User:Barkeep49/Essays

Here are some essays I've written. Some of these I think are really good (I'm looking at you WP:MUSHROOM). Some of them are just me ruminating (perhaps at too much length). Some of them are fine. But here they are neatly collected.


 * Baseball Prospect Notability - on why lots of prospects who might seem notable at first blush aren't actually notable
 * Don't be a hero when editing, just be a good editor
 * How Wikipedia dies
 * Elite - a rumination on who the elite of Wikipedia are (spoiler: it's you)
 * Friends don't let friends get sanctioned
 * Ignore rules not consensus
 * Mushroom effect on how editors who have passed RfA may act differently than they did prior to the RfA and they should avoid letting this happen.
 * The parable of the wildflowers is a story of how good intention gnoming, especially at scale, can go wrong. Based on something first written by.
 * Patrolling the oldest articles in the Page Curation feed
 * Reflections on RfA in general and my RfA in particular with advice for people considering it
 * Read the room on the need to sensing where a discussion is at before joining in
 * So you're thinking about running for ArbCom
 * What's over and underrated about ACE?
 * Wisdom of the crowd on why in large discussions we can trust more in a count of editors on various sides to determine consensus