Re: [Foundation-l] Missing Wikipedians: An Essay

2011-02-21 Thread WJhonson
Ral I know you'd like to give the benefit of good faith to all admins. However, if we actually have admins who are deleting articles so quickly that they fat-finger the *reasons* then we have a serious problem. No thinkee is quite close to admin abuse. As a community we should be bending over

Re: [Foundation-l] Missing Wikipedians: An Essay

2011-02-20 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 2/19/2011 4:18:52 PM Pacific Standard Time, thewub.w...@googlemail.com writes: Deletion log for Makmende: * 00:37, 24 March 2010 Flyguy649 (talk | contribs) deleted “Makmende” ? (CSD G3: Pure Vandalism) * 22:53, 23 March 2010 Malik Shabazz (talk | contribs) deleted

Re: [Foundation-l] Missing Wikipedians: An Essay

2011-02-20 Thread Ryan Lomonaco
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 7:53 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote: I have a problem with this admin comprehending what exactly Vandalism means. In what way is the initial version vandalism. If I cared enough I would suggest that re-training might be appropriate here. W The third incarnation of

Re: [Foundation-l] Missing Wikipedians: An Essay

2011-02-20 Thread Marco Chiesa
On 2/20/11, Ryan Lomonaco wiki.ral...@gmail.com wrote: The third incarnation of the article (the one that was labeled vandalism) was labeled as a hoax under CSD G3 by an IP editor. It looks like the admin meant to delete it as a hoax, but picked the wrong option from the drop-down box -- G3

Re: [Foundation-l] Missing Wikipedians: An Essay

2011-02-20 Thread geni
On 20 February 2011 10:57, Marco Chiesa chiesa.ma...@gmail.com wrote: Please consider that this is foundation-l and for many people CSD G3 is pretty meaningless Cruccone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CSD#G3 But we are talking about en's deletion procedures. Not being able to work

Re: [Foundation-l] Missing Wikipedians: An Essay

2011-02-20 Thread Mike Dupont
I have read this article this morning, Well this is a similar problem I am having with adding details to, or new articles about Kosovo, even my attempts are getting deleted. Having problems even getting the Turkish, Bosnian or Albanian alternative names added without being deleted, even if

Re: [Foundation-l] Missing Wikipedians: An Essay

2011-02-20 Thread Marco Chiesa
On 2/20/11, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 February 2011 10:57, Marco Chiesa chiesa.ma...@gmail.com wrote: Please consider that this is foundation-l and for many people CSD G3 is pretty meaningless Cruccone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CSD#G3 But we are talking about en's

Re: [Foundation-l] Missing Wikipedians: An Essay

2011-02-20 Thread geni
On 20 February 2011 15:49, Marco Chiesa chiesa.ma...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/20/11, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 February 2011 10:57, Marco Chiesa chiesa.ma...@gmail.com wrote: Please consider that this is foundation-l and for many people CSD G3 is pretty meaningless Cruccone

Re: [Foundation-l] Missing Wikipedians: An Essay

2011-02-19 Thread Peter Coombe
On 18 February 2011 23:24, aude aude.w...@gmail.com wrote: Heather Ford, a former Wikimedia advisory board member and researcher/writer in South Africa has written an essay, The Missing Wikipedians about systematic bias on English Wikipedia (especially) against new users and topics pertinent

[Foundation-l] Missing Wikipedians: An Essay

2011-02-18 Thread aude
Heather Ford, a former Wikimedia advisory board member and researcher/writer in South Africa has written an essay, The Missing Wikipedians about systematic bias on English Wikipedia (especially) against new users and topics pertinent to Africa and other diverse places/people. As an example, she

Re: [Foundation-l] Missing Wikipedians: An Essay

2011-02-18 Thread geni
On 18 February 2011 23:24, aude aude.w...@gmail.com wrote: Heather Ford, a former Wikimedia advisory board member and researcher/writer in South Africa has written an essay, The Missing Wikipedians about systematic bias on English Wikipedia (especially) against new users and topics pertinent

Re: [Foundation-l] Missing Wikipedians: An Essay

2011-02-18 Thread aude
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:17 PM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 February 2011 23:24, aude aude.w...@gmail.com wrote: Heather Ford, a former Wikimedia advisory board member and researcher/writer in South Africa has written an essay, The Missing Wikipedians about systematic bias on

Re: [Foundation-l] Missing Wikipedians: An Essay

2011-02-18 Thread George Herbert
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 5:00 PM, aude aude.w...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:17 PM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 February 2011 23:24, aude aude.w...@gmail.com wrote: Heather Ford, a former Wikimedia advisory board member and researcher/writer in South Africa has