User talk:Shoemaker's Holiday

Goodbye, Wikipedia. The corruption of Arbcom, as amply set out in the recent e-mail exchange I had with them, where promises were made, broken, and they literally used me being upset at their actions as an excuse to refuse to actually review those actions. Further, gross favouritism - consider cases like GianoII, who knows one of the Arbcom, and so was protected for years, versus me making a statement that requires some straining to see as a violation in the first place, and getting a block of the full length and a nasty message. Evidently, if you do what they explicitly permit you to do in their decision, then politely comment when someone tries to use your work in a gambit, that's blockable.

I had been gone for five months. I had only returned for a week. Arbcom has been corrupt at the least since the Matthew Hoffman case - the one so egregious they were forced, eventually, to make a public statement admitting wrongdoing. They have clearly learned nothing.

Wikipedia is not worth my or your time. Shoemaker's Holiday talk 14:19, 4 April 2010 (UTC)


 * But Arbcom is not Wikipedia! Although I can really empathize if people at the top are really not ideal. One may feel unfairly targeted, unsafe, unmotivated. Not saying that's necessarily the case with today's Arbcom, 13 years after your comment though. I hope you come back one day. Regards, Thinker78  (talk) 04:46, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

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Hi there. Im looking to have a writing competition held in September and I am looking for a couple people to help me with their thoughts and ideas. I have had some input on the competition and have had several chats with people outside the wikipedia talk pages and I have decided to keep the competition limited to the following restraints:

1. Judges and competitors are separate and there has to be a finite list of them.

2. The competition should range from a few days to no more than 2 weeks, depending on the theme. Not a year long competition and not multiple stages.

3. The theme will be either creating ONE new article, expanding a stub, illustrating a large article with no pictures, editing an article in crisis or something similar to these ideas. If its successful we can have more competitions with other themes.

4. My general idea (but this needs serious development) is to have each article judged two or three times. The top ten are then announced as finalists and every judge then reviews those articles and the top three are announced.

4. Simple is good. Decide theme, decide rules, find people, define judges, define scoring criteria, assign topic or stub or whatever, come up with a way to discourage other users from working on the page (by far most difficult part requiring a lot of ingenuity and good ideas). Judge. Sounds simpler than it really is doesn´t it?

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Wanna help me with this? I´ll set up a new page and hope to build a team of three people to make this happen.

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