted and lost and potentially significant contributors are turned away. There is no point contributing to Wikipedia when any luddite can destroy anything for any reason. The ignorant and the haters have won, again.
Until the deletion process can be fixed I must limit my contributions to the deletion process and the restoration of the one page of mine which was most recently deleted, in my opinion by incorrect use of the already flawed deletion process. I encourage all other Wikipedians to reconsider giving their labor to an institution that is incapable of respecting work and will only accept what limited and dumbed down version of the truth ends up in watered down textbooks and television news reports targeted to the eighth grade level or below.
How many pages and how many wikipedians will have to be thrown away before this mess gets reigned in? What is the point of wikipedia being aggressively edited so as to sink to a lowest common denominator?
From before the deleters ruined Wikipedia for me:
- Made contributions to the North Fair Oaks, California page
- Thinking now about possibly contributing to World Music and related pages, Deconstructivism, and some others
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Regarding Deconstructivism there are a number of comments regarding cost in general and as it relates to some specific projects where citations are expected. This is something I am making slow progress on. As it stands now there might be enough information for someone else to fill in the gaps. My recollection is of a number of sources, but the one book I tracked down so far (DECONSTRUCTION, Academy Press) does not have enough to meaningfully support my claim. Articles in Journals might be a better source, so to the library with this issue.
- Rape Culture clarify?
- Polyculturalism clarify?
- Speed Bump and Traffic Calming
- Steroid note recent common usage issues
- CD Rot note complications associated with adhesive labels
- It might be nice if the Wolf Dog page had disambiguation and mention of wolf-dog hybrids and their special issues, or a link to that or some such.
Intend to add some images of traffic calming in North Fair Oaks, California:
- Chicanes as used for residential Traffic Calming
- Small Traffic circles between two and one half meters in size used for residential Traffic Calming
- using Fence Gates as Chokers for residential Traffic Calming
- Trees used for Traffic Calming on their own or in conjuction with other measures such as Traffic circles, Chicanes, or Bulb-outs
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Speaking of Chokers, it looks like that stub needs work. These are restrictions of traffic to a narrowed path, usually one lane most often created with Curb extensions on both sides of the road.
Other stuff:
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It seems that the House of the Dead page is all about some drama and has no references to any of the traditions which may include having a Mortuary or Communal Crypt which is particularly common in places where terrain makes digging graves impractical and land and materials are scarce. Update: Just added an entry and link to Mortuary house from the House of the dead page. Looks good to me; time will tell. M0llusk 19:04, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
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Just joined the Architecture WikiProject though my ability to participate may be limited 17:47, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
- Left--no point in being a part of a project when my stuff will probably just get deleted unless it fits a lowest common denomentator of public and academic acceptance reaching through the historical record. -- M0llusk 01:23, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
- Need to add something to Gentrification about density being unrelated. Like many other social phenomena Gentrification occurs in all contexts whether Urban, Suburban, or Rural. Even with increasing density over time there is a relatively stable percentage of the population that chooses to live at each density level, so implying otherwise is not only incorrect but at least verging on discrimination.
- Added Erection index page. Yay! --M0llusk 23:17, 2 August 2006 (UTC) ... And then I had to add references to keep it from being deleted. Saved a copy on the side in case this means war. BOO! --M0llusk 23:50, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
- More references wanted for the Erection index page. An exercise for readers? I left some arguably amusing and/or bitchy defense of the term on the page. Seems like wikipedia is for documenting this kind of plebian analysis, so I should expect for the page to be deleted soon? Life is mystery. -- M0llusk 00:36, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
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- Predictably, this useful and relevant information was deleted. As far as I can tell the objections in the deletion record are nonsense, but might be avoided with better references and some more explanation of usage. It is deeply disturbing to me that Wikipedia is full of references to cultural esoterica, yet relevant terms that come up in my daily life are frequently sensoredd because of a lack of understanding, a lack of willingness to understand, unreasonable snobbery about sources, and a general feeling that anything that feels wrong should go. When pages like this that have real meaning are deleted the result is a loss for the community as a whole. Colloquial analysis should be represented here, but given the haphazard state of this community most edits are popularity contests enjoined by the poorly read and unwordly. Very sad! -- M0llusk 05:28, 16 September 2006 (UTC)Wikipedia is supposed to be open. The deleters are removing anything that is not fully clean and entirely accepted by all establ
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- yikes, business logic is marked for deletion! But it was saved. Alas, it is not clear for how long as there are many vociferous criticics of the whole thing. -- M0llusk 16:22, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
