User:Elvey

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Creation

I created, revived or defended, here and on commons, many licensing templates, including {{PD-FLGov}}, used for over 100 commons images and many en images, as well as {{FLGovernment}}, {{PD-CAGov}}, {{PD-MAGov}},{{PD-DCGov}}, {{PD-NJGov}} (which lost a foolish TfD and DR, both railroaded by Carnildo), and {{PD-laws}}. Proud of these 2 widely positively impactful edits I think'll help users a lot - people who couldn't (figure out how to/easily) search archives are able to quickly do so now, on ~50,000 (? 40,000) popular pages, hopefully improving discussion quality!

Articles I created include:

Deletion

On the deletion side, I RfD'd inappropriate state copyright templates, like PD-MDGov.

Articles I had deleted include:

Worth a Read!

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Controversial_content , which says in part:

Extended content

The Wikimedia Foundation Board affirms that:

Wikimedia projects are not censored. Some kinds of content, […] may be offensive to some viewers; and some viewers may feel such content is disrespectful or inappropriate for themselves, their families or their students, while others may find it acceptable. "Controversial content" includes all of these categories. We recognize that we serve a global and diverse (in age, background and values) audience, and we support access to information for all.
Wikimedia projects are curated and edited collections, according to certain principles: namely, we host only content that is both free and educational in nature.
[…]

Approved 10-0.

Enforced Consequences

The solution to vandalism, and misbehavior generally, is "enforced consequences" (or "consequences and enforcement"). On wikipedia, there's lots (and lots, and lots) of enforcement, but there are no real consequences.

Security

This page is encrypted. And if you believe that just because that lock and statement appear here, your computer is probably infected and you need reeducation.

(Well, OK, it ~~might be~~ probably is encrypted; you are probably viewing this page over https, because secure Wikipedia access is now available and the default and mandatory and HSTS-preloaded for the most important domains, and thus much more common.