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The user's pages on Wikipedia were deleted by an admin because it was used more like a personal blog, which Wikipedia was never meant to be. Of course, perhaps

The user's pages on Wikipedia were deleted by an admin because it was used more like a personal blog, which Wikipedia was never meant to be. Of course, perhaps the admin could have given thr user a chance to copy over the content before deletion but then again I don't blame the admin for considering it similar to regular spam and deleting it. Maybe they still have a copy and perhaps the user can request for it. I still find Wikipedia to be a good source of information and don't consider it dying. Even if it is dying, I don't believe this to be the reason.

andrewjho 10y ago
You're justifying the administrator's actions based on a priori notions of what Wikipedia is or was "meant" to be. This allows you to ignore the actual consequences of actions. What's the point of a rule if it doesn't lead to positive consequences?
- flukus 10y ago
  The positive consequences is that wikipedias resources don't get wasted on useless crap.
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- jnicholasp 10y ago
  Mate, this isn't about abstract philosophical disagreements over what Wikipedia is. Wikipedia is a private platform entitled to make and enforce its own rules about what it is and how it should be used, that you've been using for years and have no excuse for not knowing the obvious basic rules of, one of which is "don't abuse wikipedia by treating it as an all-purpose host for your personal data". You have zero grounds to be pissed, and zero entitlement to the time and effort of a volunteer moderator who saw someone blatantly abusing the site's hosting generosity. Not letting you use Wikipedia's servers as your personal cloud service has absolutely nothing to do with a perceived decline in the character or culture of the site. Make a Google doc next time.
  - andrewjho 10y ago
    You seem to have completely missed the argument of the linked article. (Also, saying that something "isn't about X" doesn't magically make it not about X.) You also seem to be mixing up what "is" with what "ought to be". Feel free to read more about this common fallacy here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem
    - jnicholasp 10y ago
      It's pretty clear that you are confused about what Wikipedia is (not your personal cloud server) vs what you think it ought to be (your personal cloud server). Getting angry about your clearly-against-the-rules behavior being stopped and using that as a reason to go on a rant about Wikipedia dying of incivility is ridiculous. Wikipedia may or may not have a problematic culture. You were still obviously in the wrong and no one owes you their time to go into a gentle negotiation about it.
      - andrewjho 10y ago
        I'll break this down into easy-to-understand parts for you. > It's pretty clear that you are confused about what Wikipedia is (not your personal cloud server) vs what you think it ought to be (your personal cloud server). Nice "clever response," but you would realize -- if you had read and comprehended my article & comments -- that I have no such confusion. > Getting angry about your clearly-against-the-rules behavior being stopped and using that as a reason to go on a rant about Wikipedia dying of incivility is ridiculous. "Ridiculous" is not a counterargument. > Wikipedia may or may not have a problematic culture. Meaningless statement. Waste of space. > You were still obviously in the wrong A factual restatement of what the rules are does not even come close to constituting a reply to the linked post, let alone a counterargument. > and no one owes you their time to go into a gentle negotiation about it. Normative statement. It's also incoherent. My position is that it is consequentially better for administrators to act otherwise. If you can't reply on consequential grounds and without making appeals to what people "should" or "shouldn't" do, then just don't reply, please.

andrewjho 10y ago

You're justifying the administrator's actions based on a priori notions of what Wikipedia is or was "meant" to be. This allows you to ignore the actual consequences of actions. What's the point of a rule if it doesn't lead to positive consequences?

flukus 10y ago
The positive consequences is that wikipedias resources don't get wasted on useless crap.
- deleted 10y ago
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jnicholasp 10y ago
Mate, this isn't about abstract philosophical disagreements over what Wikipedia is. Wikipedia is a private platform entitled to make and enforce its own rules about what it is and how it should be used, that you've been using for years and have no excuse for not knowing the obvious basic rules of, one of which is "don't abuse wikipedia by treating it as an all-purpose host for your personal data". You have zero grounds to be pissed, and zero entitlement to the time and effort of a volunteer moderator who saw someone blatantly abusing the site's hosting generosity. Not letting you use Wikipedia's servers as your personal cloud service has absolutely nothing to do with a perceived decline in the character or culture of the site. Make a Google doc next time.
- andrewjho 10y ago
  You seem to have completely missed the argument of the linked article. (Also, saying that something "isn't about X" doesn't magically make it not about X.) You also seem to be mixing up what "is" with what "ought to be". Feel free to read more about this common fallacy here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem
  - jnicholasp 10y ago
    It's pretty clear that you are confused about what Wikipedia is (not your personal cloud server) vs what you think it ought to be (your personal cloud server). Getting angry about your clearly-against-the-rules behavior being stopped and using that as a reason to go on a rant about Wikipedia dying of incivility is ridiculous. Wikipedia may or may not have a problematic culture. You were still obviously in the wrong and no one owes you their time to go into a gentle negotiation about it.
    - andrewjho 10y ago
      I'll break this down into easy-to-understand parts for you. > It's pretty clear that you are confused about what Wikipedia is (not your personal cloud server) vs what you think it ought to be (your personal cloud server). Nice "clever response," but you would realize -- if you had read and comprehended my article & comments -- that I have no such confusion. > Getting angry about your clearly-against-the-rules behavior being stopped and using that as a reason to go on a rant about Wikipedia dying of incivility is ridiculous. "Ridiculous" is not a counterargument. > Wikipedia may or may not have a problematic culture. Meaningless statement. Waste of space. > You were still obviously in the wrong A factual restatement of what the rules are does not even come close to constituting a reply to the linked post, let alone a counterargument. > and no one owes you their time to go into a gentle negotiation about it. Normative statement. It's also incoherent. My position is that it is consequentially better for administrators to act otherwise. If you can't reply on consequential grounds and without making appeals to what people "should" or "shouldn't" do, then just don't reply, please.