User talk:SpacemanSpiff

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I'm currently evaluating my participation in the English Wikipedia and am therefore not likely to be very active or respond to messages in a timely manner. While editing Wikipedia is a hobby, it has become an increasingly frustrating one. I don't think my expectations of an encyclopaedia match with that of the community. There will always be issues with large projects such as this but at present there are a few points that highlight the chasm between the two lines of thought. Primarily, the creation of good encyclopaedic content seems to have taken a backseat. Secondly, the Foundation's attitude towards content development in the project, especially that of publicly taking sides in disputes etc, in the process disrupting an already fragile ecosystem here. Over the past few months I haven't been as active as I was earlier, but every time I come back I see examples of why it's no longer enjoyable -- blocks of excellent editors, a resistance to handle POV pushing effectively and such.

The Signpost: 17 September 2012

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WikiProject report: Action! — The Indian Cinema Task Force

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News and notes: Tens of thousands of monuments loved; members of new funding body announced

Technology report: Future-proofing: HTML5 and IPv6

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You are needed here. —Vensatry _{(Ping me)} 11:16, 19 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Sir.

I thank you for cautioning me about COPY-VIO. I'll definitely take more precautions now before including a chunk of text into an article. Mr T ^(Talk?) ^{(New thread?)} 08:09, 23 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ruderow

Any chance of you taking a look at User_talk:Ruderow#Kulin_Kayastha.2C_again?Salvio dealt with it last time round but he's on/off wiki due to health issues, per the notice on his talk page. Thanks. - Sitush (talk) 18:41, 23 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Kulin Kayastha

You seem to be unaware of the previous disputes over this article. Please be specific with your concerns so that I can address them in a better way. The message you left was very vague, and please do not revert the last edit. Discuss whatever you have to on the talk page first, if you go through the article and the citations that have been given now, Im sure you'll be satisfied that none of the WikiPolicies were violated this time around. If you find any such anomaly, try and remove it manually rather than just blatantly reverting it. Ruderow —Preceding undated comment added 11:31, 24 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

And please see if the sources really are cherry picked and unreliable as Sitush thinks. He seems to have a problem with all the edits to that article, whether sourced or un-sourced. Do compare the sources cited by him with mine and draw a conclusion. As you'll know, Im not much of an experienced editor here, and I am keen on learning more, so even if you find problems with whatever was written by me, point them out and tell me how to correct them, but just don't leave the article as it was, it was extremely misguiding. How it was, we can discuss further on the talk page, Ill not use up this space more. A lot actually has already been discussed on the Kulin Kayastha talk page, and I have tried to address all the issues that came up there. But, somehow Sitush is bent upon proving whatever he's written and wherever he's seen it from to be absolutely infallible, and to be really honest, I think he's being trying to bully me to give in, being an experienced editor and I being so naive. On the last occasion as well, i.e. before he got me banned, I sought help on how to take this to a dispute resolution forum as well but to no use, I just got banned. Ruderow