User:CyberAnth/Projects

This is where I keep projects of articles or article portions I might be working that are not ready to be posted as a draft.

Other
A wikimob is a group of editors/users who conspire together in efforts to be a majority or authority on a particular wikipedia article or recent edits. Typically associated with more controversial articles. Some would argue that this is the way wikipedia was meant to work. While others point to the dangers of this type of peer review.

Foreseen problems
Problems with a wikimob are easy to recognize, but the mob itself is virtually impossible to make out. The dangers are quite evident; however the users involved in a wikimob are much harded to identify.

First the editorial problems:

 * Articles will begin to take a personal or one sided point of view.
 * Articles originally written w/o bias will become slanted.
 * The reader is miss informed believing that this particular bias is fact. In turn ruining the creditability of wikipedia as an authority’s encyclopedia.
 * Other editors try to make article changes to reflect a NPOV and are reverted by the consensus of the wikimob.
 * Campaigns begin against users who revert there edits or begin the deletion of there article. These campaigns can be simple as threats or intimidation on user pages all the way up to blocked indefinitely.

Second the editors/users involved in a wikimob:

 * Do a disservice to wikipedia.
 * Will deny the existence of a wikimob.
 * Will contribute or edit articles to match there wikimob's agenda.
 * Editors may belong to legitimate wiki projects. In fact this is where many wikimobs are born.

The best way to find out if contributors are involved in a wikimob is research. Begin with checking there user contributions. Also check the user talk page for commentary that is not wikipedia in nature. Check the signatures/user talk pages of the editors who have left feedback on a user’s discussion page. If you begin see 2 or more users always editing or commenting on the same articles this could be a wikimob; however it could be coincidence.

List of controversial topics that a wikimob may be connected with:

 * Politics


 * LGBT issues
 * Political figures
 * Countries
 * Entertainment Industry
 * Actors
 * Movies
 * Television
 * Fox News
 * Religion
 * Biographies

Prairie Muffins
Prairie Muffins is a term used by some conservative evangelical Christians in the United States to refer to married women who choose to pursue what they hold as the biblical role of women as quiet homemakers who protect the innocence of their children. The idea is taken from the New Testament passage in Titus 2:4-5:

"Admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed. NKJV"

The origin of the term stems from an incident when R.C. Sproul, Jr., in a good-natured, joking, and in-passing manner, referred to his wife as a "Prairie Muffin." The term is proudly worn by those who self-define as such, although people who see the term and its lifestyle as form of patriarchy may use it as a pejorative. The husbands of those who self-define as Prairie Muffins sometimes refer to themselves as "Prairie Dawgs". Prairie Muffin women are likely to be Quiverfull, homeschoolers, and to live in a rural area.