User:Highspeedrailguy/Rules


 * Demiurge1000: A maximum of one per week, of requests to delete own user pages. (Exception: Genuine unintended revealing of personal information - but do not do this as a game.)
 * Demiurge1000: A maximum of one per year, of new/extra/additional accounts. (Exception: if an administrator specifically requests you create one, and it's their idea.)
 * Demiurge1000: You won't be giving out on Wikipedia, or privately to anyone from Wikipedia, your last name, age (that includes "less than" age), school name, town/city name, or any similar information like your parents' names or where they work or any information that might let anyone work any of that out. (Exceptions: none, except with your parents' agreement for the specific purpose of your parents contacting someone.)
 * Demiurge1000: You're not going to tag any pages as sockpuppets of anyone, or as sockmasters, or as banned users, or as blocked users.
 * Demiurge1000: You're not going to file any SPI investigations - if you think someone is a sockpuppet then you will explain why to me or (....add name here later...) or (...add name here later...) and that person will file an SPI or investigate themselves.
 * 28bytes: My strong suggestion would be to limit editing to the article space, article talk, and user talk namespaces. Most of the drama arises from the user page and project space edits, and there's really no need for a weekly (!) request to delete user pages.
 * Demiurge1000: The "one userspace delete per week" limit was originally suggested by someone else, but then forgotten. It's a big improvement on two per hour which is roughly what was happening while I was typing that. (I was about to provide a link for comparison, to the user-page-which-is-now-a-deletion-log of a certain user named after a certain fictional British schoolboy who spent some time stranded on an island, but sadly that page contained WP:BEANS that would be just too irresistable.) Getting these rules even approximately right isn't easy...


 * Concentrating on editing articles is a great idea, and it's the most important thing, but it's sometimes difficult to remember to :keep doing... and also it's very hard to make a specific rule about that. Some might suggest a rule regarding RfA, but what would it :say? I am finding it difficult to see it as reasonable to have a rule barring HSRG from voting at RfA or asking questions at RfA, :especially since there are other people whose behaviour there has attracted far more scrutiny than his.


 * 28bytes: Really, it's an issue of quality over quantity. Using RfA as an example: posting the articles created on the talk page so that users don't have to wait for the toolserver: that's helpful. Posting LOLCATs and voting support then oppose in the same RfA for no apparent reason, that's not so helpful. Likewise, with userspace edits: setting up sandboxes, reverting vandalism, that's helpful. Posting {retired} then immediately unretiring, switching usernames, requesting deletions then immediately recreating, that's not so helpful.