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After almost 5,700 edits and almost a year of participation, I have decided to no longer participate as a Wikipedia editor. The reasons. *Wikipedia is becoming too big, as I write this there are almost 500,000 articles. I can't just keep up with it no more. Wikipedia was only 40,000 articles big when I first seen it, a major cleanup is in order. *Too many vandals and trolls. They know who they are. *The deletion system is still flawed. Ever since Norman Walsh was deleted I knew the deletion system was broken. While articles on major notable schools get deleted obscure minor fictional charcters get kept in their thousands. *Too many stubs and substubs. There are many more reasons, but after the tragic death of a girl close to where I work[http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&q=cribbs+causeway+&btnG=Search+News], I feel I must do more in my life before I die and that means not wasting time with deletionist vandals who vandalize VFD all the time. Also, It is a sad fact that countries like Burundi get stubs, especially since I know someone from that country while while Middle earth get featured articles. Hopefully wikipedia will evolve one day, but it will take a radical overthrow of the Nerd Point of View (NPOV) that currently dominates the wiki. This is a major contibutor who is resigning, one who spent many thousands of hours on the project, even getting an article which I helped authored get mentioned in a news article about Wikipedia. I won't be back. If I were to come back, Wikipedia will have to be 500% reformed and that will not happen for the forseeable future. So there you have it. :''User:Norm'' :''Wikipedia contributor from 31.03.2004 - 15.03.2005''¹ ---- ¹Not gone 100%, But this account will never be used again.

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The word norm Etymology from the latin word ''norma'' which means "angle measure" or (lawlike) "rule", has a number of meanings: * A social or sociology norm; see norm (sociology). * For philosophy, semantics and law, see norm (philosophy), which is a sentence or a meaning unit. * A Statistics concept in psychometrics. * In mathematics, a norm can be ** A map which assigns a length to vector (spatial)s, see norm (mathematics), normed vector space. See also matrix norm. ** The nonnegative integer function in the definition of Euclidean domain; ** The product of conjugate elements of an algebraic element; ** The field norm in algebraic number theory and Galois theory. ** The reduced norm in the theory of algebra over a fields. * If you are looking for behavior norms on Wikipedia, try Wikipedia:wikiquette or http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiSocialNorms * The name "Norm", short for Norma. * See related meanings in normal. Other meanings, not related to ''norma'', include: * NORM - Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material. * The name "Norm", short for Norman. ** Norm Peterson is a character in the Situation comedy ''Cheers'', and a spin-off, ''Norm (Television program)''. ** "Norm" was the World War II United States Navy codename for the Japanese Kawanishi E15K floatplane.

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Note: All previous discussion has been archived, Since I am not editing Wikipedia at the moment I will not be able to respond to any messages posted here ---- == Vandalism == It is seriously disappointing and disheartening that someone who has contributed so much should feel that they have the right to piss everyone else off just because Wikipedia is big and they don't agree with everyone else. User:PhilHibbs — User:PhilHibbs | User talk:PhilHibbs 14:22, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC) == More schools on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion == As of March 25, 2005, there are an additional (6) articles listed for deletion under the POV notion that schools are non-notable (even though this is invalid reasoning as per the Wikipedia Wikipedia:Deletion_policy). Please be aware that the following schools are actively being discussed and voted upon: * Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Blake Junior High School (renominated) * Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Franklin High School * Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Lake Dow Christian Academy * Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Red Lake High School * Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/The Sage School * Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Toowoomba Grammar School In response to this cyclical ordeal, a User:GRider/Schoolwatch has been initiated in order to indentify school-related articles which may need improvement and to help foster and encourage continued organic growth. Your comments are welcome and I thank you again for your time. --User:GRider\^{User_talk:GRider} ==Bryce Harrington== Hi -- Since you've ben working on the Inkscape article, I thought you might be interested to know that the Bryce Harrington article is currently being voted on for deletion. --User:Bcrowell 16:13, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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