User:Nifboy

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nifboy is nifboy. nifboy occassionally makes Tool-assisted speedruns, and finally finished his Cadash run.

Links for my own use:

• Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Video game articles by quality
• wp:vfd
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer and video games/Essential articles
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Webcomics
• WP:PR
• WP:FAC
• User:Nifboy/Essential

Link for your amusement (hopefully):

• My TASs (make sure to read this first, and check out the main site later)

Random webcomics thoughts:

1. I think most of the webcomics that get put up for VfD get deleted simply because the folks who prowl VfD have a low opinion of webcomics in general.
   • I haven't decided now whether that low opinion is merited or not.
2. I can't remember where I saw this, but this essay is very good.
3. One way to describe the primary division in Wikipedia is between those who think Wiki should be for everyone, and those who think Wiki should be for everyone else. If I write an article on myself, that's not "for" everyone. It's "for" myself and a tiny handful of others who look me up on Google.
4. There was a thought here, but it's gone now.
5. The Comixpedia Wiki has about a thousand articles. Four hundred of those are marked as Wikipedia imports. I have no idea what that means.
6. The article on Super Smash Bros. Melee frustrates me to no end; it is constantly in flux.
7. Instead of surfing Special:Random, I now surf Wikipedia:Deadend_pages for things to fix.
8. A good Wikipedia article requires honest-to-Goddess research.
9. Based on the discussion at WP:WEB, I am now against any criteria based on numbers (Alexa rank, Google whatever, N forum members) as we are indiscriminately allowing in those comics that merely pass criteria. WP:NOT "You must have this many hits to ride".
10. Wikipedia is not and should not be a place where anything gains recognition: It is a repository of things that have already been recognized.
11. I like GOOPTI (in the sense that it is both a better explanation and term than "fancruft").
12. If you create an article for an album, and the only content is its tracklisting, I WILL HUNT YOU DOWN, RIP OFF YOUR HEAD AND (remainder deleted by the Cabal).
    • And the users who do this? They never stop at one. Nooo, they always make three or four, even if there's an article of the same name, only different capitalizations.
      • To avoid having your head ripped off and other unspeakable things done to you? At least include the name of the goddamned artist in the article. SO MUCH HATE.
        • This applies to books and films, too, although they jump into a plot summary which makes it that much easier to Google for.
13. My latest addiction: N.
14. "If you want to be possessive, it's just 'ITS.' But if it's supposed to be a contraction then it's 'IT-apostrophe-S,' scalawag." - Strong Bad
15. "{{afd}} = {{clean-up}} + steroids" - Brenneman
16. The WCCAs are not notable because I voted in them. Placing any sort of faith in them is trusting, amongst others, people who drew stick figures in high school.
17. Why is it when the webcomics clique swarms in on an article's AfD, the article almost never improves?
    • Is it possibly because there really isn't anything to say about the topic?
      • (The Whiteboard doesn't count because it was put on AfD four days after creation)
18. PvP podcast 12 = the entire webcomics/Wikipedia controversy condensed into two hours (well, more like the first hour).
19. I used to think I knew what was going on around here. Now, not so much so.
    • And then there are days that make me stop and go, "WTF?"
20. "I have complete confident that the genuinely important ones will be covered by such sources before the publishing deadline." -- Guy aka JzG, on the Wikien-l [1]
21. WP:WAF is the solution to all life's Wikipedia's (pop culture) problems.

		The CVG Barnstar
		GASP, nobody ever gave you this barnstar!?! Well you certainly deserve it! JACOPLANE • 2007-01-3 00:40