Loanfish
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Help me! Question regarding the content of user-pages. edit
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Let me begin by stating that I am agreeable to the changes which have been made to my user-page, and I am not attempting to start an argument or make any form of dispute. I am merely asking for elaboration as a point of information.
An administrator, Billinghurst (talk · contribs), whom I am mentioning out of respect in the event they wish to respond personally, removed content from my user-page which they determined to be abuse. I want to make sure that I do not make this mistake again in the future, as it was not my intent, and abuse is something which I take very seriously. Re-reading what was removed from my user-page, I believe that I am misunderstanding the guidelines regarding notability and verifiability. Specifically:
- I did not regard my local branch of the Socialist Party USA to be worthy of its own article, but I did think the details were relevant enough to enhance collaboration with other users on the site.
- I included references to outside, official, sources in order to add verification for my statements. I was under the impression that this was required.
I do not understand how either of these things qualify as abuse.
Before authoring my user-page, I made a point to not only read the guidelines, but also to check the pages of other users in an effort to gain a more pragmatic understanding of what was appropriate. I understand that there are only so many administrators, and I recognize that it is possible I simply made an unfortunate selection of users from whom to take example. That being said, I find it unlikely that prolific editors are able to escape detection while decorating their user-pages with completely irrelevant memes.
While I am prepared to provide examples, I recognize that engaging in 'whataboutism' is not helpful, and would be missing the point. I only bring it up to highlight the source of my genuine confusion.
Thank you in advance!
--Loanfish (talk) 13:28, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
- User pages are to tell us a little about yourself in the context of being a user. User pages are not meant to be de facto article pages. I may have loquacious in my use of the word abuse, it was meant to more read as directive than accusatory. If I had wanted to take specific issue with it, I would have left a specific message here. — billinghurst sDrewth 13:39, 26 January 2020 (UTC)