[WikiEN-l] Bad And Wrong Policy/Procedure/Guideline Hitlist

Fri Nov 3 17:24:56 UTC 2006

On 11/3/06, David Gerard <dgerard at 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.

Wikipedia:Sock puppetry

just seems to be rather long

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.

CSD G12 is getting better but still suffers from having undergone two
different rapid changes with little discussion

Office Actions:

Not happy with DCMA take down stuff being dealt with through normal
deletion rather than oversight deletion. I don't like the idea that I
could accidentally restore stuff deleted due to DMCA notices.
-- 
geni