User:Xkeeper/WikiStupid
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You know the drill. Let's begin.
Okay, Articles for Deletion template. Specifically, the one on Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_bands_beginning_with_the_word_"lemon".
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'Note: Comments made by suspected single purpose accounts can be tagged using {{subst:spa|username|UTC timestamp [optional]}}'
Short version: Note the big fat "suspected single purpose accounts" bit. Of course, why would they care if it was a single purpose account? After all, let's look at another page. In fact, the very page the "single purpose account" text links to:
Many Wikipedians are active on a range of articles, while others edit primarily within a small area. It is sometimes the case the Wikipedians of both types promote set agendas by their edits within a particular interest. However, many more readily assume that single purpose accounts are working to promote a particular point of view. For this reason, some editors give the opinion of single purpose accounts lesser weight in discussions on policy and deletion. Users are cautioned to assume good faith, and to recall that all new users must start off somewhere. Further, many people with expertise in a specific area quite reasonably make contributions within that area alone. There is, of course, nothing wrong with single purpose accounts.
So if there's nothing wrong, why are we tagging accounts that could potentially be them?
Maybe it's just because I've played Phoenix Wright, but this is one hell of a contradiction.
