User:Walex03/What Wikipedia Is
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Hello. I am Walex03. I am the only Wikipedian I know, all my friends are non-Wikipedians. I am taking time out of my schedule to write and attempt to feature this article about how Wikipedia should be trusted with greater faith than it is. I hope this essay can apply to both Wikipedians (especially new users) and non-Wikipedians.
AbuseFilter
[edit]It is hardly ever vandalism stays on Wikipedia. I would like to point out to all new users and non-Wikipedians that vandalism is the act of mainly adding untrue information on pages, or putting in nonsense sentences disguised as legitimate sentences. For example, instead of putting, "I LIKE TOCK 2 MESOCKPUPPETTTT!!!!!!!" in a legitimate page, which has both nonsense grammar and meaning, any well-trained vandal, (which are pretty rare ;), would put it in a sophisticated grammar tone such as "I like to have conversations with my sockpuppet on talk pages." The reason why this would be done is probably mainly because something in all caps would stick out and be hunted down. Little do vandals know that Wikipedia has an abuse filter, so blanking pages, the act of removing all text, is marked as "removing all sections" and will become "disconstructive."
Assume good faith
[edit]Non-Wikipedians don't know about assuming good faith, which is why they don't. Assuming good faith is part of Wikipedia policys, along with civility and not biting the newcomers. This is assuming that the edits you see are made in good faith, not doing any vandalism, unless it is clear vandalism.
"Most people try to help the project, not hurt it."
[edit]Jimbo himself said it. "If this were not true, then a project such as Wikipedia does not exist." Jimbo knows how we are, and knows that the outsiders don't trust us. If they want to see disconstructive, then we'll give them disconstructive! Then they'll know how civil Wikipedia is! What about all the admins? Wikipedia is literally crawling with those things. They're the ones who fight off the vandals, but we should fight the vandals, too!
References
[edit]Material on Wikipedia should be cited. Non-Wikipedians probably have no idea what those little numbers in brackets even mean, but clicking the link will get you to its own part of the References section. They are all external links from third-party reliable sources that are trusted.
So truth is, Wikipedia has a lot of security.
Thank you for taking the time to read this essay and I hope it will be able to save Wikipedia forever.
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Walex03 (talk) 18:59, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
See Also
[edit]We don't expect you to trust us|basically like something that fights this essay.