User:Ihutchesson

You've reached Ian's temporary home page....

(It will probably be temporary for quite a while. "Temporary" is quite an elastic idea.)

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/Rant about edit cowboys on

Over the years I have had to deal with edit jockeys who have nothing to offer in the way of content for the articles they mar. They have nothing better to do than change colors and formatting. People who insist on using BC/AD when an article has BCE/CE. People who insist on asserting POV. Boring useless editors, who are the bane of content editors in general. I'm getting to a stage where I will be forced to stop editing for content. What will be left if content editors stop working for Wiki is a bunch of slowly degrading articles left to people who don't care about the content.

Wiki is held ransom by edit jockeys who vacuously rove the Wikiverse looking for things to correct, things to be PC about, things they can assert their power over. They are a curse to Wiki's reading public in general.

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Content editor

A content editor is a type of editor who works on Wikipedia articles. They typically have interest in the topics they work on. This could be due to personal or scholarly interest. They are usually responsible for the material that Wiki readers want to access. A content editor could at the same time be a crusader or a page owner.

Crusader

A crusader is a type of editor who works on Wikipedia articles. They typically have an ideological stance that dictates their editing. That stance could be political, nationalist, religious or even fan-based. Their major interest is to infuse as many articles as possible with their ideologies.

Edit cowboy

An edit cowboy, also known as an "edit jockey", is a type of editor who works on Wikipedia articles. They are known for their behavior. They are usually prolific editors of vast ranges of topics and articles. They have no intrinsic interest in the topics they edit. Their changes are frequently cosmetic, applying Wiki guidelines as they interpret them to be law. Because of the righteousness involved in applying Wikilaws, they truck no resistence to their application of Wikilaw. Anyone who does not accept their policing of the Wikilaw will irresistably feel the weight of Wikilaw.

Page owner

A page owner is a type of editor who works on Wikipedia articles. They typically work on select pages and give the impression they own the topics. Any edits that others make are unacceptable to the page owner.

Wiki vandal

A Wiki vandal is a type of editor who works on Wikipedia articles. They typically do not register as editors with Wiki and are usually known only by their IP address. They edit Wiki pages for fun and effect, often inserting trivial, silly, or rude content because they can.