User talk:CarlFilip19

Semi-protection templates[edit]

The semi-protection templates aren't especially critical in their specificity, and a look at the article history will be more informative than relying on the template. There are lots more things that are both beneficial to the reader and gnomish to do. Acroterion (talk) 00:14, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay?

What if we question the existence of the reasons in the semi-protection templates? The templates themselves help some people see why they cannot edit the page, and the reasons are small additions.

I do not like inconsistency, where only most pages get associated protection templates, and only some showing why they are protected when the reason is either vandalism, WP:BLP, sockpuppetry, or editing disputes.

I understand that not all templates need to be elaborated with reasons, since there are reasons for protection that have no associated message in the templates, such as general disruptive editing or spamming, but for the reasons that do, I do something that other people can do too, and without telling them to.

Furthermore, a while back, I have asked Oshwah if it is okay for me to do it. I continued some days later due to: it turns out that people other than administrators have been doing this, and I have not gotten a response for for multiple days (along with many other sections not gettign responses despite Oshwah saying that he will respond as soon as he can).

Long story short, do you want me to stop handling the templates? Perhaps simply editing the templates would work better as minor edits. CarlFilip19 (talk) 08:56, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

They don’t need to be “handled,” and the fussing brings little benefit to the encyclopedia or reader. An editor with 26 edits (half of them to pp-semi templates) shouldn’t be making those interpretations, and there are better things to do. It just clogs up warchlists. Find something to do that is of benefit to the project. Acroterion (talk) 11:09, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiGnome has a list of valuable background tasks that directly benefit readers that you may enjoy, and which are higher priorities than changing ephemeral templates. Acroterion (talk) 12:00, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Alright. I used to be on a streak of fixing unsupported attributions and weasel wording. CarlFilip19 (talk) 13:17, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Needs doing, have fun. Acroterion (talk) 15:31, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]