User:Vmv

This is the modest cottage of Vmv, a wikipedia contributor. You used to see the word vlad_mv on the mat below the door. As of March 24, 2005, I replaced it with the more fashionable VladMV.

Jukebox[edit]

Check out what I'm listening to while working at Wikipedia. You can also see the archives.

Turned Off. Last time I was hear, I was listening to Come's Don't Ask, Don't Tell & Garbage's Version 2.0, then Astor Piazzolla (The Rough Dancer and the Cyclical Night) & Massive Attack (Mezzanine).

Oven[edit]

Status: off

My wikistress level rarely goes up: most of the time, it keeps green.

Wikipedia is addictive - I drink and smoke, so I should know. I usually keep my contributions at a level where they won't interfere too much with the rest of my life. As far as I know, I was never deliberately hostile towards any fellow contributor. If you think differently, leave me a note at my talk page. Please keep in mind I'm not a native English speaker, maybe I never intended to sound rude.

Refrigerator door[edit]

My next contributions will probably address one of these issues:

Movie stub expasion. Current area of concentration is Stephen Frears. Next area may be Todd Haynes
Volleyball articles on entities. Asian Volleyball Confederation & NORCECA still missing
Articles on notable Volleyball players. Urgent need: Cubans (Regla Torres, Mireya Luis); Brazilians (Maurício Lima, Fernanda Venturini); Italians (Andrea Giani); Americans (Danielle Scott, Kebba Phipps)

Desk[edit]

Contributions[edit]

So far, I have contributed mainly to the following areas in Wikipedia:

Volleyball

One of the reasons that pushed me into becoming a contributor was the lack of information on this sport. Some of the articles I started (*) or expanded are:

Volleyball ı Fédération Internationale de Volleyball* ı Confederación Sudamericana de Voleibol* ı Confédération Européenne de Volleyball* ı Confédération Africaine de Volleyball* ı Volleyball Olympic Tournament* ı Volleyball World League* ı Volleyball Grand Prix* ı Volleyball World Cup* ı Volleyball World Championship*

Movies

Many films I like are still stubs. I've decided to create no new pages, but simply expand existing articles. This is what I've done so far:

The Grifters ı Dangerous Liaisons ı My Beautiful Laundrette

Orphaned & dead-end pages

I've been also doing some work at orphaned and dead-end pages. This consists essentially of wikifying, categorizing and adding the proper stub tags. Of course, it also includes verifying that the articles are encyclopedic, which sometimes may lead to VfD nominations.

VfD

My VfD nominations are usually limited to clear cases of vanity, hoax or lack of notability under established policy. No, I've never nominated any school, but I strongly disagree all schools are inherently notable (see below for further discussion). Ocasionally, I also try to rescue from VfD an article I believe should not be deleted.

Vfd Score: 7 nominations ı 1 unfinished ı 6 deleted ı 0 kept.
Vfd Rescues: 3 attemps ı 0 open ı 1 failed ı 2 rescued: Karen Holvik, Mortido.

Ideas & Concerns[edit]

Inclusionists & Deletionists: Even though Wikipedia is not paper, it is not a general knowledge base either. The fact that something can be verified to exist does not make it encyclopedic. Failure to understand this has flooded VfD with vanity articles, "the street I live in"-articles, "the kiosk I buy my newspaper in"-articles, "the grocery store where I go shopping"-articles, and so on. Of course, issues get much more complicated when people disagree whether a whole class of things is inherently notable. Disagreement of this nature has brought about the school issue on VfD: Wikipedians have so far failed to reach a consensus whether the fact the an object belongs to the class of "schools" (like one would easily say, for instance, of an object that belongs to the class of "nation presidents") makes it inhenrently notable, hence worthy of an individual article. Lately, this has been the core of the deletionist X inclusionist controvery in Wikipedia.

My position: I do not believe all schools are inherently notable, but I do not believe this make me a deletionist either. I'll refrain from nominating schools for VfD as long as there is no clearly established policy stating which schools should be considered notable, and which not. Nevertheless, I will continue to use my own commonsense to vote.

Stubs: I prefer to write few but long articles, rather than posting a large number of stubs. This is my way of doing things, and not a policy I use to judge other people's work.

Bathroom Thoughts[edit]

Thou shalt be judged by thy favourite books, records & films. See me contributions and my jukebox to judge me.
Drink it up, wine is wine. Do you really believe a glass does good to your health, but the whole bottle harms it?
Never Microsoft - but if it should be Microsoft, never XP.
Never McDonald's - but if it should be McDonald's, starve.

Phonebook[edit]

Door bell[edit]

You can ring my bell! Leave a note at my talk page or send me an email.