User:SMcCandlish/Essays
 | This is just an index of my essays and similar material. I transclude this (without this banner) into my main user page, but keep this separate for watchlisting and ease of maintenance. |
Essays
[edit]- Wikipedia:Advice for hotheads – essay – principal author
- Wikipedia:Article titles/Criteria order – supplement – principal author
- Wikipedia:Asshole John rule – essay – principal author
- Wikipedia:Commas exist for a reason – essay – principal author
- Wikipedia:Common-style fallacy – essay – principal author
- Wikipedia:Consensus venue – essay – principal author
- Wikipedia:Content forks/Internal – supplement – creator, one of the principal authors
- Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians/2021#Flyer22 Frozen – obituary – one of the principal authors
- Wikipedia:Don't be high-maintenance – essay – wrote the overhauled version that changed it from the WP:Don't feed the divas attack page to an advice essay (both for the editorship-at-large and for editors accused of such behavior)
- Wikipedia:Don't bludgeon the process § No one is obligated to satisfy you – essay section – principal author
- Wikipedia:Don't "teach the controversy" – essay – principal author
- Wikipedia:Emerson and Wilde on consistency – essay – principal author
- Wikipedia:Fallacy of selective sources – essay – principal author
- Wikipedia:Fallacy of the revelation of policy – essay – principal author
- Wikipedia:Frequently misinterpreted sourcing policy – essay – principal author
- Help:How to mine a source – how-to – principal author
- Wikipedia:Identifying and using style guides – essay – principal author
- Wikipedia:Identifying and using tertiary sources – essay – principal author
- Wikipedia:In versus of – supplement – principal author
- Wikipedia:Logical quotation on Wikipedia – essay – principal author
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style extended FAQ – frequently-asked-questions page – principal author (though I made the lead section a "guest editorial" from DGG); covers more than the summary MOS:FAQ
- Wikipedia:Notability/Historical – archival index, providing a comprehensive overview of the history of the development of the "notability" concept on Wikipedia – creator/maintainer
- Wikipedia:Proper names and proper nouns – essay – principal author
- Wikipedia:Race and ethnicity – essay, largely educational in nature – principal author
- Wikipedia:Reducing consensus to an algorithm – essay, verging on humor – principal author
- Wikipedia:Rouge editor – humor essay – one of the principal authors (the version before mine was here, as the text in a category page)
- Wikipedia:Specialized-style fallacy – essay – principal author
- Wikipedia:Tertiary-source fallacy – essay – principal author
- Wikipedia:Use modern language – essay – principal author
- Help:User CSS for a monospaced coding font – how-to – principal author (and actually transcluded from Template:Mxt/User CSS for a monospaced coding font, as it was created initially as a supplement to template documentation)
- Wikipedia:Using nicknames – guidance essay – principal author. Obsolete; almost all of it has been integrated into MOS:NICKNAME as of November 2017.
- Wikipedia:Wall of text – essay – substantial revision [1] to be balanced and less like a polemic
- Wikipedia:When unbundling admin power works – essay – principal author
- Wikipedia:Why Manual of Style discussions are so awful – outline of the causes (and a few hints about what to do about it, though the problem is largely intractable and human nature)
- Wikipedia:Why Manual of Style talk pages have so much churn – a list of reasons and related matters
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Animals/Article structure - wikiproject advice essay (draft) – principal author
- Wikipedia:Writing about breeds – essay – principal author; primarily for new-ish editors, but also an overview for those just new to the topic
- Wikipedia:You can search, too – essay – principal author
User-space essays
[edit]- User:SMcCandlish/Adminship reform – draft proposal (more like a "what if", since it'll never happen unless WMF imposes it)
- User:SMcCandlish/Avoid quoting definitions – author; still in a draft state
- User:SMcCandlish/Bare basics of Wikipedia footnotes – just a little bit of "micro-help" for beginners
- User:SMcCandlish/Discretionary sanctions 2013–2018 review – running log of issues related to WP:AC/DS and ArbCom's failure to address them.
- User:SMcCandlish/Gendered category criterion – draft proposal
- User:SMcCandlish/It – a "ha ha, only serious" piece. [It proved controversial when someone mistook it for "transphobic" because it had anything at all to do with pronouns. It's actually about self-aggrandizement for commercial, religious, classist, or plain ol' egotism reasons, and why Wikipedia will not write in such a manner to please such a subject.]
- User:SMcCandlish/TG-NB – a FAQ on what my actual views on TG/NB/GQ issues are, and on the history and results of the disputes about the above essay
- User:SMcCandlish/Notability and Deletion policy – my personal "ground-truth sitrep" on notability as a concept on WP; updated every few years (since 2006)
- User:SMcCandlish/RfA standards – what I (loosely) expect and do not expect out of candidates for WP:Requests for adminship
- User:SMcCandlish/RfC-replacement voting system – draft proposal (more like a "what if", since it'll never happen unless WMF imposes it)
- User:SMcCandlish/Wikipedia's self-management and future – some thoughts on organizational life-cycle, editor retention, and dispute resolution