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: Guidelines would be fine, we do want to keep the rules and regulations to a minimum here, in contrast with Wikipedia. Sysops have discretion and authority, and we do ban obscenity. Generally unintellectual comments are disfavored. A comment like "Piss-poor" wouldn't be tolerated in a good university homework assignment, so why should we?--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 11:02, 7 April 2007 (EDT)
: Guidelines would be fine, we do want to keep the rules and regulations to a minimum here, in contrast with Wikipedia. Sysops have discretion and authority, and we do ban obscenity. Generally unintellectual comments are disfavored. A comment like "Piss-poor" wouldn't be tolerated in a good university homework assignment, so why should we?--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 11:02, 7 April 2007 (EDT)
== Namespace Filters for Contrib Pages ==
Ladies and gents, can't we have a namespace filter for the special pages on user contributions? How can we judge an editor's substantive contributions when, half the time, we can't even ''find'' any among the most recent fifty contribs, because that editor has spent so much time getting hot and heavy in the Talk or User talk namespaces? I realize that this might constitute a valid criticism of that editor--and I intend no [[special pleading]] on my own part for having begun in this project largely by engaging in futile and unseemly flame wars (for which I apologize). But in all fairness, we ought to be able to find the pages that any user has made substantive (i.e., non-minor) edits to, or better yet created, so that we can better judge the value of his contributions to the project.
I propose that when you look up contributions, you have the option of searching either all namespaces, or just the main (article) namespace, or any other namespace you want to pick. And if we have that capability already, I'd like to know what I'm missing, and suggest that the method appear on this page so that every sysop knows how to conduct such a filtered search.--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]]<sup>[[User talk:TerryH|Talk]]</sup> 09:11, 9 April 2007 (EDT)