User talk:Antigrandiose

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Non Free Files in your User Space

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Speedy deletion nomination of Platinum Penis

Please refrain from introducing inappropriate pages, such as Platinum Penis, to Wikipedia. Doing so is not in accordance with our policies. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you. Quantpole (talk) 10:01, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Talk pages

Hi - I can tell that you're new and unfamiliar with our guidelines and policies. Sadly you didn't get a welcome message, but now you've got one. I've reverted your edits at Talk:Common Era because they were just a forum-style discussion, and talk pages are purely for discussing the article, not the subject of the article. Looking at your deleted article I think you don't understand that Wikipedia may be the encyclopedia anyone can edit, but it is also an encyclopedia that reflect what reliable sources - read WP:RS and WP:Verify - have to say about a subject, and if they say nothing then we don't have an article on that subject. Dougweller (talk) 10:33, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

May 2010

Thank you for your contribution, but we are trying to write an encyclopedia here, so please keep your edits factual and neutral. Our readers are looking for serious articles and will not find joke edits amusing. Remember that Wikipedia is a widely-used reference tool, so we have to take what we do here seriously. If you'd like to experiment with editing, use the sandbox to get started. Thank you. --Andrensath (talk | contribs) 09:12, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Are you kidding me?

The userbox that you deleted was on my user page and it was part of a collection of userboxes meant to gently parody guys who spend too much time editing Wikipedia (like yourself maybe... or maybe even me). The reason you gave for deleting it was that it was "patent nonsense." It certainly wasn't. It might have been in questionable taste, but that doesn't seem to be a criterion for deleting a userbox. (What are the criteria, by the way)? Here are some userboxes that are linked to the Wikipedia:Userboxes article:

porn starThis user has been in pornography.

I am secretly a royalist

Lb	This user's favourite colour is Light Blue.

Pessimist? Nihilist? This user is an Antinatalist.

I'd like to know how those userboxes are any more nonsensical than the one that you deleted.

The article also states the following:

Content restrictions

• All userboxes are governed by the civility policy.
  • Userboxes must not include incivility or personal attacks.
  • Userboxes must not be inflammatory or divisive.
  • Wikipedia is not an appropriate place for propaganda, advocacy, or recruitment of any kind, commercial, political, religious, or otherwise, opinion pieces on current affairs or politics, self-promotion, or advertising.

Simply: If content is not appropriate on a user page, it is not appropriate within userboxes.

I have seen a lot worse on many user pages and I just wonder what gives you the right to decide which user boxes are "patent nonsense" and which ones aren't?

I am requesting that you undelete my userbox, User:Antigrandiose/userbox/medium. Not doing so is nothing short of vandalism.

And lighten up, by the way. Antigrandiose (talk) 07:49, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

I've taken a look at this and concur with the deletion. Put simply, Wikipedia is a writing project not a social networking site, whatever leeway may exist in any user page policies or norms is usually not going to gain consensus to keep if it's about penis size, no matter how witty a parody it may be. Sorry, guy. FT2 ^{(Talk | email)} 18:01, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

So what's the deal? Was my original complaint legit so you just get someone else to change the reason for the deletion? I hope that you can tell that that section was meant to be a parody of certain user pages, and I hope you would agree that there's a place for parody on Wikipedia userpages, as long as it's parodying something that's germane to Wikipedia. I hope that I'm not just getting ganged-up on here. Don't you guys have anything better to do than to pick on someone who's making a positive contribution to various talk pages and even some articles? Stop being wikithugs, OK? Antigrandiose (talk) 20:23, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Grotesquely inappropriate?

Compared to what? There is a lot of stuff on user pages that could fall under that criterion and is a lot worse than my userbox but I don't see you deleting it. Why my userbox?

Here's the restrictions for Wikipedia:Userboxes:

Content restrictions

• All userboxes are governed by the civility policy.
  • Userboxes must not include incivility or personal attacks.
  • Userboxes must not be inflammatory or divisive.
  • Wikipedia is not an appropriate place for propaganda, advocacy, or recruitment of any kind, commercial, political, religious, or otherwise, opinion pieces on current affairs or politics, self-promotion, or advertising.

Simply: If content is not appropriate on a user page, it is not appropriate within userboxes.

My userbox did not violate any of those guidelines, and I've looked, but I couldn't find anything that said that if it were considered "grotesquely inappropriate" by DragonflySixtyseven, then it should be deleted. That userbox was part of a collection of userboxes, some created by me, that was part of a section on my user page that was meant to parody some users and certain user pages. Parodying certain aspects of Wikipedia is a big part of my user page, and I think it adds something interesting and useful, for those who choose to view it.

I'm requesting that you undelete User:Antigrandiose/userbox/enjoysex. Antigrandiose (talk) 21:25, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

I haven't deleted the other stuff because I haven't found it. DS (talk) 00:12, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

WP:OTHERCRAPEXISTS doesn't justify your crap existing. Wikipedia isn't a free resource or place to conduct social experiments/commentary on Wikipedia editors, it's a place to write an encyclopedia. DMacks (talk) 00:56, 22 May 2010 (UTC)