User talk:Tennessee Ernie Ford/Archive 09

Hey
You sure you won't be coming back? ;-( You do a lot of good here you know. Less criticize you here. You're loved by all! 72.148.31.114 06:35, 28 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Absolutely 100% sure? No, not really. But I decided it's very unlikely, after I saw some of the recent reversions/changes that accidentally tossed babies out with bathwater or left incorrect impressions...and realized I didn't have any interest in spending the time to adjust the articles.


 * With regards to fan clubs: criticism is healthy (criticizing... perhaps not so much). I get more than enough respect at GWW and there's more than enough work to be done there. I'd prefer to see fewer personal attacks and trolling over there, but...at worst, that only affects a few articles (and mostly only talk pages).


 * Thanks for the vote of confidence. — Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 17:44, 28 July 2011 (UTC)


 * What pages? I'm still learning as I go along, so if any changes or revisions are "bad" I probably won't recognize it as such, until someone points it out to me. Help? lol ... Aloha, Mauirixxx 18:58, 28 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Eh, if it had been your edits, Mauirixxx, I'm sure I would have dropped you a note (and, for that matter, it's unlikely for them to have been yours; at worst, you make the same tPyos as the rest of us). (And even if you do make a doozy, you seem to fix it yourself before anyone seems to notice.) i.e. Keep on keeping on; you're doing good stuff. — Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 19:35, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Agreed with Mauirixxx, what pages? 72.148.31.114 21:30, 28 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Erm, y'all seem to be missing the point: my leaving means it's up to those who remain to decide what works best for this wiki, its community, and its audience.


 * On a similar note, I almost replied to Ish's post about the gw.exe extraction method of populating skill descriptions...because I wanted to support his efforts, but then I remembered: I'm no longer an active contributor here; it's not up to me to opine. (Although, I confess, I do admire some of the presentation overhauls he has made recently.) — 76.199.137.49 17:14, 29 July 2011 (UTC)


 * I think you're partly missing the point, too. If we haven't "fixed" these edits that you have a problem with, it's probably not because we think they're good edits.  More likely it's because we, the few active editors left here, don't realize the problem or aren't knowledgeable enough about the subject to realize the problem.  And that's exactly the reason if you're referring to what I think you are: these edits to the running guides?  I've never been a runner, I've never paid any attention to the running metagame.  I had no clue there still was a running metagame until that user started updating the guides last fall.  He seemed quite knowledgeable about the subject, I know I'm not, so who am I to question his edits?  Of course, if that's not what you're referring to, then we definitely need to be enlightened.
 * And y'know what? I don't care how "active" you are, your opinion is respected here.  If you think that a proposal of mine is totally stupid, I want to know before I waste any more of my increasingly limited time working on it.  (That goes for anyone who's paying attention to this, by the way.)  You often have great ideas for improvements on my initial design.  So if you're still interested enough in this wiki to be watching RC, then you are most certainly "active" enough to participate in discussions.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael Diablo_the_chicken.gif 17:54, 29 July 2011 (UTC)


 * I'm just going to echo what Ish said. Also, I've been trying to help out where I can but I'm admittedly clueless about what makes a wiki "good" or "useful", so I'm trying to follow the "standards" that are already in place, as what's here already has helped me immensely over the past 5 years. My point being, if there's a page you (or someone else) considers "bad" I probably won't recognize it as being bad until someone points it out specifically that "That shouldn't be that way, it should be this way". And like Ish also pointed out, there's "... the few active editors left here ..." - what we need is MORE people contributing - not less! Aloha, Mauirixxx 20:18, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree with both of them. Can't you stay and help out both here and gww? (I plan to work on WiK once I decide what char. I want to have go through it or the skills for her) 72.148.31.114 23:38, 29 July 2011 (UTC)