User talk:69.153.1.139

An editor using this IP address recently removed the VfD tag from Brian Evans (as well as blanking it) and deleted the VfD entry for Neil. This can be construed as vandalism and may result in blocking, so please do not repeat this.

On the other hand, this editor (who I suspect, based on similar IP addresses, is the same person who created the Brian Evans article, and is likely Brian himself) raised a couple of useful points at Talk:Brian Evans that he subsequently blanked as well. Article talk pages and VfD entries are appropriate places to raise such questions, so don't feel the need to blank them. I will respond to the blanked comments.


 * "… there seems to be only two people who care at all about deleting the articles and you always agree." There are indeed two people who routinely vote on deletions (and we often but don't always agree), but there are others as well who occasionally chime in. Anyone can comment, and any registered user (we must have more than 7000 at this time) can vote, although we may not take very seriously votes by users who only register to vote on a single article. All MediaWiki projects are "coalitions of the willing" (to borrow a dubious phrase from Dubya), but Wikiquote has very few editors who are willing to review articles to ensure they meet Wikiquote standards.


 * "Please do not delete this article because it is not for you to decide who is notable enough." It is the Wikiquote community's job to decide who and what are notable enough. It's unfortunate that there are rarely more than 2 or 3 of our thousands of contributors who wish to participate in this critical function, but we make do with the willing participants.


 * "I would rather you did not delete this page for it is about a real philospher." There are literally tens of millions of philosophers in the world alive today. (I happen to be one of them, as are many of my friends and some of my relatives.) It is not Wikiquote's purpose to collect the musings of everyone on the planet who has something to say. This function is done very well by the millions of blogs, discussion forums, and personal websites, in a way that was hardly imaginable ten years ago. In this din of self-publication, Wikiquote stands as a project to provide sourced, verified quotes by notable people and works, with very specific meanings of each of these terms, just as Wikipedia does for encyclopedia articles. Both projects were established and are supported by the WikiMedia Foundation, and it's their province, not us individual editors, to decide these rules. They do so by laying some ground rules and allowing each community, working within those rules, to make judgment calls by consensus. If you wish to participate in this process, we would welcome your work. But personal quotes are specifically not allowed in the main article space. They are, however, allowed (and even encouraged) on user pages.
 * "I am sorry if this seems like an attack and i do not mean it as so." Don't worry; I didn't think of this as an attack, merely a misunderstanding of Wikiquote's purpose. I'm sure others would understand this as well.

If you (or anyone else using this IP address) have a question about these policies and practices, feel free to post a note on my talk page. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 09:34, 17 March 2006 (UTC)