Editor Log: January 2003

What we are looking at is
good and evil, right and wrong.
A new world order.

We're not about to make that same mistake.

George Bush Sr., c. 1991

• None found, yet.

• Tennants SD by listener. Fixed a typo -- unless the author likes drinking smooth creamy bears, that is.
• Natsume Soseki by sensei. Fixed a few typos, added a few links and the kanji for the name.
• Ivory soap by adoxograph. Fixed a few typos, changed breaks to paragraphs.
• Augusto Pinochet by chato. Fixed some broken English.

• FAA by The Custodian. Superseded by (and firmlinked to) Federal Aviation Administration.
• create an image by listener. "In Photoshop go to File/New... or press Ctrl+N". I press Ctrl+Q on this writeup, sucka.
• chocka-block by listener. Webster covers better under chockablock.
• 1 Ghz by listener. Pointless.
• Pokémon by Grim Reaper. Poor spelling, linking, formatting and content.
• Male pattern baldness by MrKibble. Superseded (and Roninspoon has a better funny summary).
• Miyazaki by pzilla. Should be Miyazaki Tsutomu.
• /dev/null by madhatta. No formatting whatsoever; asked user to fix and resubmit.
• apriori by jaredk. Firmlinked to a priori.
• Right of the First Knight by DMan, cian, 7ghent. Superseded and firmlinked to droit de seigneur.
• Miles and Smiles by niku. Content-free.
• Common Data Security Architecture by MetaCosm. Content-free.
• Metrophobia by Nutloaf. Just plain incorrect.
• li by li. Done obsolete by Glowing Fish le.
• Everything University by stevig33. Newbie writeup in the wrong place; node softlocked to prevent recurrence.
• Hikaru no Go by dasher. Consisted of an external link to pirated material.

In my previous logs, I have discussed topics such as:

• Editor cools, restricted use
• Editor logs, detailed or not?
• Editor logs, why mine are the way they are
• Editorial prejudice, right and wrong
• Politeness
• Softlocking, when to do it

Nose to the grindstone:

• Edited
  Owners of edited WUs get a /msg informing them of the edit. Very minor stuff isn't listed here - this is for more extensive edits. Also, if I thought a WU was good enough to merit the effort involved in an extensive edit, it probably is worth a visit - so this list is a good guide to miscellaneous interesting WUs.
  • (...)
• Killed
  
  • BSE by Criwi (January 1, 2003) - "We can do without this."
  • Asuka's breasts by Alchemy (January 3, 2003) - "Thank you for your contribution to our node landfill, otaku-san, but please give due consideration to noding for the ages, next time."
  • Sternmost by sh0t (January 3, 2003) - "This is too weak to let live. Sorry."
  • Collateral damage by Awe (January 5, 2003) - "DO NOT cut and paste from the IMDB."
  • Hildor by Ysardo (January 8, 2003) - "Write something of your own."
  • Nazgul by Ysardo (January 8, 2003) - "We prize originality."
  • Ancalagon by Ysardo (January 9, 2003) - "Copied nearly verbatim from http://valarguild.org/varda/Tolkien/encyc/nonhuman.html"
  • sacramental by ili (January 9, 2003) - "Don't make stuff up. Or, if you do make stuff up, make sure you can do so with something resembling skill and style."
  • TG by kerb (January 9, 2003) - Nuked by request.
  • Lani: the love of my life by Ysardo (January 9, 2003) - Nuked by request.
  • The Window by Ysardo (January 9, 2003) - Nuked by request.
  • The best way to spend an afternoon by Ysardo (January 9, 2003) - Nuked by request.
  • Shelob by Irishnital (January 14, 2003) - "Copied from http://www.woodbetweentheworlds.net/shelobs_lair/me/ - we don't allow Cut-and-Paste."
  • Tsutomu Miyazaki by pzilla (January 14, 2003) - "I honestly can't believe you reposted this verbatim, after I'd told you it would not do."
  • Meaning?? by Cookalicious (January 15, 2003) - "Thank you for sharing this. Have you considered therapy?"
  • PI succintly stated what my mushy mind contemplated by doyle (January 23, 2003) - "Sweet. Blather, but sweet. There's a special place in Heaven for you."
  • Natalie Vizy by trak3r (January 29, 2003) - "How precious. Please write it down on paper and put it somewhere safe. Like, at the bottom of a drawer."
  • kafir by ateran (January 30, 2003) - Factually wrong, the user was describing the term kaffir. Superseded anyway.
  • Fanny Farmer by Any (January 30, 2003) - "We don't need this. It would have been funny as a quip in the catbox. It isn't funny as a writeup."
• Editor cooled
  As is my self-imposed rule, I shall try to restrict myself to 3 ed-cools a month
  • (...)
• Firmlinked
  • NIN to Nine Inch Nails (January 1, 2003)
  • Astrophysics to Astronomy (January 5, 2003) - Referring users to the E2Science metanode at Astronomy, which includes all astrophysics material.
  • ZRH to Zürich Airport (January 1, 2003)
• Softlocked
  • (...)

Additional casualties:

• Victim of a Criminal (idea) by Yurei, by request.
• November 25, 2002 (idea) by Tlogmer, by request.

Ed cools and kudos:

• Your node here.

I had to go open my big mouth.

I was somewhat annoyed at Webster 1913 for listing Native American peoples under plural headwords, which resulted in plural node titles. After a quick reconnoitering with fellow deities, I began the task of making these peoples, who had been in their nodes before I came here, migrate once again.

Webster seems to have put MOST Native American tribes under plural headwords. After an hour of excruciating lag, I managed to get a dozen or so:

• Comanche, Paducah
• Apache
• Choctaw
• Chickasaw
• Creek, Muskogee, Uchee, Seminole
• Pawnee, Loup
• Ute
• Shawnee, Kickapoo
• Ottawa
• Sac, Sauk
• Fox
• Huron
• Wichita
• Navajo
• Winnebago
• Nez Perce
• Onondaga
• Oneida
• Cayuga
• Tuscarora
• Delaware
• Wyandot

(kept and firmlinked Blackfeet)

(Mohawk was singular to begin with)

(someone had already done Seneca)

(can't decide what to do with Kansas)

I let myself in for extra work, reparenting several writeups from a singular-titled node to the plural-titled node, then deleting the singular title and renaming the plural back to the singular. For some reason I felt it was important to have the nodeshell "created by" link say Webster 1913. Dont ask me why.

I feel filthy after handling some of the nastiest, most racist writeups we have.

Firmlinked

• cole slaw to coleslaw
• Daddy Long Legs (the Fred Astaire flick) to daddy longlegs (the arachnid) -- any senior folks think this is gratuitous?

Lessons Learned

• Editors can't remove e2nodes -- only writeups
• Editors can't edit these E2 titles (presumably because the title and the node_id are inextricable?)
• Being an editor feels a lot like becoming a commissioned officer: you're really excited for about an hour, and then you realize how much work it's going to be. And then you get really excited.
• Protons have mass. i didn't even know they were Catholic