User:Aude

I'm an editor and admin on English Wikipedia (see en:User:Aude) and an admin on Commons.

• Efforts to emphasize quality on Wikipedia are important for the success of the project, and retaining good editors. Quality needs to emphasized over process, procedure, and policy. The Five Pillars of Wikipedia and mission of the project must precedent over policies. Policy wonks and bickering over process are a reason why some good users get frustrated and leave the project.

• Efforts to discourage vandalism are welcome, such as protections that can be placed on pages, or "stable version" status put on some pages.

• We need to be more serious about trolls, POV pushers, etc. and be sure to support our productive users. "Assume good faith" is great in principle, but let's recognize that some users are simply not here to write an encyclopedia. We should not be as tolerant of those folks. Many good users get fed up with trolling, POV pushing, etc. and end up leaving the project. "Anyone can edit" is not one of the Five Pillars and should not override the pillars, especially the first one.

• Enhancements to Wikipedia such as Prof. Luca de Alfaro's trust coloring, or Wikidashboard are excellent.

Cut down on the bickering, POV pushing, trolling, and policy wonks, and Wikipedia may become a project that I would recommend to friends and colleagues. With the current editing environment, regretfully I wouldn't recommend to anyone as worth their time. Aude 00:05, 18 September 2007 (UTC)