User:Gerald Waldo Luis/Signpost draft

The once-perceived garbage can actually be vital, and we grinded them

If there is one thing that makes Wikipedia special, is that anyone can edit it. Now, let's not extract the bad side of people (i.e. paid editors), but extract that side of people out. What if we encourage them not to edit just because you're paid? What if we encourage vandals to do a nice edit to something they're interested in? Now we have a newbie coming in, folks.

But if there's anything that can be hard from that, it is this: our policies are like two New York Libraries to a kid. Newcomers often just wanna start editing, nothing else. So our policies and essays and supplements and MoSes will look like a demon to them, making it an obstacle to edit. Now you might think, "Ah, that's fine, they'll learn as they grow in Wikipedia, it's really not that hard; just be bold, but not reckless." Well that's... you. As an experienced editor, having being in Wikipedia for months, if not years, who sees all Wikipedia-prefixed pages as a grain of salt that's easy to learn.

In an ageist sense, I am a newcomer, having being here for just three months. But a week ago, I removed the "newcomer" template in my userpage, with the reason being I feel like I have been familiar with all the needed-to-learn guidelines and MoS, and I feel like I just can't describe myself as a newbie anymore. I learn things quickly, mostly due to my interest with Wikipedia and all the awesome editors who have been assisting me in a cool manner.

But there are one group of people we have been spitting on. And who else than vandals. I hope my this will give you more understanding to all spectrum of human personality, and how we can retain more valuable people.

Why some people love vandalizing?
Some people just love to trash. It's what endorphins discharge. It's what makes some humane. There's that temptation of "What would the outcome be if I did [the thing]?" There's that great feeling on wanting to experiment something. I think we all have done that at some point in some way, shape, or form.

Now, that reason does not cover all vandals, i.e. those replacing "China" with "Ching chong," replacing the photo of Donald Trump with a penis, you know those people. Well guess what? They can be viable to the Wikipedia project too! Anyone who has good in some way can be a longterm Wikipedia editor, just as long as they try their best not pouring their unacceptable side. For example, if there is a vandal doing vandalism, we can advice the person to not edit pages he has a deep influential opinion on, and just edit casual pages he can edit in a good manner. I know this may sound unrealistic, and it does because not everyone has tried this method, based on my observations of vandals' talk pages, AfD nominations, etc.

We have made the assumption that a garbage will always be a garbage. And that's wrong.