User:Celerityfm

WikiGnome and internet user.

YTMND
The YTMND article is one of my pets. I originally found it wandering the streets sick and hungry after it had been deleted and then resurrected. With a little bit of love and patience I nursed it back to health on May 5th, 2005. On June 23rd, 2005 I stopped checking it on a regular basis, thinking it would maintain itself within the structure that I had setup. In my absence it got totally out of control (my structure was not foolproof). Unfortunately I had made a mistake early on by not being familiar with Wikipedia's deletion and undeletion policies. Unbeknown to me the article was never properly undeleted in the first place. So in response someone deleted it again. It turns out though that I had added fuel to the deleter's fire by using parts of the originally deleted article in the new one. I was vindicated though when one of my fellow YTMND editors pointed out that the original article was informative and it should be allowed to see the light of day. So it went up for undeletion and was successfully brought back to life. Next it had to survive being put up for a vote of deletion again, and EVERYONE voted to keep the article. Though after it was restored the chaos resumed and in response people began snipping out entire sections without leaving behind anything that made sense. The article even had a cleanup header slapped on it as a result.

Well on August 31st, 2005 I went to check on it. After seeing my beloved article in shambles I decided that it was worth keeping up with it from then on. One of the major changes that I made was to follow the FADS section's move and separate the YTMND FORUMS into a separate article. I also cut the YTMND HISTORY down to a very small section, since it seemed to anger the mods otherwise. It is kinda nice having the YTMND FORUMS in their own article now. I mean, nothing against the YTMND forums people but, they were a major source of the chaos on the original YTMND article and I'm really glad to see them being able to have their own article to work on now. Though in the end, unfortunately the forums article that I started was put up for deletion and was deleted.

The tasks I am typically undertaking to keep this article up to snuff include:
 * Removing unnecessary additions to the article
 * Replacing parts of the article that get deleted when people do a bad job of fixing vandalism
 * Removing vandalism
 * Keeping fads out of the article and IN the sub article

I like the YTMND article because of it's underdog story and also because YTMND is an important cultural artifact. I enjoy helping to preserve its history and to my fellow YTMND editors, I salute you!