User:Plutonium27/Sandbox

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Carl Sagan

Me and candidates at WP:RfA[edit]

Work in prog right below

Before me and you go any further: I'll read your opening statement and answers to the next two. I'll then go to your user page. There are certain things not uncommon on user pages that, if I see them on yours, will end the RfA for me and you there and then. I may !vote if you've got enough IRC buddies to shove you through but otherwise I'll be gone. I won't be going onto the talk page and then start plodding through contribs and that. These certain things give a reliably accurate impression of the editor and hence their likely incompatability - or plain inability - with adminship and its responsiblities. Don't need to see them all; some are worse than others but the idea is clear :

1. Flashy signature. Who the hell do you think you are, that your pronouncements are so important that their author must be instantly recognisable - indeed, must stand out as must as possible from all other text on the page? And anyway, its the pixel = of that 9 year old girly-girl phase of using different coloured pens to write every other word, drawing little hearts for dotted i etc. 2. Userbox overload. Invariably lined up along the right side of the screen, single row, scroll down down down page after page. because Wikuipedia editors need to know all that pointless childish shit. Your favourite foods, how many brothers you have, you like sunshine oh and you like rainy days too. If you're not actually a particularly self-absorbed pubescent bore then you have the mind of one and I don't want to see what you're going to do with tools like, say, blocking someone. 3. I also do not want to see self-important and/or self-justifying statements (usually at the top of the page) that go on about some injustice done to you or rehash some argument you had, for ewamples. Someone who cannot even stop to see how this sort of thing looks - not only at RfA but to every user that goes there? Nope.

Too many see Wikipedia as a MMORPG, with adminship as a trophy. For their mates as well.

Duration. More than a year preferred. Breadth of experience over someone rushing about racking 'em up.
Edit Count. A minimum of 2,000 absent the Huggle-fests.
Content. The Boris Bit (below) puts it perfectly. Furthermore, a good content writer isn't someone who hitches along on an FA or two just to tick that RfA box to pacify those who are unaccountably fussy about such things. Also, "content" doesn't always mean writing reams, if that isn't your talent. Lots of gnoming can build into substantial chunks if you're interested enough. Finally, anyone wanting my !Support and plans to dangle WP:DYK as bait had better not mention it at all. DYK is an utter embarrassment to Wikipedia: its a pen for teenaged admin wannabes to play in and demonstrate their utter lack of awareness; its a bad parody - right down to the "see we're human too!" shitty jokes and puns - that should have been scrapped (or at least scraped off the front page) years ago.
Presentation. The intro paragraph covers this one.
Over the age of majority. The tantrums that get thrown because some have chosen to stipulate this clearly illustrate just one of the reasons why we do.
Adminship as identity politics point-making viz. I think we need more autistic/female/ESOL-student admins. Go away.

QUOTING Boris, from August 2010):

I've had this opinion for a long time, but recent observations on Wikipedia politics make me want to state it:

In real life, I believe that managers and politicians should reside and participate actively in their workplace or constituency whenever possible.

This opinion continues to Wikipedia. If you are not someone who contributes regularly to articles, you shouldn't be governing those who do. You don't have the personal investment in this place for what it is: a resource of collected knowledge.

So go ahead, think to yourself whether or not you contribute to article space...decide if the time you spend on Wikipedia contributes to creating a comprehensive and useful reference work.

Or more bluntly: if you're being a useless prat, stop. If you haven't touched an article in the past hundred edits, what in the world are you doing here?

Edit/Review[edit]

19xx in the United Kingdom pages, Talk:1975 in the United Kingdom for rationale and intentions. I hope to begin by using 1975 as a test case, using other sources to add further info/dates and for editing current listings.

Articles[edit]

A6 Coach Crash 1990 on June 3 1990 A Shropshire-based double-decker coach, carrying British tourists returning from the Costa Brava, suffered a blowout to the front tyre on the A6 near Auxerre whilst reportedly doing 20mph over the speed limit, causing the 76-seat coach to crash. 11 were killed and 61 injured. This resulted in a legal action against Avon Rubber, tyre of the crash coach, its driver and his employer; resulting in the "longest legal case in France." Details from entry at List of road accidents and the cited ref is BBC News (need to do both Fr and UK search for others).

For [Cat: Defunct hospitals in London]
St Matthew's Hospital, Shepherdess Walk, Islington
Royal Metropolitan Hospital, Kingsland Road, E8
Royal National Ophthalmic Hospital, St George's Circus SE1 (closed early 1990s)
Lockets Wood Hospital for Infectious Diseases (part of RFH), Finchley (closed mid 1990s)
New End Hospital, Hampstead NW3 (formerly Hampstead Workhouse), (part of RFH), (closed late 1980s)
Kingsbury Maternity Hospital, Honeypot Lane, Kingsbury NW9
Belgrave Hospital for Children, Clapham Road, SW
Soho Hospital for Women, Soho Square (absorbed into Elizabeth Garret Anderson Hospital, now part of UCH)
Grosvenor Hospital for Women, Vincent Square, Westminster
Chelsea Hospital for Women, Fulham Road (closed c.1980s)
Metropolitan Ear, Nose and Throat; 64 Grafton Street
Paddington Green Hospital for Children

Soviet Rural Electrification
Soviet Child singer Lena Mogucheva (RIP 19/08/99) - no info online in English. Russian sources scant + dodgy-looking sites.
Soviet musician Alexey Glyzin - same as Lena re google

Danieal Kelly. Legally ground-breaking case of child abuse/negligent homicide where criminal charges were filed against both DHS (city) and contracted-services staff and owners.

Aug 2004 death in Philadelphia (by starvation and infected pressure sores) of 14 year old Danieal Kelly who had cerebral palsy. Following a Grand Jury investigation, nine people (both parents; city DHS staff and supervisors; staff and supervisors and owners of the private agency contracted to provide SCOH) were indicted and subsequently tried. Criminal charges ranged from involuntary manslaughter to reckless endangerment to criminal conspiracy and perjury. Guilty verdicts on agency staff were reached in 04/10 - awaiting sentencing June 2010 (good time to do article). the Grand Jury also made 2 major recommendations: establishing an Ombudsman and radically opening up the DHS confidentiality to increased transparency and scrutiny.

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