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Keφr is me. Please spell it with a φ (the Greek letter "phi") if you can, though I will not insist too much.
I am a deletionist (and immediatist at that), though I do give some benefit of doubt in favour of keeping articles about general, abstract subjects (as opposed to specific companies, people, software, etc.). I believe that articles better be deleted than stay unsourced, and that deletion should not be considered a prohibition from recreating the article, when sources are brought or circumstances change. I am also a moderately mergist (in that I believe it is better to have fewer articles unless there is a strong need for a split), mesopedian (though I sympathise with exopedians more), mediawikianist (as you can tell by my scripts), individualist sceptic. Last but not least, I think a little sarcasm does not hurt anyone, and the worst kind of joke is the one spoiled beforehand.
As for the social side of Wikipedia… There is not a single userbox on this page, and for a good reason. I think they make people forget that Wikipedia is not a place to advertise your views or post excessive volumes of silliness, especially not related to building an encyclopaedia which it is supposed to be. I like user pages that are clean, minimalist and try to integrate as much as possible into the project-wide aesthetic, as opposed to those which try too hard to be fancy. (I might not be the best on the minimalist front myself, though…). Barnstars…? I do not mind them.
I have little time for content improvements, so I mostly stick to cleaning tasks; looking for issues, adding templates, markup fixes, page patrolling and bringing especially bad articles to justice.
Hit list[edit]
(i.e. list of things I would like to, but will not do very soon, for various reasons. Why "hit list"? Well, "To-do list" is too boring. You are free to implement some of the ideas listed herein, if you have the time. Just drop me a line.)
- Assess, assess, assess. (Do you know Rater?)
- Find sources for articles listed in Template:Application binary interface. Appropriate sources would be publications about compiler theory, assembly language programming and reverse engineering. And preferably not some random sites on the Web. I am pretty sure there are some. Yes, this is a weak argument. I would not be surprised if some of the content eventually got merged somewhere else.
- Articles on Boolean algebra topics:
- Merge Boolean algebra with Boolean algebras canonically defined (because WP:CFORKs are bad)
- Merge Two-element Boolean algebra, Boolean domain and maybe GF(2).
- Clean up Kernel (linear algebra)
- Do something with articles of questionable notability, especially those listed in:
- Template:Samsung phones
- Template:Character encoding — putting them in a list article may be more appropriate.
I have actually compiled such a list once, I could post it here.
- Here is my list: Draft:List of computer character encodings. Feedback welcome.
- Template:Screens of death — articles are completely unsourced and mix up failure modes of completely unrelated devices. Everything valuable in these articles could as well be left in a screen of death entry in Wiktionary. Only Blue Screen of Death might be kept here.
- Template:Windows commands and Template:Unix commands - should probably be a list
Template:Computing signals— discussed here:
- Template:Real-time operating systems
- Template:GUI widgets
- Template:ccTLD - again, a list seems more appropriate.
- Stub-class Low-importance Computing articles, and Stub-class Unknown-importance even more — maybe not even most of them need deletion, but they are the most suspect.
- User:Kephir/reports/Stagnant Computing articles and User:Kephir/reports/Stagnant Computing talk pages — with the same caution as above.
- Talkpages are horrible as they are now. They are horrible, because they leave room for impersonation, editing other users' comments, unsigned and misformatted posts. These frowned-upon behaviours have to be corrected with bots. There are plenty of MediaWiki extensions creating much saner discussion systems; why not use one of them?
- Seems I am not the only one: User:Dcoetzee/Why wikithreads are bad
- Worth some attention: wikt:User:Yair rand/addcomment.js
- WP:Flow — though it will be worthless if used only for user talk pages.
Try to revive WP:PENDING or WP:FLAGGED in some form. WP:PC2012— I am somewhat disappointed by the implementation, to be honest.
- Integrate some of the functionality of WP:TW into the vanilla wiki software.
- Integrate {{editprotected}} and {{editsemiprotected}} into vanilla wiki software.
- Write more automation scripts.
Article assessment— Rater. Merge requests — Wikipedia talk:Twinkle/Archive 30#Merge proposal - only does half the jobDone. Tagging redirects with {{R from}} templates— User:Kephir/gadgets/sagittarius; though I am not sure if it will ever leave the "proof-of-concept" stage.
- Create a bot, script, or some other mechanism to notify WikiProjects about new articles of their interest, something similar to article alerts. Special:Newpages is too rushy for that.
Write a script that checks JavaScript scripts for syntax errors before submitting. — User:Kephir/gadgets/cksyntax. Easier than I thought.Obsoleted by JSHint integration.
- Rewrite {{WPBannerMeta}} in WP:Scribunto.
- Do something to stop the massive growth if metaspace. I am not sure what it should be.
- Write an essay on the obsession of (at least some part of) the community with "civility", "assuming good faith" and "WikiLove", which I think only serves as an excuse for long and bitter disputes on one hand and making Wikipedia a social network on another.
- Write an essay on the (currently rather unspoken) principle of "describe, not influence", to supplement WP:OR. Is there one already?
- Write an essay on the current practice of applying WP:OR to images; currently, some original research is accepted in images, but there are certainly cases in which it goes too far. I dealt with such cases a few times - it's not so frequent, but probably needs to be addressed.
- Research anti-patterns in Wikipedia editing. WP:ATA lists some discussion anti-patterns. Good, but it's not everything. WP:BEANS is irrelevant here - I am talking about good-faith edits that turn out to be bad. Things I could think of:
- Many sections that are one or two sentences long. This makes articles hard to read, and is often a sign of WP:EXAMPLEFARM (See also: WP:Me too!).
- Putting phrases like "is a term" into the WP:LEAD. Per WP:NOTDICT, articles generally should not be about terms, but about the subjects they name.
- Think about how WP:V and WP:OR apply to mathematical proofs.
- Complete Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Register.
- Write something similar to the above for discussions about reliability of sources.
- Create an award for people with tasteful user pages (or an anti-award for people with distasteful ones). I am so sick of people sticking gratuitous userboxes, rounded corners, and animations everywhere, especially outside the content area. Even more if they do it on their talk pages.
- Get Wikipedia:Pseudo-namespaces deprecated.
Source hunt[edit]
- Drepper, Ulrich (2011-12-10). "How To Write Shared Libraries" (PDF). Retrieved August 23, 2012.
- Drepper, Ulrich (2007-11-21). "What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory" (PDF). Retrieved August 23, 2012.
If you find a source you consider reliable, about a topic I usually edit, please .
Proposals worth attention[edit]
My essays[edit]
- Unclutter — removes excessive warnings (which you have presumably have already read) and unnecessary editing helpers.
- Rater — aids in article assessment.
- Enchanted Preview — minor tweaks to article editor.
- Table Editor — adds table editing helpers to the toolbar
cksyntax — checks JavaScript syntax for errors.Obsoleted by JSHint integration.
Not mine, but recommended:
- mw:User:Remember the dot/Syntax highlighter
- Wikipedia:User script sandbox — a must-have for a script developer.
Good essays[edit]
(Or maybe not that good, but I mostly agree with them)
- General:
- Regarding the community:
- Competence is required
- Here to build an encyclopedia
- Wikipedia is not a social networking site
- Assume the assumption of assuming good faith — i.e. why you should not talk about anyone's "faith" at all.
- Wikipedia:Don't assume — a more direct way of putting it
- Don't-give-a-fuckism
- Wikipedia should not have users — kind of extreme, but a food for thought nevertheless.
- Vandalism does not matter
- BOLD, revert, discuss cycle — tried this a few times. Sometimes it even works.
- WikiSpeak
- Wikipedia:Use the default signature — what, that I am being hypocritical by using a (slightly) customised one? I will not miss it, honestly.
- Regarding content:
- The answer to life, the universe, and everything
- Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions — this one should be made into a guideline. The sister essay, which I used to list here, is actually quite weak, however. Shame. We probably need that one too.
- Notability razors:
- The presumption of non-notability for Internet related, computing, and services businesses — I do not agree with the "flip side" however; this seems too much like denying the antecedent to me.
- Run-of-the-mill
- TenPoundHammer's Law
- Write the article first
- Me too!
- External links/Perennial websites
- Beef up that first revision
- The Heymann Standard
Quote of the day[edit]
|When I was manually annoying people, I could only piss off ten or twenty per day. But now, with Twinkle, I can annoy hundred of users every day. Now that's what I call efficiency!
|— User:Guy Macon, in an edit summary on Twinkle's talk page, 14:36, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
- NEW USER EXPLAINS WIKIPEDIA, RESOLVES LONG-STANDING CONFLICTS: News at 11.
- A pointful discussion
- Acid test for markup parsers (incomplete)
- Special:Allpages/Module:
- The most epic AfD of all time
- The most bizarre MfD of all time
Especially strange pages:
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Edeleted: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/E
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/...friend — what is so strange about this one? Look at the timestamps.
Curious lists:
See also[edit]
- The dictionary definition of User:Kephir at Wiktionary
- Media related to User:Kephir at Wikimedia Commons


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