User:Mallanox

I have no idea if anyone will read this but if they do, I've been thinking. What are we doing on Wikipedia? We purport to be writing an encyclopaedia. But we don't want just anything in it. And the more we do, the more we feel we need to constrain what's on the site. Notability is my main bugbear. What does that mean? An extremely small (compared to total Wikipedia users) have established "consensus" to decide what is notable. These criteria are arbitrary though, in many users eyes, absolute. We fling snippets of rules at each other "this fails that criteria", "that's not a reliable source" but have we ever stopped to think that we're building it for a purpose? To be a useful reference tool. Have we stopped to find out if what we're doing IS useful? Do we reject things as being not notable that people really need to be able to find?

This troubles me.

We delete that which offends the great God of notability. Is he really there or did we create him?

Toolbox

 * WP:IC
 * WP:VAND
 * sandbox
 * Category:Wikipedia official policy
 * Category:Wikipedia content
 * WP:5
 * WP:5

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Things to do

 * Keep tabs on film release for 11 Minutes Ago for its reinclusion on wikipedia
 * Stéphane Rideau, cleared up the mess. Need to research fleshing out article and x-refs
 * Luciano Martino create article
 * Paula Weinstein create article

Relevant (?) facts
Mallanox is a native of England and was born in Salisbury.

A wide variety of interests may be reflected in the entries edited on Wikipedia.

So far, edits have been made in the areas of:

Marvel Comics - where many characters have been added/edited.

Transformers - Mallanox has followed the toy and cartoon series since they began.

Science Fiction - Mallanox has seen all or most episodes of Doctor Who, Blake's 7, Star Trek and many others. Mallanox has read many Doctor Who novels.

Cinema - Mallanox has a qualification in film study and is interested in a wide range of movies.

Salisbury and it's surroundings - as home city. Created the category Sarumites (re-named People from Salisbury) and found its first 20 articles.

Mallanox is an artist, musician and student of divination and is likely to make contributions in these areas also.

Mallanox is currently working on film articles, mainly sorting categorisation out.

Good advice
Quit being a delete-happy prick. Good advice from another Wikipedian's userpage. They deleted it for some reason. But I'm going to keep it for the moment.

Go to bed when you're tired! At the time of writing I have just reversed edits I made to 13 (how ironic) articles. At about 3.30 in the morning I misread the word pick for prick(!) and removed a users edits. I'm going to bed now. I will be back tomorrow with a fresh head!

People I have met who have Wikipedia articles

 * Kenneth Baker
 * Norman Wisdom
 * Robert Key (politician)
 * Zoltán Kocsis

Performers or performances I have seen live

 * Alfie Allen
 * Daniel Radcliffe
 * Deus
 * Equus
 * Jenny Agutter
 * The Jesus and Mary Chain
 * Jethro
 * Jo Brand
 * Karen Meagher


 * Ken Dodd
 * Linda Thorson
 * Max Boyce
 * Norman Wisdom
 * Puppetry of the Penis
 * Richard Griffiths
 * Simon Callow
 * Will Kemp

Pages Mallanox started
There are more but I haven't worked out how to track them down!


 * 100 Days Before the Command
 * Agent (comics)
 * Alain Sarde
 * Alex Nepomniaschy
 * Andrew Eaton
 * Arthur Gorson
 * Bernard Knowles
 * Bill Pankow
 * Bo Goldman
 * Bob Ducsay
 * Brian Berdan
 * Carolyn Pfeiffer
 * Charles H. Schneer
 * Claudio Brook
 * Crane Wilbur
 * Dariusz Wolski
 * David Blocker
 * David Eggby
 * David Odell
 * David Rennie (film editor)
 * David Titcher
 * Dennis Virkler
 * Dick Bush
 * Douglas Milsome
 * Dyson Lovell
 * Ehren Kruger
 * Frank Harvey
 * Franco Ferrini
 * Gary Barber
 * George Worthing Yates
 * Gerald B. Greenberg
 * Giuseppe Rotunno
 * Hanania Baer
 * Harry Essex
 * House of Morecock
 * Jack E. Cox
 * James Jacks
 * Jeff Gourson
 * Jerome Hellman
 * John Franklyn-Robbins
 * John R. Leonetti
 * Kieran O'Brien
 * Laurie MacDonald
 * Lawrence Weingarten
 * Lloyd Levin


 * Locked Up (film)
 * Madagascar Skin
 * Marc Worden
 * Marianne Maddalena
 * Mark A. Altman
 * Mark Irwin
 * Marvin J. McIntyre
 * Matthew F. Leonetti
 * My Mother Frank
 * Neil Canton
 * Nightmare in Wax
 * Not Angels But Angels
 * Paul Rubell
 * Paul Zaza
 * Paweł Edelman
 * Peter Lyons Collister
 * Peter McCarthy
 * Peter Segal
 * Reginald Beckwith
 * Reinhold Heil
 * Richard A. Harris
 * Richard Marks
 * Rick Shaine
 * Robert Fraisse
 * Robert Getchell
 * Robert M. Stevens
 * Sean Daniel
 * Sean McClory
 * Sexual Dependency
 * Sheldon Kahn
 * Simon Boswell
 * Stephen H. Burum
 * Stephen E. Rivkin
 * Steven Bernstein (cinematographer)
 * Stuart Cornfeld
 * Stuart M. Besser
 * Sydney Bromley
 * Taina Elg
 * Teddy Castellucci
 * Terry Hayes
 * Terry Rawlings
 * The Nostril Picker
 * The Tesseract (film)
 * Thom Noble
 * Thomas Del Ruth
 * Thundercrack!
 * Tim Suhrstedt
 * TLA Releasing
 * Tom Priestley
 * Toyomichi Kurita
 * Val Ross (writer)
 * Walter Seltzer
 * Wattoo Wattoo Super Bird
 * William Goldenberg

Also categories

 * Category:1910s romantic comedy films (moved from Category:1910s Romantic comedy films)
 * Category:1920s romantic comedy films
 * Category:1930s romantic comedy films
 * Category:1940s romantic comedy films
 * Category:1950s romantic comedy films
 * Category:1960s romantic comedy films
 * Category:1970s romantic comedy films
 * Category:1980s romantic comedy films
 * Category:1990s romantic comedy films
 * Category:20,000 Leagues Under the Sea films
 * Category:Abbott and Costello (film series) (moved from Category:Abbott and Costello films)
 * Category:Alien visitation films
 * Category:American Pie films
 * Category:American Zoetrope films
 * Category:Bad News Bears films
 * Category:Beach party films
 * Category:Best Foreign Newcomer Golden Globe
 * Category:Blind Dead films
 * Category:Bloodsport (film series)
 * Category:Body Snatchers films
 * Category:Bolivian films
 * Category:Bosnian War films
 * Category:Boys Life films
 * Category:Burmese language
 * Category:Burmese-language films
 * Category:Colombian songwriters
 * Category:Cuban film producers
 * Category:Devdas films
 * Category:Fictional Yugoslav people
 * Category:Filipino film producers
 * Category:Film4 Productions films
 * Category:Films based on the works of Jules Verne
 * Category:Finnish-language films
 * Category:Fly films
 * Category:Gabonese composers
 * Category:Georgian songwriters
 * Category:Horse racing films
 * Category:House Party films
 * Category:Jungle Book films
 * Category:Leprechaun films
 * Category:Mad scientist films
 * Category:Malaysian screenwriters
 * Category:Motorcycle racing films
 * Category:Mysterious Island films
 * Category:Newmarket Capital Group films
 * Category:People from Salisbury (moved from Category:Sarumites)
 * Category:Pornographic cartoons
 * Category:Psycho films
 * Category:Revolution Studios films
 * Category:Robot films
 * Category:Romantic drama films
 * Category:Romantic musical films
 * Category:Romantic period films
 * Category:Romantic western films
 * Category:Running films
 * Category:Serbo-Croatian-language films
 * Category:Shanghainese-language films
 * Category:Silver Pictures films
 * Category:Space adventure films
 * Category:Species films
 * Category:Starman films
 * Category:Surfing films
 * Category:Tagalog-language films
 * Category:Taiwanese-language films
 * Category:Thrash metal
 * Category:Toxic Avenger films
 * Category:War of the Worlds films
 * Category:World War II navy films
 * Category:Yugoslavian film editors
 * Category:Zimbabwean films

Pages nominated for successful deletion

 * Articles for deletion/360 (Josh Hoge song)
 * Articles for deletion/Apple Phenomenon
 * Articles for deletion/Nancythompson
 * Articles for deletion/The Berkeley Connection (2006 film)
 * Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Fast and the Furious: California Sprint
 * Articles for deletion/Turkish reggae music