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--- about-teh-guide [2024/03/22 16:20] – 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 created around 2023/09/05 to document things in a single organized source of information.
+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.
-This little wiki is also an homage to [[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]].
+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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 === 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.