Misplaced Pages

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About DreamGuy

Usually what I end up doing is undoing really bad edits by other people: spam, hoaxes, trying to put their own opinion into an article as if anyone else cares, horribly pointless trivia and so forth.

The good thing about Misplaced Pages is anyone who spots something wrong can change it. The bad thing about Misplaced Pages is all the people who want things to be wrong (either from bias or cluelessness) can easily do damage that takes multiple good editors five or more times the effort to undo as it took the bad editor to do in the first place.

The eternal struggle

The Misplaced Pages philosophy can be summed up thusly: "Experts are scum." For some reason people who spend 40 years learning everything they can about, say, the Peloponnesian War -- and indeed, advancing the body of human knowledge -- get all pissy when their contributions are edited away by Randy in Boise who heard somewhere that sword-wielding skeletons were involved. And they get downright irate when asked politely to engage in discourse with Randy until the sword-skeleton theory can be incorporated into the article without passing judgment.

—Lore Sjöberg, from "The Misplaced Pages FAQK"

Fun trivia: After I added this section and graphic they have been reused on a number of talk pages and even expanded into the essay Misplaced Pages:Randy in Boise. It even led to someone getting in trouble after someone who was not paying attention thought that the reference to "Randy in Boise" was outing someone else's secret, real-world identity.

Useful templates

Two I made:

• fictionlist - for nonfiction articles overrun by lists of fiction/music/popular culture making reference to the topic
• fictioncruft - for fiction articles that just has way too many nonnotable examples listed

Tagging articles/sections:

• advert - article reading like ad
• plot - plot summary overly long
• cleanup-laundry - overly long lists
• examplefarm - listcruft
• external links - for just too many
• cleanup-spam - for the hardcore bad links
• trivia - for section named trivia
• unencyclopedic - whole section/article needs to go away
• disputed & disputed-section - factual problems
• POV & POV-section - for the pushers
• importance - article not encyclopedic
• importance-s - section

Tagging specific lines:

• fact - cite source here, please
• who - who says this?
• POV-statement - this part here is biased
• or - somebody is just pontificating here on their own, aren't they?

Warning users:

• Misplaced Pages:UTM has templates for warning editors that what they are doing is not allowed

• WikiProject Spam participants
• WikiProject Images and Media participants
• WikiProject Skepticism participants