Maslowsneeds

enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.

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This user has been on Wikipedia for 19 years, 9 months and 30 days.

Trail of Deletions

My Talk page is littered with a history of some of my edits or pages being marked for deletion. I think it is wrong to delete edits, especially if they are sourced to credible news sources. If all we are doing here is spreading information, why is there an automatic need to mark things for deletion ? Why is information threatening ?

I've copied some useful links and information below from somebody else's user page. I hope you find it helpful.

Helpful Links/Info

WP:POLICY - Wikipedia Policies WP:VERIFY - Verifiability WP:NPOV - Neutral Point of View WP:NOTE - Notability WP:OR - No Original Research WP:PRIMARY - Primary Sources WP:RS - Reliable Sources WP:ENGVAR - Variants of English WP:SPELLING - Spelling/Language Diffs

WP:NOTGUIDE - Not a Guide Book WP:DR - Dispute Resolution WP:DRR - Dispute Resolution WP:EL - External Links WP:NPA - No Personal Attacks WP:BLP - BLP General WP:COOL - Staying Cool WP:PRIDE - Not About Winning WP:UNDUE - Undue Weight

WP:AIV - Vandalism WP:RPP - Page Protection WP:RAA - Admin Intervention WP:POL - Policies WP:AN3 - Edit-warring WP:ANI - Incident Reporting WP:CSD - Criterion for Speedy Deletion WP:EQ - Wikiquette WP:TM - List of Templates

WP:Place - Geographic Naming WP:LTA - Long Term Abuse WP:AAAD - RfA Discussions WP:AGF - Assume Good Faith WP:COI - Conflict of Interest WP:COAT - Articles about one thing shouldn't mostly focus on another thing. WP:SIMPLE - Simplified Rules WP:DROPIT - Just Drop It

Important links

• Be bold
• Community portal
• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• Policies & guidelines

Aaron Swartz on Wikipedia

Internet activist Aaron Swartz wrote this about Wikipedia, which I found to be truthful : "an outsider makes one edit to add a chunk of information, then insiders make several edits tweaking and reformatting it." Writing generally of Wikipedia, Swartz separately added that, "The more frightening problem is that people love to get power and hate to give it up."