User:Imperator Honorius/Sidenotes


 *  Wiki Lawyering & Petifoggery
 * If you practice this in any form, please cease and desist guys, cease and desist. ;)


 * Inclusionism versus Deletionism
 * I believe that Wikipedia is plagued by a vicious cycle.
 * Following that, the part I dislike most about the cycle is the animosity and wars between  inclusionists and  deletionists, which tends to polarise the wiki, especially when admins get involved. While it appears (to me) that there is no solution to this problem, it should be noted that it is a problem of  Wikipedia. I believe this problem does harm to the wiki and causes 'friction' between editors, which may end up wasting precious time squabbling and in the end deleting, instead of using time and energy in the more worthwhile pursuit of editing and improving articles.
 * Personally, I am an Inclusionist because I believe that even if it is a stub article, it can always be improved, and I don't see the point in deleting articles and images (unless they are vandalism or non-sensical), as they all make Wikipedia better, Wikipedia shouldn't just contain a small number of elite articles, it should contain those elite articles plus a host of smaller articles and stubs. Also, most articles are useless without pictures in my opinion, yet they always seem to be the target of deletion... Instead of deleting the said picture, why can't other Wikipedians try and find its source? Or provide an alternate which does have a source. Wikipedia isn't a paper encyclopædia, it's an online one, and so it can allow for a vastly greater content, so why the need to conserve the few Kb that a stub consists of? (Even Jimbo Wales agrees that Hard disks are cheap). Again I will herald the catch cry of the stereotypical inclusionist and say " Wikipedia is not paper!".