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  On the Radar:  An Occasional Newsletter on Misplaced Pages's Challenges

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• "Misplaced Pages still has a moderator diversity problem. Its new chief wants to fix it." (Cristiano Lima, The Washington Post, 15 September 2021)

According to WashPo, WMF has tapped a South African nonprofit executive and lawyer to be its new executive director. While I've been saying for a decade that WMF has to stop hiring software- and online-services-industry people to run an NGO, and hire NGO people, this one – Maryana Iskander – is rather cagey and bureaucratic, or comes off that way in the interview.

• First up is a belief that the WMF Universal Code of Conduct (drafted in supposed consulation with all WMF editorial communities but largely ignoring all their feedback) is the key to diversifying Misplaced Pages's editorial pool. (And as always in mainstream media, "Misplaced Pages" means en.wikipedia.org.) The entire UCC is basically a restatement of some key WP (and Commons, and Wiktionary) policies plus some WMF "vision" hand-waving. It's questionably reasonable to expect a largely redundant document, which was created for projects that lack sufficient policy development, and which has and will continue to have little impact on en.Misplaced Pages, to cause a sea change in who volunteers to edit here. That takes real-world outreach on a major scale. One would think a nonprofit CEO would already get that.
• Next up, Iskander makes rather unclear reference to section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. This content-liability shield has been much in the US news lately, as a target of the Republican Party in its feud with "big tech", especially social media sites deplatforming far-right writers for anti-democracy propaganda and misinformation about the public health crisis. Iskander is correct that WMF isn't in a danger position in this, but the article strongly implies that Iskander and WMF are keenly interested and involved. Even when prompted, Iskander does not meaningfully elaborate, and just offers an education-is-important dodge. So, we need more actual information on what WMF is doing with regard to efforts to revise section 230.
• Moving on, Iskander says something alarming: "Misplaced Pages has seen a huge amount of increased traffic around covid-19, worked on a very productive partnership with the World Health Organization to provide additional credibility to that work." That's hard to distinguish from a statement that WHO has editorial plants who WP:OWN the relevant articles. But it's cause for concern whatever the truth is. WMF should not be "partnering" with any external body to influence the encyclopedia's content (especially not one that has taken as many credibility hits as the WHO).
• There's something potentially interesting in here, though devils could reside in the details: "a lot of the basic access issues might technically look different , but how people understand what information is available to them – how they access it – those issues exist everywhere". What is this going to mean on a practical level? Is MOS:ACCESS going to be better-enforced? Is Simple English Misplaced Pages going to be reintegrated into the main site as alternative articles? Is the mobile version of the site going to stop dropping features? Is WP:GLAM going to turn into a bigger effort? There are a hundred ways (sensible and otherwise) this statement could be made to affect policy, funding, and the end "product" (though one suspects nothing important will change for the better unless the internal culture of WMF's organizational leadership also changes in a major way, such as by diversifying the board of directors, toward more academics and nonprofit people instead of tech-industry rich people).

In short, I have hopes that Iskander's NGO background will make for a better exec. dir. fit than that last two we've had, but right out of the gate she's saying strange, too-vague, and even troubling things. And nothing in the interview actually suggests anything like a fix for WP's editorial diversity problem, which the headline suggested was going to be the focus.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  15:48, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

• "Imposing orthodoxy: Left-wing activists are using old tactics in a new assault on liberalism" (staff writers, The Economist, 10 September 2021)

"It is possible to detect eerie echoes of the confessional state of yore", and today's far left is recycling techniques from fun times like the Inquisition." I've been saying this for years, and the article is a good summary of how "left-wing" and "leftist" do not always align with "liberal". It's an observation too few mainstream writers have been willing to make, but the truth of it explains a great deal of disruptive PoV-pushing on Misplaced Pages. Illiberal left-wing activism is often harder to detect, and harder for the average editor to publicly resist, than far-right extremism, which we tend to recognize then delete on sight.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  18:51, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

• Study confirms what we knew already: People edit here to change public perception (Barbara Page, "Edit-a-thon participants are motivated by desire to change the views of society", The Signpost, 24 May, 2018)

An Information Research survey shows that people's editing motivation is often "their desire to change the views of society", and also that they view Misplaced Pages as a "social media site". This isn't news to us, and the material doesn't have a huge statistical sample, but I would bet real money that it will be re-confirmed by later studies. This has systemic bias, neutrality, and conflict of interest implications (also not news). What we don't really think much about it is what this means for Misplaced Pages long-term, as everyone with an agenda becomes more aware that they can try to sneakily leverage Misplaced Pages articles to boost their side of any story, especially after the Trump 2016 US presidential campaign proved that powerful results can pulled off by organized manipulation of "social media" sites (whether WP really is one or not is irrelevant if the public thinks it is).  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  23:28, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

• WMF Community Wishlist Survey is system-gameable (SMcCandlish, 19 December 2017)

The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey has closed; the results are here, and as disappointing as in previous years. This process is fundamentally flawed, for numerous reasons:

• Only the top-ten proposals will get any resources devoted to them, no matter how many there are, or how urgent or important they are.
• It's a straight-vote, canvassing-allowed, no-rationale-needed, short-term "popularity contest" – normal Wikimedian consensus-building is thwarted.
• This setup encourages people to vote for the 10 things they want most, then vote against every other proposal even if they agree with it. Proposals cannot build support over time.
• There's no "leveling of the playing field" between categories. Important proposals of narrower interest (e.g. to admins, or to technical people) never pass, only the lowest-common-denominator ones do – and the most-canvassed ones.
• Too few Wikimedians even know the survey exists or when it is open, which greatly compounds the skew caused by focused canvassing – the intentional spikes actually determine the outcome.

I've drafted some suggestions for making it work better.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ<  18:08, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

• Archived stories:
  • Misplaced Pages co-founder on WP's flaws – and potential replacement? (SMcCandlish, 2 June 2018 (update of original 11 November 2015 story))
  • "Time Inc. Buyer Helped Koch Brothers Airbrush Their Image Across the Internet" (Lee Fang, The Intercept, 1 December 2017)
  • New "Misplaced Pages:Nations and Misplaced Pages" page (Fixuture, Misplaced Pages:Village pump (policy), 26 June 2017)
  • RfC to require paid editors' disclosure of advertising to edit (Doc James, and 100+ Wikimedian respondents, Meta.Wikimedia.org, 13 September 2017 – December 2017)
  • At last, an RfC on paid use of admin tools (Smallbones , Misplaced Pages talk:Administrators, 20 December 2017)
  • Wolves nip at Misplaced Pages's heels: A perspective on the cost of paid editing (Smallbones, The Signpost, 25 February 2016 (updated 29 June 2018))
  • WMF Exec. Dir. Tretikov resigning (Patricio Lorente, Lila Tretikov, meta:Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard, 25 February 2016)
  • "WP:BOGOF" stance helps derail an adminship after conflict at AfD (SMcCandlish, 6 February 2016)
  • "Inside the game of sports vandalism on Misplaced Pages" (Jeff Elder, Wikimedia Blog, 6 January, 2016)
  • "Hundreds of 'black hat' English Misplaced Pages accounts blocked following investigation" (Ed Erhart & Juliet Barbara, Wikimedia Blog, 31 August 2015)
  • "Are Pakistan articles being manipulated?" (Gamaliel, Misplaced Pages Signpost, 18 February 2015)

Hi!

I am Stanton McCandlish (often referred to as just SMcC here and some have nicknamed me Mac, which I don't mind). I am a Web developer, IT consultant, nonfiction author, civil liberties activist and nonprofit executive, as well as amateur pocket billiards (pool) instructor, genealogist, former online news editor, policy analyst, archivist, independent publisher, and also an amateur artist, among other things. I have been among the most active, avid Wikipedians. I have a B.A. in anthropology and communication (a custom minor that combines linguistics and broader human communication, including journalism, PR, and media criticism). I am a US citizen, but have lived in England, Ireland, and Canada for extended periods, and learned to read and write in the UK (and I use something of a form of Mid-Atlantic English consequently). I have competence in an odd assortment of topics, like Celtic mythology, English grammar and usage, Manx cats, New Mexican culture, US law in certain fields (freedom of expression, privacy, and intellectual property), salamanders, Web standards, UI usability, albinism, pool and billiards, online media, Art Nouveau, post-punk subcultures, Mac OS X, Highland dress, and various fiction franchises (though about 95% of my reading time is non-fiction), among other subjects. Being an autodidactic polymath, my interests shift over time and are intense. Some of my latest passions are the history of tartan, interface of zoology and anthropology, especially the history and nature of domestication; and shifting patterns of English usage.

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It is approximately 10:46 AM where this user lives.	This editor is older than he looks, but younger than his years.

My current local time is 10:46 AM (reload).

Bio

Contact

• E-mail me here
• My profile at LinkedIn

Wikitivities

Putting my money where my mouth is

This user is a donor to the Wikimedia Foundation. You can be one, too.

This user donated to WebCite, which keeps online source citations working in Misplaced Pages articles!

US$ This editor buys sources, and has spent at least US$ 3,832 specifically to obtain over 189 reliable sources for citing on Wikimedia projects.

The "TL;DR" version

This user is one of the 281 most active English Wikipedians of all time.

This user has been editing Misplaced Pages for more than ten years (19 years, 2 months, and 5 days).

This user has earned the 100,000 Edits Award.

Access levels and roles

This user has template editor rights on the English Misplaced Pages. (verify)	This user has page mover rights on the English Misplaced Pages. (verify)	This user has file mover rights on the English Misplaced Pages. (verify)
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This user is NOT an admin, but acts like one anyway. (verify)	This user performs non-admin closures at consensus discussions.	823 Admin score: This user is Misplaced Pages's 43rd highest-scoring non-admin according to the admin scoring tool, as of 4 March 2013.
This user considers themself a participant in all WikiProjects.	RNA This user is a rouge non-admin	This editor is not an administrator (verify) and thinks having the mop wouldn't be of much use to him.

Stats

This user has been on Misplaced Pages for 19 years, 2 months and 5 days.	281 This user is ranked 281 on the list of Wikipedians by number of edits (as of 31 October 2024).	This user has created ~105 articles on Misplaced Pages.
This user is ranked 3,835 on the list of Wikipedians by articles created.	208,000+ This user has made more than 208,000 contributions to Misplaced Pages, on over 56,900 distinct pages.	65,000+ This user has made over 65,000 contributions to Misplaced Pages mainspace.
Page creations by namespace: article / file / category / template / project / user / help / mediawiki / portal
8,700+ This user has logged more than 8,700 moves or other log actions on Misplaced Pages.	This user has created 469 categories on Misplaced Pages.	This user has created 222 templates on Misplaced Pages.
This user has created 12,900 redirects on Misplaced Pages.	10.8% auto Approx. 10.8% of this user's edits were automated with tools, as of November 2023. (Verify)	ESU 99.8% for major edits and 99.8% for minor edits. – Last update: October 2024.

Beyond en.wikipedia

This user is ranked 883 on the list of most-active WikiMedians by number of edits (as of February 2012).	209,500+ This user has made over 209,500 contributions to Wikimedia projects.	5,800+ This user has made more than 5,800 contributions to MediaWiki Commons.
450+ This user has made more than 450 contributions to Wiktionary.

Detailia

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• My Commons upload/move log (far more informative for my image contributions than the en.wiki one).
• My contributions to WP policies and guidelines
• MediaWiki Bugzilla bugs I've filed or been involved with

AfD-3 This user has had 3 pages put up for deletion. Most of the time, they were deleted.	vn-32 This editor's user page, talk page, or subpages have been vandalized 32 times.	8.2 This user has 8.2 centijimbos.
This user scored 51,617 on the Wikipediholic test.	This user is one in 48,574,521.	# This user was the 378,390th registered editor at English-language Misplaced Pages
This user has alternative accounts named McCandlish, Smccandlish, SMcClandish, SMcCandish, SMcClandlish, Temp4590, and one other disclosed to WP:ARBCOM.

What I'm working on now...

...when time permits:

This user is currently working on Tartan.

This user is currently working on WikiProject Cue sports.

Incomplete articles

• American snooker (draft)
• Lots of cue sports articles; see WikiProject Cue sports for an overview.
• Lots of articles related to Highland dress
• Lots of articles related to breeds of cat

Misplaced Pages-namespace pages

• Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style (glossaries) (nascent proposal)
• Sports naming conventions and manual of style (draft)

Stuff I've been largely responsible for or heavily involved in

Projects

• WikiProject Cue sports – for articles on cue sports, including pool, snooker, carom billiards, and obscure billiards-related games such as bagatelle and bumper pool.
• WikiProject Inline Templates – for maintenance of inline citation, dispute and cleanup templates, such as {{ref label}}, {{fact}} and {{fixPOV}}.
• WikiProject English Language – for articles on the language's history, linguistics, grammar, style, etc.

Articles

This user has helped promote 3 good articles on Misplaced Pages.

I devote most of my mainspace time to improving poor articles to be encyclopedic quality, rather than "polishing the chrome" on already-good articles. Both kinds of work are necessary, but I find working on Stub, Start, and C-class articles, to move them toward B, A, and Good class, is a higher priority for the project. (To date, I have little interest in Good-to-Featured improvement; that's a wiki-subculture all its own.)

• Stats on the articles I have edited the most
• ACUI Collegiate Pocket Billiards National Championship – created article, as a 5-source stub verging on Start-class.
• Albinism and Albinism in humans – originally a single article, it was already not-bad when I got there, but I worked on the material a lot, especially sourcing the science, and defending it from frequent vandalism. Most of my work on it has been surpassed by now, but it was important back in the day (late 2000s).
  • Albinism in popular culture – was a narrow AfD survivor in the form of Albino bias and an AfD failure as Evil albino stereotype when I got to them; it's quite solid now, after a lot of mergin' & purgin', reliable sourcing, and frequent shepherding and cleanup.
  • Persecution of people with albinism – a later split, and a significant amount of the content was from my work in the above articles.
• Antebellum architecture – mostly based on material split from Antebellum South.
• Caffè d'orzo
• Crystalate Manufacturing Company – an early plastics manufacturer.
• Eight-ball pool (British variation) – mostly my work, building on skeletal, unsourced material originally interpolated into Eight-ball.
• English in New Mexico – along with several others, have been working to develop this into a proper article (it's more difficult than it sounds; most of the source material is on paper at the UNM library, or behind journal-archive paywalls). It later merged to Western American English#New Mexico – with most of the content now gone, which is disappointing. Win some, lose some.
• Five-pin billiards – Article about the carom billiards game popular in Italy and parts of South America. I wrote it from scratch after someone posted a (terrible) machine-translation of the (good) Italian article; mine is now more extensive than the original Italian one, though may yet suffer from translation problems. Help wanted from someone fluent in Italian.
• Folgerphone – an experimental musical instrument. Someone's disputed a major fact, on the Talk page. Help wanted from anyone who knows anything at all about Folgerphones.
• Galfrid – a major disambiguation page (it existed before but had very little in it); this took a considerable amount of work, hunting down all the notable and probably-notable Galfrids (many of whom were also Geoffreys, Godfrieds, Gruffydds, Goffredos, etc., and not at titles with "Galfrid" or "Galfridus" in them), and looking into the origin of the name and its variants, and their relation to other names.
• Ground billiards – written from scratch.
• IBSF World Snooker Championship
• International Open Series – a snooker tournament.
• List of professional sports – mostly based on material split from Professional sports.
• List of U.S. Open pool championships (begun as a disambiguation page).
• Logorrhea (psychology) – mostly based on material split from what was Logorrhea (rhetoric) and now at Verbosity.
• Mythology (fiction)
• Persian onager – a beast.
• Pleonasm – article on redundant expressions in language. About 70% or so of that text is mine.
  • Relatedly, I also shepherded various other language articles like Verbosity, Redundancy (linguistics) and Calque, until they became stable.
• Pool Hall Blues – an episode of TV series Quantum Leap.
• Pro–am – mostly based on material split from what is now Amateur professionalism.
• Regimental tartan – written pretty much from scratch, originally as a section of Tartan.
• Sandbox (software development) – a coding safety process. Created this article. I crack up when someone mistakes it for the Misplaced Pages:Sandbox.
• Shrew (stock character) – I did a WP:TNT total rewrite to a B-class article, and wiping out various WP:NPOV and WP:NOR problems.
• Three-ball – article about the poorly-documented modern pool (pocket billiards) folk game, about 95% my material. Sourcing help wanted!
• Triple deity – started this, originally as a list article.
• Turkmenian kulan – a creature.
• Valley-Dynamo – a gaming table manufacturer (especially pool, foosball, and air hockey).
• Valley National 8-Ball League Association – a pool league (actually international now despite its name).
•  William A. Spinks – written from scratch.
•  William Hoskins (inventor) – written from scratch.

Overhauled

Pre-existing pages I've done a lot of work on (over time or all at once); new list started January 2018, so very incomplete:

• Girls Under Glass – band article which I redid top to bottom, from a broken-English list of bullet points into a comprehensive article (with some help from the German Misplaced Pages page on them). This cleanup and expansion (about 23K more material) saved it from WP:AFD.
• Godwin's law – I informally shepherded this page for quite some time, before other editors got more involved in keeping it encyclopedic. (I have a potential conflict of interest, since I worked at the same organization as its namesake back in the 1990s.) I've more recently (2023) returned to cleaning it up, as it started to get crufty again.
• Jeannette H. Lee – Korean-American businesswoman article. I originally nominated this for deletion, but after it was kept as (marginally) notable, I significantly worked up the article so it will be properly encyclopedic.
• Khes – iffy article on an Indic fabric type and garment, written by a non-native English speaker, and with poor sourcing. Was already slated for AfD by someone, but I managed to massage it into passable shape (a quality edit more than a quantity one). Still had issues (as of December 2020), but I drew attention to the page at the wikiprojects and noticeboards for India- and Pakistan-related topics.
• Lynette Horsburgh – British amateur cue-sports champion. Was AfDed, so I improved it (diff includes a few intervening edits by someone else), and it was kept. Not a massive overhaul, but a qualitative one.
• Mora, New Mexico ; Mora County, New Mexico ; First Battle of Mora ; Second Battle of Mora – were palimpsests of confusing drive-by edits, so I re-did them all with everything where it actually pertains, copyedited, and with some new sources.
• Nithyananda – a controversial modern guru of India. For a long time, this article was veering back and forth between a WP:BLP-violating attack page and a shameless promotional advertisement by his followers (whom I attempted to dissuade from further WP policy violations, both on-wiki and by contacting his organization directly). I overhauled it repeatedly, and watchdogged it for months until sufficient attention from other neutral editors was drawn to it. (Problems still arise, but they are much more manageable now.)
• Tartan – totally overhauled from top to bottom, using pretty much every available reliable source.
  • Splits so far include Regimental tartan, with Tartan design and manufacture next, to be followed by Clan tartan (presently a redir to main article).

Misplaced Pages policies, guidelines, essays, and proposals

• Stats on the "Misplaced Pages:"-namespace pages I have edited the most
• Misplaced Pages:Notability – policy – I was deeply involved in the debate over the future and form of this when it was a proposed guideline, especially from Nov. 2006 through Feb. 2007, until it stabilized (it was much more controversial back then than editors today might realize).
• Misplaced Pages:Gaming the system#Gaslighting – guideline sub-section – I popularized the concept on WP; someone else added it to the guideline, though most of the wording is mine at this point.
• Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style, Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers, a many other MoS pages – guidelines – Along with various other "regulars", I have spent a lot of time shepherding the MoS, and have written substantial portions of it. I often move on to other stuff, so as to not get overly focused on it, then return to it periodically, mostly to help keep it stable.
• Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style/Biography – WP:MOS sub-guideline – major 2018 overhaul , merging in material from MOS:LEAD, MOS:ABBREV, and MOS:CAPS
• Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style/Capital letters#Religions, deities, philosophies, doctrines, and their adherents – WP:MOS sub-guideline section – principal author
• Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style/Cue sports – WP:AT/WP:MOS sub-guideline – principal author
• Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style/Glossaries – WP:AT/WP:MOS sub-guideline draft – principal author
• Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style/Icons – WP:MOS sub-guideline – one of the principal authors (I wrote most its key provisions)
• Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style/Organisms – WP:MOS sub-guideline draft – principal author
• Misplaced Pages:Naming conventions (ice hockey) – did a total rewrite (combined diff), so that it makes some kind of sense, and actually follows site-wide policies and guidelines; not sure how much of that will stick.
  
• Misplaced Pages:Naming conventions (sportspeople) – WP:AT sub-guideline – principal author
• Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Cue sports/Notability – WP:N sub-guideline draft – principal author
• Misplaced Pages:Notability (breeds) – WP:N sub-guideline draft – one of the principal authors
• Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Stub sorting/Naming conventions – WP:AT sub-guideline – much of the prose and most of the structure is my work, though none of the major ideas are; I simply took a palimpsestuous mess and made a parseable document out of it.

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• Misplaced Pages:Advice for hotheads – essay – principal author
• Misplaced Pages:Article titles/Criteria order – supplement – principal author
• Misplaced Pages:Asshole John rule – essay – principal author
• Misplaced Pages:Commas exist for a reason – essay – principal author
• Misplaced Pages:Common-style fallacy – essay – principal author
• Misplaced Pages:Consensus venue – essay – principal author
• Misplaced Pages:Content forks/Internal – supplement – creator, one of the principal authors
• Misplaced Pages:Don't be high-maintenance – essay – wrote the overhauled version that changed it from the WP:Don't feed the divas attack page to an advice essay (both for the editorship-at-large and for editors accused of such behavior)
• Misplaced Pages:Don't bludgeon the process § No one is obligated to satisfy you – essay section – principal author
• Misplaced Pages:Don't "teach the controversy" – essay – principal author
• Misplaced Pages:Emerson and Wilde on consistency – essay – principal author
• Misplaced Pages:Fallacy of selective sources – essay – principal author
• Misplaced Pages:Fallacy of the revelation of policy – essay – principal author
• Misplaced Pages:Frequently misinterpreted sourcing policy – essay – principal author
• Help:How to mine a source – how-to – principal author
• Misplaced Pages:Identifying and using style guides – essay – principal author
• Misplaced Pages:Identifying and using tertiary sources – essay – principal author
• Misplaced Pages:In versus of – supplement – principal author
• Misplaced Pages:Logical quotation on Misplaced Pages – essay – principal author
• Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style extended FAQ – frequently-asked-questions page – principal author (though I made the lead section a "guest editorial" from DGG); covers more than the summary MOS:FAQ
• Misplaced Pages:Notability/Historical – archival index, providing a comprehensive overview of the history of the development of the "notability" concept on Misplaced Pages – creator/maintainer
• Misplaced Pages:Proper names and proper nouns – essay – principal author
• Misplaced Pages:Race and ethnicity – essay, largely educational in nature – principal author
• Misplaced Pages:Reducing consensus to an algorithm – essay, verging on humor – principal author
• Misplaced Pages:Rouge editor – humor essay – one of the principal authors (the version before mine was here, as the text in a category page)
• Misplaced Pages:Specialized-style fallacy – essay – principal author
• Misplaced Pages:Tertiary-source fallacy – essay – principal author
• Misplaced Pages:Use modern language – essay – principal author
• Help:User CSS for a monospaced coding font – how-to – principal author (and actually transcluded from Template:Mxt/User CSS for a monospaced coding font, as it was created initially as a supplement to template documentation)
• Misplaced Pages:Using nicknames – guidance essay – principal author. Obsolete; almost all of it has been integrated into MOS:NICKNAME as of November 2017.
• Misplaced Pages:Wall of text – essay – substantial revision to be balanced and less like a polemic
• Misplaced Pages:When unbundling admin power works – essay – principal author
• Misplaced Pages:Why Manual of Style discussions are so awful – outline of the causes (and a few hints about what to do about it, though the problem is largely intractable and human nature)
• Misplaced Pages:Why Manual of Style talk pages have so much churn – a list of reasons and related matters
• Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Animals/Article structure - wikiproject advice essay (draft) – principal author
• Misplaced Pages:Writing about breeds – essay – principal author; primarily for new-ish editors, but also an overview for those just new to the topic
• Misplaced Pages:You can search, too – essay – principal author

User-space essays

• User:SMcCandlish/Adminship reform – draft proposal (more like a "what if", since it'll never happen unless WMF imposes it)
• User:SMcCandlish/Avoid quoting definitions – author; still in a draft state
• User:SMcCandlish/Bare basics of Misplaced Pages footnotes – just a little bit of "micro-help" for beginners
• User:SMcCandlish/Deutschlish patterns – essay – principal author
• User:SMcCandlish/Discretionary sanctions 2013–2018 review – running log of issues related to WP:AC/DS and ArbCom's failure to address them (outdated now to due change of "discretionary sanctions" system to "controversial topics")
• User:SMcCandlish/Gendered category criterion – draft proposal
• User:SMcCandlish/It – a "ha ha, only serious" piece.
  • User:SMcCandlish/TG-NB – a FAQ on what my actual views on TG/NB/GQ issues are, and on the history and results of the disputes about the above essay
• User:SMcCandlish/Notability and Deletion policy – my personal "ground-truth sitrep" on notability as a concept on WP; updated every few years (since 2006)
• User:SMcCandlish/RfA standards – what I (loosely) expect and do not expect out of candidates for WP:Requests for adminship
• User:SMcCandlish/RfC-replacement voting system – draft proposal (more like a "what if", since it'll never happen unless WMF imposes it)
• User:SMcCandlish/Wikipedia's self-management and future – some thoughts on organizational life-cycle, editor retention, and dispute resolution

Major successful proposals

Key:

• Y = Proposal (or its gist) accepted
• N = Proposal rejected
• Y = Partly accepted, or other solution reached
• N = No consensus, or unclear resolution

• Misplaced Pages:Village pump (policy)/Archive 150#RfC on capitalization of the names of standardized breeds – Y Settled on following the capitalization used in breed standards; MOS:LIFE updated to reflect this. I was neutral on the matter, just insistent that we pick either that or lower-case, not continue to have no clear answer. (December 2018 – January 2019)
• Misplaced Pages:Proposed article splits – Y I created this noticeboard in July 2018, though originally as a section of what is now Misplaced Pages:Proposed article mergers (suggesting a broader name); it ran that two-in-one way until April 2019, when it was split off into its own noticeboard by GenQuest.
• A series of merge proposals from 2016–2018 to consolidate biographical advice into Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style/Biography: Y All the consensus discussions went well, and I merged in material from MOS:LEAD, MOS:ABBREV, and MOS:CAPS in a long series of back-to-back edits (June 2018).
• Misplaced Pages talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters/Archive 26#RfC: Capitalisation of traditional game/sports terminology – Y About over-capitalization of traditional sports and games; concluded in favor of lowercase; new section added to MOS:CAPS, and essentially identical material already in there about over-capitalizing dances and dance genres was merged into it. (January–February 2018)
• Misplaced Pages talk:Manual of Style/Biographies/2017 archive#Substantive revision of "Pseudonyms, stage names, nicknames, hypocorisms, and common names" – Y a bold total overhaul of the MOS:NICKNAMES section of MOS:BIO (before vs. after), based on my WP:Using nicknames essay; accepted almost verbatim (November 2017); there was some later clarification discussion, long but not major (December 2017).
• Misplaced Pages:Village pump (policy)/Archive 126#RfC: In-universe name details of fictional characters, in article leads – Y Consensus: do not write articles on fictional characters as if real biographies (March–April 2016). Point later integrated into MOS:FICT.
• Misplaced Pages:Village pump (policy)/Archive 126#RfC: Religion in biographical infoboxes – Y Removed contentious |religion= and |denomination= parameters from most biographical infoboxes (March–April 2016).
  • See also Misplaced Pages:Village pump (policy)/Archive 127#RfC: Ethnicity in infoboxes, which was going nowhere until I moved it to Village Pump right after the above RfC, then it closed with strong consensus against |ethnicity= parameter for similar reasons (March–April 2016).
• Misplaced Pages talk:Manual of Style/Archive 156#Bird common name decapitalisation – Y Settled eight-year dispute about capitalizing vernacular names of organisms (don't, except where a proper name occurs, e.g. in Grevy's zebra). (April–May 2014)
• WP:TRANSACTIONAL – Original idea from Hurricane_Noah, but most of the wording is my policywonkery. Successful proposal here (November 2023)

Ongoing proposals

• Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Video games#General-topic article badly needed: Virtual-reality game – Proposed creation of stand-alone Virtual-reality game article, since the topic is distinct from virtual reality hardware, and we already have a Category:Virtual reality games.
• Talk:Virtual reality headset#Requested move 24 March 2021 – Move to Virtual-reality headset per MOS:HYPHEN and WP:CONSISTENT.
• Misplaced Pages:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 March 20#South Scandinavian languages – South Scandinavian languages nominated for deletion, unless a proper target article/section can be found. Presently redirecting to Danish dialects, but does not appear to be a term for this (or for anything else – zero hits in Google Scholar (March 2021).
• Talk:Largest living flying birds according to wingspan#Requested move 20 March 2021 – Move to Largest living flying birds by wingspan per WP:CONCISE and WP:PRECISE/WP:RECOGNIZABLE (this is dialectal/colloquial use of "according to", and unnecessarily wordy anyway.
• Talk:The Bee's Knees#Requested move 20 March 2021 – Move to Bee's knees per WP:CONCISE, WP:THE, WP:NCCAPS, MOS:CAPS.
• Talk:Yan Tan Tethera#Section merge from Cumbric – It is duplicative of the material at the latter and inappropriate in huge chart form in the former; all that's needed there is a general summary (March 2021).
• Talk:Steve Gibson (computer programmer)#Requested move 9 March 2021 – Move to Steve Gibson (programmer) per WP:CONCISE, WP:DAB: don't use a longer disambiguation term than is necessary.
• Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 75#Requested move 8 March 2021 – move Template:Cite conference to Template:Cite presentation, since we cite presentations at conferences (or in conf. proceedings), not entire conferences.
• Talk:FKM#Merge from Viton – To merge spammy and redundant brand-name article into article on the substance (March 2021)
• Misplaced Pages talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters#Overhauling MOS:CAPS#Peoples and their languages – Proposal to fix problem that MOS:PN merge left a section on this in MOS:CAPS without any actual material pertaining to capitalization, and we actually have plenty to say about that (February 2021).
• Misplaced Pages talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters#Wording proposal on ethnic/racial terms, in light of the recent RfC – To address "lack", "olored", etc., since there's been a lot of churn about that, including an RfC with clear results which are not yet reflected in the guideline (February 2021).
• Misplaced Pages talk:Manual of Style/France and French-related articles#Proposed simplification of MOS:FRENCHCAPS, which is more than a decade outdated – In short, this MoS subpage is contradicting others; we have a conflict between MOS:FRENCHCAPS, MOS:FOREIGNTITLES (and to a lesser extent MOS:FOREIGN, MOS:TM, etc.), and there's also a WP:OPERATITLE essay in the mix (December 2020).
• Talk:James D. Zirin#Merge book stubs here – Proposal to merge three questionably notable stubs into a single article that is more encyclopedic (December 2020).
• Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 72#Proposed documentation and parameter alias changes for Template:Cite episode – N to make the template more relevant in the age of digital media, and less US-centric (October 2020). Archived without resolution, so will need to be re-started.

Accepted proposals needing further work

(That's further work by me or by anyone.)

• Talk:Southwestern Brittonic languages#Requested move 13 March 2021 – Move to Southwestern Brittonic per WP:CONCISE, WP:CONSISTENT. We don't need to append "language" to language article when the name isn't ambiguous with that of a culture/ethnicity. N I rescinded this since it's become clear this needs to instead be mass RM of all the articles in the category hat have this "not actually ambiguous with anything" issue, rather (per WP:CONSISTENT) just moving this one article. Leaving it in this section (despite not an accepted proposal), since I actually need to do the work of building that RM.
• Misplaced Pages:Templates for discussion/Log/2020 December 19#Template:Hover title and Template:Tooltip – Y to merge the former to the latter. In progress: Re-develop code for better accessibility.
  • Related: Misplaced Pages talk:Manual of Style/Accessibility#New tooltip testcases and Template:Tooltip/testcases
• Talk:L'Ange de Nisida#Requested move 8 December 2020 – Y moved from L'ange spelling per WP:COMMONNAME, MOS:FOREIGNTITLE, MOS:FOREIGN, MOS:FRENCHCAPS, and WP:CONLEVEL (involves a wikiproject WP:PROJPAGE essay) Followup: It's likely that essay needs revision as a result of this and other moves.
• Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals/2020/October#Folklore stubs – Y because we don't have a stub category tree for folklore, leading to lots of uncategorized and mis-categorized stubs. "The result of the debate was create." Confer with Pegship on building this out over time: "I suggest this be set up under Culture stubs | Other culture."
• Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals/2018/November#Breeds – Y For {{breed-stub}}, {{dog-breed-stub}}, and their categories (also a rename of an over-long one). Result: create parent-only category, and file breed stub sub-categories under it. (I'm not sure about the rename; may need to separately revist that.)
• Misplaced Pages talk:Categorization of people/Archive 10#A point needs clarification into guidance instead of non-guiding observation (and tacit approval) of conflict – Y Needs to proceed if MoS is going to incorporate that page by reference. Did not attract opposition, but I'm not sure there's enough feedback to declare consensus. May need to re-ask, or just go do it and see if it sticks.
• Misplaced Pages talk:Manual of Style/Lists#Propose merging WP:Manual of Style/Embedded lists into WP:Manual of Style/Lists – Y Pretty straightforward. Some of this got done while I was on wikibreak, but some may still need to be completed.
• Misplaced Pages talk:Templates for discussion/Archive 26#RfC: Proposal to make TfD more RM-like, as a clearinghouse of template discussions – Y Just what it says. While this passed almost unanimously, nothing has been done to actually implement it yet. We need a listing template, and a bot that goes looking for it.
• Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/American Temperament Test Society – Y Result: Merge to Temperament test. Non-notable org; not unencyclopedic, but should merge to Temperament test
• Misplaced Pages talk:Categories for discussion#The constant problem of category half-diffusion – Y clarification suggested (not drafted in detail) for WP:EPON. No opposition; suggestion to just WP:BOLDly do it. Will take some merging work.
• Talk:Toy dog#Merge from Toy Group – Y close out a WP:CONTENTFORK. Unopposed, but merges need to happen.
• Talk:Terrier#Merge from Terrier Group – Y close out a CONTENTFORK. Unopposed, but merges need to happen.
• Talk:Herding dog#Merge from Herding Group – Y close out a CONTENTFORK. Unopposed, but merges need to happen.
• Talk:List of dog breeds recognized by the American Kennel Club#Merge redundant articles – Y close out more CONTENTFORKs. Unopposed, but merges need to happen.
• Talk:Fédération Cynologique Internationale#Merge from "FCI [Whatever] Group" pages – Y close out more CONTENTFORKs. Unopposed, but merges need to happen.
• Talk:Breed standard#Merge from Breed standard (dog) – Y close out another CONTENTFORK. Unopposed, but merges need to happen.
• Talk:Non-Sporting Group#Requested move 20 February 2018 – Y de-capitalization multi-RM, plus some further merge ideas. Most articles moved; merges need to happen. Y One article was carved out of the RM by the closer, but without any actual basis and in direct contradiction of a recent RfC on the matter. Closer has been asked to reverse that; otherwise, I will re-RM this later.
• Misplaced Pages talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters#RfC: Capitalisation of traditional game/sports terminology – Y WP will use "chess" and "baseball bat" not "Chess" and "Baseball Bat" (question didn't seem like it needed to be asked, until editwarring proved that it did). Some game and equipment articles still need to be lower-cased, as does lots of text in them.
• Template talk:Yesno#Support on/off and RfC below it – Y Change to protected template to detect on/off as well as yes/no, 1/0, true/false, etc. This should not have required this RfC, per WP:Common sense and WP:WIKILAWYER, but so it goes. Still needs the fix at Template:Post-nominals that inspired this to be reopened from original 2015 request in the first place. Follow-up request also open at Module talk:Yesno#Support on/off.
• Misplaced Pages:Templates for discussion/Log/2018 January 24#Template:IUPAC spelling US – Y merge some redundant ENGVAR templates, to just be parameters; merge needs to actually be done.
• Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Elf cat – Y Consensus was to merge WP:SUMMARY version to List of cat breeds, but it requires condensing the material.
• Misplaced Pages talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters#Merge in MOS:PN – Y merge from WP:Manual of Style/Proper names almost unanimously supported, but need to actually do it.
• Misplaced Pages talk:Media help#Requested move 10 January 2018 – Y some cleanup work needs to be done, and possibly a merge (see final comment at discussion)
• Misplaced Pages:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 February 21#Category:Fédération Cynologique Internationale members – Y move to name without "members" (we don't have narrow subcats. without a parent cat.)
• Misplaced Pages:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 February 22#Category:Male dogs – Y upmerge as unencyclopedic; more sensible to split by dog type/role.
• Misplaced Pages:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 February 22#Category:Glossaries of medical terms – Y upmerge to more concise duplicate/parent Category:Glossaries of medicine.

Major templates

• {{rp}} (The template that kept us from doing awful things when citing the same source many times in the same article. Came to me in a flash after User:Fuhghettaboutit bemoaned how many lines were created by citing the same book for so many entries at Glossary of cue sports terms. For many years it was probably the most widely used of the "support" templates for our source citation system. Later improvements to MediaWiki's handling of the <ref> system, with the addition of the |ref= parameter, eventually made this template obsolete. (See this diff for a crash course in using |ref=.)
• {{compact TOC}} as we now know it (There were many radically different templates of this sort, and I merged all of them and their features and added many new ones.)
• {{glossary}}, {{term}}, {{defn}} (See also MOS:GLOSSARIES.)
• {{em}}, {{strong}}, {{var}}, {{kbd}}, {{samp}}, {{dfn}} and most of the rest of Category:Semantic markup templates
• {{' "}}, {{" '}}, {{" ' "}}, {{-'}}, {{'-}}, {{-"}} and {{"-}} (quotation-mark kerning templates)
• {{hatnote inline}} (and Module:Hatnote inline) and its derivative {{crossreference}} ({{crossref}}, {{xref}})
• {{cue sports}} navbox
• {{WikiProject Cue sports}}, {{WikiProject New Mexico}}, and several others
• {{TfR}}, {{TfR2}}, {{TfR notice}}
• {{fake heading}} – Built a flexible, unified template out of code originally at that page and at {{fakeheader}} and {{fake header}}, with new features added.
• {{sfnref inline}}
• {{page range}} – accessibility/utility template (temporary, i.e. intended to be subst'd)
• Loads more, I just fire and forget (literally – I'm often surprised to look in a template's history and see that I created it and don't remember).

Categories

• Category:Cue sports (I created and have been one of the most active maintainers of most of its subcategories.)
• Category:Insular ecology (I didn't write the articles in it, I just noticed they were scattered about and not categorized sanely, so now they are.)
• Category:Highland dress (No category for this for years for some reason; I organised the articles and have been working on them intensively, starting with Tartan and History of the kilt.)
• Lots that I'm forgetting.

User scripts

These are internal user scripts (for use by logged-in editors in their Special:Mypage/common.js), not external scripts as used by Tampermonkey, Greasemonkey, etc.

• User:SMcCandlish/TidyRefs – Clean up inconsistent <ref ...>...</ref> formatting. All-new script (2024); has some pretty incredible regex in it, and more is forthcoming when I get back into this project.
• User:SMcCandlish/TidyCitations – Clean up inconsistent {{cite ... |...}} formatting. Based on earlier scripts by Sam Sailor, Zyxw, Meteor sandwich yum, and Waldir, development of the latest of which ceased in 2018.
• User:SMcCandlish/MOSNUMdates.js - Convert dates to DMY or MDY. Forked from original version by Ohconfucius (still being developed as of January 2024); mine avoids cluttering the left menu with options that are almost never needed, and enables one that is needed often enough.
• meta:User:SMcCandlish/userinfo – Show some basic user info underneath usernames at the top of user and user-talk pages. Based on a script by PleaseStand, development of which ceased in 2019.

Non-admin closures

Just started tracking this in September 2017 (and then forgot until early 2020). I sometimes do non-admin closure of discussions (RfCs, RMs, etc.) and push right up to the boundary of what a non-admin can do, with that I believe are positive results.

• Misplaced Pages:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Toy portals (2020-01-30)
• Disruptive-turning RfC on whether the US dollar "really" is a fiat currency: permalink – someone barnstarred me for this one. (2017-09-30)
• Nationality of Jose Antonio Vargas: permalink to discussion and closure (2017-09-10)

Misc.

• Some shortcuts that seem like they should have been there forever weren't, and were created by me. I usually forget, but a few important ones are WP:ARCA , WP:AEIS , and WP:SANCTIONGAME / WP:SANCTIONGAMING ,.

Gallery of contributed images

Some of the images I've contributed under GFDL/CC (and sometimes PD) are displayed as thumbnails in my Gallery Page.

To-do list

Honestly, I no longer maintain or even look at this; there's so much to do, I just do whatever grabs my attention first.

To-do list for User:SMcCandlish: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2020-11-28 Unsorted additions: Write short "WP:There are oracles" contra WP:There are no oracles: 1) consensus is not what is decided in RfCs and written down, it is what the community does (which we sometimes bother to write down, in part); 2) ergo, long-term, policy-experienced editors can in fact predict outcomes with a high success rate. Bug OhConfucius again about fixing his User:Ohconfucius/script/Sources.js to stop misusing |publisher= for work titles (if it's still doing that; I've not checked in a while) Category:Logic puzzles needs over-capitalization cleanup (e.g. Knights and Knaves should be at Knights and knaves) Finish Template:Gloss/sandbox and tie it to Template:Interlinear Deal with Template:Post-nominals/sandbox and Template:Yesno issue (not detecting on/off) CfD Category:Published bibliographies for diffusion to Category:Misplaced Pages bibliographies for WP list articles and Category:Bibliographies for real-world things that are bibliographies. Re-RfD Grammar Nazi, etc. (previous RfD closed as keep despite no policy reason for this, and a near 50/50 split in !votes) Cleanup subcat caps at Category:Range wars and feuds of the American Old West SOON: Add parameters for the taskforces to {{WikiProject Sports}}; update Misplaced Pages:Templates for discussion/Log/2016 March 17#Template:WikiProject Handball Make sure all single-source citation templates are labelled as requiring subst. Updated Category:Specific-source templates & subcats to note that they are not "unused" and should not be TfD'd. Add this tiresome proposal to WP:PERENNIAL  researching... Fix Template:Section link thinspace and nowrap, per Template talk:Section link#Spacing after § Usurp Template:AD to create template that uses <abbr>...</abbr> and links, with #switch, to explain meaning of AD, BC, CE, BCE, bp, mya, etc., etc. WP:TFD: {{Geographic location}} (see thread at WT:MOSICONS File WP:AN to have the MOS:JR close at WP:VPPOL examined, if no one else gets around to it Redevelop MOS:HIDDEN to include noprint/unprintworthy; moving HTML comments to talk; moving noprint/unprintworthy material to sidebars, except permissible cases; secret messages Add MOS:FAQ points to WP:PERENNIAL, and the WP:CFD WP:RETAIN thing Find old CfD about "members" and what that discussion concluded with. Get auto-confirmed protection either added to or removed from all MoS pages (not their talk pages); MOS:LAYOUT has it Deal with potentially bogus "MoS" pages: "MoS" page at WP:Blazon (see history for dispute) Deal with potentially bogus "MoS" page at WP:Wikimedia sister projects Various other WP:PROJPAGE essays masquerading as guidelines; already moved "WP:Manual of Style/UK military aircraft designations" back to WP:WikiProject Aviation/Style guide/Naming (British military aircraft) (wasn't even about style anyway, but is a draft naming convention) Guideline category cleanup: Clean up Category:Misplaced Pages style guidelines, including its intro (move that text to MoS subcat, note this one as a near-container cat.) Clean up any other categories near that? Lots of PROJPAGES in there Upmerge Category:Misplaced Pages Manual of Style‎ into Category:Misplaced Pages style guidelines ? CfR: Category:Misplaced Pages guideline templates & Category:Misplaced Pages policy list templates (to "Category:Misplaced Pages X navigation templates") Add categorization feature to {{MoS guideline}}, borrowed from {{Subcat guideline}} Add multi-category feature to {{Subcat guideline}} Merge {{Guideline}} and {{Subcat guideline}} Start sandboxing User:SMcCandlish/WikiProject Breeds Overhaul WP:Arguments to avoid on discussion pages  In progress Contribute to Misplaced Pages:Policy writing is hard Create inline quotation template @ Template:Quot Create article-top template (with <dfn>...</dfn>, bold, etc.) @ Template:Subject Create short "intro to Misplaced Pages for academic and professional experts" guide (see talk) Fix {{QuoteHadith}} to stop abusing pull quote template for block quotation Create Ferality CONCEPTDAB page, and clean up after the results of Talk:Feral animal#Requested move 2 October 2015 Do RfC on TfD instructions (spamming articles with TfD tags): Special:Diff/680761745 Finish the Podosphaera fuliginea merge from Talk:Sphaerotheca fuliginea/sandbox Finish the Category:Felids of Africa and Category:Felids of Central America category series Create genus categories for the rest of the cats (Category:Felis, etc.) WP:Manual of Style/Organisms is about ready for formal proposal, if only the breeds issue was settled. WP:Manual of Style/Glossaries is about ready for formal proposal, but might work better if forked into a Help page and a MoS page. WP:WikiProject Animals/Article structure is stalled, though it's unlikely noticed since it hasn't been broadly "advertised" yet. Clean up Category:College club sports associations in the United States (see WT:SPORT thread and noncommittal CfD) Figure out how to push updated code into WP:Cite4Wiki's new repository now that you have write access. RM Speckle Park RM Belgian Landrace, Italian Landrace (per American) Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : Start: List of laboratory mouse strains (see discussion) Finish: Feral crop User:SMcCandlish/Incubator/William Hoskins (inventor) User:SMcCandlish/Incubator/American snooker Cleanup : Copyedit : Disambiguation : Expand : William A. Spinks – may be ready for WP:FAC now, though do one more attempt to dig up info on his petroleum executive work, and also fix the fractional scores Landrace (sourcing; sections for landrace, ecotype, race (biology) and natural breed, using {{main}} where needed). Manx (cat) Infobox : Start: {{User:SMcCandlish/Template:Infobox cue sports player}} Finish: Merge : Various MOS parts → MOS:TITLES – in progress, starting in 2017-11 George Washington#Legacy → Legacy of George Washington Stubs : Update : All relevant articles to reflect the IOC-down-to-WPA-affiliates cue sports governing bodies relationship structure, per org chart Verify : Wikify : Other : Investigate applications of Template:Start tab (WP:CUE, etc.) Re-visit Template talk:WikiProjectBannerShell; info there on how to add a feature I wanted to {{WikiProject Cue sports}} See {{WPGUNS}} for class=Deferred feature to add to {{WikiProject Cue sports}} Institute assessment stuff at WP:CUE Write essays: WP:CANTANSWER/WP:ONEANSWER, WP:AASD, WP:YOUROWN, WP:LASTREFUGE a.k.a. WP:TLDRNOT; WP:RFACONTENT, on the issues raised here; WP:MYOB (on the invalidity of the idea – everything on WP is every editor's business)

Wikawards

Barnometer
	noob	involved	been around	veteran	seen it all	older than the Cabal itself

Gratuitous
The Running Man Barnstar	The Working Man's Barnstar	The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar	The E=mc Barnstar	Excellent User Page Award
For your many, many fine cue sport related edits. --Fuhghettaboutit 23:30, 9 February 2007 (UTC)	For all the arduous work on Cue sport 68.239.240.144 23:46, 20 February 2007 (UTC)	Awarded to SMcCandlish for sleuthing out sockpuppets being used to subvert RfA. —dgiesc 20:05, 11 April 2007 (UTC)	Awarded for your tireless work on articles relating to the field of pigmentation. Rockpocket 09:23, 17 April 2007 (UTC)	[...] ask Mr. McCandlish if programmers are users too. Peace and love. -SusanLesch (talk) 03:31, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
Barnstar Eaten by a Bear	The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar	Some Falafel and One Canadian Beer	The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar	The Heroic Barnstar
I regret to inform you that the barnstar that I was going to give you for this bit of hilariousness was eaten by a bear. Happy editing! Hamtechperson 04:46, 24 December 2009 (UTC)	For general template taming goodness. Ludwigs2 03:36, 31 December 2009 (UTC)	For being here and to work on the women sport project. --Cordialement féministe ♀ Cordially feminist Geneviève (talk) 20:34, 20 January 2012 (UTC)	For behaving in a genteel fashion, as if nothing were the matter, and for gallantry. --Djathinkimacowboy 03:27, 2 February 2012 (UTC)	For your recent work at WP:MOS: A model of unflagging effort, precise analysis, institutionally broad and historically deep vision, clear articulation, and civil expression under great pressure. Unforgettable. DocKino (talk) 06:14, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
Chapeau	Cheers!	The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar	The Socratic Barnstar	The Special Barnstar
for this one! Cheers - DVdm (talk) 20:20, 31 January 2012 (UTC)	For all of the thoughtful posts through the extended discussion at MOSCAPS. I've appreciated it. JHunterJ (talk) 13:52, 10 February 2012 (UTC)	This comes as a recognition of your kindness in developing the Firefox Cite4wiki add-on. It has been helpful and a great resource. I was also happy to learn you contribute to Mozilla which I do as well :) ₫ӓ₩₳ Talk to Me. Email Me. 18:28, 31 August 2012 (UTC)	In recognition of your general fine work around the 'pedia, and the staunchness and standard of argumentation on style issues. And if for nothing else, I think you deserve it for this comment  Ohconfucius  02:07, 13 November 2012 (UTC)	It's a bit delayed, but for your rather accurate edit summary here. Keep up the good work on various breed articles! TKK 18:06, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar	The Purple Barnstar	The Brilliant Idea Barnstar	A cheeseburger for you!	Fauna Barnstar
For your recent work at WP:MOS: A model of unflagging effort, precise analysis, institutionally broad and historically deep vision, clear articulation, and civil expression under great pressure. Unforgettable. DocKino (talk) 06:14, 7 February 2012 (UTC)	You've been putting up with a lot of crap from other quarters; just want to let you know that people out there do, in fact, manage to appreciate your work. illegitimi non carborundum! VanIsaacWS Vex 04:55, 11 February 2013 (UTC)	I couldn't quite find a suitable barnstar for this, but I found it insightful when you brought up the issue of accessibility within TfD#Template:Tn. Maybe it was kind of a small realization you had, but on behalf of the disabled friends I have, thank you for bringing it up. A step in the right direction for making this everyone's encyclopedia. Meteor_sandwich_yum (talk) 02:58, 1 May 2014 (UTC)	Except of course that would be 30 min on the treadmill. But we can still look. Thank you for well measured comments. In ictu oculi (talk) 02:59, 11 May 2014 (UTC)	For being an enlightening Star in a farmyard Barn Gregkaye ✍♪ 15:11, 22 September 2014 (UTC)
WikiCake	The Special Barnstar	The Socratic Barnstar	Some baklava for you!	The Barnstar of Diplomacy
You seem to be among the vanguard in the quest to raise copy editing and style formatting to at least the level of writing barely literate articles. Primergrey (talk) 05:04, 29 March 2015 (UTC)	for disagreeing, with reason and cogent arguments backed up by both source and policy as well as logical interpretation of the position you disagree with. In essence for disputing content in a manner that builds consensus. SPACKlick (talk) 23:26, 10 July 2015 (UTC)	For extremely skilled and eloquent arguments and advice in guiding the overhaul of the very important article Domestication William Harris • talk • 07:47, 4 February 2016 (UTC)	To fortify you in your marathon task of finding an acceptable form of words to use in our MoS. I admire your patience and stamina and am thinking of proposing you as a Middle East peace envoy... BushelCandle (talk) 00:25, 4 March 2016 (UTC)	Thank you so much for stepping in on the Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations article, specifically the talk page. You seem to be able to clearly communicate the applicability of guidelines and resolve what might otherwise become a dispute. Excellent job! CaroleHenson (talk) 19:28, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
A cup of coffee for you!	The Barnstar of Integrity	A Dobos torte for you!	The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Thanks for your service to rodents. Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:36, 8 December 2016 (UTC)	I award you this barnstar ... because you have shown to be a person of integrity and honor. Or, more simply, a stand-up guy. Antidiskriminator (talk) 10:05, 17 January 2017 (UTC)	7&6=thirteen (☎) has given you a Dobos torte to enjoy! Seven layers of fun because you deserve it.	For going above and beyond to help with a query — Anakimitalk   20:58, 13 July 2017 (UTC)	Thanks you for the Project namespace and TL/SUPPLEMENTAL updates.....been trying to get that wording right for a long time. Would love your CE skills at WP:ESSAYPAGES guideline section and the infopage Misplaced Pages:Essays. ... Moxy (talk) 17:08, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
Your Opinion is More Important than You Think Barnstar	The Fauna Barnstar	Precious	A beer for you!	The Barnstar of Diplomacy
Thanks for your definitive non-admin closure of a RfC, thereby asserting a sane consensus and bringing U.S. Dollar back to congruence with reality. BirdValiant (talk) 06:34, 30 September 2017 (UTC)	Thanks for the big progress recently on sorting out fauna titles – and other titles, too. Keep it up. Dicklyon (talk) 00:13, 1 October 2017 (UTC)	Thank you for quality articles such as ... William A. Spinks, for service in 12 years, for thoughts about policy, style and consistency, for an initiative for clarification, - Stanton, cat lover in four dimensions, you are an awesome Wikipedian! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:41, 1 December 2017 (UTC)	Thank you for your recent edits to WP:RFAADVICE. When I wrote that page a few years ago, I never dreamed of the tens of thousands of hits it would get and become the default advice for RFA candidates. It's nice to know that someone is watching over it and making useful improvements. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 10:14, 17 December 2017 (UTC)	I appreciate your contributions regarding my topic ban as well as your thoughts on Arbitration Enforcement. --MONGO 13:23, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
The Userpage Barnstar	There is a mop reserved in your name	The Original Barnstar	Perhaps it's time...	A Baker Barnstar
I decided you deserved this for your very interesting and informative User Page ... Tlhslobus (talk) 14:53, 1 March 2018 (UTC)	You are a remarkable editor in many ways. You would be a good administrator in my opinion, and appear to be well qualified! You personify an administrator without tools .... --John Cline (talk) 13:29, 22 May 2018 (UTC)	For your ongoing and unending effort to tidy up the bureaucracies around the English Misplaced Pages. Jc86035 (talk) 05:05, 14 July 2018 (UTC)	As someone who as bumped into you in various spaces over the years with a generally positive impression resulting, I decided to take a closer look at the scope and caliber of your contributions over the last few days because it has occurred to me that your experience and facility with nuanced policy might make you a good candidate for adminship .... I suspect you would be good with the bit. Snow 07:40, 16 July 2018 (UTC)	The Disambiguator's Barnstar is awarded to Wikipedians who are prolific disambiguators. For applying your expertise in disambiguating the James Addison Baker articles. Oldsanfelipe (talk) 19:02, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
The Industrial Barnstar	The Editor's Barnstar	Trouted	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar	A beer for you!
The Upward Spiral: For your excellent expansion work of the Girls Under Glass article following its AfD nom. Nice work! Lugnuts 18:20, 3 December 2018 (UTC)	I learned a lot from you about Misplaced Pages in the Jean Mill afd. Just wanted to say thanks! User:Lightburst 23:10, 19 June 2019 (UTC)	You have been trouted for: having a kick-ass profile. :D Ivario (talk) 02:17, 24 November 2020 (UTC)	Thank you for keeping the Nithyananda page clean! Happy editing! Kind regards, Wilhelm Tell DCCXLVI 09:33, 22 December 2020 (UTC)	For teaching me something. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 22:44, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
The Special Barnstar	The Guidance Barnstar	The Barnstar of Diligence	Some stroopwafels for you!	The Redirect Barnstar
For all your help (especially with regard to cursive) and patience. JackkBrown (talk) 15:55, 30 November 2023 (UTC)	Thanks for helping fight policy creep and forks by proposing the merge of WP:SELFSOURCE and WP:BLPSELFPUB with WP:ABOUTSELF. {{u|Sdkb}}  06:11, 15 December 2023	For noting that unencyclopedic detail was inserted into the Brunswick Corporation and taking prompt action, exemplifying scrutiny, precision and community service! gidonb (talk) 14:39, 2 February 2024 (UTC)	Compliments for the effort! Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 16:39, 19 July 2024 (UTC)	To SMcCandlish with much gratitude for redirecting a complex editing situation involving redirects. ... It's not only the most fitting choice for your help with this situation but also one I don't think I saw on the wall at your User page. ... Augnablik (talk) 18:50, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
Automatically assigned
Fifteen Year Society	Ten Year Society	100,000 Edits Award	Supreme Gom, the Most Exalted Togneme of the Encyclopedia	Good Article
I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Misplaced Pages project for fifteen years or more. ​Best regards, Chris Troutman (talk) 14:11, 11 August 2020 (UTC)	I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Ten Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Misplaced Pages project for ten years or more. Best regards, Sarah 01:00, 21 August 2015 (UTC)	Congratulations on reaching 100000 edits. You have achieved a milestone that only 339 editors have been able to accomplish. The Misplaced Pages Community thanks you for your continuing efforts. Keep up the good work! Buster Seven Talk 15:06, 4 October 2015 (UTC)	This editor is entitled – for 18+ years & 150K+ edits – to display this Senior Vanguard Editor Badge, associated ribbons, and "floor plan of The Great Library of Alecyclopedias with carrying tube". This is very silly.	This user helped promote the article CornerShot to Good status (promoted 24 July 2006)
Good Article	Good Article	Good Article	"Did You Know?" Article	"Did You Know?" Article
This user helped promote the article Jasmin Ouschan to Good status (promoted 12 September 2009)	This user helped promote the article William A. Spinks to Good status (promoted 22 April 2016)	This user helped promote the article William Hoskins (inventor) to Good status (promoted September 24, 2021)	On March 2, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article William A. Spinks, which you created and substantially expanded.	On June 2, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Golden Cue, which you created and substantially expanded.
"In the News" Article	"In the News" Article	The Original Barnstar	The Barnstar Creator's Barnstar	Precious six years
On 5 May 2009, In the news was updated with a news item that involved the article Shaun Murphy (snooker player), which you substantially updated.	On 5 May 2009, In the news was updated with a news item that involved the article John Higgins (snooker player), which you substantially updated.	This barnstar is awarded to everyone who – whatever their opinion – contributed to the discussion about Misplaced Pages and SOPA. Thank you for being a part of the discussion. Presented by the Wikimedia Foundation. 20:37, 21 January 2012‎.	Thank you for your submission of the Instructor's Barnstar. It's now on the main barnstar list. Pine 15:11, 26 February 2012 (UTC)	Thank you ... for improving article quality in January 2018! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:06, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
"Did You Know?" Article	"Did You Know?" Article
On February 12, 2019, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article William Hoskins (inventor), which you created and substantially expanded.	On March 25, 2019, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Ground billiards, which you created and substantially expanded.
Reciprocal
The Angry Tarsier of Appreciation!	A Barnstar Point	A Barnstar Point	A barnstar for you!	A kitten for you! The Loyalty Award
For awarding me a barnstar, I hereby giveth unto you one angry tarsier of appreciation. Thanks! --Fuhghettaboutit 21:29, 12 December 2006 (UTC)	This barnstar point is awarded to SMcCandlish for giving me a barnstar point! Gracenotes § 01:12, 27 February 2007 (UTC)	I, Λυδαcιτγ, award Stanton McCandlish the Minor Barnstar Point for the creation of said Barnstar.	Howdy Wkatherine003 (talk) 07:46, 8 November 2016 (UTC)	You get the Loyalty Award! Please accept this cute little kitten as token of appreciation for being loyal to values, and standing by other editors in need like me! Thank you!Huggums537 (talk) 22:26, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
Hostile
"Anti-awards" like this are a great example of what not to do on Misplaced Pages just because you disagree with someone:
Consider yourself duly admonished
I hereby award this barnstar for your disruptive MFD nomination. —freak(talk) 13:00, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
Incidentally, the Misplaced Pages:Fromowner "placeholder image" junk did get deprecated by the community just as I suggested and predicted, about a year later (by which time the admin who posted the above display of incivility had quit the entire project anyway). I wasn't disruptive, just a little before my time. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 00:12, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

What I'm up to in general on Misplaced Pages

On Misplaced Pages, I mostly do the following in lieu of large-scale article authorship (though I do have some major ones planned and three under my belt):

1. Resisting poorly-thought-out attempts to change the WP:Manual of Style and other policies and guidelines
2. Neutralizing (sometimes subtle/crafty) PoV-pushing by tagteams of editors with a conflict of interest who try to bend Misplaced Pages into a promotional or advocacy outlet
3. More broadly, reverting and repairing vandalism and other intentionally anti-encyclopedic edits, especially those by religious or other zealots, slanderers, the foul-mouthed, and the discriminatory
4. Making substantial contributions to existing articles (and sometimes creating new ones) on topics I know a lot about
5. Shepherding the growth and health of some particular articles that need it (and, in some but not all cases, about which I care a lot)
6. Correcting typos, grammar errors and readability problems
7. Weeding out unverifiable, or incredible and unsourced, claims
8. Adding missing salient information
9. Moving articles that violate the WP article naming conventions
10. Correcting outright factual errors
11. Improving cross-references, categorization, etc.
12. Improving consistency of formatting
13. Removing redundant wikilinks
14. Removing pointless (Misplaced Pages is not a dictionary!) wikilinks – everyone already knows what "eye" and "the sun" mean, in most contexts in which they appear
15. Removing minor, childish quasi-vandalism (smart-aleck remarks in articles, etc.) – I like to document these in the Talk pages, since they often are actually funny
16. Tagging outright vandals' talk pages with countdown-to-blocking warnings
17. Repairing semi-vandalism edits in the form of deletions of long-standing passages without explanation, or the inexplicable addition of large chunks of questionably relevant or unsourced alleged facts, especially attacks against living article subjects, fanwanking and crackpotism.
18. Copyediting, encyclopedizing and formalizing any juvenile, colloquial, non-neutral or poorly thought out language in articles
19. Fixing miscellaneous "bad stuff" - vanity/marketing language, crystalballing, etc.
20. Proposing (and sometimes performing) merges of redundant articles
21. Adding obvious missing redirects and making sure they go to useful places
22. Educating misinformed arguments (per logic or Misplaced Pages policy) on talk pages
23. Trying to resolve circular disputes on talk pages
24. Defending articles from AfD when the reasoning for the deletion is specious, especially "NN per nom" me-tooism.
25. Nominating truly atrocious crap for AfD (or for SD, or just prod'ing them)
26. Learning a lot concerning things I didn't know about, on all sorts of topics
27. Having a good time!

Wikitivities userboxes

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This user is a participant in WikiProject Good Articles. talk | Changes log | GAN report	linkspam This user despises linkspam, and will terminate it on sight, as well as any other spam by the contributor.	This user integrates Misplaced Pages.
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Beware! This user's talk page is monitored by talk page watchers. Some of them even talk back.

Topical WikiProjects userboxes

This user participates in WikiProject Cue sports.	This user is a participant in WikiProject Snooker	This user participates in WikiProject New Mexico.
This user participates in WikiProject Internet culture.	firefly This user is a member of the WikiProject Television Firefly task force.	This user is a participant in WikiProject Sports.
This user participates in WikiProject Scotland. talk | articles | stubs	This user participates in WikiProject Clans of Scotland.

Misplaced Pages tools userboxes

] This user uses the source editor as his primary editor.	This user has AutoWikiBrowser rights on the English Misplaced Pages. (verify)	This user cites online sources with the help of Cite4Wiki!
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Wikiphilosophy

On the non-"political" side, I am largely an exopedianist with little interest in the socializing aspects - I get that from other aspects of my life. I'm largely a WikiGnome but shapeshift into other forms of WP:WikiFauna at will, sometimes for long stretches. I have taken part in some quite extensive policy debates, spent a lot of time on visual improvement of articles, wallowed in sourcing troublesome articles, buried my nose in copyediting, become a template master, and obsessed over the perfection of certain articles, as well as gotten into pointless arguments, while also created barnstars. I'm really just not pigeonholeable.

Wikiphilosophy userboxes

This user is bold, but not reckless, in updating pages.	This user believes that process is important on Misplaced Pages and is opposed to its circumvention.	This user tries to do the right thing. If they make a mistake, please let them know.
<ref> This user recognizes the importance of citing sources.	<ref> This user would like to see everyone using inline citations. Please...	This user is a member of Wikipedians against censorship.
meta This editor is a metapedianist.	dar This editor is a darwikinist.	This user is a member of the Association of Structurist Wikipedians.
This user is a member of the Association of Mergist Wikipedians.	imm This editor is an immediatist.	exo This editor is an exopedian.
This user believes that common sense trumps all other arguments.	Flexible This user deals with edits, deletion, and creation of pages individually instead of unilaterally and encourages others to do so.	Non nobis solum
-admin+ This user feels that gaining administrator status is not about what you know, but about who you know.	ZT This user supports a strict zero tolerance policy on vandalism.	AWW DMBJ AWGC AWAI FDSP BATD MTAD This user is a member of the Association of Wikipedians Who Dislike Making Broad Judgments About the Worthiness of a General Category of Article, and Who Are in Favor of the Deletion of Some Particularly Bad Articles, but That Doesn't Mean They Are Deletionists.

WikiFauna userboxes

I am a chimera, frequently shapeshifting.

This editor is a WikiGnome.	This user is a WikiJanitor.	This user is a WikiKnight, valiantly protecting the Five Pillars of Misplaced Pages.
This user is a WikiDragon: making massive, bold edits everywhere.	This user is a WikiOgre.	This user is a WikiChef.
This user is a Creator Elf.	This user is a WikiFairy.	Beware! This user is a known talk page stalker.

Critics who think I make valuable contributions but get into conflict with me frequently would probably classify me as a cross between a WikiPlatypus and a WikiPuma.

Licensing rights granted to Wikimedia Foundation

I grant non-exclusive permission for the Wikimedia Foundation Inc. to relicense my text and media contributions, including any images, audio clips, or video clips, under any copyleft license that it chooses, provided it maintains the free and open spirit of the GFDL. This permission acknowledges that future licensing needs of the Wikimedia projects may need adapting in unforeseen fashions to facilitate other uses, formats, and locations. It is given for as long as this banner remains.

Where I am in Wikispace

Host wiki	Account	User page	User talk	Contributions	Logs	Edits
Misplaced Pages (en)	Rollbacker, AutoReviewer, Reviewer, FileMover, PageMover, TemplateEditor	User:SMcCandlish	User talk:SMcCandlish	Contribs	Logs	Count
Meta-Wiki	Editor	User:SMcCandlish	User talk:SMcCandlish	Contribs	Logs	Count
Commons	Editor, FileMover	User:SMcCandlish	User talk:SMcCandlish	Contribs	Logs	Count
Wiktionary	Editor	User:SMcCandlish	User talk:SMcCandlish	Contribs	Logs	Count
Wikibooks	Editor (incative)	User:SMcCandlish	User talk:SMcCandlish	Contribs	Logs	Count
Wikinews	Editor (inactive)	User:SMcCandlish	User talk:SMcCandlish	Contribs	Logs	Count
Wikiquote	Editor	User:SMcCandlish	User talk:SMcCandlish	Contribs	Logs	Count
Wikisource	Editor (inactive)	User:SMcCandlish	User talk:SMcCandlish	Contribs	Logs	Count
Wikiversity	Editor (inactive)	User:SMcCandlish	User talk:SMcCandlish	Contribs	Logs	Count
Mediawiki	Editor	User:SMcCandlish	User talk:SMcCandlish	Contribs	Logs	Count
Misplaced Pages (simple)	Editor	User:SMcCandlish	User talk:SMcCandlish	Contribs	Logs	Count

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• SMcCandlish at the MediaWiki Bugzilla server

Potential conflicts of interest

Just as a matter of full disclosure, there are certain articles I should not heavily edit (i.e., other than to revert vandalism, provide sources, or otherwise adjust in an entirely neutral manner), because of unintentional potential for conflict of interest or non-neutral point of view. Other editors may wish to examine carefully any edits I ever make to any of the following topics:

• Stanton McCandlish – Me; while I might conceivably pass WP:GNG and WP:BIO, I have no article, have never had one, and don't want one - that would be a bit creepy to me, and friends with articles say they just cause trouble for them (personal attacks, misinformation, etc.), and I helped one get theirs deleted to protect their privacy. McCandlish Consulting is also me (d/b/a) and also non-notable.
• Protecting Yourself Online – I co-authored a book by this title, ISBN 9780062515124; it has no article and is surely not notable enough to have one.
• Wilcox–McCandlish law – something amusing that a colleague (Bryce Wilcox) and I came up with in the 1990s. Someone else created an article about it here, before I even became a WP editor; it was subsequently deleted on notability grounds, and should probably stay that way, though it might make a good WP:Essay, as it applies to talk pages here.

Things I could vaguely, conceivably have a conflict of interest on, due to past connections

• Too many clients to individually list here (and some are covered by NDAs anyway); I know better than to edit articles about them.
• CryptoRights Foundation (CRF) – I was their volunteer CCO/Communications Director for several years, starting 2003; it bugged me somethin' fierce that it did not have an article until recently, but it seemed grossly inappropriate to even start a "just the facts" stub on it, and someone else finally did)
• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) – Held various job titles there, including Program Dir., Communications Dir., etc., and was editor of their EFFector newsletter, and the webmaster of eff.org, 1993–2002.
• Blue Ribbon Online Free Speech Campaign – This was largely my brainchild, as a part of my professional life at EFF; it was an EFF project not a personal one.
• University of New Mexico (UNM) - Alma mater, 1991–1993 and 2007–2010; former employer, 1992–1993.
• Double Rainbow (ice cream) – Former employer, 1991.
• Wal-Mart – Former employer, late 1980s.
• Cannon Air Force Base, United States Air Force – Former employer, late 1980s; I was a civilian worker, not military personnel.

Things and stuff

Funniest things I've seen on Misplaced Pages

[emphasis added when salient]

• Misplaced Pages:Not everything needs a navbox
       The content itself isn't funny, but the fact that more than 50% of the content of the page is a huge navbox is hilarious.
• "WP:ANI is like a huge orgy. It's fun to watch, and sometimes it's fun to join in, but like any orgy, the larger it gets, the greater the chances are that someone will eventually try to stick a dick in your ass."
       — Slakr (talk), at 03:52, 19 March 2009 (UTC), User:Slakr/Admin coaching
• 11:07, 26 March 2007 83.253.36.136 (Talk) (→Performance of FAT 32 - moved spam down)
       An edit summary from Misplaced Pages:Village pump (policy). Needless to say, the next editor's summary read "deleted spam".
• A diff that must be seen to be believed
       Someone upset about grammar flames that were wasting people's time and being a distraction posts a distracting time-waste in the form of a longwinded and meticulously-researched grammar flame about it (plus a second shorter one!), all in support of the grammar flaming of the starter of the grammar flame; in the process, re-opening debate to yet more grammar flaming in the pointless sub-thread being complained about (dormant for over a day), and to which the poster was not even a party to begin with. I couldn't make this stuff up!
• 05:46, 21 February 2007 Gracenotes (Talk | contribs) (→Template:Barnstars - *stabs kittens*)
       An edit summary in response to "no, don't delete the barnstars!" panic replies to a TfD on a useless template simply relating to barnstars. I awarded Gracenotes a Barnstar Point for that one.
• "Hotel Misplaced Pages"
       A song parody by various Wikimedians (to the tune of The Eagles' "Hotel California"). I hate filk, with a passion, yet I somehow loved this.
• Possibly the worst ever of my own typos. (See edit summary used.)
       I think I was channeling Ancient Finnish or something.
• "Karl Marx, founder of modern Marxism ...."
       in Animal Farm, as of 13 January 2010 version (we all know that ancient Marxism was of course founded by Marxus Aurelius, right?)
• From the "unclear on the concept" department
       Rather remarkable definition of "watch your language".
• Hairy ball theorem
       Perhaps the funniest real article name on Misplaced Pages. (It's a real math/physics theorem, and not intrinsically funny, though a bit amusing.)
• Unbelievably selective evidence
       Someone concerned about overlinking in articles actually used the Professional wrestling article as alleged smoking-gun "proof" of rampant overlinking across Wikpedia, requiring (naturally) much more stringent anti-linking wording in WP:LINKING. Of course that article in particular would have overlinking, along with just about every other noob error, except when periodically cleaned up by experienced, neutral editors who don't believe in fairytales. The article is clearly indicative of nothing but the nature of that topic's fanbase (and thus its most frequent editorial pool).
• "Presumably we're talking about Life on Mars (TV series) here? John Carter 20:56, 13 April 2007 (UTC)"
       A comment posted at WP:COUNCIL/P, on a proposal for a "WikiProject Life on Mars"; if you don't get why this is hysterically funny, just move on – it's an old-school sci-fi geek thing.
• Very strange font activism vandalism of my sig at a talk page
       Did you know ... that there are not just regular vandals but ones with really, really weird agendas lurking in Misplaced Pages?
• http://www.well.com/~mech/WP/FunnyWikipediaCaptcha.jpg
       I'm not sure Misplaced Pages's account-creation CAPTCHA database should include every word... >;-)

Smartest things I've seen on Misplaced Pages

Just a few particularly well-thought-out bits by other editors. They aren't necessarily mindblowing or anything, just insightful and well-put.

1. "We must always do what is best for the readers, without exception. Per WP:IAR if a 'rule' prevents you from improving the encyclopaedia, ignore it ... and if you put your personal preferences above the readers then Misplaced Pages is not the project for you."
        — Thryduulf (talk), at 10:52, 4 June 2018 (UTC) in user talk, and in that instance about deleting redirects that are actually useful to readers but which don't quite fit someone's preferred formula.
2. "My impression is that we shouldn't allow users going against a policy to affect how it is written. People going around changing articles against policy isn't a good reason to have that policy be rewritten"
        Lee Vilenski 10:40, 30 October 2023 (UTC) . Slightly copyedited for clarity.
3. "Unless you can reliably and usefully tell editors how to identify a problematic case, it's generally not helpful to mention it in a policy. It ends up backfiring, as editors make up their own, mutually incompatible definitions and proclaim that their interpretation is the true one."
        WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:07, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
4. "Tony, your writing guides were what prompted me to start getting articles up to GA back in mid-2012. I've done over 100 since (still waiting to actually get a FAC passed solo, maybe next decade) ...."
        — User:Ritchie333 (talk), at 21:57, 2 January 2018 (UTC) . While this is well-deserved praise for the how-to essay series in support of WP:MOS by Tony1 (which starts here), this also gets at why style on Misplaced Pages is not trivia or trivial.
5. "I ... had no problem whatsoever learning wikicode when I started writing and improving encyclopedia articles in 2009. I do not want to learn new software features that are less productive and less intuitive than old software features. I welcome any upgrades that are entirely intuitive and non-disruptive to existing editors. I will oppose ill-conceived and poorly-implemented make-work projects for professional programmers. This is not an employment program for coders. It is an encyclopedia created by volunteers, who are article writers and researchers."
        — Cullen (talk), 18:40, 29 November 2015 (UTC), Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Breakfast#RFC - Remove Flow from WikiProject Breakfast? (commenting on how testing WP:Flow, WMF's new forum software intended to replace talk pages, pretty much destroyed the wikiproject that agreed to test it.
6. "I reverted to the version before the diff you cited , but was reverted. Changes pushed through without consensus are likely to be ignored or constantly disputed, so there's actually no point in doing this."
        — SarahSV 04:51, 27 January 2016 (UTC) Misplaced Pages talk:Manual of Style/Images#RfC: Should the guideline maintain the "As a general rule" wording or something similar?
7. "Revert rules should not be construed as an entitlement or inalienable right to revert, nor do they endorse reverts as an editing technique.
        Passed 9 to 0."
        — Arbitration Committee, 22:47, 23 March 2012 (UTC) Article titles and capitalisation, Final Decision
8. Perhaps the most cogent explanation to date of what wikiproject banners are really for (and it's not advertising projects) by WhatamIdoing, at WP:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement, 06:00, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
9. Roughtly 95%-accurate Observations on Misplaced Pages behavior by Antandrus, 12 March 2016 (may have been revised since then)
10. "A small group is more likely to develop a self-reinforcing delusion that their position is reasonable, even when a large number of people outside the group are telling them otherwise."
         — Gigs (talk · contribs), 12 June 2013, in Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages Signpost/2013-06-12/Op-ed, "The tragedy of Misplaced Pages's commons".
11. "Nearly all our policies are driven by the need to prevent ... abuse of Misplaced Pages. Policies on biographies of living people are driven largely by those who would abuse Misplaced Pages for purposes of defamation. Policies on neutrality and verifiability have been largely driven by the need to address those who were here to push a political agenda or promote their fringe viewpoints. What Misplaced Pages is not is pretty much a chronicle of all the things that people have tried to use Misplaced Pages for that the community has decided are detrimental to a quality encyclopedia. ... This isn't censorship, it's curation."
         — Gigs (talk · contribs), 12 June 2013, in Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages Signpost/2013-06-12/Op-ed, "The tragedy of Misplaced Pages's commons".
12. "[C]onsensus is an outcome of discussion, not a type of discussion. Editors' comments contribute to the consensus-building process."
         — David Levy (talk · contribs), 11:49, 6 March 2012 (UTC), at Misplaced Pages talk:Today's featured list#Renaming and re-stylizing Today's Featured List?, accessed March 11, 2012
13. "If rules make you nervous and depressed, and not desirous of participating in the wiki, then ignore them entirely and go about your business."
         — Koyaanis Qatsi (talk · contribs), 04:00, 18 September 2001 (UTC); it is the original formulation of WP:Ignore all rules.
14. "Any pile of bullshit decomposes naturally."
         — Misplaced Pages:Ignore all dramas (as of this version), on ignoring instead of responding to wiki-stupidity. Later versions had it as the far less pithy "Even the largest pile of bullshit will decompose on its own." The original formulation was "The most copiously deposited bullshit decomposes on its own." I reverted it to the concise version on 10 August 2011‎ and it seems to have stuck.
15. "Removed older logo. One logo is sufficient. Logos are copyrighted and Misplaced Pages should not serve as a gallery for logos."
         — Farine (talk · contribs), 05:59, 6 May 2008 (UTC) (edit summary at Data East)
16. "Anyone who adds material to an article, but cannot be bothered to cite any sources, is being discourteous to the other editors who later have to try to find reliable sources."
         — Dalbury (talk · contribs) 11:42, 24 January 2007 (UTC) (Misplaced Pages talk:Speedy deletion criterion for unsourced articles#Userfy is a good option, accessed January 31, 2007)
17. "Of course, the point of style is to give coherence and consistency, deviations from which can detract from the publication's voice (in this case, an encyclopedic voice)."
         — Ninly (talk · contribs), 06:38, 8 May 2009 (UTC) (Misplaced Pages talk:Manual of Style, accessed June 2, 2009), on the real purpose and value of the Misplaced Pages Manual of Style.
18. "Show the door to trolls, vandals, and wiki-anarchists, who, if permitted, would waste your time and create a poisonous atmosphere here."
         — WP co-founder Larry Sanger, on Misplaced Pages:Etiquette
19. "o need for bullet points – detail here is no more important than others"
         — SilkTork (talk · contribs), 10:19, 27 June 2011 (UTC) (edit summary at Misplaced Pages:Article size), on the problem that too many editors create bulletized lists from normal prose, as if Misplaced Pages were a giant PowerPoint presentation.
20. "While the title should be recognized as a reference to the article topic by someone familiar with the topic, for the uninitiated, it is the purpose of the article lead, not the article title, to identify the topic of the article."
         — Born2cycle (talk · contribs), 17:25, 26 January 2012 (UTC), Misplaced Pages talk:Article titles thread "Common names"
21. "The reason Misplaced Pages has policy pages at all is to store up assertions on which we agree, and which generally convince people when we make them in talk, so we don't have to write them out again and again. This is why policy pages aren't "enforced", but quoted; if people aren't convinced by what policy pages say, they should usually say something else. The major exception to this stability is when some small group, either in good faith or in an effort to become the Secret Masters of Misplaced Pages, mistakes its own opinions for What Everybody Thinks. This happens, and the clique often writes its own opinions up as policy and guideline pages."
         — JCScaliger (talk · contribs), sockpuppet of Pmanderson (talk · contribs), 03:57, 3 February 2012 (UTC), Misplaced Pages talk:Article titles thread "Request for edit, Poll". While Anderson made this point in a WP:POINTy way, sockpuppeting in a discussion he was trying to control (and arguing against me on the details of the issue) he's precisely right, and this was well articulated.
22. "If a high-profile poll is conducted that brings in widespread participation from editors who had previously stayed away from venue, and the holdouts who had been stonewalling and preventing progress merely slouch, stuff their hands in their pockets, and walk away, then that proves that they knew full well that their arguments were not sufficiently persuasive, or didn’t have sufficient numbers, or both. ... Trying to now torpedo the current consensus by stating that certain people somehow didn’t have an opportunity to participate is nothing but sour grapes .... On Misplaced Pages it’s called ‘wililawyering’ which is disruptive and mustn’t be rewarded."
         — Greg L (talk · contribs), 00:49, 10 February 2012 (UTC) Misplaced Pages talk:Article titles thread "Why no action on implementing community consensus"
23. "Some editors seek to be totally neutral, which means they invariably catch the most flak from everyone else."
         — User:Collect (talk), at 11:38, 30 November 2010 (UTC) , as a salient point in the essay WP:Sex, religion and politics.
24. "onsensus does exist absent an administrator to interpret it."
         — User:Mackensen (talk), at 04:03, 28 January 2008 (UTC) , commenting at a deletion review, on the fact that an XfD or other consensus process does not require formal closure if its decision is clear.

Smartest Misplaced Pages-relevant things I've seen from off-site

• Transgender activist Leslie Feinberg, 2006:

For me, pronouns are always placed within context. I am female-bodied, I am a butch lesbian, a transgender lesbian—referring to me as "she/her" is appropriate, particularly in a non-trans setting in which referring to me as "he" would appear to resolve the social contradiction between my birth sex and gender expression and render my transgender expression invisible. I like the gender neutral pronoun "ze/hir" because it makes it impossible to hold on to gender/sex/sexuality assumptions about a person you're about to meet or you've just met. And in an all trans setting, referring to me as "he/him" honors my gender expression in the same way that referring to my sister drag queens as "she/her" does.

1. Tyroler, Jamie (28 July 2006). "Transmissions – Interview with Leslie Feinberg". CampCK.com. Archived from the original on November 23, 2014. Retrieved 17 November 2014.

Allegedly sensible or clever things I've come up with here

• Misplaced Pages policies are what are required for the project to operate at all; guidelines are what help it operate smoothly; high-acceptance essays are what help its operators not make fools of themselves; and miscellaneous essays are part of the community mindshare that helps shape all of the above over time.
       (At WT:Don't bludgeon the process, in a "guidelines vs. essays" thread; 23:31, 30 November 2020 (UTC) .
       It's a nutshell version of something I've said, in various words, many times since the late 2000s.)
• As of right this moment, Misplaced Pages (the encyclopedic content, excluding other material like talk pages) is calculable to be approximately 97.86 times the size of Encyclopædia Britannica.
       (The bulk of the math is from User:Tompw/bookshelf/assumptions, but at the time it only calculated how many volumes of EB would be filled by WP.)
• "WP is a bad place to engage in labelling that isn't absolutely integral to international public perception of the subject."
       (In an essay/tutorial at WT:Categorization, 15:39, 9 June 2018 (UTC) . Someone suggested framing it on their wall! The idea eventually developed into the essay WP:Race and ethnicity.)
• "ur articles are palimpsests stirred together by a global assortment of geniuses, crackpots, and everyone in between, sometimes citing great stuff, sometimes poor stuff, and sometimes nothing".
       (At WT:Manual of Style, 16:49, 24 December 2017 (UTC) . This was in the context of readers wanting to verify our content with claim-by-claim inline citations not "general references".
       Someone else nominated it as a mot juste and "a gem" .
       It was later quoted on someone's user page along with one by Stephen Fry and another by Neil Gaiman. Pretty good company; I'm honored.)
• "An attempt at disambiguation that introduces another ambiguity is a failure."
       (I say this frequently. I'm not aware of anyone quoting me on it verbatim, but I've seen a rise in the same argument made in other words, and it is having the desired effect on article titles debates at WP:Requested moves.
• "If MoS does not already have a rule on something, then it almost certainly doesn't need one."
       (Included as a corollary at EEng's "If MOS does not need to have a rule on something, then it needs to not have a rule on that thing" essay.
• "No line item in our Manual of Style is supported by 100% of editors, and no editor supports 100% of its line items. The same situation is true of all style guides and their scopes and audiences in the wider world. The purpose of a stylebook is to set some ground rules (often arbitrary) so that the ballgame of writing can continue instead of the players standing around on the field brawling about trivia."
       (Summary of what I've said in variant wording probably 100 times in style disputes. No one ever tries to refute it.
       This awareness is what keeps our MoS from being a nightmare of editwarring about specific rules, over-inclusion of rules we don't need, deletion of ones we do just because someone doesn't like them, and pretense that no rules are needed.)
• "The next-to-last resort of someone who cannot muster a rational response to an opposing argument is to wave away that argument as something impossible to respond to (the last resort being ad hominem attacks)."
       (In particular, if you say "TL;DR" to refuse to respond to a cogent argument because it takes work to do so, you are at the wrong site – this one consists almost entirely of millions of pages of detailed and particular text, so if you can't parse a few paragraphs you are incompetent to work on this project.)
• "If one grinds an axe long and hard enough, there is no axe any longer, just a useless old stick."
       (A quasi-Taoist response to cranky complaints that relate to incidents so long ago no one should care any more. Compressed version: "Grind axe too long: no axe.")
• "Two words: tea pot. ~~~~"
       (A response to angry accusations of wrong-doing that self-evidently apply at least equally and usually much more accurately to the ranter.
       More recently, I've used it as a mantra for myself, when I feel wikistressed. It eventually led to the WP:HOTHEADS essay.)

Nifty Misplaced Pages tools

Kind of hard to find unless you already know about them:

Resources

• Wikimedia Labs at Mediawiki.org, for general info.
• The Tool Labs at WikiTech.Wikimedia.org, where anyone can create an account to develop tools.
• This page indicates lost tools and other problems after the demise of the old ToolServer.
• OAuth applications list

Stats tools

• Xtools-articleinfo at WMFLabs (general page stats, by year and month, with charts, etc.)
• editorinteract.py at WMFLabs – analyzes your interaction with one or more other users
• Aka's Page History Stats Tool – edit-related stats on any article or other page
• TDS's Article Contribution Counter – get stats (with some accuracy lag, usually a few weeks) on who the top editors of an article are
• Interiot's StubSense - what stubs are being used in a category
• Interiot's Related Changes Watchlist – makes "Special:Recentchangeslinked" pages behave like watchlists

Internal tools

• Special:AllMessages – track down any system message/notice (e.g. copyright warnings you are tired of seeing and want to exclude in your WP:USERCSS.)
• Advanced Search of Misplaced Pages

Editing tools

This user cites sources using refToolbar.

• WP:WikEd – syntax-highlighting WP editor (integrated, not external)
• WP:RefToolbar 2.0 – reference citation tool

Coding tools

• Special:ExpandTemplates – get raw HTML output of arbitrary wikicode with templates and parserfunctions

Lua programming and Scribunto modules

• Misplaced Pages:Lua
• Module:Arguments
• meta:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions – the hard-to-find full ParserFunctions (template code) documentation

Cleanup tools

• Reference citation consistency checker (use in sandbox or talk page): {{ref info|Manx cat|style=float:right}}

Visualization tools

• vCat – a tool to generate Graphviz diagrams of Misplaced Pages category relationships. Examples:
  • https://tools.wmflabs.org/vcat/render?wiki=enwiki&category=Cue_sports – Show the entire parent and other "ancestor" category tree structure of Category:Cue sports (up to the maximum of 250 nodes)
  • https://tools.wmflabs.org/vcat/render?wiki=enwiki&category=Cue_sports&depth=2 – Show just the immediate parent and grandparent categories of Category:Cue sports
  • https://tools.wmflabs.org/vcat/render?wiki=enwiki&category=Cue_sports&depth=4&algorithm=fdp – Show four levels but as node clusters instead of a tree
  • https://tools.wmflabs.org/vcat/render?wiki=enwiki&category=Cue_sports&rel=subcategory - Show the immediate child subcategories of Category:Cue sports (this function does not recurse and show child sub-sub-categories, etc.)
  • https://tools.wmflabs.org/vcat/render?wiki=enwiki&category=Cue_sports&rel=subcategory&algorithm=fdp - Show the same, but as a ring graph instead of a tree
  • https://tools.wmflabs.org/vcat/render?wiki=enwiki&title=William_A._Spinks&depth=2&algorithm=fdp - Show a node-cluster ring graph of the parent and grandparent categories of the article William A. Spinks
  • There are various other options, such as: creating links in the graph to the categories shown, or to new graphs starting at those categories; specifying output image format; outputting a text Graphviz .gv file with no node limit, for local rendering; choosing a different wiki, like French Misplaced Pages, or Wiktionary (example), or Commons; etc.

Help and info

• WP:Editor's index to Misplaced Pages
• wikipedia-en-help channel at FreeNode

Editor interaction analysis

• Editor Interaction Analyzer by Sigma, compares the edits of two to three specified editors to see which articles overlap, sorted by minimum time between edits by both users. Only works on the English Misplaced Pages. Speed: slow.
• Intersect Contribs, compares the edits of two to eight editors at any WMF wiki to see which articles overlap. Speed: fast.
• Intertwined contributions, merges the contributions of two editors at any WMF wiki into a single list. Speed: fast.

Unsorted additions

• Help:Labeled section transclusion – comparatively new feature that most of us don't know how to use yet
• How to ping people: "The keys are: max 20 pings per edit; and do an edit to clean before before trying a new ping, so the system sees a clean diff; and of course always new four-tilde signature. Dicklyon (talk) 03:45, 15 December 2014 (UTC)"
• CatScan Archived 2015-10-23 at the Wayback Machine category analysis tool
  • CatScan Quick Intersection
• TimedMediaHandler - a-v in articles
• Find which Wiki pages link to a particular site
• List changes made recently to pages linked from a specified page
• Readability meter
• Wikichecker
• Emoticons
• Tools for analysis of local MediaWiki installations (not directly relevant for en.wikipedia)
• Magnus's Reference Generator – auto-format several kinds of source citations

Search sites

• https://www.refseek.com – more than a billion sources: encyclopedias, monographs, magazines, etc.
• https://www.worldcat.org – catalogue of 20,000 libraries. Find the nearest rare book you need; get it through inter-library loan at local library
• https://link.springer.com – over 10 million scientific books, articles, research protocols, etc.
• https://www.bioline.org.br – library of bioscience journals published in developing countries
• https://repec.org – 4 million publications on economics and related subjects
• https://www.science.gov – 2200+ scientific sites; more than 200 million articles indexed
• https://www.pdfdrive.com – the largest website for free download of books and other works in PDF format; over 225 million titles
• https://www.base-search.net – over 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them free

Interesting layouts

It's possible to do some nice layouts with CSS – carefully – inside the "shell" that MediaWiki provides. Just of use on project and user pages, of course. We don't do stuff like this in articles.

• User:Logical Premise/admincrits

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Bureaucracy

Systemic mega-dramas of 2020 onward

• meta:Community Wishlist Survey 2022 – How will WMF spend its development money and time next year? This is important.
• meta:Universal Code of Conduct/Draft review – devils in the details, and just about the longest talk page in history
• Misplaced Pages:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC - more detail-devils
  • WP:FRAMGATE – relates in part to this, though the above item is more closely related to the one above it
• meta: Requests for comment/Should the Foundation call itself Misplaced Pages
• wmf:Resolution:Publication of proposed Bylaws changes, 2020 – mostly just legalese tweaks, but a few are non-trivial
  • meta:Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard/October 2020 - Proposed Bylaws changes – diff view of the above
  • meta:Talk:Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard/October 2020 - Proposed Bylaws changes – feedback page for that
• meta:Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard/October 2020 - Board candidate evaluation form – draft "Board candidate rubric"
  • meta:Talk:Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard/October 2020 - Board candidate evaluation form – feedback page for that
• meta:Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2018-20/Transition/Global Conversations – not even sure what this is yet, but they used the system-wide banner system to "advertise" it for community input
• meta:Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2018-20/Transition/Discuss – not sure what this is either, but it showed up on WP:CENT

ArbCom

• Archive of stock statements of principles: Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Index/Principles 2
  • Old version now marked as {{historical}}: Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Index/Principles
• Next year's election-prep RfC will probably appear here: Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee Elections December 2022
  • And the ElectCom one should appear here: Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee Elections December 2022/Electoral Commission

Some of the more nebulous WMF bureaucracy

• meta:Trust and Safety – a.k.a. the cancel-culture enablement system
  • meta:Trust and Safety/Case Review Committee – at least there is one, though I'm sure it'll be as opaque as the above
• meta:Ombuds commission – this actually looks interesting for something ...
• Interestingly, ArbCom members are now required (on the en.WP side, not the WMF side) to not be on either of the above bodies, as a conflict of interest (after the WP:FRAMGATE fiasco).

Buh-bye!

Thanks for visiting!

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