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Born2flie takes unspecified wikibreaks and will be in and out of the office.
Long delays may be experienced between sightings.
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I award you the
Aviation Barnstar in recognition of your knowledgeable contribution to aviation articles. -
Bzuk
[edit] Wikithoughts
- An article that achieves FA-class approval should be protected and all future edits discussed and recommended for inclusion by consensus with appropriate reference. And then, the "former FA-class" process can be eliminated. (thoughts brought about by the essay "Wikipedia Is Failing") --Born2flie 23:34, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
- There are those editors who actually contribute something to Wikipedia, and then there are x number more that are dreaming up and arguing over the guidelines with which to determine whether or not what editors contribute fits within their guidelines. --Born2flie 23:48, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
- The tragedy of Wikipedia is that people believe in it as a community over all else. They seem to believe that it is
supposed required to change on the personal whims of editors, and this appears to be due to their limited experience and understandings of subjects. Wikipedia is first and foremost, an attempt to make an encyclopedia. The push and pull, the ebb and flow of information and [the questionable] quality of writing brought about by such misunderstandings actually degrade Wikipedia and give its detractors (including me in these thoughts) the ammunition they use. --Born2flie 08:25, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
- I'm not a nice guy. Let me rephrase that; I'm not here to be a nice guy, and demanding that I be a nice guy is the surest way for me to not be a nice guy. If you approach me as a nice person who is looking to honestly address an issue you have with me or an edit I have made, I will respond in the nicest possible way, and you may even come away from the encounter with the impression that I can be a nice guy. However, the demand that I be a nice guy will always be met with a product that you will not find agreeable. --Born2flie 22:36, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
- Some people just don't take criticism well. I will try to be sparing with my criticism, but when I see something that doesn't make sense, I'm not inclined to remain silent. I am willing to try nice once, maybe twice, after that there just isn't much sense in continuing with small caliber discussions. Bring out the heavy weapons and let the chips fall where they may. Credibility, a subjective quality, is often attempted to be salvaged at the expense of accuracy and honesty. --Born2flie 12:32, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
- B-Class articles are one step removed each from A-Class, GA-Class, and FA-Class article status. If you select an article as B-Class, you're essentially saying that article is ready for the peer-review processes necessary for elevation within Wikipedia. It either is, or it isn't. There's no harm for an article to remain at Start until it is ready to be submitted for peer review. --Born2flie 12:32, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
- You would think that if this was just a great social experiment to capture the information contained in humanity, that it wouldn't require levels of bureaucracy to enforce its policies and promote its guidelines. --Born2flie 12:41, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
- Can people whose status in their occupation is based upon their credibility afford to be entangled in Wikipedia? Which should make one wonder if it is worth it for themselves to be engaged in the pursuits of Wikipedia. --Born2flie 14:31, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
- I found an editor who stated on his user page that he did not accept template messages on his user talk page. I discovered him because he posted a template message on a fellow user's page. Physician, heal thyself. #@$#^&* hypocrites. --Born2flie (talk) 20:32, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
- Writing an article in Wikipedia is like building a house of cards. It's all fine and good when everyone agrees how the house should be built, but the minute someone comes in with their own ideas of how to edit the article, the house is threatened, and often falls. --Born2flie (talk) 17:31, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
- There's a fine line between stewardship of an article and owning the article. Stewardship, or even sponsorship, is when an editor or group of editors guides the article on the path of progression to GA- and FA-Class status. The quality of edits becomes paramount, the further the article progresses. Edits that are viewed as detrimental to the progression of the article are questioned, which gives rise to the arguments of "ownership". --Born2flie (talk) 17:31, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
- The game of Wikipedia, is how to build an article to the best quality without getting sidelined by incompetent editors (yes, there are plenty on Wikipedia, where everyone can edit regardless of competence). --Born2flie (talk) 17:39, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
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Sounding my own trumpet, if you will.
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In my estimation, anyways.
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