User talk:WillWoodhull

Deleting useful feedback?
Hope you at least read what I posted here. (BTW, the content you "deleted" is visible on this page's history. It's extremely rare for anything posted on Wikipedia to be hidden from the world.)

And the guidelines don't view my posts here as "a waste of resources" (to quote your edit summary), but as communication to help a new editor find their way here on Wikipedia.

Best of becoming a Wikipedian. Lentower (talk) 18:27, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Final response
Yes, I understood that the 'deletion' does not remove the page from the archives. I have used wikis extensively for nearly as long as Wikipedia has existed, in my work as an Informatics Clinician (RN) in hospital settings. Wikis are excellent tools for developing, revising, and maintaining procedure and policy manuals. However those uses require access controls and different ways of managing the back office databases that Wikimedia does not provide, so my experience with the Wikimedia engine has always been as a user rather than a contributor.

The page was a waste of bandwidth as the same material could have been emailed directly to its intended audience rather than posted as a talk page, where it is likely to be downloaded by persons who will not benefit from it: that is wasted bandwidth, and a continuing cost for as long as the page is easily accessible. The archival copies of these pages are possibly wasted storage (in that it is unlikely that anyone would ever retrieve them), but that is an entirely different, and much less expensive, resource. Some of Wikipedia's editors would probably benefit from learning more about the hardware, software, and protocols that are the underpinnings of the tools they use.

At this time I have no intention of becoming a Wikipedian. I have learned enough about Wikipedia's approach to managing information to know that I do not now, and may never, work well in that particular community. I might adopt the Wikimedia engine at some point, if it ever gains an ACL capability, but I cannot envision ever working with the kind of superstructure that Wikipedia imposes on top of that engine.

I wish Wikipedia the best. It is an excellent resource, and I am glad it has a strong community that strives to keep it that way. It is not my community; its ways are not my ways. Will Woodhull (talk) 19:15, 1 October 2013 (UTC)


 * I understand where you're coming from. If you ever want a detailed response from me, ask on this page.


 * Best with whatever else you take on. Lentower (talk) 23:42, 1 October 2013 (UTC)