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I joined the wikipedia during its golden age. Prior to 2007 there was a good balance between anabolism and catabolism. Very sadly, there was an unanticipated sea change in the wikipedia's baroque and contradictory policies in 2007, which changed the balance, and made it much too easy to delete articles. There are charts that display this sea change.
The volunteers who found it enjoyable exercise to add new content, create new articles, or add the necessary paragraphs to improve existing articles and keep them up to date, no longer found it enjoyable to be end up in wrangles with quality control volunteers, who were growing not only more nit-picky, but also often, malicious and personal. Anyone who has been called to defend the content they spent hours working on, is sure to have encountered passing comments from quality control volunteers who are functionally illiterate. It is exhausting. Most people who were happy adding new content during the wikipedia's golden age started to defect, without really being replaced.
Since you seem to be a smart person, and you are a University student, for whom it would be good experience, I am going to urge you to stop concentrating on simple copy editing, and nominating articles for deletion, and instead work on adding new content and/or helping to keep existing articles up to date.
As I wrote in the AFD you recently initiated, I started working on the wikipedia when it had less than ten percent as many articles as it has now. I started thousands of articles. Sadly, unlike during the wikipedia's golden age, when lots of people would work on articles, when I look at the contribution histories for most of the articles I started I see dozens of edits have been made to the article's metadata, changing which templates it used, which categories it was included in. But no one else had done any actual work on those article's actual content.
You found one good additional reference for Bright Leaves. That one additional reference, included properly, in the modern way, would probably have been enough so that any other impatient people, who didn't see that McElwee was a highly regarded film expert, wouldn't have a concern with the article.
No offense, but I am going to ask for userification of the other article you nominated for deletion. Geo Swan (talk) 13:37, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
NOt to scold, but it's always best to be more diligent and pro-active in a search for reliable sources covering film. The article's talk page offers a link to Metacritic which itself lists 20 reviews in reliable sources. Hint: The Find sources template assigned by AFD is not always the best search tool. A quick withdrawal and close will eliminate lots of spankings. 07:21, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
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On 1 July 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ruthie Tompson, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Ruthie Tompson was offered a job by Walt Disney while working at the riding club where he played polo? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ruthie Tompson. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Ruthie Tompson), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
For taking an article with nothing more than an infobox from the brink of deletion and expanding it. Great job! ~SuperHamsterTalkContribs 19:43, 19 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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@RightCowLeftCoast: Thank you so much for thinking of me! Life has gotten in the way of me being actively involved in the community for some time, so I wouldn't have been best suited for this role, but I appreciate the thought. I hope the LeftCoast is treating you well! Rimmel.EditsTalk 22:51, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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