User talk:Hoverfish/Notebook



Wasting some precious time here
If one finds nothing more helpful to do for Wikipedia than to delete the well intended efforts (but alas lacking in reliable sources) of other contributors who might have been as naive as to think that they were building an encyclopedia, it is understandable that one must first mentally project some kind of very bad and suspicious thing in what one is deleting, write insulting things about the intentions of the creator and his contributions, and generally see all kinds of creepy things in his relation to Wikipedia, like "cult promotion", "blatant spamming", whatever condemnable. What the heck, we're humans after all, we shouldn't feel guilty for doing our self-appointed duty. We should feel proud, correct, righteous. I mean, here we see big powers going out and bombing the hell out of areas where people and families live and all they have to say is that they are eliminating Evil so that Peace may prevail (not for any profit, God-forbid). So what's wrong with some wiki-nuking. Let's get together a demolition team and bring down "the wall of the garden". And no, we are not a cult, we probably haven't even read the artilce "cult" to know what one is, we don't have any inner jargon, we just see "gardens" and "walls" and "nuke" them, see? Of course one should know all this... so how does one dare interfere? If anybody dares we'll check into all the articles s/he has created and we'll nuke all "nukable stuff". After all Wikipedia tolerates such practices. At the most some administrator will leave a message like "please abstain from personal remarks". And then we have the WMF wondering as to how comes and participation is waning and asking us how we could appeal more to the public... maybe through some social-network-type application? Well keep looking out there and good luck. Disclaimer - Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. In any case no one has done me any wrong, so what the hell am I talking about here? Probably I fell asleep while editing and had a bad dream. P.S. - There seems to be a thing in some parts of Wikipedia referred to as the "parlance in AFD-sphere", which includes such vocabulary and tone as to effectively keep AfDs almost exclusively for the "regular AfD folk" (i.e. deletionists and inclusionists). For all other purposes AfDs are "open to the community".

 Deletionist getting ready for deep water action.

The fall of a spiritual giant
http://www.iep.utm.edu/indmat/ https://thediplomat.com/2013/12/india-and-china-lead-global-rankings-on-materialism-economic-optimism/ https://www.firstpost.com/india/nyt-writer-absolutely-right-delhi-literally-shithole-india-2272904.html
 * The most common view among scholars regarding the ethic of Indian Materialism is that it generally forwards Egoism.
 * When the fun is over.... "Don't Forget to Flush"

Superiority complex
"It is a psychological defense mechanism in which a person's feelings of superiority counter or conceal his or her feelings of inferiority."
 * http://www.pitlanemagazine.com/cultures/north-indians-and-their-inferiority-complex.html