If your Light Bulb writeup was important to you, please put it under the topic to which it pertains. For instance, How Many Basset Hounds Does It Take to Change a Light Bulb could be placed under Basset hound. This would make the data base more concise. It might also help you think through the concept and ask yourself, "Is this really needed here?"
Thank you for your patience, and send all hate mail to dem bones. He has been wondering why more of you aren't complaining about what I do here these days.
Relying upon the wisdom of Tem42, I too have not listed any writeups deleted by request. If you have come here to find out which SOB killed your latest personal literary masterpiece and you find it in this list, please send your complaints to dem bones. I'm sure he'd like a closer look at your work himself.
Update 09/22/2001: After some unfocused reprisals from dem bones to the staff at large, I am trying to be a kinder, gentler Editor. I am also trying to own-up to my killin' with each Klaproth message. I'll never measure up to sensei, but I must always strive for that level of professionalism and courtesy. Wish me luck.
(10 minutes after writeup was posted) you said "Hello. I am troubled by several of your recent writeups. Most recently, taking a dump. I almost killed this with penalty, but decided to msg you first. Why do you keep submitting stuff like this? Don't you know what E2 is all about yet?" to some_guy (15 minutes later) you said "Those weren't rhetorical questions, by the way. Please respond to me. I am here to help you if you will let me." to some_guy (25 minutes later) you said "Your writeup on taking a dump has reached -5 rep. It seems I am not the only one who thinks this sort of noding is a problem. If you are not willing to respond to me, that's not a good sign. Please converse with me." to some_guy 2001.09.06 at 07:39 some_guy says oops. was busy with another wu. :-/
It has been some time since I deleted anything worthy of note. Lately my new E2 job as Klaproth's administrative assistant keeps me busy. But sometimes I happen across writeups that just smell ... wrong. Too sophisticated or too urbane, or with academic phrasing that almost no one on E2 employs in writeups. Such was the case today.
I removed Pedro's E1 era writeup on cubism. Rep: 10 (+11/-1) - downvote by me. Klaproth: ... it was copied from two websites. See my Editor Log: September 2001 - Lord Brawl. Repost in your *own words* if you like.
It was a word for word copy of http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/glo/cubism/, with further text from http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/c/cubism.html appended for good measure. From the amount of text I suspect it was enlarged since the E1 days - which would have been a good time to rewrite in the noder's own words.
Cubism could use a good, original writeup, if anyone's so inclined.
Removed a w/u by idoru of the "I work here" variety. Also removed Snow Crash by fled user viveka - basically advertising her company's wares. A definite no-no, which had the node at Rep: -12 (+3/-15) after a downvote by me.
Removed CmdrTaco Vs. Nate, a relic of E1 and indulgence of the 'gods' and long-time noders. We'd never put up with this from new users, and thus must hold to the same standard ourselves.
I tried to talk kamamer and jbird out of leaving E2 and taking their writeups with them. They're serious about it, though, and I don't think I can convince them not to demand total writeup armageddon. Sigh.
I culled some of my own writeups while sending lots of /msgs about the above problem. Mostly looking for anything of mine that might be GTKY or short factual w/us that have been superceded by more knowledgable ones. If you see anything of mine that's become obsolete, please let me know and I'll give way gracefully.
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