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Blatant vandalism is rampant here. By current policy, vandals require three or four warnings to get banned. What a waste of editors' time. I would have a zero tolerance policy for vandals who add obscenities, patent nonsense, or obvious falsehoods to an article. In other words, one strike and
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specifically says "notability is not temporary." A large number of the articles here cover unmemorable, pop culture phenomena. I would hope for their deletion without hesitation. At the very least, I would have such articles automatically subject to a
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means to read deeply, not to scan cursorily; funny how so many people get this backwards -- I would guess that fewer than 25% of the current articles would survive a pruning process by my reckoning, and I think undertaking such an effort would be a good
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Knowledge (XXG) confuses volume with quality. The measure of an encyclopedia should not be the number of articles it contains but instead, the number of worthwhile articles it contains. Having perused a large sampling of articles here -- by the way,
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Among my primary interests with my time spent here is how to make
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Here is a list of fundamental problems plaguing the current instantiation of
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Knowledge (XXG) contains vast amounts of content with no historical significance. Will anyone remember or care in 20 (or 50) years who the contestants on a random reality TV show were?
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By the way, I hold in extreme distaste people who author their own autobiographies on
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By far and away the most consistent and level-headed editor I have seen in regards to speedy deletion tags and articles. Helps me as an admin keep it the deleting work!
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