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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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User:Sebwite

In all, I very seldom propose an article for deletion. I have started only a small number of AfDs, and when I do New Page Patrol, I prefer to PROD as opposed to AfD in order to give the creator a chance to independently improve the page as need be to avert its deletion. I mark pages for speedy deletion only if they are in gross violation of Wikipedia policy.

On notability

  • Notability is not a status assigned to an elite group of subjects. All it means is that it is possible to write a neutral, factually accurate article about the subject given the available sources.
  • Not everything is notable, but quite a lot of stuff is. Many subjects have offline sources only that are difficult to find.
  • For certain subjects, it is obviously not practical to write an article on every single one of them (see WP:MILL). These include people, small businesses, and streets, just to name a few.

Some of my creations

Articles

I have created more than 250 articles, far too many to list. For a list, click here.

Essays and similar

  1. Wikipedia:A navbox on every page (WP:NBFILL)
  2. Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in edit wars (WP:ATAEW)
  3. Wikipedia:Arguments to make in deletion discussions (WP:GOODARG)
  4. Wikipedia:Award barnstars (WP:AWARDBARN)
  5. Wikipedia:Bare notability (WP:BARE)
  6. Wikipedia:Before commenting in a deletion discussion (WP:BCD) (not completed)
  7. Wikipedia:Bombardment (WP:BOMBARD)
  8. Wikipedia:Businesses with a single location (WP:ONELOC)
  9. Wikipedia:Circumventing policy (WP:TRICK) (not completed)
  10. Wikipedia:Content removal (WP:REMOVAL)
  11. Wikipedia:Dealing with dictionary definitions (not completed)
  12. Wikipedia:Deletion of newly created pages (WP:NEWP)
  13. Wikipedia:Don't be ashamed (WP:NOSHAME)
  14. Wikipedia:Existence ≠ Notability (WP:ENN)
  15. Wikipedia:Geographic imbalance (WP:IMBALANCE)
  16. Wikipedia:Go ahead, vandalize (WP:GAV) - humor
  17. Wikipedia:Follow the leader (WP:LEADER)
  18. Wikipedia:How to save an article proposed for deletion (WP:SAVE)
  19. Wikipedia:Issues with an article are not a reason for deletion (not completed)
  20. Wikipedia:Lamest edit war topics (WP:LEWT)
  21. Wikipedia:List of policies and guidelines to cite in deletion debates (WP:PGL)
  22. Wikipedia:Make protection requests sparingly (WP:SPARE)
  23. Wikipedia:Masking the lack of notability (WP:MASK)
  24. Wikipedia:No-edit orders (WP:NOEDIT)
  25. Wikipedia:Nothing is in stone (WP:STONE)
  26. Wikipedia:Overzealous deletion (WP:ZEAL)
  27. Wikipedia:List of policies and guidelines to cite in deletion debates (WP:PGL)
  28. Wikipedia:Run-of-the-mill (WP:MILL)
  29. Wikipedia:The value of essays (WP:VALUE)
  30. Wikipedia:WikiBullying (WP:BULLY)
  31. Wikipedia:Wikipedia clones (WP:CLONE)
  32. Wikipedia:Wikipedia is a volunteer service (WP:VOLUNTEER)
  33. Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not guess, guess, guess (WP:GUESS) (not completed)
  34. Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not being written in an organized fashion (WP:ORGANIZE)


I also originally wrote the proposal Wikipedia:Notability (events) that ultimately became a guideline.

Help pages

  1. Help:Drawing attention to new pages (WP:ANP)
  2. Help:Hidden text (WP:HIDDEN)
  3. Help:Pageview stats (WP:PVS)
  4. Help:Whitespace (WP:WHITE)

Templates

  1. Template:Baltimore neighborhoods
  2. Template:Civility
  3. Template:Commercial air travel
  4. Template:Hospitals in Maryland
  5. Template:Museums in Maryland
  6. Template:Public transport
  7. Template:Roads in Baltimore area
  8. Template:Roads in Montgomery County, Maryland
  9. Template:Roads in Prince Georges County, Maryland
  10. Template:Shopping malls in Maryland
  11. Template:Essays on building Wikipedia

Infoboxes

Template:Infobox nature center

Other

Template:Gsvlink for listing the link to the site on Google Street View
Template:newpage for newly constructed articles

Some of my plans

  • Creating articles on Washington, D.C. area buses. For a list of my plan, click here.
  • Work on de-orphaning as many essays as possible. Many essays have been written and forgotten.
  • Become an administrator. I have tried once and failed, and I am ready for this to take several tries. After a year that personally kept me away from Wikipedia for some time, I plan to get back to that.

Barnstars

The Photographer's Barnstar
For the picture added to WP:AMOUNT. I was looking for something, and this was perfect.  Blanchardb -- timed 04:54, 1 July 2009 (UTC)


The Minor Barnstar
For adding a nice "checkmate" image to the essay WP:WABBITSEASON, I award you The Minor Barnstar for your minor edit that I beleive makes a huge difference! Paul McDonald (talk) 16:00, 15 February 2010 (UTC)


Your Opinion is More Important than You Think Barnstar
In case you've never been recognised for it before, this is in thanks for your work in creating the essay WP:MILL, which is one of the clearest and most well-reasoned essays on Wikipedia and one which I use almost daily in AfD debates. DustFormsWords (talk) 00:06, 1 December 2010 (UTC)


The Guidance Barnstar
I'm not sure if you're around here much these days? But I found a bunch of your essays recently & they're both helpful & *kind.* Also looks like you contributed piles to an essay that was in the Signpost last month, so I guess you're still helping plenty of others, too. // Knifegames (talk) 00:47, 30 January 2021 (UTC)


The name Sebwite is a spoonerism of the word website.