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I'm glad you find my little ramblings at least somewhat enjoyable. It's nice to know I'm not completely off-base. --
Y|yukichigai 07:41, 4 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Who said it was off-base? I any case, you already know that I agree.
Gamer Junkie 02:39, 5 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Move it out of userspace
I would strongly encourage moving this to
Wikipedia:Content authoritarianism (note capitalization fix per the MoS on article names). This is very good, but its unlikely to get much traction if you continue to own it. — SMcCandlish [
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contribツ 16:00, 19 March 2007 (UTC)reply
I'd planned on doing so eventually, I just wanted to get more input from other editors and maybe add a few more entries first. --
Y|yukichigai (ramblearguecheck) 21:51, 20 March 2007 (UTC)reply
Keen. Another MoS change: All the headings should be in the form "Misidentifying content authoritarianism", not "Misidentifying Content Authoritarianism", and the concept "content authoritarianism" shouldn't be capitalized (c.f "communism", and other -isms; not proper names). Nitpick, nitpick. — SMcCandlish [
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contribツ 22:33, 22 March 2007 (UTC)reply
Four more "Identifying" items to consider
The would-be "owner", often just a hair short of the literal interpretation of
WP:OWN. I think you know who I'm talking about lately, though the practice is fairly widespread in articlespace, too.
The status-quo defender. Resists change for the sake of resisting change.
The policy inventor. Creates new guidelines and policies (or merges existing ones) with little input from the community and then declares the results to be policies or guidelines without going through the proposal process. A few ArbCom cases have commented on this sort of behavior. Look into the one about
WP:NNOT for starters (in the case-closing comments about WP:NNOT's opponents. Following the username of the admin criticized for this behavior there through other ArbCom cases will turn up more ArbCom criticisms of this practice.)
The ranter: Insists on their version of the text, usually with no logically-defendable argument, just lots of POV verbiage or tortured reasoning, or sometimes very short uncivil responses, while ignoring all objections to the edit; complains of being censored and may threaten vainly to have you blocked for vandalism if you don't stop reverting their nonsense edits.
Some of these are a little too specific and I'll have to generalize them (e.g. "the policy inventor"-type thing could affect normal articles as well) but they're all fairly good. I'll get crackalakin', as it were. --
Y|yukichigai (ramblearguecheck) 21:50, 20 March 2007 (UTC)reply
Yeah, they were just off the top of my head. — SMcCandlish [
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contribツ 22:34, 22 March 2007 (UTC)reply
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I'm glad you find my little ramblings at least somewhat enjoyable. It's nice to know I'm not completely off-base. --
Y|yukichigai 07:41, 4 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Who said it was off-base? I any case, you already know that I agree.
Gamer Junkie 02:39, 5 January 2007 (UTC)reply
Move it out of userspace
I would strongly encourage moving this to
Wikipedia:Content authoritarianism (note capitalization fix per the MoS on article names). This is very good, but its unlikely to get much traction if you continue to own it. — SMcCandlish [
talk] [
contribツ 16:00, 19 March 2007 (UTC)reply
I'd planned on doing so eventually, I just wanted to get more input from other editors and maybe add a few more entries first. --
Y|yukichigai (ramblearguecheck) 21:51, 20 March 2007 (UTC)reply
Keen. Another MoS change: All the headings should be in the form "Misidentifying content authoritarianism", not "Misidentifying Content Authoritarianism", and the concept "content authoritarianism" shouldn't be capitalized (c.f "communism", and other -isms; not proper names). Nitpick, nitpick. — SMcCandlish [
talk] [
contribツ 22:33, 22 March 2007 (UTC)reply
Four more "Identifying" items to consider
The would-be "owner", often just a hair short of the literal interpretation of
WP:OWN. I think you know who I'm talking about lately, though the practice is fairly widespread in articlespace, too.
The status-quo defender. Resists change for the sake of resisting change.
The policy inventor. Creates new guidelines and policies (or merges existing ones) with little input from the community and then declares the results to be policies or guidelines without going through the proposal process. A few ArbCom cases have commented on this sort of behavior. Look into the one about
WP:NNOT for starters (in the case-closing comments about WP:NNOT's opponents. Following the username of the admin criticized for this behavior there through other ArbCom cases will turn up more ArbCom criticisms of this practice.)
The ranter: Insists on their version of the text, usually with no logically-defendable argument, just lots of POV verbiage or tortured reasoning, or sometimes very short uncivil responses, while ignoring all objections to the edit; complains of being censored and may threaten vainly to have you blocked for vandalism if you don't stop reverting their nonsense edits.
Some of these are a little too specific and I'll have to generalize them (e.g. "the policy inventor"-type thing could affect normal articles as well) but they're all fairly good. I'll get crackalakin', as it were. --
Y|yukichigai (ramblearguecheck) 21:50, 20 March 2007 (UTC)reply
Yeah, they were just off the top of my head. — SMcCandlish [
talk] [
contribツ 22:34, 22 March 2007 (UTC)reply