geni wrote:
On 11/3/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
What policies/procedures/guidelines on en:wp
strike you as just awful?
Please list and elaborate.
This could be in any of purpose, current wording, ineffectuality or
just being a completely bad idea. Or anything else that makes it just
awful.
Parts of Wikipedia:Username
"Names that can be confused with other contributors" tends to be
overused. It is common practice on the net for people when a user name
is taken to use the user name followed by some number. We need to
accept this.
Except that "on the rest of the interwebs" people with usernames of the
form (word)(number) where (word) is common don't tend to run into each
other; on Wikipedia they *do*.
Wikipedia:Ownership of articles
Should be Wikipedia:Ownership of content. I tend to feel we have a
problem if people are asking permission to edit images.
Actually it's "best practice" to not upload a modified version of an
image over the original unless the modifications are lossless and trivial.
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