User:Cmrc23/wikithoughts

Hello! I wanted to write about some of my wikipedia opinions, but they were a bit too long to fit nicely on my main user page, so I will contain them here.

Talk pages

I am not that experienced with outright vandalism of talk pages - of course, any removal of content or editing of other user's comments should be reverted. I do, however, wonder if some reverted comments could be preserved. I will provide an anonymised example of something I witnessed recently.

An article on wikipedia is reported on. IP users descend on the talk page and complain about it, about how wikipedia is this and that, complaining about the cabal, and so on. This is quickly reverted and the page is protected to prevent these disruptive comments.

I am completely for protecting the page, but I personaly believe these comments should have been preserved - probably in a collapsed section with a big warning sign about how these users are brigading! Similarly, if people resort to personal attacks, perhaps we could collapse these comments and put a warning before reading.

I admit that I do not know enough about this subject, and am fine with hearing other opinions on this! Anything worthy of being salted after deletion does not apply here, too

Notability

I have only taken part in one notability discussion, so my opinion is quite limited. So far I feel like the criteria can be fair sometimes, and too strict in others. I suppose I am a mergist, but I have not yet decided where I lie on the deletionism-inclusionism scale.

Misc style and article thoughts

I am in favour of infoboxes containing more information, if that information might reasonably be useful to the average person seeking out that wikipedia page. This includes information that might otherwise be in the rest of the article. Of course, I know that infoboxes can get too big, but I am in general against cutting down infoboxes for brevity's sake alone.

I am completely against using youtube as a source, unless it is for news reports, copies of documentaries, or recordings of speeches (and I am still iffy on that last one!)

I am pro-trivia sections, though this would very likely work better on an alternative wikiproject

Random things

I think fair use should be used more often for images on wikipedia.

Less of a wikiopinion and more of a copyright opinion, but I think it is completely ridiculous to not allow pictures of toys as "copyrighted". As far as I'm concerned, all photos of toys should be the copyright of the photographer, as the photo itself is a type of art!

I am skeptical of allowing unregistered editing on wikipedia, but I have witnessed some great edits from IP users.