QUOTE(Apathetic @ Tue 18th August 2009, 9:43pm)
It really isn't the end of the world, though.
He has basically tilled the soil for you to plant seeds in.
Can't you sort the articles by quality through a WikiProject or Task force tag?
I really appriciate what you have done, I really do, but I don´t see any solution here where I can continue to work in this area.
The thing is: a) I´m not a linguist, for me it is not easy to keep all these (very) similar-sounding (Arab!) names apart. But I have a strong sort of "visual memory": when I was looking for some, say, Peterson-stuff, I
knew I had to look in a village-article positioned in the middle-bottom of the District of Haifa-group. Does this makes sense? Now, earlier, that was easy, as
Al-Tira, Haifa would be the only, or one of the few, "blue-linked"-article-names in that section. But now, if I don´t remember the name of "Al-Tira", (which I normally don´t)..I have to click 10-15-links before I come to the right one....It was a real shock for me when I could no longer find
any of the
Metawali-villages -normally I could find them blind-folded (well...) ..now they have all disappeared into the "blue soup."
You say he has tilled the soil for us to plant in. Well, I say he has tilled *too much* soil, I cannot find my way around, anymore. Which patch (article) needs more work, which doesn´t?
Before I knew.
Now I don´t.
And the other thing is: we had a very nice little group of editors, who have worked on this for ages. That
one person can come along and do exactly as he please, without doing the least attempt to communicate with the "regulars" -is rather disheartening. (When he started making these stubs, I went to his talk-page and asked him to stop...he just removed my comment and continued. Like a bulldozer. As if I didn´t exist. And he is surprised that I take this off-WP?)
Hey, it is as simple as this: I edited WP for fun. After Blofeld stormed into my little corner of WP; it´s no fun anymore. (And boy, am I being diplomatic here.)
Oh, and I really
hate all the dramah-thingy over at WP. It is not without reason that my WP-persona was unknown to Sarc -and I assume, most others. I really have tried to avoid "the dramah". Heck, editing in the I/P area is *more* than enough dramah in itself....
Ah well, it was fun while it lasted. I am a collector at heart; "collecting" information about these villages was great fun.