User talk:Shearonink

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STOP I am   TAKING A BREAK

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Try to be nice and... Let's make a pact, you and me...don't make assumptions about me and I won't make assumptions about you. I try to think the best about others...so try to think the best about me,  OK ?!? Assuming good reasons for our fellow Wikipedia editors' behavior should be the first thing we do BEFORE we reach for the keyboard... Stating that "Our social policies are not a suicide pact" is not really a decent excuse for any Wikipedian's poor behavior. And I really hate it when good editors feel they have to leave...I mean, I can understand retiring, but I miss so many people who aren't around any more for one reason or another. Sometimes?... sometimes I adopt really crappy orphan articles and when others come along and change and/or improve my efforts,

I know I don't "own" the article and I don't edit war about it but it sometimes just breaks my heart. True Confession: I am not a coder, I am not a computer-person. I do not understand Linux or Flow or liquid threads or almost any aspect of the technical side of Wikipedia...all I know Is that I love words. I love being part of this project. I love making knowledge accessible to people. So I taught myself by cutting & pasting the code from articles and from Wiki-gimmicks that I liked, from pestering people who knew their way around (especially User:Chzz). The high I got from mastering the language and learning how to make things look right?... PRICELESS. Shearonink (talk) __NOINDEX__

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From SilkTork's User Talk... "None of the Wikipedia volunteer editors who add and improve content in articles receive any financial benefit. We all simply contribute our time because we care about building a great encyclopedia for you and innumerable others around the world to use. If you cannot afford it, no one wants you to donate. Wikipedia is not at risk of shutting down, and the Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts the Wikipedia platform and is asking for these donations, is richer than ever. Hosting costs are around £2 million, while salaries for staff who do not contribute to making Wikipedia, but who are the ones asking for donations, are £67 million"   And then there's this latest... '''

Good article reassessment for Interstate 440 (North Carolina)
Interstate 440 (North Carolina) has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. NoobThreePointOh (talk) 01:15, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
 * - There was an edit conflict when I was replying to this at the reassessment page so I'm replying here. I see that agreed with me that this GAR seemed a little hasty. Just because an article has a single more citations needed template doesn't mean it should lose its GA status ("If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article.") That major template at the top of the article was placed in error, apparently because of a single "citations needed" template within the article. The article has plenty of cites/references, look like it simply needed some updating, maybe local/NC news stories about I440 like this WRAL article about work not being finished until 2025 etc.  THanks for the notice though... Shearonink (talk) 02:25, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Yup, that reassessment was all my fault. NoobThreePointOh (talk) 02:40, 29 May 2024 (UTC)