User:Fences and windows

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This user is a member of the Association of Wikipedians Who Dislike Making Broad Judgments About the Worthiness of a General Category of Article, and Who Are in Favor of the Deletion of Some Particularly Bad Articles, but That Doesn't Mean They Are Deletionists The motto of the AWWDMBJAWGCAWAIFDSPBATDMTAD is Est omnino difficile iudicare inclusionis meritum cuiusdam rei in encyclopædia cum ratio sciendi quid populi referat incerta sit, sed nihilominus aliquid encyclopædiam dedecet, which translates to, "it is generally difficult to judge the worthiness of a particular topic for inclusion in an encyclopedia considering that there is no certain way to know what interests people, but some topics nevertheless are not fit for an encyclopedia." This motto reflects the desire of these Wikipedians to be reluctant, but not entirely unwilling, to remove articles from Wikipedia.

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Despite all attempts at privatization, it turns out that there are some things that don't want to be owned. Music, water, seeds, electricity, ideas--they keep bursting out of the confines erected around them. They have a natural resistance to enclosure, a tendency to escape, to cross-pollinate, to flow through fences, and flee out open windows. Naomi Klein, Fences and Windows

Some thoughts

• "Wikipedia guidelines are like scripture: somewhere in the labyrinthine network of rules, you can find support for any position." S Marshall[1]
• Inclusionism and Deletionism: "A plague o' both your houses! They have made worms' meat of me." Mercutio
• "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
• "The best is the enemy of the good." Voltaire, La Bégueule (1772).
• "We are blessed to be living in an age when we have a global communications network in which idiots, assholes, and total and complete wastes of fucking human life alike can come together to give instant feedback in an unfettered and unmonitored online environment." The Onion.
• Adler's Laws of Wikipedia
• "I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." Ripley.
• "Our social policies are not a suicide pact." Jimmy Wales, March 2005.
• "I find your lack of [good] faith disturbing.".[2] The Wordsmith.
• "'Notability purges' are being executed throughout Wikipedia by empire-building, wannabe tin-pot dictators masquerading as humble editors."[3]
• "[There are] significant differences between Wikipedia members and non-Wikipedia members in agreeableness, openness, and conscientiousness, which were lower for the Wikipedia members."[4]
• "A small fraction of editors —Wikipedians— do most of the work and produce most of the value."[5]
• "I don't think banishing users when their block log reaches a magic number teaches anybody anything except that it pays to keep cycling identities if you ever do get a block." MickMacNee[6]
• "[T]he consensus of the [Wikipedia] community is that WP should be a storage place for all published information in case there is a nuclear war, gigantic solar flare, or alien invasion and all the rest of the Internet and all libraries are destroyed leaving WP alone to preserve human civilisation." Steve Dufour[7]
• "Many Wikipedia contributors are out of their element. The foundation of the project is academic publishing, but very few people who are actively involved (or addicted, if you will) have the qualifications to be part of such an environment." A Horse With No Name, Wikipedia Review.
• "Let's make a wiki. No, this is not an indecent proposal. It's an idea to add a little feature to Nupedia. Jimmy Wales thinks that many people might find the idea objectionable, but I think not. "Wiki," pronounced \wee'-kee\, derives from a Polynesian word, "wikiwiki," but what it means is a VERY open, VERY publicly-editable series of web pages." lsanger@nupedia.com Wed, 10 Jan 2001 12:50:32
• "Wikipedia is up! Humor me. Go there and add a little article. It will take all of five or ten minutes. --Larry" lsanger@nupedia.com Wed, 17 Jan 2001 15:16:25
• "None of this is to say that the Nupedia wiki will replace the main encyclopedia; of course it won't. But will be an interesting ancillary endeavor!" --LarrySanger, 17 Jan 2001
• "As Wikipedia has grown, it has become increasingly clear that it functions as a necessary layer in the Internet knowledge system, a layer that was not needed in the analog age." Casper Grathwohol, OUP, Jan 2011
• "Others ... thought the first thing to do was eliminate all worthless books. They would ... leaf disgustedly through a volume, and condemn entire walls of books. It is to their hygenic, asetic rage that we lay the senseless loss of millions of volumes." Borges on the "Purifiers" in The Library of Babel, 1941.

My editing

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Admin statistics
Action	Count
Edits	36836
Edits+Deleted	38268
Pages deleted	726
Pages restored	77
Pages protected	44
Pages unprotected	2
Protections modified	11
Users blocked	122
Users reblocked	14
User rights modified	0
Users created	1

• Here's a summary of my Wikipedia editing, and here's my top 100 edited articles. I passed 30,000 edits and 15,000 article edits sometime in August 2010. My RfA passed on 23 November 2009 and thankfully was not too much like this RfA.
• I've uploaded 300+ images to Wikimedia Commons and added even more to Wikipedia, mainly courtesy of Flickr, Geograph and FIST.
• I have a declared alternate account, User:Fences&Windows Alternateaccount. This is used for an alternate watchlist and may be used for editing from public computers to avoid compromising this main account.

Significant edits

• Bold: I wrote all or the bulk of the article — Italics: Deprodded — : Was at AfD or had been deleted

Politics: 2009 G-20 London summit protests · Ali Qanso · Altaf Hussain · Andrew Landeryou · Animals Count · A.S.P Liyanage · The Blah! Party · Bosnia and Herzegovina – Romania relations · Boston Bypass Independents · Template:British political parties · British war crimes · Campaign for a New Workers' Party · Carlos Flores Dueñas · Charles A. Hurley · Church of the Militant Elvis Party · The Common Good (political party) · Community Action Party · Community Group · The Community Group (London Borough of Hounslow) · Dave Cooke · Death of Ian Tomlinson · Democratic Labour Party (UK) · Democratic Left (UK) · Democratic Party (UK, 1998) · Dominic Delaney · Dyab Abou Jahjah · Equal Parenting Alliance · Free Scotland Party · George Leeman · George Tremlett · Hands Off the People of Iran · Independent Working Class Association · Kosovo je Srbija · Leila Deen · Len McCluskey · Lincolnshire Independents · List of political parties in the United Kingdom · List of protests in the United Kingdom · Llais Gwynedd · Lung Ying-tai · Make Politicians History · Malaysia–Venezuela relations · Mike Granatt · Morecambe Bay Independents · Nancy Agag · The New Party (United Kingdom) · New Politics Network · Nina Temple · Norman Scarth · Pensioners Party (England) · Political make-up of local councils in the United Kingdom · Pro-Euro Conservative Party · Publican Party · Robin Tilbrook · Sang Nguyen · Senior Citizens Party · Sheila Hollins · Teresa Sayward.

Arts and media: Alisar Ailabouni · Alisha Klass · Amber D · And Thereby Hangs a Tale · Andy Muirhead · Andy Riley · Ann Dusenberry · The Arcadian Kicks · Asef Ala Al Izaag · Asma lmnawar · Caitlin Rose · Charlotte Green · Corinne Luchaire · Cyrine Abdelnour · David Yelland (journalist) · The Dolly Rockers · Donogh Rees · Down in the Willow Garden(DYK) · Ellie Levenson · Frederik Lauesen · Jack of Diamonds (song) · Je t'aime... moi non plus · Jenny Slate · Jeremy Theobald · Joana and the Wolf · Jodi Martin · Joseph Greco · Josh Caterer · Julie Estelle · Katharine Ross · Katie Aselton · Kevin Colson · Kids Love Lies · Leïla Karam · Liu Xiaoqing · Marcel McCalla · Meena Durairaj · Mumzy Stranger · Nick Ede · Nil Lara · Nudity in music videos · Pooky Quesnel · Ramdane Touhami · Randall Winston · The Ropes · The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer · She Keeps Bees · Sixteen Reasons · Sophie Merry · Stephen Benatar · The Story of Marie and Julien · Syang · Tootsie Guevara · Unsimulated sex in film · Valarie Pettiford · Villa des Roses · Vlatko Ilievski · Warm-up comedian · Whitney Cummings · Zafar Nozim · Zizi Adel.

Academia: -omics · Annals of Science · Black Student Movement · Cloyd H. Marvin · Co-training · Dry needling · Evolution of nervous systems · Evolutionary neuroscience Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997 · Human evolution · Journal of Internal Medicine · Lloyd Hartman Elliott · Mask of la Roche-Cotard · Open access publishing · Open peer review · Peer review · Robert Atkins (nutritionist) · Robert Tuttle Morris · Sapienic acid · Sense About Science · Sex after pregnancy · Stigler's law of eponymy · Surgical scissors · Thomas H. Carroll · Tom Rapoport · VDM Publishing · Viral culture · Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics · William Leap · William Mather Lewis · Wound licking.

Crime: Chris Paciello · Disappearance of Maura Murray · Gerald Friend · Internet homicide · John Cannan · John Worboys · Jury tampering · Lawyers in Singapore · Mickey Featherstone · Murder of Jeffrey Howe · Richard Belmar · William Jacques · Yoshinori Watanabe.

Places: Cricklewood · Doueir · Jharia · Liahavichy Castle · Marimallappa High School · Oldmeldrum · The Old Zoo · Railway town · Tourism in the Palestinian territories · Wanlip.

Sports and games: Benik Afobe · Brian Anderson (skateboarder) · Draughts · The Game (mind game) · Horacio Esteves · John Evans (GAA manager) · José González (wrestler) · Marathon#Wheelchair division · Marco Polo (game) · Oliver Ford · Séamus Murphy · Shane Flanagan · Smith Memorial Playground & Playhouse · Spud (game) · Tag (game) · Thumb war · Timmy O'Neill · Travis Lee (wrestler) · Wally Kirika · Willie Williams (athlete) · Word chain.

Business: David Abell (businessman) · Dermott Rowan · Eating your own dog food · First-e Group · Gem Spa · Hodge Jones & Allen · Hugh "Skip" McGee III · Loida Nicolas-Lewis · Lori Fena · Minipreço · Online vetting · Pierre Lamond · R. Donahue Peebles · RealtyTrac · Robert L. Fornaro · Sarma Melngailis · Starbucks · Stephen Hinchliffe · Yong Wook Jun.

Other people: Alev Croutier · Andrew Haldane · Ann Jordan · Ann Jungman · Antonina Liedtke · Bow Sim Mark · Christopher Haase · Cyrus K. Bettis · Diane Kunz · Edward T. Barry · Greg Landau · Hervé Biausser · James A. Brander · James D. Robinson III · Jack Beatson · Janjua Rajput · Jeremy Cooke · Jon Entine · Lesley Gill · Lou D'Angeli · Lloyd Pye · Marianne Maderna · Mike Guzovsky · Patrick Reynolds (actor) · Peggy Noland · Richard Bausch · Sayed Hassan Amin · Tom Anderson · Wlodzimierz Ksiazek.

Categories: Category:Australian Labor Party · Category:Fictional diaries · Category:Leaves · Category:Medicine and health in fiction · Category:Political parties in the United Kingdom · Category:Raw foodism · Category:Space in fiction.

Miscellany: 1973 Paris Air Show crash · Abdomenizer · Anthrax hoaxes · Egg and chips · Cello scrotum · Daesun Jinrihoe · Dearne Advanced Learning Centre · Google Fast Flip · Google Sidewiki · Ham sandwich · Hamlin's Wizard Oil · Honda CR250M · Irene (ketch) · Kilroy was here · Like (Facebook) · Miscarriage · Moll Dyer · Oi (interjection) · Sex toy party · Taejonggyo · Tongue rolling · Torture garden (fetish club) · Tough love · Triplophysa longipectoralis · Underwater basket weaving · War Before Civilization.

Wikipedia space: Five essays, Wikipedia:Articles for Deletion is not a war zone, Wikipedia:Signatures of living persons, Wikipedia:Our social policies are not a suicide pact, Wikipedia:Potentially unreliable sources, and Wikipedia:Reactions to... articles; a guideline, Wikipedia: Notability (events); and an information page, Wikipedia:Main Page history.

Barnstars

		Bookbound barnstar
		Fences and windows, for pursuit of knowledge via many searches through the electronic stacks.  — Justmeherenow 01:10, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		For your brave invoking of WP:IAR to save many foreign language Wikipedia articles proposed for deletion, I hereby award you this barnstar. ThaddeusB (talk) 05:22, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

		The Editor's Barnstar
		For an excellent restructuring of Human Evolution. ArglebargleIV (talk) 01:21, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

		The Socratic Barnstar
		I am extremely impressed by your arguments at this AfD. Kudos. Bearian (talk) 21:58, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

		The Article Rescue Barnstar
		For rescuing Medical debt from WP:AFD. Bearian (talk) 18:29, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

On 21 June 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Egg and chips, which I substantially expanded. 15,000 readers then looked at the article.

		You can't please them all
		"[Editor redacted] and Fences & Windows were worst of all, like pack of wolves". Some unsolicited feedback...

		The Biography Barnstar
		For taking the time to rescue this article. If I had only had the time to do it myself! Thanks. Rodhullandemu 22:47, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

		The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Fences and windows, for his hard work in setting the story straight, and his relentless pursuit of truth. You are truly a benefit to the project Ikip (talk) 18:55, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Recovery
		Thank you for saving the articles. I find it more fulfilling to add sources now, and that has been able to happen thanks to you! Thanks! warrior4321 01:44, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

	The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
	For finding DOZENS of reputable sources in a valiant attempt to salvage Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Controversies related to prevalence of Jews in leadership roles in Hollywood. It's a contribution no one else seemed to appreciate enough, so I hereby award you this barnstar for your tirelessness. --AFriedman (talk) 06:08, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

		The BLP Barnstar
		For your numerous contributions at User:The Wordsmith/BLP sourcing.--Father Goose (talk) 09:09, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

		The Article Rescue Barnstar
		For your great work on expanding Social netvetting and thus for demonstrating the importance of WP:BEFORE. Regards SoWhy 14:02, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

		The Cleanup Barnstar
		Epic job on dry needling. Simply epic work on an article that really needed it. WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:simple/complex 15:36, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		This Working Man's barnstar is awarded to Fences and windows for copy editing articles totalling 11,145 words during the Guild of Copy Editors July 2010 backlog drive. Your contributions are appreciated!--Diannaa (Talk) 16:29, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		Your thorough erasure of this puppeteer's hoaxes puts you firmly into the Winston Wolf league of vandalism cleanup. Orange Suede Sofa (talk) 04:14, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

		The Invisible Barnstar
		For all that rev-del work on List of HIV-positive people. THF (talk) 01:28, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

		The Citation Barnstar
		your work finding sources on gem spa was amazing MrsSunDoesntShine (talk) 07:57, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Imaginary friends

Tracey and Smoke encounter a dangerous wild animal

Smoke is an invisible dragon,^{[dubious - discuss]} who will only communicate with Tracey Simmons, aged 3, and often acts to cause Simmons to get into trouble with her parents.^{[citation needed]} Adults generally^[who?] refuse to believe that Smoke exists, citing the non-existence of invisible dragons, although Tracey's friends at nursery say they have heard Smoke. Scientists as yet are unable to explain the phenomenon.

See also

• Invisible Pink Unicorn
• Puff, the Magic Dragon
• Harvey, the invisible giant rabbit
• Dunning–Kruger effect
• Hanlon's razor
• Wikipedia: Fringe theories
• Pseudoscience watchlist

Centralized discussion
Proposals	Discussions	Recurring proposals
RfC about allowing watchlisting of user contributions Binding community discussion on the Abortion article titles, as requested by the Arbitration Committee. RfC on the proposed cessation of selective delete (other than history merge fixes) and resulting changes to deletion policies, including the removal of a Revision Deletion criterion. RfC on how files from non-copyright states should be treated and used on Wikipedia Note: inactive discussions, closed or not, should be archived.
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