User:Varco
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| Varco | ||
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| Name | Tom Varco | |
| Gender | Male | |
| Birth date | March 12, 1987 | |
| Location | Buffalo, NY | |
| Occupation | Student, Musician, Tech support | |
| Education | In college | |
| College | University at Buffalo | |
| High school | Orchard Park High School | |
| Politics | Liberal Libertarian [1] | |
| Contact info | ||
| Website | http://www.tomvarco.info | |
| ICQ | 115300089 | |
| AIM | Tom Varco | |
| Yahoo | teruthar | |
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See my photo gallery on my Commons user page.
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[edit] Articles I've started/Images I've uploaded/etc.
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[edit] Articles I've done significant work on
[edit] Articles I'm working on
[edit] Stuff I worked hard on but then had deleted by power-hungry deletionists, who push me closer and closer to leaving Wikipedia every day
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[edit] Views on Wikipedia's content
"Stop being elitist and accept the fact that Wikipedia is a repository for MUCH esoteric knowledge that would probably not make it into a print encylopedia. This may not fit the original mission statements or what whiny, power-hungry deletionists believe in, but it's what the site has evolved into. This is _not_ a bad thing. Wikipedia has much well-written information on extremely specialized, non-mainstream topics, which is part of what makes it such a valuable resource." -Thomas Morrisey
"'But it's cruuuuuufty' is not a valid reason to delete. There's a lot of esoteric information on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is 'the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit,' not, 'the free encyclopedia that only people who are interested in everyday, common mainstream pablum can edit.' ... If you have the time to nominate as an AfD and post about how this is all fancruft and ruining Wikipedia, you have time to do the research. If you don't care enough about the articles to try and improve them, I feel that you don't have the right to delete them, either. It is always easier to destroy than to create. Your choice. - Thomas Morrisey
"Wikipedia will fail in its mission to be the sum of all human knowledge if people try to delete everything that they perceive to be unimportant. Cruft does not harm the encyclopedia in the least bit. The article is not harming those who are uninterested by existing; they are free to choose whether to look at it or not. However, it is still there for those who are interested in it." - Me (From Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/StarCraft units and structures)
"A lot of people have said here that they like trivia, and in response people have said, 'this is an encyclopedia not a mass collection of random facts' or something similar.
Lets analyse that.
An encyclopedia is a collection of entries about unlinked topics, a mass collection of fact, organised only through the fact that it is alphabeticaly ordered. In a written encyclopedia what connects several articles? Nothing. Wikipedia is different, there are links.
An encyclopedia is a collection of entries which in turn contain a series of information about said entry, if said entry is a person, what will follow is a short biography in essence. Trivia is information about the said entry, that simply does not easily fit in context in the rest of the entry. But is information that is still relevant because it is about said entry.
Plus the idea that wikipedia is in fact an encyclopedia is a flawed one, while it ultimatly wishes to be a notable encyclopedia (+ free), it is simply not held in that light by the users (note differences between users of the site, and editors of the site, which essentially makes none of us/you users, because we/you edit it, and also have bias about the medium itself). Wikipedia is simply a usefull collection of information that people casually use to look up facts due to its available nature, and 'instant' search advantages over traditional mediums. It is not considered to be trustworhty or a secondary source on any matter. Wikipedia holds no weight as an encyclopedia.
But this is an advantage, it allows wikipedia to transend a typical encyclopedia and be packed full of information, on many things. Trivia can be amusing, and is a section i am more likley to read in an article about a film say, rather than reading the plot section. This is not a place of educational esteem, and wikipedian values shouldnt be so strict as to have to get rid of trivia, the idea of strong values over a website also stricks me as amusing.
Wikipedia is web 2.0, and web 2.0 is all about the user, and social media, and moving away from the idea of the computer. Wikipedia's social hierarchy, anti-elitism and power-hungry administrators give people a bad taste about the site, and stop them from making edits to articles. People bitch continuiously and people often feel slapped around the face when they try to make a contribution on something they are interested in, and then is deleted by people through AfD.
This 'Trivia' malarky is just another example, people spend time finding out these facts and 'write' them down for people, and then someone comes along with a condescending tag saying things like 'delete'.
While I do not want to stress the feelings of the user, a social networking site should make this a priority, and try to give me a reason why not.
One such editor above said that removing trivia is the same as fixing an article, I would like to know exactly why that is so.
But even though there has been complaining about this, once something like this is instituted, does it ever get changed? Has a piece of policy ever been deleted?" --82.43.111.162 15:25, 1 June 2007 (UTC), Wikipedia talk:Avoid trivia sections
