Topic on User talk:Bullwinkle
Here we are addressing the Revision number 63.510 on the page Bionic stomach. Now..., I’m gonna be bringing forth some insight with the sole intention of helping readers grow as Wikipedians and also prevent people from committing future self embarrassments, it is not meant in any way to derogate or laugh at others.
1.- Yes, the first paragraph must be a summary in long pages. But...
2.- No, Bionic stomach is “NOT” a large page, it merely has 1.500 bytes, it’s a small article with three paragraphs of few sentences. I can read it all even from my iPhone 8+ (which has a larger screen that the iPhone 8 standard).
Expertise certainly weights heavier than apparent merit. I can easily tell that the two of you are “Young Wikipedians” (not referring to Real Life age) and there’s nothing wrong about that, I was once new to Wikis too. The thing is that I carry the experience of a little less than 10 years editing wikis, and what I’m about to tell you guys, you can verify yourselves with close friends who also carry expertise on their own shoulders.
Back in the days when I first started (not when wikis started), the Wikis had a Notification message that would pop-up to any user who happened to click “edit” on a page that weighted 10.000 bytes. Now if you were to enquire about this notice, you would receive opinions such as that value is not really thaaaat heavy but a value of 50.000 bytes is more accurate in regards of page length.
Now, as a Wikipedian myself, I actually outstanded in two fields. My first was AI analysis for more complex games than RimWorld. And the second was “Article Overhauls” as in Rewriting pages, I was praised and accepted enough by the Community to move freely, so I really really really know what I’m saying. Now the articles I would be tackling down those days, were in fact pages that exceeded 100.000 bytes. This is because casual members have the erroneous habit of overwhelming adding redundancy carelessly. And to anyone like myself in Article Overhauls, you need to understand that complaining that a 1.500 bytes page is “long” sounds terribly bad as it equals barely 1% of a problem to us “Rewriters”. You can say this kind of stuff here, and I will show you your mistakes but if you say the same thing elsewhere, it will likely cause people to look funny at you. This is why I stated above that my intention is to help you grow and avoid future embarrassments.
3.- The Procedure in which this particular revision was done is also incorrect. Duplicating content on a same page is never good, even worst when the repeated text is right below/above the other.
Have I ever written a paper? You asked.
If you were one of my own employees and you bring me a report with two identical paragraphs one after the other, I would definitely be giving you the “bad look”. It is not bad enough to warrant a kick out of the corporation though.
Now... my question is how serious are you guys about this matter? Like Melanie Janine Brown said: is that what you really, really, really want?
I have now realized that the Community Portal talk page has lost early days discussions with the wipe performed by Tynan’s crew on the Discussion section... maybe JimYoda still holds the original content, but I remember addressing these matters literally 2 years ago.
From the Contributions list of my own profile:
11:39, 25 April 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+253) . . N Special:Badtitle/NS90:RimWorld Wiki talk:Community portal/We need a General Formatting guideline (New thread: We need a General Formatting guideline) (current)
And the closest in time that I can point out now is this:
Understand that Policies is a field I’m very comfortable in as I have previously dedicated a good portion of my Wiki-Life into “Patching Loopholes” in Policies from previous experiences. Whoever can do that, is someone who is very well acquainted in most policies if not all of them. And I don’t see many people that can do that.
https://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/User:Yoshida_Keiji/Sandbox3
In this example you can already read this:
Short concise description Please describe the weapon by itself without making comparison or references to others but address it on its own.
Which is enough proof to “debunk” any misinterpretation people may have about me not knowing how to write an article. The Weapons formatting guideline “draft” dates already 2 years old... which means I’m 2 years ahead of everybody else here already...
Now... pay attention A LOT to what I’m about to say next:
We live in a time when a lot of people want to “Be Right” but few who will be “Responsible” when the time comes.
Remember the Gottoni incident at the beginning of this year? It is very easy to make a comment as of now “today” and it is also very easy to criticize somebody else “after the fact” with lines such as: “-You could have said this better.-“ or “-You could have than that better.-“ This or the other, etc. But what really matters is “who” actually DOES IT when the time really comes. It is always easier to point at somebody else and say something, but few are those who will the taking the problems to their own hands. When the shit hits the fan… who came around to stand and address the Gottoni issue? It was just me alone… alone… alone… and Zesty came in because I called him myself. A lot of people can come and say what Policies or Laws or Rules we can create… and just as in Real Life, we will just end up with countless Laws that are useless, help no-one , make no sense at all. When the real time comes to “DO” something about it, it will only be me “handling” the shit… So why oh why would I have to listen to those who left me just by myself? Nobody else showed up.
Understand, that the Draft for Formatting Guideline for Weapons has been sitting there for over two years now… and nobody else came to talk about yet… These guidelines are very important to have in any home wiki because every time that a new user accidentally “breaks” something, a Moderator has to come in to explain the problem and more often than not, be looked upon as the “Bad Guy” because I say: “-No, you can’t do that.-“ A Guideline can simplify a lot of Procedure and even prevent new comers to commit these type of “accidents”, but no one helped me yet. Of course, we can always refer to the traditional mother of all Wikipedia as a source and from there all Policies to be considered here in a mirrored fashion, but then again, most new users will not be aware of this anyways. This is pertinent to this discussion as the Assault Rifle page was recently affected alike. A new user wanted to challenge a large scale dedicated work performed in this case by XeoNovaDan, who is a well known member, who actually went and single handled all weapons pages in a very consistent pattern and not just one weapon out of all of them. The weapon descriptions are all perfectly in harmony … and the contesting argument was what? “-Hard to read.-“ Now when we put all the pieces of the puzzle all together…we are listening to a new user who finds a 1.500 bytes page…long… The real problem is entirely on the reader side. And I personally read a lot of articles on a daily basis on topics that are extremely much more delicated. I know that Bionic stomach is a fast read article.
Don’t take Policies so lightly. A new user who within his/her first 10 edits is already engaging in disputes over methodology, formatting layouts and without knowledge of common practices is certainly going to rig some alarms, we can’t have this behavior show up every single time that somebody new comes around.