Hi, I did not misspell my own bloody name, there's just not a poxy "P" anywhere in there!
Wikipedia does not care about you or me being qualified scholars. Wikipedia is not a scholarly site, but a summary of sources that speak for themselves. We all have the right to edit, but there are rules to make sure that proper sources are used for appropriate articles and editors are civil. -- In other words: duh only book-lurnin we likes 's frum books, not school-folk wit deir fancy-shmancy deeplomas. Ye ain't gots to be unschooled to edit, but ya bettah bring yer damn sauces like uh chef at tha Italian resteeraunt.
I am not an administrator or moderator. I realize I am nobody special. I do not care what religion or worldview you do or do not believe. I have made my religious and philosophical beliefs open because if I was trying to enforce any sort of secondary agenda (which I am not), I would be smart enough to hide the reasons behind that agenda; and also so that other users may know what sort of articles I may have an interest in helping with. I am more concerned with keeping the articles I view within the guidelines than I am with bullying anyone. Thinking that I am an admin or mod, pointing out I am neither those nor someone special, pointing out that Wikipedia is not a reliable source, or accusing me of religious zealotry or any other sort of bullying will not:
convince me to not enforce rules (just ask about them!),
somehow turn any negative edits by you into good ones (just ask for help!),
undo any reports I have made,
somehow turn any postive enforcement of the rules by me into bullying.
On 11 February 2015, I royally ticked this guy off by asking him and his co-author to simply paraphrase their addition, put it in a better location, not use the site for promotion, and quit calling people Nazis.
Articles that are likely to be on my watchlist
From most common to least common:
Religion, spirituality, mythology
Pseudoscience and the occult
Movies, shows, books, comics, or games I enjoy and some writers or actors involved with them
Some foods, spices, and edible chemicals I like, especially if they're not already well monitored
Cultures and historical persons I find interesting (often connected to all of the above)
Some animals I like
A few drugs I find interesting (in the sense that a train wreck may be interesting)
Pages where I've noticed an absense of monitoring (or at least during the hours I'm awake)
Targets for problematic users I've become used to dealing with
Select topics relating to my home
A few article I know I wasn't the only person in class reading during lectures on the same topic
A couple of pages my friends have asked me to watch for them
I'm gonna try to add more sources to the Lilith article when I get the time and motivation.
If the only edits I see done by a person are inaccurate and I have time I do go through their contributions page. Normally if it gets to the point where I do this, other people have taken care of the other edits the person has made, or the person has only made those few edits.
I need to remember to go through the articles that link to LGBT issues and Voodoo and change it to LGBT topics and Voodoo. Done, and then some.
Gonna start looking atWorked with Dougweller in removing all mentions, uses, or links to or of http://historyhuntersinternational.org/, because it is a nothing but a blog with no evidence of credentials (if they are professors, why would they not want their name associated with that work in a more publically recognized journal?), and does contain some crackpot information (Alexander the Great's existance should be questioned in a similar manner to the Christ myth theory?). As far as we know, it's just a chimp with down syndrome banging on the keyboard. Edit: It's gone, but I'll still check from time to time.
I've started to replaced all uses of The Dying God.com since it's a self-published source (and in a few cases, counter to most other sources). I'll be checking in on this from time to time.
This is some stuff I keep in a text file on the desktop of my laptop (filled with some nowiki tags to not be active code, and to turn off nowiki tags I have), just in case I'm editting from a different computer or something. It's pretty much just commonly used templates, some uses of templates that I find helpful, and some common messages.
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