User:Tcbterri

Hello world! TCBTerri is now using her Wikipedia account.

I have a lot to learn and not enough time/energy to do anything substantial yet. However, I wanted to start using the Watchlist because I missed one of my favorite pages being deleted while I was doing other things during the 2012 elections and holidays. I'm a workaround queen so rather than stopping my annual donation out of frustration, I'll see if the Watchlist can help me.

I regularly used Wikipedia's list of DirecTV channels which had way more information than anything else I could find on a single page without a ton of media bloat making it hard to read. Apparently TPTB decided it was an inappropriate show guide (which it was not) and voted it off the (Wiki)Island. There is no trace, no archived version, nothing except a talk argument over deleting it. I'm screwed. If I'd had it on my Watchlist, I would have gotten a notification and could have saved a local copy on my hard drive before it was deleted. I'm just sick over this.

I don't subscribe to DirecTV myself, but spend a couple weeks a month at my parents' home that does have it. I like to plan in advance in cases where there is something I want to watch. If I saw something advertised on the XYZ Network I could quickly go to the DirecTV channel list, see if it was part of the package my parents' had, and find the channel number so I could easily tune it in even if it wasn't on the favorite channel list of their system.

So now I'll be adding pages I frequently reference to my Watchlist so this kind of thing won't happen again. The minute someone decides to fight for deletion of a favorite page, I'll save a copy for future reference offline.

smhsmhsmhsmhsmh <--- shaking my head so much that it makes me dizzy