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--- about-teh-guide [2023/12/21 17:19] – Roman Sheydvasser
+++ about-teh-guide [2025/02/10 21:47] (current) – Roman Sheydvasser
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 ===== About Teh Guide =====
-Teh Guide is a little wiki that [[user/rsheyd]] created around 2023/09/05 to document things he learned, in a single organized source of information. He hopes it becomes a public wiki that anyone can edit, kind of like Wikipedia.
+Teh Guide is a little wiki that was created by Roman Sheydvasser around September 5th, 2023, to document things in a single organized source of information.
-He always liked the idea of having  [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrases_from_The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#The_Answer_to_the_Ultimate_Question_of_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything_is_42|a guide to life, universe, and everything]], and this little wiki is an homage to that.
+It was also inspired by a fictional [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrases_from_The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#The_Answer_to_the_Ultimate_Question_of_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything_is_42|guide to life, universe, and everything]].
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 === StackOverflow / StackExchange ===
-Later on, he started using stackexchange websites like www.stackoverflow.com to share the questions he was researching and the answers he found. However, the editors on those sites were overzealous with blocking the information provided, and after a few occasions of my question + answer being closed or incorrectly marked as off-topic, he decided that it wasn't worth his time trying to contribute to those websites.
+Later on, he started using stackexchange websites like www.stackoverflow.com to share the questions he was researching and the answers he found. However, the editors on those sites were overzealous with blocking the information provided, and after a few occasions of his questions + answers being closed or incorrectly marked as off-topic, he decided that it wasn't worth his time trying to contribute to those websites.
   * An example of this was his question about how to create a chat group without a 2nd participant in WhatsApp, as described in the [[WhatsApp]] article. The question was marked as off-topic in the webapps stackexchange, and the editor said it should be sent to the WhatsApp developers as a feature request. This prevented Roman from finding, or being able to share, a workaround that people can use to accomplish this need.
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 === Wikipedia ===
-Roman thought Wikipedia was amazing. He wished it wasn't so [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_a_manual,_guidebook,_textbook,_or_scientific_journal|against being a guidebook]], or so strict in so many ways. If that was the case, he would have contributed there instead of creating and updating this website.
+Roman thought Wikipedia was amazing (and probably still does). He wished it wasn't so [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_a_manual,_guidebook,_textbook,_or_scientific_journal|against being a guidebook]], or so strict in so many ways. If that wasn't the case, he would have contributed there instead of creating and updating this website.
-[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars|Wikipedia's five pillars]] included the following directives that he had issues with:
+At the time of Teh Guide's creation,[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars|Wikipedia's five pillars]] included the following directives that he had issues with:
   *  **It should not be "an indiscriminate collection of information."**
     * Roman is an advocate against deletionism and requiring significant notability. He thought the high standards in WP end up being disrespectful to the people contributing to WP and those peoples' time.
-    * He also thought that with the right amount of organization and editing, almost nothing that is contributed in good faith and of sound mind needs to be deleted. There is mostly no technical or financial constraints to storing unlimited amounts of textual information.
+    * He also thought that with the right amount of organization and editing, almost nothing that is contributed in good faith and of sound mind needs to be deleted. After all, there are practically no technical or financial constraints to storing unlimited amounts of textual information.
   * **All articles must strive for verifiable accuracy, citing reliable, authoritative sources, especially when the topic is controversial or is about a living person. Editors' personal experiences, interpretations, or opinions do not belong on Wikipedia.**
     * While Roman mostly agreed with this, he thought that the standards are too high on WP. He thought that certain leeway for source reliability and editor interpretation should be allowed.