User talk:Snowycats/Archives//2020/March

About Cuba wiki project

Hi DJAustin;

Sorry for the tardy response regarding your invitation to continue contributing knowledge about Cuba, written and photos, but I'm not so sure I will be helping with Kiwi projects anymore. I mean... what's the point? I have put hours and hours of my time and dedication to write about it (sometimes with grammatical typos, after all I'm not native English speaker), but especially with my own photos, photos I uploaded to Wikipedia when there was next to zero information about the island. And then to my dismay I can see how a lot of knuckleheads taking decisions for the rest of us go there and eliminate them citing "this and that". I'm talking about people that most of the time do not live or know anything about Cuba. For instance. I spent a lot of time coloring a 19 century postcard of the city following techniques and colors used at the time and proudly putting it the Santa Clara page. Today I discovered that a user named Kaldari (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Kaldari) took it down from the page. reason...unknown to me. And so have happened with all my photos (marked with proper licensing and rights) through out an entire variety of articles I collaborated with years ago. Some of the cited reasons were "overkill, that is what wiki commons is for"... but nobody thinks to go to wiki commons to see images Austin, when they need to read and see places and information they go to wikipedia, not wikicommons.... so no common sense there (pun intended). This is the article before deletion: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Santa_Clara,_Cuba&oldid=760960392

and this how it looks today after Kaldari and many many other "experts" is Santa Clara history have work their magic and erased, and erased again most of its original charm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara,_Cuba

I have not done any more contributions to wikipedia, nor have I used it as a point of reference for almost 5 years now. It just not worth the time I put into it when I know months after the fact some bot or some person will go in and erase stuff from them.

But thank you, I appreciate the invitation and you thinking of me for the Cuba project.Lezumbalaberenjena (talk) 12:21, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

Ill balanced decision on deletion of the article "Wiktor Żwikiewicz".

I strongly disagree with the decision. Just compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacek_Piekara English stub with links of the quality comparable to those provided by me. Compare that English stub with the original in Polish as well. I will not write again an original English version (not dumb translation) of the article Wiktor_Żwikiewicz. The decision on deletion was like burning a book because of someones taste or administartove decision in some regime country. "Not sufficiently many inline citations." C'mon! From where? From Polish well established encyclopedias was not enough for some judges. English is not the only language in the world. If English reading people in England do not care for some poor Polish writer, still there are previous Crown's colonies, like India. Polish encyclopedia in political and humanities part is controlled by some activists, but I cannot imagine that they would delete an info about some Argentinian writer because of - ghosh! - darn "inline citations" and lack of English citations. This ensures me that writing/imrpoving othe rarticles is not worth my precious time, especially in the domain of my expertise. With regards, Megaloxantha