Wikiversity talk:Candidates for Custodianship/Trinity507

Hi Trinity507 and thanks for being bold and signing up for custodianship. Thanks also for your input on the Qs 4 JWS Community Review. That was a powerful statement! (I'm a long-time friend of JWS's, btw).

So you want to delete all of our stubs? Why? Some of them should be developed or merged. Sometimes, stubs are made by people who have a good idea, but they just don't know where to go with it or how to get help. Some stubby resources are place-holders for work that is being developed elsewhere and exist here as soft redirects. Other times stubs are just silliness or people venting their frustrations. We don't have a big stub-sorting operation here and we don't have as many bots as they have on Wikipedia. And we are not a book or an encyclopedia that has to be perfect. We are a free on-line learning community.

At Wikiversity, we have facilities emerging much like brick-and-mortar universities do. We may develop an on-line clinic for mental illness (broken windows to fix), a day school for home-schooled children (vomit to mop up), scientific laboratories (lab animals to clean up after), observatories (lenses to polish), and lots of other lofty edifices that we have to maintain and keep clean. We already have debate teams, a computer science department, a grant-writing agency, a radio station .. We may even have a choir and band someday. Wikiversity is a pretend university out in cyberspace. Being a custodian here is neither an honour or a privilege. -- 08:36, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Given that it's a position of trust, it should be treated with honour, even if the work is certainly not a privilege. At the same time, it's a lot of responsibility and work, and that should be evident.  Custodians are not superior to other users in any regard, but they're here to help serve the community as best they can.  The Jade Knight (d'viser) 17:55, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Wikibooks and Wikiversity
Other wikibook people might be interested in assisting in the effort to distinguish Wikiversity as a Wikimedia project and to help clarify the relationship with sister projects, Wikibooks in particular. I am extremely interested that this process is carefully orchestrated in a consensus-driven way. I am the founder of Wikipedia:WikiProject Community and am actively watching Strategy from on high. (and being watched, perhaps). . I think we are collectively on a critical path and believe that cooperation is King. I appreciate your courage and candour and I'm not alone in that at all. --CQ 09:11, 28 August 2009 (UTC)