Cleaning up after Dr. Blofeld, ..he can do it himself (Yepp: I'm quitting wp) Options

[The Adversary]

Whaw: who would have guessed: after years of complaining and raging again "the cabal" on wp; the person to force me out of turns out to be...Dr. Blofeld (T-C-L-K-R-D) ,

May I introduce myself, I am Huldra (T-C-L-K-R-D) on wp (Btw; I have criticized SlimVirgin every way I could for these last few years....except for her silly user-name. As I am probably the only person on WP to have chosen an even sillier user-name (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/biggrin.gif) )

Now, about 3 years ago, utterly pissed off by Jayjg and Slim, I found my own quiet little corner of Israel/Palestine -articles: Palestinian Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War

It was a strange little corner of Wikipedia; every now and then some newbie would start a horrible stub, often half in Arabic, with tons and tons of WP:OR. Typically they would only do a few edits (less that 20) and then disappear from WP totally......which then the "clean-up-task-force" (read: mostly me, Al Ameer son, Tiamut, Ashely (when he´s not blocked) ) would come along and clean up.

So we would turn this into Al-Muzayri'a . And this into Al-Nabi_Yusha' . And this into Saqiya.

Not superb any of them, but at least a decent start. This last one is typical: I think someone simply put the Khalidi-text (in Arabic) through some automatic translation ..so you get gems like "in recent years on the assignment," ...meaning: "in the last years of the (British) Mandate (of Palestine)" (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/tongue.gif)

Oh, and some we just never got around cleaning up: Al-Ja'una

So, slowly, steadfast during the last couple of years we have been progressing. The huge template has been invaluable...but I could only navigate around it because many of the links were red.

Until yesterday. Blofeld comes along and find he does not like red links, and decides that he will start all the red-linked villages...and turn the whole template into on huuuge green soup. And does just that.

Now, I cannot manage to navigate with it anymore.
Oh, well, Blofeld say he will work on the articles, and he does, but he does not have the sources (books). So far he has added nothing to the "public knowledge", he only copies from web-sites which were freely available, anyway. Re-inventing (or: re-writing) the wheel, so to speak. Now, if actually got hold of the books and educated himself on the topic: great. But I fear that in a short time he will be gone (he has a million other articles to attend too, as he has informed us.)

I liked this comment about reaching 3 mill articles on wp: "great, I've managed to poo in every room in the house"

Well, I leave it to Blofeld to clean up his own diarrhoea, eh, poo. I´m out.

[Dr. Blofeld]

Hi! Finally I have been able to get through here and set the record straight. Well you might have heard I abandoned my old account for creating those stubs . Maybe your grilling of me at WR was what was needed to really make me think about the short term consequences of drilling small stubs and not to be so engrossed in planning covering topics. But I am honestly not a vindictive editor.. Believe it or not I do have respect for the views of you guys as at the end of the day the site is supposed to be enjoyed but if people really hated those stubs and me as a result this is not good. The thing is I do have good abillities to write articles but because the amount of notable content missing was often unbearable I resorted to low grade stubs to try to start as much as I could. This was not for narcissistic or malicious reasons, genuinely it wasn't I actually thought I was doing what was right. However recent events and hitting 3 million and realising the amount of shite articles that exist on really notable subjects
as really made me stop and think. Personally I think it is better we have half decent articles on notable topics than drilling in new stubs to add to the workload. I have been trying to get hold of you for ages as I really do care about content and am actually a person with feelings too!

You'll be pleased to know I abandoned my old account and started afresh a week ago and have recently been fleshing out articles on German politicians and Greek museums like Dion Archaelogical Museum, even Bashshit if you care to look not to mention adding references to articles in the BLP list (on my item list check my new user page) and rmeoving spam from south asian articles like Pakistan. I am actually much happier creating good content and slowing down rather than having to resort to robot mode. I will still create the odd new articles every now and again but will try to make it a start class if possible and maybe DYK.Will never create a "sub stub" again, that is a promise, I mean it. As yet nobody on WR has really acknowledged what I've been doing with my new account and that I've reformed and that I really dislike stubs as much as you guys do and that I only did them to try to work towards improving coverage in the long term however bad an attempt
it was. I geuinely am very sorry for the trouble it caused.. A few days ago I actually redirected hundreds of politician stubs back into a list because it was pintless having them and I want to help cleanup, You are just waiting to see "Dr. Blofeld" spewed across the new pages in robo format. Never again, seriously. Only time will tell, and if everynow and then you check to see what Himalayan Explorer is up to these days you might even be pleasantly surprised....

Although it really is time to change focus on wikipedia anyay and focus on quality, really it is very worrying when you hit a random category and you just know most of the articles will either be short or unreferenced, I am admittedly imfluenced by what others say and think of me and if people view me in hate as this robotic kid it is definately time to change. I do thrive on encouragement, as most people do, and have always been affected by criticism, if I can help make people happier with doing something useful rather than problematic I would prefer not to have a lot of people hating my guts. I think time is too short to not enjoy things and if none of us enjoy short stubs (it wasn't exactly a bundle of fun for me creating them either) then it will be no more. Given that I have had a lot of eperience as Blofeld on wiki this has not been an easy thing for me to do and I hope you at least show me some respect for changing and now focusing on expanding those stubs that
that that "bastard" Blofeld created.

I am equally keen to support Huldra, and am willing to do what takes to convert problems into something beneficial.
Keep in touch if you want, I am, well, a little different from what was said about me in person, anyway.... And the Blofeld name was not because I am a juvenile spotty teenager, I'm 26 years old and actually dress quite well and do actually have interests in playing guitar and piano and sports although I admittedly spent way too much time on wiki as I'm sure a lot of people can confess to, but we have a lot of potential which needs to be fullfilled!!... The name was to provide a bit of relief from the stress and serious issues that often go on there at ANI etc and to try to not take myself too seriously....

Anyway thanks for whipping my arse into shape, I definately feel better doing what I#m doing now, but please try to not attacking me as this dreadful lowlife and at least recognise I have changed because I do partly respect you views on wiki and partly feel the same way as you do in regards to quality anyway as hard to believe it may seem, this is why I give enough of a damn to have abandoned my old account and ending it. I really hope you will start to see me in different light and that I have feelings, as well as goals to work towards on wikipedia and want it to be an enjoyable site as much as you guys do, and most of all, I am on your side!!.

Now you are free to burn Blofeld on the stake if you think that would put an end to all his "Aevil" but I would rather move on and work towards expanding those stubs that Blofeld created as well as cleaning up the shite from the Pakistani and Indian place articles. Man have you seen them? They glorify the local taxi driver as a famous dude LOL. List of 2500 schools in CAP LOCKS. The thing is we have recently gained 17,000 new articles not through me but by other people, as we speak there are people generating one liners about insects without any content, it will always be a problem until something is done to curb growth. IN thinking about it, it might not be a bit idea to set a minimum new article at say 1 kb of actual text to stop sub stubs being generated in future. I for one am certainly open to this and would be happy to discuss. On a personal note, if you want an article expan (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/smile.gif) ded please let me know, as long as it isn't about something like physics
or maths LOL. Name a geography or cultural article you want expanded and I'll see what I can do.

Best regards,

P.S. I like you too Horsey.....

[everyking]

Hi! Finally I have been able to get through here and set the record straight. Well you might have heard I abandoned my old account for creating those stubs . Maybe your grilling of me at WR was what was needed to really make me think about the short term consequences of drilling small stubs and not to be so engrossed in planning covering topics. But I am honestly not a vindictive editor.. Believe it or not I do have respect for the views of you guys as at the end of the day the site is supposed to be enjoyed but if people really hated those stubs and me as a result this is not good. The thing is I do have good abillities to write articles but because the amount of notable content missing was often unbearable I resorted to low grade stubs to try to start as much as I could. This was not for narcissistic or malicious reasons, genuinely it wasn't I actually thought I was doing what was right. However recent events and hitting 3 million and realising the amount of shite articles that exist on really notable subjects
as really made me stop and think. Personally I think it is better we have half decent articles on notable topics than drilling in new stubs to add to the workload. I have been trying to get hold of you for ages as I really do care about content and am actually a person with feelings too!

You deserve a lot of credit for this. Thanks for accepting the criticism (and looking past the mean-spirited parts of it), and I hope you keep up the good work on Wikipedia.