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| Words of Wisdom |
- How do we write this thing?
... I was just reading that page and my mouse slipped and hit the edit button. Then I tripped and as I was falling I hit the keyboard and typed all that content. As I struggled to my feet I was pawing at the desk and the mouse came down and hit save.
• Crossmr 23:18, 16 December 2010 (UTC) |
- You know it ain't easy
| Oh, good grief, it took me 5 months to find the undo button on edits, you expect me to see the obvious alert you posted right above your message? • KP Botany 20:01, March 18 2007 (UTC) |
| ... and it took me more than a year to learn that the arrow in a section edit summary in a Wikipedia page history is actually a live link to that section ... • Athaenara 06:14, 8 March 2008 (UTC) |
- Why we are here
- Protect the encyclopedia
| The volume of corporate vanity/vandalism which is showing up on Wikipedia is overwhelming. |
| If we are to remain true to our encyclopedic mission this kind of nonsense cannot be tolerated. We are losing the battle for encyclopedic content in favor of people intent on hijacking Wikipedia for their own memes. This scourge is a serious waste of time and energy. |
I am issuing a call to arms to the community to act in a much more draconian fashion in response to corporate self-editing and vanity page creation. This is simply out of hand, and we need your help.
• BradPatrick 09:53, September 29 2006 (UTC) |
- Assume no clue
| Has anyone else noticed how spammers and other conflict of interest editors think the guidelines are for the other guy and what they are doing is "useful" and shouldn't be questioned? And they are completely sincere about that. |
It's entirely plausible that an editor can plow blithely on, unaware of guidelines. Perhaps we need a corollary to Assume good faith called Assume no clue.
• JonHarder 03:27, January 19 2007 (UTC) |
- Wonkish & Arbish
| We have dialogues here in two languages. Let's for the purposes of discussion call them Wonkish and Arbish. |
| In Wonkish, discretion stands for certain vague and disreputable areas of policy where what should happen is not yet properly regulated. In Arbish, you have always to look behind applications of policy to see intention and the application to the mission of writing an encyclopedia. |
In other words, discretion in Arbish is read as saying that proactive admins are the main lines of defence of the project. It is much better to have them out there doing their best, taking the mop and bucket away from a few, than to do up the constraints ever tighter to preempt misuse of admin powers.
• Charles Matthews 03:23, October 1 2006 (UTC) |
Collaborations ● Defend each other ● Honesty ● Legitimacy ● Soapbox ● Work in progress
Funny stuff ● Ignore drama ● No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man ● Snowball Clause
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This genius paid Mensa dues
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Civilization is high maintenance. (1994)
I am a tiny violet-flavoured nuisance. (1997)
One needs to cultivate a high tolerance for ambiguity. (1990)
I know the difference between Ganymede and Runnymede. (2000)
A straight line is an arc on the circumference of a circle of infinite radius. (1986)
Athaenara has been a Wikipedia administrator since 10:49, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
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