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I believe that as a community together, we should do what we can to encourage that articles become better than when we first find them... by our researching and adding sources or cleaning up grammer or correcting style and format... and so give them them
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Adminship is a personal acceptance of responsibility to the community. It is not authority nor should it be used as authority. It is simply the assignment of certain additional tools that can aid a willing editor in making Knowledge (XXG) run smoother.
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a proponent of broad retention, I do not support the including of articles simply because they might be "harmless", and I do not support the including of articles deemed substandard which are found incapable of future improvement. I am
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to prosper is for good editors to do nothing. We're an English-language encyclopedia, but we gladly include all qualifying topics no matter the language of their sourcing and simply present the topic in
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to better serve the project is the way an encyclopdia is built. I do however balk at the use of "extreme inclusionist" or "rabid inclusionist", as use of such
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And when I opine at AFDs, whether for delete, or keep, or merge or redirect, or userfy, it's nice that some take my opinion into consideration.
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Interestingly, and specially as I quite often opine a delete for substandard or unsalvable articles, no one has ever called me a deletionist.
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I am not "extreme". A simple check shows I am just as willing to opine for deletion of an article at AFD as I am a keep.
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That said, here are a few of the articles I had a hand in expanding and sourcing for the project and its readers:
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is busy and is going to be on Knowledge (XXG) in off-and-on doses, and may not respond swiftly to queries.
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This user does not use automated editing tools. His count reflects many thousands of actual
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Every so often a topic catches my eye and I try to create a successful article about it.
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coverage, we DO NOT claim lack of notability or insist on "only" English coverage.
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in its efforts to improve articles to better serve the Knowledge (XXG) community.
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through actions or words that unexpanded or new articles are somehow
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Book of All Knowledge with Secret Appendix and Free Errata Sheet
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about having wet feet. Long story short, it's far better to
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Book of All Knowledge with Secret Appendix and Errata Sheet
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Tweaking something in preparation for main pages...
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Master Editor III
Bufonite
WikiProject Film
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WikiProject Film

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DYK
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Actors and Filmmakers


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WikiProject Television

WikiProject Unreferenced articles

Article Rescue Squadron
build a better Knowledge (XXG)
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