User:Deathphoenix
Deathphoenix in brief
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I'm relatively new to the Wiki world. I started out as a simple browser reading an online encyclopedia for general interest and learning. After seeing a few typos, I started to fix them. After finding something weird with one of the pages, I got into the world of Wiki vandalism. With any luck, I'll have some vandal deface my user page some day. But if you're not here to do that, be sure to check out the Kindness Campaign page.
On Wikipedia, I would say that I'm a part-timer. I'm pretty busy with other things, but I love contributing to this great project in my own small way.
I am a tech writer working in the software development field, I am Canadian, and I currently live in Toronto, Ontario with my lovely wife and young leech dependant offspring son.
Right now, I'm mainly trying to help deal with the inevitable detail-oriented, fan-based edits that come with the release of the newest Harry Potter book, as a participant of WikiProject Harry Potter. On other articles, I usually just make minor edits when I see any mistakes while reading. I like to contribute to the creation of Barnstars, and I used to spend quite some time voting on pages to delete, though now I usually only vote on Canada-related pages. I tend to vote Delete more than others, but I only think of myself as a strong deletionist for vanity or advertisement articles. For other articles, I tend to be one of those Wikipedians who dislike making broad judgements about the worthiness of a general category of article, and who are in favour of the deletion of some particularly bad articles, but that doesn't mean they are deletionist.
As of 17:44, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC), my Wikipediholic score is 128. Not bad for a first-timer.
- Characteristic of Wikipediholicism: actively working on Wikipedia when I'm on vacation. *sigh* --Deathphoenix 20:23, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
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Soapbox: Article ownership and taking things personally
There should be no "owners" of any articles except for user pages. I strongly believe that once you submit an article or edit to Wikipedia, it is no longer yours. That goes with the various levels of copyright used here (GFDL, CC, and public domain).
If you wanted full ownership of an article with no other people "destroying" it, you should put it up on a web site. However, if you do make a contribution to Wikipedia, be ready to have your work mutilated and edited mercilessly if need be. I expect (and have seen) some of my own edits mutilated because I missed something, I wasn't aware of common Wikipedia style/practices, or because my edits were simply not good. As a tech writer, I have seen some of my own documentation edited mercilessly. I try not to take such things personally, even though it can be hard at times.
If you can't honestly say that you wouldn't mind having your contributions to a particular article edited with extreme pain, don't make those contributions and concentrate on another article that you don't feel so personally about. The other alternative is to put up your material on a web site, where others can't just come and edit your work without your permission.
Copy & Paste
- Page blanking and replacing with spoilers
{{subst:test2a}} Posting spoilers is considered vandalism. Don't do it. --~~~~
- Wikiproject Harry Potter
{{HP-project}}
- Purging any article's cache
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=ARTICLENAME&action=purge
- AfD "don't remove" boilerplate
Congratulations on having your article pass the [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion|VfD process]] with a '''Keep'''. Just to let you know, even when the consensus appears to be '''Keep''', you should wait until we have finished the AfD process before you remove the boilerplate text stating the article is up for AfD (you can, of course, continue to work on the article during the AfD process, as long as you keep the boilerplate text up). I know that sometimes it seems that the AfD process takes a long time to complete, but if you have a look at [[WP:AFD/Old|the old AfD articles]], you can see that we have a huge backlog. Thanks, --~~~~
- {{subst:vanity|User:Deathphoenix/Sandbox}}
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