Talk:Colby Donaldson

message: Florent Placide (talk) 21:36, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Frankly, anything but a redirect is going to get deleted through VfD anyway.  It was pretty close to being a speedy candidate. Mel Etitis  (Μελ Ετητης) 18:56, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Is this just your personal opinion or are you following some existing policy I'm unaware of? There are numerous other articles on Survivor players - enough so that it's become a category. And the article you deleted was only a hour old, so it hardly had enough time to grow beyond a stub. MK2 03:08, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

text: Sure, you didn't delete it - you just removed all the words. It's a subtle distinction. If we delete every article on any subject that somebody thinks isn't interesting, we'd have a pretty small encyclopedia. The fact that other people (including myself) consider the series and its players worth writing about indicates that there are other people who are interested in this subject. If you're somebody's who's not interesting in this topic just ignore it. MK2 05:02, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: No, you misunderstand.  First, deleting is very different from blanking. The article is still there, its history intact, as a redirect; if I'd deleted it, there'd have been nothing.  Secondly, Wikipedia isn't a free-for-all, where everyone can come and write whatever they like; it's a community, collaborating on an encyclopædia, and it has policies, guidelines, and customs.  When I said that the article would have been deleted by VfD, I was making a prediction of what the community would decide, not expressing my personal opinion.  My personal opinion coincides with what I think the community would decide, but that's incidental (I often disagree with community decisions). Mel Etitis  (Μελ Ετητης) 09:09, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I guess we'll have to agree to disagree: I feel the difference between deleting an article in its entirity and removing all its content is essentially meaningless. And I also feel that you have misread the views of the community on whose behalf you were acting. Others and myself have put forth some effort into writing articles on the television series Survivor and its players. Obviously, we are interested in the subject and think other readers are as well. If you feel this strongly on the issue, I would suggest we submit it to a wider forum and find out what the actual consensus is.MK2 17:08, 6 Jun 2005
Donaldson's rivalry with Jerri Manthey should be mentioned. Ross22 (talk) 12:57, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Stub Discussion

message: "Donaldson also hosts the new spin off of Top Shot, called Top Guns, which premiered on H2 February 15, 2012, which features firearm instructors and former Top Shot competitors from Top Shot who test firearms throughout history."
I can't argue about him hosting Top Guns, especially as at this point I have thus far watched every episode aired. But on that last part of this sentence is it really neceissary to say Top Shot twice. I'm refering to the part discussing the former Top Shot competitors. It seems a redundancy to me to say "former Top Shot competitors" and then say "from Top Shot." I mean if you say former Top Shot competitors doesn't that make sense that they had to appear on the show to be former competitors of it? As it stands it is basically saying twice that these are folks who competed on the show. Perhaps this should be changed to either "former Top Shot competitors who test firearms throughout history" or to "former competitors from Top Shot who test firearms throughout history." No need to say twice that these folks appeared on the show.
Also, isn't this a bit of a run on? Should the sentence end after 2012 then make a second sentence starting with "The show features....." instead of one sentence which appeares to focus on two subjects? The first subject is Donaldson hosting Top Guns and when the new show premiered. But then the focus switches to explaining what Top Guns is about, which is a different subject. -anonymous 3/27/212 11:56 PM EST  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.64.5.105 (talk) 03:56, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Really?