User:Beetstra/Philosophy

Hi, and welcome!

Here I will try and write some of the things that I try and uphold on Wikipedia:


 * 1) I am neither a mergist nor a splittist.  I will merge articles if I think the seperate article is not warranted (mainly if there is mainly duplicate information, or if there is info which is just a subset of the other article).  On the other hand, if there are parts which can live a life of their own, I will split them of, and make proper links on other pages to that (mainly if the information is useful also for other fields, but when
 * 2) I mark small articles as stubs, and will remove that as soon as I think that the article approximately tells the bare minimum (enough to give the article a right to exist).
 * 3) I delete many expand templates, I do not believe they are useful.  Expansion is a part of Wikipedia.  There is always more to tell, and small articles tell at least something.
 * 4) I am in general against deletion of articles.  The only exception is if an article is completely misinforming, or about things that simply do not exist.  If someone made an article, at least s/he thougt it was important, and hence, it needs to exist.  In my opinion, there is no such thing as an article that is too small.  If it tells in one sentence what it is about .. that's enough.

Chemically:
 * 1) Take care with safety data .. leave that to the specialists outside Wikipedia.