User:Wjemather

Nowhere near as active as I used to be – mostly due to being busy doing other things, but also because Wikipedia as a community has proven itself absolutely incapable of: All of which (at times) makes it a rather unpleasant and frustrating experience.
 * 1) dealing with editors (including administrators!!) who persistently violate WP:CIVIL despite repeated blocks
 * 2) identifying and dealing with editors (especially administrators!!) who persistently WP:GAME the system to suit their philosophical ideology
 * 3) identifying and dealing with editors who are WP:NOTHERE; examples include:
 * 4) *those who WP:PLAYPOLICY to pursue personal goals/crusades, largely to the detriment of the encyclopedia
 * 5) *those who WP:BATTLEGROUND, sometimes due to an inability to accept the outcome(s) of community discussion(s) they disagree with; subsequent behaviours often involve various levels of incivility, stonewalling, gaslighting, brigading and attempts to relitigate recently closed discussions at every opportunity
 * 6) *WP:MOS warriors who WP:PLAYPOLICY in their quest to enforce their own preferences, disregarding guidelines such as MOS:VAR and ignoring common sense
 * 7) *likely paid accounts or farms that often participate benignly for the most part, at least initially and often at AFD, before defending questionable articles en-masse or switching focus to push a particular POV in a controversial topic area
 * 8) understanding and following it's own policies/guidelines (particularly WP:V, WP:NPOV, WP:OR, WP:NOT, WP:C); allowing small groups of editors to consistently violate or abuse these fundamentals harms the project immeasurably
 * 9) differentiating between speculation, opinions and facts, often in violation of WP:NPOV/WP:CRYSTAL (N.B. opinion pieces are only reliable sources of the authors opinion; one person's truth ≠ fact)
 * 10) applying WP:NOTDEM/WP:VOTE consistently, especially in areas such as WP:XFD, where groups of editors often sway outcomes by weight of numbers and WP:GAMING tactics (including by administrators!!) despite their non-policy/guideline based WP:ATA !votes; closers who correctly weight the arguments routinely get accused of WP:SUPERVOTING
 * 11) producing coherent subject notability guidelines; as with most areas, groups of editors who share a narrow interest produce distorted results, such as criteria that justify articles with zero chance of ever having any WP:GNG-level sourcing and facilitate bot-like mass-creation of worthless micro-stubs (essentially nothing more than database entries) and synthesis from bare statistics; attempts to improve guidelines are generally countered by various WP:GAMING tactics (including by administrators!!)
 * 12) *It is startling how many administrators (often those from the early days) have failed to adjust to changed consensus in this area, and still argue to keep everything that barely scrapes over very low bar criterion but has almost no substantive sourcing; or worse, fail to weight !votes correctly when closing discussions as a result of their intransigence
 * 13) addressing any of its fundamental problems

Currently busy doing...

 * Lots of interesting things away from here!


 * Golf
 * Notability guidelines
 * General editing
 * Researching/writing Caribbean Tour/Latin American Tour
 * Japan Golf Tour
 * Clean-up of excessive bold text in tournament fields
 * Category:Defunct golf tournaments
 * Winners table format (create golf MoS)
 * Lists of golf courses – criteria
 * Challenge matches
 * Clean-up long drive articles – what a mess!!


 * Cricket
 * General editing
 * Pakistan cricket – what a mess!!
 * Notability guidelines – a little at a time!


 * Olympics
 * Processing database stubs (expanding/redirecting/other)

Other Pages
Note to patrollers: Anyone is free to contribute to these pages – please do not revert any changes except for obvious vandalism. Thanks.


 * /sandbox
 * /library
 * /sandbox2
 * /draft
 * /Golfers
 * /Courses
 * /Amateur
 * /Counties
 * /Women's golf
 * /Non-tour
 * /Europe


 * /PGA Tour
 * /European Tour (/maps)
 * /Asian Tour
 * /Sunshine Tour
 * /Australasian Tour
 * /Japan Golf Tour
 * /Korean Tour
 * /LIV Golf
 * /Majors
 * /Ryder Cup


 * /British PGA circuit (pre ET)
 * /GB and I (early)
 * /GB and I (1920s)
 * /GB and I (1930s)
 * /British PGA regions
 * /European circuit (pre ET)
 * /South African circuit (pre ST)
 * /Federación Colombiana de Golf
 * Development Tours
 * /Alps Tour


 * Defunct tours
 * /Canadian Tour
 * /Tour de las Americas
 * /Asia Golf Circuit
 * /China Tour (Volvo)
 * /Safari Tour
 * /Rhodesian Circuit
 * /Caribbean Tour
 * /TPS Tour (PGA Tour satellite)
 * /World Golf Tour


 * /Mini-tours
 * /Tournament Players Association
 * /Space Coast Tour
 * /Emerald Coast Tour
 * SwingThought Tour
 * /NGA Hooters Tour
 * /eGolf Tour
 * /Gateway Tour
 * /Golden Bear Tour
 * /Gold Coast Tour
 * /All-American Tour
 * /Asher Tour
 * /Golden State Tour
 * /Outlaw Tour
 * /Teardrop Tour
 * /California Golf Tour
 * /US Pro Tour
 * /Tight Lies Tour
 * /Ninfa's Texas Tour
 * /All Pro Tour
 * /Dakotas Tour
 * /National Pro Tour


 * /Cricket
 * /Olympics