User talk:Megazoid

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Re: Thank you for butchering the External Quake Links
Per our External links guideline, we only leave links that are considered useful for the casual reader. A list of Inactive Competitions is completely unnecessary, since they are either unofficial, or not active anymore. Why link to something that is inactive? A list of mods is useful for someone who already knows about Quake, who knows what a mod is, and knows how to play them, but for a casual user. Forums are usually discouraged because they are not neutral, are not reliable, and sometimes are locked for non members. Fan sites are discouraged because, just in the way you did, people will complain that we are "biased" towards a determined site. Therefore, I have removed all the external links leaving the official one, the link to Moby (which is accepted by WikiProject Computer and video games) and a link to an Open Directory.

Now, some thoughts about your comments (since you are new, you may not know about this): I hope I have clarified the matter. I am not the only one cleaning abusive external links sections; if you are not happy with what I did, feel free to contact Wikipedia talk:External links to ask for a second opinion. Cheers! -- ReyBrujo 17:39, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) I assume that since you feel that you have the right to delete information on Wikipedia, you can of course explain the relevance of your choices? Everyone has the right to delete or add information. The External links section, though, is considered an optional part of the article, which is bound to be spammed, and therefore we keep it as clear as possible. If nobody who knows about the topic clear the list, someone who does not know about the topic will do it. This is not as bad as it sounds, see below.
 * 2) Everybody in the Quake 1 scene already knows where the (external) Quake sites are. Then there is no need to have the links here.
 * 3) I submit to you sir, that you have little knowledge of Quake, and the site links you deleted were random. It is true that I have little knowledge of Quake (other than having played it five or six years ago). The fact that I have little knowledge of Quake makes me a good editor to, well, edit the article: the article should be useful for the casual reader who knows little about the topic. Therefore, someone who knows little about the topic should be in charge of proof reading the article to point out which parts are too technical or specific (that is why our Peer review, Good articles and Featured article candidates are reviewed by all the community, and not only by people who know about video games.
 * 4) It is obvious to me, that you are one of these people that edits Wikipedia for the sake of it. Personally, I consider myself a good wikipedian, and some facts back me up (having contributed massively to two good articles, Goldmoon and Riverwind] and left another, [[Sturm Brightblade suitable for such status, been contributing actively for almost 18 months, done lots of vandal fighting and article cleaning, contributed free images to Wikimedia Commons, done a lot of administrative tasks (protections, blocks, deletions, etc) not only in the English Wikipedia, but also in many other Wikipedias, etc, etc, etc).
 * 5) Wikipedia is about information is it? Perhaps to you it is about little people running around feeling important by imposing their interpretation of the Wikipedia guide lines. Feel free to read External links and Wikipedia is not a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media files, and talk to me later.
 * 6) Perhaps you feel more eminently qualified to decide what should or should not be included in the list of External Quake Site links, than the people who have been involved in running the Quake scene for the past 10 years. As I already stated before, sometimes people who are not in the scene are better qualified, since they can give a neutral opinion.
 * 7) Provide a complete explaination of the methodology and critia used for deleting certain links while keeping others, or revert your changes ASAP. Since you appear to be "touchy", here is my methodology then: remove all the fansites, external links and request people to add them in an open directory, as it is established at Links to be considered, point 3. If you want to add new external links, discuss them in the talk page. Per our Burden of evidence directive, the one adding the information must expose why it should be added, not the one removing it.
 * Quoting you, Fine, whatever. -- ReyBrujo 20:17, 12 May 2007 (UTC)