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== Gentle suggestion for new accounts interested in I/P articles ==
If you want to edit I/P articles and don't meet the standards set by the Arbitration Committee for that subject area (30-day account age + 500 edits), go to the article talk page and do an [[Wikipedia:Edit requests|edit request]]. There is an [[Wikipedia:Edit Request Wizard/Protected|Edit Request Wizard]] that you can use (link is to the button "The page is protected")
Don't email to ask me to do the edit for you. I won't reply, and I won't comply with your request. I will refer you to the [[Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee|Arbitration Committee]]. I don't know who you are, and for all I know, you may be trying to get me in trouble.
Note to myself. These are the templates used for I/P welcomes for IP users not acquainted with the rules:
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==Articles I've created or substantially revised==
*[[Joan McCracken]] (expanded, DYK, GA) [[Image:Symbol question.svg|20px]][[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]]
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*[[Harold Greenwald]] (created)
*[[1948 Los Gatos DC-3 crash]] (created)
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== Why I am cynical about Wikipedia ==
Once upon a time there was [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cohen_crime_family&oldid=1180045787 an article about a "crime family."] I don't generally edit on that subject matter, thank God, but [[Johnny Stompanato|one of the members of this "crime family"]] was involved in a [[Killing of Johnny Stompanato|Hollywood scandal]], which was [https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/in+my+wheelhouse in my wheelhouse].
Reading the sources indicated that this "crime family" did not actually exist. The sources did not say it existed. I couldn't find any that said it did.<ref>I am sure the article was created in good faith. But like a lot of articles in that subject area, it was a product of [[WP:OR|original research]],</ref>
I [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cohen crime family|nominated the article for deletion]]. There was consensus that the article should not exist. Despite that, the article almost was kept as is. That's because there was no consensus about whether the article should have been deleted or merged, and typically "[[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Administrator instructions|no consensus" is functionally equivalent to "keep."]] Fortunately the closer, recognizing that possibility, decided on merging it despite the lack of consensus.
But a different closer might have abided rigidly by the AfD rules, and kept an article about something that a crime family that ''did not actually exist.''
That is what makes me cynical about Wikipedia. You can abide by all the rules, dot every I and cross every T, and be flat-out, embarrassingly wrong.
I have other reasons to be cynical, but this is the one suitable for family viewing.
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==Don't sell IP editors short==
Editors who discount IP contributions, especially when they are not phrased properly, may be tempted to discount them. Bad move. They can find stuff registered editors haven't noticed in literally years or decades. In [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Paul_Newman&diff=prev&oldid=1201400025 this post] in [[Talk:Paul Newman]], an editor found a whole paragraph that didn't belong there. It had been overlooked for ''years''.
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|text = On [[Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2024/January#16 January 2024|16 January 2024]], '''[[:Template:Did you know|Did you know]]''' was updated with a fact from the article '''''[[Going Infinite]]''''', which you recently nominated. The fact was ''... that [[Michael Lewis]], author of '''''[[Going Infinite]]''''', compared a rival author to the subject of both their books, convicted fraudster [[Sam Bankman-Fried]]?'' You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page <small>([[User:Rjanag/Pageview stats|here's how]], [https://pageviews.toolforge.org/?start=2024-01-06&end=2024-01-26&project=en.wikipedia.org&pages=Going_Infinite Going Infinite])</small>, and the hook may be added to [[Wikipedia:Did you know/Statistics/Monthly DYK pageview leaders|the statistics page]] after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the [[:Template talk:Did you know|Did you know talk page]].
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|text = On [[Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2024/April#7 April 2024|7 April 2024]], '''[[:Template:Did you know|Did you know]]''' was updated with a fact from the article '''''[[Cold Crematorium]]''''', which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ''... that '''[[Cold Crematorium|a Holocaust memoir translated in 2023]]''' described prisoners so dehumanized by the Nazis that they introduced themselves in past tense, as in "My name was ..."?'' The nomination discussion and review may be seen at [[Template:Did you know nominations/Cold Crematorium: Reporting From the Land of Auschwitz]]. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page <small>([[User:Rjanag/Pageview stats|here's how]], [https://pageviews.toolforge.org/?start=2024-03-28&end=2024-04-17&project=en.wikipedia.org&pages=Cold_Crematorium Cold Crematorium])</small>, and the hook may be added to [[Wikipedia:Did you know/Statistics/Monthly DYK pageview leaders|the statistics page]] after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the [[:Template talk:Did you know|Did you know talk page]].
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[[File:AppleCorer&Slicer.JPG|thumb|left|240px|But can it core a apple?[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22oCaiccz3w]]]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:GettingStarted Special:Getting Started]. It is a list of articles in obvious trouble that even beginners can fix. I've found some instances where the articles are so bad they really shouldn't be in Wikipedia at all. Editing these articles results in a tag branding the editor as a "beginner getting started," but you can avoid that by copying and pasting the URL of the articles listed there.
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*[[:Category:Articles with a promotional tone]] is a good start. I also sometimes look at articles categorised there (or that have been [[Wikipedia:G11|G11]]'d) and search for particularly spammy snippets, such as "You can purchase" or "our website" (sometimes you come across a phrase that uncovers a goldmine of crap). You can also simply click through categories like [[:Category:American companies established in 1997]] to uncover non-notable topics. Those are just a few suggestions, none of them astoundingly efficient, and there are probably better ways. [[User:Samwalton9|'''S'''am '''W'''alton]] ([[User talk:Samwalton9|talk]]) 12:08, 22 March 2017 (UTC)<br>
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Good essay on hatting: [[Wikipedia:Superhatting]]. Note "the nuclear dunk," which of course can be phrased far more politely. My thanks to [[User:Salomeofjudea]] for bringing it to my attention.
[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not about YOU]] good essay on COI editing.
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