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[[image:Vaginal_bulb_syringe.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Geogre]]
[[Image:Nobel Prize Medal.jpg|frame|right|'''The 2005 Nobel Prize For 18th-Century Literature''', awarded to '''Geogre''' by [[User:Bishonen|Bishonen]] on June 24, 2005, on behalf of the Wikipedia Nobel Committee.]]
This Geogre has a way with such pretense.
Wanna vandalize my page? Heck, who doesn't? Write it in sonnet form, please.
<br>
He cares not for [[gender]] [[revolution]],<br>
his page a testamentary quite intense.<br>
[[Sonnet]]s are our righteous retribution.<br>


Our Anaïs deserves seiner title,<br>
I have been made a Wikipedia administrator. I suppose that's germane. If you need administrator help on something, I might be able to lend it.
es has lived a life fighting for the [[queer]].<br>
Our Ana's fingers like fleurs are vital,<br>
es will use them to tear off Geogre's ear.<br>


We humbly request you not be a [[douche]],<br>
:As for my personal details, they are totally irrelevant even to me. However, since I've made reference to some of them elsewhere, I'll confirm some of them. Oh, I will add an irrelevant fact: I'm a descendant of [[Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk]].
and maybe then you could get off the rag,<br>
or we will mail you a dead [[polatouche]].<br>
Not something we'd do if you weren't a [[scag|skag]].<br>


A revolutionary activist:<br>
[[Image:Geogre-7.png|thumb|right|240px|Today, the Geogre is '''[[wikipedia:votes for deletion|Fixing to be bold]]'''.]]
put it back now, 'cause we're pretty damn pissed.<br>

:'''Wikibreak? Why so quiet, Bob?'''
:Well, no and yes. Prospero has lost his books, you see. I have moved, geographically, and my books moved somewhere nearby. Until they are all again under my hand, my new article work will slow. Also, I'm reading a long but interesting new biography of [[Aphra Behn]]. When I am done reading it, I will assuredly (promise) whip that article into Featured quality.
[[Image:Hogarth-Distressd-Poet-1737.png|thumb|right|240px|Portrait of the author.]]

==Commonplace Book Ejecta of the (<nowiki>{{time}}</nowiki>)==
<!--"Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider." -- [[Thomas Carlyle]], ''[[Sartor Resartus]]''
"We hang the petty thieves and elect the great ones." -- [[Aesop]]
"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little cheaper." -- [[John Ruskin]]
"So ''that's'' what hay looks like" -- [[Mary of Teck|Queen Mary]]
:POLLY: "Then all my sorrows are at an end"
:MRS PEACHUM: "A mighty likely speech in troth, for a wench who is just married!"
--[[John Gay]] ''[[The Beggar's Opera]]'' I. viii.
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." -- [[William Pitt the Younger]].
"If Jesus Christ were to come to-day, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it." -- [[Thomas Carlyle]], ''Table Talk.''
:"And I, 'who else has been in Purgatory?'
:And he, 'To begin with a swelled head and end with swelled feet.'" -- [[Robert Lowell]], "[[Ezra Pound]]"
"...the Brain, in its natural position and State of Serenity, disposeth its Owner to pass his Life in the common Forms, without any Thought of subduing Multitudes to his own Power, his Reasons, or his Visions...." --[[Jonathan Swift]], ''[[A Tale of a Tub]]''
"The horror of getting up is unparalleled, and I am filled with amazement every morning when I find that I have done it." -- [[Lytton Strachey]]
"He, therefore, betook himself to that true support of greatness in affliction, a bottle; by means of which he was enabled to curse, and swear, and brave his fate." -- [[Henry Fielding]], ''[[Jonathan Wild]]''.
:"'No man has hired us.
:Our life is unwelcome, our death
:Unmentioned in ''The Times''." -- [[T. S. Eliot]], "Choruses from ''The Rock''" (The voices of the Unemployed).
"We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed." -- [[Thomas Fuller]]
"Ira furor brevis est." -- [[Horace]], ''Epistles''
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"Money well timed, and properly applied, will do anything." [[John Gay]], ''[[The Beggar's Opera]]'', II xii
"Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing can ever be made." -- [[Immanuel Kant]]
"Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry." -- Milo Minderbinder in [[Joseph Heller]]'s ''[[Catch-22]]''.
"Positive ideals are becoming a curse, for they can seldom be achieved without someone being killed, maimed or interned." -- [[E. M. Forster]]
"Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton which they called their flag; which, had you sold it in any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?" -- [[Thomas Carlyle]], ''[[Sartor Resartus]]''
:"There in the sudden blackness the black pall
:Of nothing, nothing, nothing -- nothing at all." [[Archibald MacLeish]], "[[New Orleans, Louisiana|The End of the World]]."
"It is when the gods hate a man with an uncommon abhorence that they drive him into the profession of a schoolmaster." -- [[Seneca]]
"If you would know what the Lord [[God]] thinks of money, you have only to look at those to whom he gives it." -- [[Maurice Baring]]
"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what a man reads as a task will do him little good." -- [[Samuel Johnson]], ''[[The Rambler]]''
"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not." -- [[George Bernard Shaw]]
"How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for [[American Revolution|liberty]] among the drivers of negroes?" -- [[Samuel Johnson]], ''Taxation No Tyranny'' ([[1775]], an answer to the protests of the [[New England]] colonies).
"True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood." -- [[Thomas Hobbes]]
"The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted the spoons." -- [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]], letter.
:"I am not recommending that poets like each other and organize to fight them
:But simply that lightning should strike them." -- [[Kenneth Koch]], "Fresh Air."
"It is beyond our power to explain either the prosperity of the wicked or the afflictions of the righteous." -- [[Talmud]]
"From the cradle to the coffin, underwear comes first." -- [[Bertolt Brecht]]
"Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old." -- [[Jonathan Swift]]
:"when I try to imagine a faultless love
:Or the life to come, what I hear is the murmur
:Of underground streams, what I see is a limestone landscape"
::[[W. H. Auden]], "In Praise of Limestone."
"I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but sinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat." -- [[John Milton]], ''[[Areopagitica]]''
"Naturam expella furca licet, usque recurret." -- [[Horace]], ''[[Ars Poetica]]''
"But salt itself will become insipid to a man who is always spreading cayenne over his tongue." -- [[Robert Bage]], ''Hermsprong: or, Man as He Is Not.''
"When women consider their own beauties, they are all alike unreasonable in their demands; for they expect their lovers should like them as long as they like themselves." -- [[John Gay]], ''[[The Beggar's Opera]]'' II ix.
"For every person wishing to teach there are thirty not wishing to be taught." -- W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman
"A well-read fool is the most pestilent of blockheads: his learning is a flail which he knows not how to handle, and with which he breaks his neighbor's shins as well as his own." -- King of [[Poland]], [[1763]].
:"He that complies against his will,
:Is of his own opinion still." -- [[Samuel Butler]], ''[[Hudibras]]''
"I am never better than when I am mad. Then methinks I am a brave fellow; then I do wonders. But reason abuseth me, and there's the torment, there's the hell." -- [[Thomas Kyd]], ''[[The Spanish Tragedy]]''
"Consider, Sir, how should you like, though conscious of your innocence, to be tried before a jury for a capital crime, once a week." -- [[Samuel Johnson]], from [[James Boswell]]'s biography.
"The law in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, or to steal bread." -- [[Anatole France]]
:"In the ebb-
:light of morning, we stuck
:the duck
:-'s web-
:foot, like a candle, in a quart of gin we'd killed." -- [[Robert Lowell]]
"Music might tame and civilize wild beasts, but 'tis evident it never could tame or civilize musicians." -- [[John Gay]], ''Polly''
"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice Doggie!' until you can find a rock." -- [[Frank Dane]]
"I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." -- [[Jonathan Swift]], ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]'', Book II.
:"I can endure my own despair,
:But not another's hope." -- [[William Walsh]]
"Whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him, -- to the length of sixpence." -- [[Thomas Carlyle]], ''[[Sartor Resartus]]''
"Don't be humble, you're not that great." -- attributed to [[Golda Meir]].
:"I have learned one thing: not to look down
:So much upon the damned. They, in their sphere,
:Harmonize strangely with the divine
:Love." -- [[Geoffrey Hill]], ''The Kentish Canticle.''
"Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutified." -- [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]]
:"I am grown peaceful as old age tonight.
:I regret little, I would change still less." -- [[Robert Browning]], ''Andrea del Sarto''
"The majority of mankind is lazy-minded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith." -- [[T. S. Eliot]]
"Security is an insipid thing, and the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folloy of the chase." -- [[William Congreve]], ''Love for Love.''
"Ignorance is the mother of admiration." -- [[George Chapman]] ([[1612]])
"If we believe absurdities we shall commit atrocities." -- [[Voltaire]]
"I would rather men should ask why no statue has been erected in my honor than why one has." -- [[Marcus Cato]]
:"You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come;
:Knock as you please, there's nobody at home." -- [[Alexander Pope]]
"Pereant, inquit, qui ante nos nostra dixerunt." -- [[Aelius Donatus]]
:"All seems infected that th'infected spy,
:As all looks yellow to the jaundic'd eye." -- [[Alexander Pope|Pope]], ''[[Essay on Criticism]]'' I, l. 557-8.
"I live in a constant endeavour to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth; being firmly persuaded that every time a man smiles, --but much more so, when he laughs, that it adds something to this Fragment of Life." -- [[Laurence Sterne]], ''[[Tristram Shandy]]''
"The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too." -- [[Samuel Butler]] (of ''Erewhon'').
"For writing in the cause of virtue and against the fashionable vices, I am look'd upon at present as the most obnoxious person almost in England." -- [[John Gay]], letter to [[Jonathan Swift]], 3/18/[[1729]]
"I feel a feeling which I feel you all feel." -- Bishop [[George Ridding]]
:"Practice your beauty, blue girls, before it fail;
:And I will cry with my loud lips and publish
:Beauty which all our power shall never establish,
:It is so frail." -- [[John Crowe Ransom]], "Blue Girls."
". . . suppose a young fellow should be rude, and the lady should offer to step back in a fright, instead of retiring, she steps upon her train, and falls fairly on her back; and then, you know, cousin, her clothes may be spoiled." -- [[Oliver Goldsmith]], ''The Bee''
"Man cannot be taught any thing contrary to nature. However he acts, he must act by nature's laws; howsoever he thinks, he must think by nature's laws." -- [[Robert Bage]], ''Hermsprong''
"See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of Nature is the stay of the whole world?" -- [[Richard Hooker]], ''[[Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity]]''
"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies." -- [[Thomas Jefferson]]
"The horror of getting up is unparalleled, and I am filled with amazement every morning when I find that I have done it." -- [[Lytton Strachey]]
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money...." -- [[Samuel Johnson]], [[April 5]], [[1776]].
". . . it is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet -- no more than a long gown maketh an advocate, who though he pleaded in armor should be an advocate and no soldier." -- [[Philip Sidney]], ''An Apology for Poetry.''
"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree." -- [[Charles Baudelaire]]
"So the rest of the evening was spent with cheerfulness, the conversation turning principally on the everlasting subjects, [[metaphysics]] and [[politics]]; of the first of which man can ''know'' nothing, -- and of the last, will not." -- [[Robert Bage]], ''Hermsprong; or Man as He Is Not''
"Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends." -- [[Alexander Pope]]
". . . the Brain, in its natural position and State of Serenity, disposeth its Owner to pass his Life in the common Forms, without any Thought of subduing Multitudes to his own Power, his Reasons, or his Visions. . . . " -- [[Jonathan Swift]], ''[[A Tale of a Tub]]''

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"An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for the [[commonwealth]]." -- Sir [[Henry Wotton]] ([[1604]])

". . . to find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task." -- [[William Congreve]], ''Love for Love''

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"Suile, and mare thanne we cunnen saein, we tholeden xix wintre for ure sinnes." -- [[Peterborough Chronicle]]
"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin." -- [[H. L. Mencken]]
"When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness." -- [[Hesiod]], ''[[Works and Days]]''
:"[[God]] the first garden made, and the first city [[Cain]]." -- [[Abraham Cowley]]
"What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease." -- [[George Dennison Prentice]]
"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell." -- attributed to [[Edward Abbey]]
"Madam, reading a book and meeting its author is like feasting upon pate foi gras and then meeting the goose." -- attributed to [[Arthur Koestler]]
:"All things are taken from us, and become
:Portions and parcels of the dreadful past.
:Let us alone." -- [[Alfred, Lord Tennyson]], "The Lotos Eaters."
"Such I hold to be the genuine use of Gunpowder: that it makes all men alike tall." -- [[Thomas Carlyle]], ''[[Sartor Resartus]]''
:"birds build -- but not I build; no, but strain,
:Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes.
:Mine, O thou lord of life, send my roots rain." -- [[Gerard Manley Hopkins]]
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it." -- [[W. C. Fields]]
". . . no mind was ever yet formed entirely free from blemish, unless peradventure that of a sanctified hypocrite, whose praises some well-fed flatterer hath gratefully thought proper to sing forth." -- [[Henry Fielding]], ''[[Jonathan Wild]]''
:"He knew what's what, and that's as high
:As metaphysic wit can fly." -- [[Samuel Butler]], ''[[Hudibras]]''
"Everybody talks of the constitution, but all sides forget tha the constitution is extremely well, and would do very well, if they would but let it alone." -- [[Horace Walpole]]
-->

==Latest ''de novo'' articles==
[[Image:Mallard-drake-grooming.jpg|thumb|left|240px|Here comes the brag list, so [[mallard|duck]]!]]
I ain't proud of them, but.... Ok, I'm kind of proud of them.
[[Image:Extracted pink rose.png|right|thumb|120px|I hereby award you the '''Brilliant Prose Rose''' for your great articles! [[User:Bishonen|Bishonen]]]]

'''''Very latest:'''''
:(In the brag list, below, successful '''Featured Articles''' are set in bold.)
# [[The Dunciad]] In process. Not done. Will take <s>weeks</s> <s>months</s> years.
# [[Spectacle]], it's not done, and it should be one of those massive Geogre-specials, but it won't be.
#Saint a Day:
##

'''''More than two days old:'''''
:'''Literature:''' [[Jane Wenham]] Subject of the last witch trial in England; DYK. [[Edmund Curll]] Combined ''DNB'' stuff with the old 1911, which wasn't too bad. [[Charles Blount (deist)]] '''Not''' a stub anymore. [[Charles Gildon]] The reason a lot of our 18th c. biography articles are wrong. [[Aurelian Townshend]] Delicate, musical, minor 17th c. poet. [[John Arbuthnot]] I pretty much wrote it the first time, but it stunk so bad I wouldn't take credit. Now I will, even though it's DNB stuff. [[Ignoramus]] In honor of some of our new Wikipedians. [[Robert Gould]] A vastly underrated poet. [[Chrononhotonthologos]] The play by Henry Carey. Rather fun, and I make it serious. [[Heroic drama]] I can't escape Dryden (DYK). [[Hudibrastic]] From ''Hudibras'', of course. [[Huchoun]] One of the earliest Scottish poets (DYK). '''[[Augustan literature]]''' is just an "overview." (''Main page Wed., Aug 10, 2005.'') [[Augustan prose]] '''[[Augustan drama]]''' [[Augustan poetry]] are all fuller and coherent articles in their own right. '''[[Restoration literature]]''' (with [[user:Bishonen|Bishonen]]): I can't believe I wrote all that. Even I am going to admire it for a while. A Featured Article woo-hoo. [[Thomas Usk]] More midi-evoel authors. [[A Game at Chess]] At least it's literature. I didn't even mention the TS Eliot connection. [[Lewis Theobald]] A dunce who was not a dunce. [[Annus Mirabilis (poem)]] Too short; I should re-read the poem & write it anew. [[Venice Preserv'd]] Plot summary makes it sound worse than it is. [[The Knight of the Burning Pestle]] Fun play. Beaumont and Fletcher get lost in the canon shuffle, you know. My interest is as a historian of parody, though. [[Licensing Act]] of 1737. This is a stub, practically, because the subject needs a monograph, not an article. [[Henry Brooke]] is enough of mine to claim, I think. It's not as dramatic a rescue as others I've done, though. [[Churchyard Poets]] Look, I don't think there were any, ok? I don't think the Romantics happened, either. I'm an 18th century specialist. To me, this is all one unbroken line. However, other people use the word, so it deserves an article. [[Thomas Percy]] About danged time someone wrote an entry on him. More could be done, of course. [[Cotton library]] Single greatest source of medieval literature in English. [[John Rich (producer)]] and the disambig at [[John Rich]]; properly, it would be "theater manager," but even fewer people would search that than "producer." [[The Rhyming Poem]] An Anglo-Saxon poem in rhyme. [[The classical unities]] and a bunch of redirects. [[Cleanness]] By the Pearl Poet. The entry on the Pearl Poet isn't all that great, y'all. [[Essay of Dramatick Poesie]] Honestly, I don't even like Dryden. [[The Percy Folio]] Didn't even look to see if a text is available of it online. Someone else will fix it, I'm sure. [[The Rehearsal (play)]] Much more important than the movie by the same name. [[The Proverbs of Alfred]] Some of them are his, too. [[Vox Clamantis]] Gower doesn't like the peasants. [[George Lillo]] Major author without an article. [[The Conquest of Granada]] Dryden. [[A Yorkshire Tragedy]] Been tribble at a mill. [[Trivia (poem)]] The best unread poem of the 18th century. [[George Lyttelton]] Friend to the Tory satirists. [[The Bagford Ballads]] More of the good Harley did. [[Pruning poem]] Many a slip betwixt cup and lip. [[Biographia Literaria]] Coleridge when he was high. '''[[Oroonoko]]''' Wrote it. Fought over it. Rewrote it from scratch, and now it's Featured Article. [[Meditation Upon a Broomstick]] I ought to stop today; I'm not writing good articles. [[Eastward Hoe]] Not a great play or a good article. [[The Rover (play)]] I could make a career of just entering Aphra Behn stuff, and ''so could you.'' [[Namby Pamby]] 18th c. verse satire, important silliness. [[City Heiress]] An Aphra Behn play. I won't read the Behn article, because I want to be able to sleep at night. [[Dragon of Wantley]] A funny poem from the 17th c. [[Havelok the Dane]] I need to fill out some bibliographic info yet. [[Chaucer's Tale of Sir Topas]] I can't believe I got to write this. [[Flores and Blancheflour]] I thought the poem was slow torture. [[Elegiac]] Obvious and inobvious. [[Wise Blood]] Check the diffs! A half sentence substub shall not stand when I'm a lecturer on Flannery O'Connor (or was one, anyway). [[Glumdalclitch]] A ''Gulliver's Travels'' character. [[Alison Lurie]] Yet another of the Missing Pulitzer Prize winners. [[Edwin O'Connor]] Yet another of the Missing Pulitzers entries. [[Robert Lewis Taylor]] Yet another "Fill in the Pulitzers" entry. [[MacKinlay Kantor]] Part of the "Fill in the Pulitzers" project. [[A. B. Guthrie, Jr.]] Part of the "Fill in the Pulitzers" project. [[Linguistic Determinism]] I didn't create it, but I did such a save of it that I want to boast. [[Henry Brooke, Lord Cobham]] I sympathize with dimwitted traitors -- the best kind. [[The Mint]] is an idea whose time has come again. [[Moll Flanders]] was a disgrace, so 98% of it is now mine (one sentence left of the original): This is one of those items that visitors to ''Wikipedia'' will search for, and if they had seen what was there before, they'd have concluded that ''Wikipedia'' is worthless. [[Sarah Fielding]] is now 10% more comprehensible than when I wrote it. '''[[Ormulum]]''' is featured, thanks to [[user:Haeleth|Haeleth's]] rewrite. '''[[Jonathan Wild]]''' is a Featured Article. '''[[Peterborough Chronicle]]''' Wrote it when I was new. After improvement, a Featured Article, 10-05. [[Digression]] I did it ages ago. See, there was this one time when.... [[The Battle of the Books]] Swift. [[King Sweeney]]...forgot I did this one, too. [[Sylph]] Definitely forgot that I wrote this one, but it's not bad. [[Bathos]] is a very important word for the Lady's Auxillary's production of ''Hamlet.'' [[Parody]] is about 99% mine. When I found it, it was a stub about film. '''[[A Tale of a Tub]]''' was my first complete article here. Hope you wanted to know all about it. It is also a Featured Article (November 12, 2004). [[Mock-heroic]] Amazingly, I just rediscovered this article I wrote as an IP. It was one of the last I wrote as an IP, as well. It's not bad.

:'''Religion:''' [[Anthony Tuckney]] Puritan theologian. [[Benjamin Whichcote]] I'm going to claim it. Compare the diff from before and after me. [[Dorothea]] A total rewrite. I mean total, too. [[Alcuin Club]] A robot could make an article like this. [[Denise]] A virgin martyr. [[Pudentiana]] A legendary saint. [[Saint Lucifer]] An anti-Arian pugilist. [[Bernadine of Siena]] An evangelical preaching saint of the counter-reformation. [[Paschal Baylon]] Monk, mystic, May 17. [[Solange]] A virgin martyr whose head is her relic. [[Antonia and Alexander]] Identical almost with [[Saints Theodora and Didymus]]. [[Saint Juvenal]] Both of them. [[Saint Angelus]] Martyr. [[Jutta Kulmsee]] Patroness of Prussia. [[Evodius]] Perhaps the 3rd known bishop in church history. [[Peter Chanel]] Martyr to the south seas. [[Saints Theodora and Didymus]] Virgin and soldier martyrs. [[Saint Maximus]] A merchant martyr. [[Saint Alda]] A mystic. [[Richarius]] A French saint whose cultus Charlemagne favored. [[Radbertus]] is not ''de novo'', but I un-1911'ed it and added most of the information. [[Fidelis of Sigmaringen]] April 24th's [[William of Conches]] Some theologian. A humanist. [[William of Auxere]] Some other theologian. Didn't condemn Aristotle. [[Saint Apollonius]] Unclear to me if this is Claudius Apollonius or not, but I think not. [[John Coleridge Patteson]] Red on the list of saints article. [[Robert of Melun]] Trying to fix the [[Robert]] list. [[Saint Alberic]] Last of the founders of the Cistercians. I now know that story pretty well. [[Saint Emma]] After all, [[Emma]] is not a disambiguation, but an article on the Austen novel. This is what happens when you build haphazardly. [[Saint Robert]] And, believe it or not, there is a mess of messes over the stupid [[Robert]] article now. Have I mentioned that I loathe "List of" articles lately? [[Galdino]] Pretty political, if you ask me. Even the hagiography doesn't make him sound very, umm, mystical. [[Perfecto]] An inflammatory saint/martyr in these days, I'm afraid. [[Stephen Harding]] A founder of the Cistercians. [[Benedict Joseph Labre]] A mendicant saint. [[Cuthbert Mayne]] Another of the 40 Martyrs of England and Wales. There is an engraving of him somewhere, but Google Images couldn't find it. [[Hugh of Grenoble]] The second of the three sainst named Hugh. Seeking photos. [[Marcellinus of Carthage]] This is the saint of my birthday. Make of that what you will. [[John Bramhall]] An Anglican who spent the Interregnum defending the English Church from all attackers. [[Birinus]] Another saint: "Apostle to the West Saxons." [[Nicholas of Flue]] Patron saint of Switzerland and March 21. [[Saint Lea]] Jerome mentioned her in passing, and she is a saint for March 22. [[Margaret Clitherow]] Killed by the sheriffs of York under Edward VI, one of the "forty martyrs." [[Marcella]] A saint mentioned in the [[Saint Lea]] article, so I had to turn her link blue. [[Rupert of Salzburg]] A bishop who gave the town its name. [[John Field (divine)]] Not a saint. A Puritan, and a dedicated one. [[Saint Amun]] A collection of hermits = a monastery. [[Chantry]] is 98% mine, from info. I have from the Ox. Dict. of the Christian Church. [[Lazarus and Dives]] From the Bible and a Vaughan Williams composition. [[Westminster Assembly]] Puritans at work. [[The Book of Sports]] Puritans don't dance on Sunday. [[Doctors' Commons]] A legal college for churchmen. [[Edward Burrough]] A Quaker advocate. [[Deiniol]] A Welsh saint. [[Erconwald]] An Anglo-Saxon bishop. [[Oswald]] Another Anglo-Saxon bishop. This one had some drama. [[Thomas Barlow (bishop)]] A Vicar of Bray candidate. [[Philadelphians]] A theosophical sect in England. [[Bangorian Controversy]] If you have Hoadly, you have to have this. You know, this seems to be pretty interesting. [[Benjamin Hoadly]] A low church bishop who fought Atterbury. [[Petrock]] No, not a pet rock. More saints. [[Honorius of Autun]] Popularizer of clerical learning. [[Asterius the Sophist]] Heretic. [[Guardian angel]] isn't mine, but about 70% of it came from me and my reference works. [[Saint Egbert]] A hermit. [[Hylozoism]] Not a bad job on this one. It makes no difference at all, though, when there are "Digimon" characters without pages still. [[Aristides (Apologist)]] Christian apologist. [[Hrosvit]] 10th c. Latin Christian poetess. [[The Christian Year]] Where hymns came from. [[Alogi]] Heretics. [[Saint Aurelius]] A saint. This is ticking me off. I learned that saints are by their names alone. Fine. Well, [[Aurelius]] brings up the Roman family. Therefore, I tried to keep to the convention and wrote it as [[Aurelius, Saint]], but then someone redirected '''that''', too. I'm just going to start naming articles whatever the hell I want. [[Zita]] A man needs a maid. [[Zwickau prophets]] Baptists. [[Witelo]] Scientist. [[Cambridge Platonists]] I kind of like the job I did on this one. [[Cardinal virtues]] Prudence, temperance, fortitude, and justice. [[Thomas Beccon]] I admit it, I've been distilling stuff from the Ox. Dict. of the Christian Church. Surprising how much others have already done, from apparently the same source. [[Herbert Marsh]] An English bishop who was anti-Calvinist. [[Saint Lambert (martyr)]] A saint whose name has generated a number of geographical tags. [[Gloria in Excelsis]] Very tough rewording the New Advent...that thing is a 19th c. mess. [[Latitudinarian]] I'm of two minds about.

:'''History:''' [[Battle of Secessionville]] My great-great-grandfather was the '''only''' fatality among the Georgia troops at this battle, thereby establishing the family's luck to this day. [[Charles Hitchen]] Crime lord cop and convicted sodomite. [[Margaret Roper]] Daughter of Sir Thomas More (DYK). [[Sophonisba]] O Sophonisba, Sophonisba O! [[The True Law of Free Monarchies]] By stinky Jimmy I. [[Jack Ketch]] Did you know? [[Robert Aske (political leader)|Robert Aske]] Tried to help the peasants, got killed for it.

:'''Myth:''' [[Polycletus]] More for Lempriere, but this one was the greatest Greek sculptor, according to them. [[Bavius]] Because Pope read Horace (well, sort of myth). [[Clytie]] Sort of a duplicate article, but a correction of the old one. [[Clytius]] Useless article. [[Phaon]] Mythological figures this major without articles are getting rare. [[Trivia (goddess)]] The goddess of Greek redlights. [[Oeonus]] It's just kind of rewording from a good reference, but this one is helpful for the list of cremated people. [[Hegetorides]] It's ''easy'' to write articles like this. [[Cineas]] Everyone should own a copy of the public domain ''Lempriere's Dictionary'' [[Mydon]] Kind of embarrassed to write that at all.

:'''Miscellaneous:''' [[Foghat]] I absolutely ''hate'' "Fool for the City," but "Slow Ride" is cool. [[Little Englander]] Nothing to be proud of. [[Wikipedia:Managed Deletion]] I am ''so'' going to regret this. [[Eudemonism]] Not very well written, even for a starter page. [[Translatio studii]]...yeah, did this one as well, back when I was an IP. [[Tietze's syndrome]] "Every physician hath almost his favorite disease," Fielding said.

:'''Images:''' (Just so I'll remember them & fetch them when I need them.) Poppy-purple.png (purple poppy eater). Hydrangea of somesort (file name forgotten). Cone-flower.png (in [[echninacea]]). Tulip-blossom.jpg (variegated). Mallard-duke-grooming.jpg (see above) Carrboro-NC-4-1-00.jpg (Town Hall sign in April of 2000). Southampton.gif (Earl of Southampton, Shakespeare's patron.) Spanish-tragedy.gif (Title page of said play.) Faustus-tragedy.gif (Marlowe's Dr. Faustus title page.) Othello-tragedy-18th.gif (From Hanmer's 1744 edition of Shakespeare, based on Pope's text, a mild "striking" of Desdemona by Othello.) Fela-Hooke.gif (from ''Micrographia'', Robert Hooke's flea.) Donne-shroud.png (John Donne posing in his winding sheet.) Book-auctioneer.png (A man selling the books of a hanged doctor in Moorfields in 1700.) Swift-works.png (From the 1735 edition of Swift's ''Works''.) Pope-dying.png (The death of Pope from ''Museus'' by William Mason, 1747, showing a poetic apotheosis.) Johnson-blinking.png (The Reynolds 1775 portrait of Johnson squinting at a book.) Pope-Alexander.png (Satirical print vs. ''Dunciad'' from 1729.)

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[[Image:Macheath-dog.jpg|thumb|right|300px|An [[American Eskimo Dog]] I know.]]

==Places I've Lived==
*Savannah, Georgia
*Atlanta, Georgia
*New Orleans, Louisiana (University)
*Atlanta again (University, plus being in a punk band)
*Athens, Georgia (University some more)
*Chapel Hill, North Carolina (yet more university)
*Goldsboro, North Carolina (work)
*New York City (work) (from August 2001 to August 2003 (terrorist attack and blackout framing my time in Manhattan) (weirdest thing in my life was how quiet Manhattan got after the attacks; no planes, no cars, no buses, no trains running, just quiet up on 86th St.))
*Baltimore, Maryland (work) (Arrived just in time for an economic collapse)
*Vidalia, Georgia (joining the ranks of the leisured poor (failure to thrive)). I miss libraries, radio station choice, and Democrats.

==Things I've gotten paid to do==
*Write institutional grants
*Teach stuff
*Teach other stuff
*School technology
*Drink a beer milkshake
*Pick up a girlfriend from a bus station 260 miles away, despite protestations
*Review movies that were on video
*Technical edit medical journals
*Given my record, I'm hoping to get paid to ''not'' live places.

==My areas of special knowledge are==
*English literature
*Restoration to mid-18th century England
*Religious history
*Film history
*Poetry
*Philosophy
*Punk rock of the first wave (well, they called it punk at the time, but you probably call it New Wave; let's just say "Athens, GA" and leave it there)
*Literary theory, despite myself.

==Advice for VfD Voters==
No one has asked me, but here is some advice that's worth everything you pay for it.
* '''VfD is for votes, not proof.'''
You should vote, and you should state the reasons for your vote. You should read the reasons given by other people. If you feel that they are in error, you can explain why, in your vote, their reasoning did not sway you. What you should not do is engage in a dialogue. Most of all ''do not try to prove your case.'' Every person who goes to VfD too often will fail this rule. I certainly will. Keep it in mind, though. Remember that the other person is just one vote, same as you, and the strength of your reasoning and his or hers may or may not sway others, but your duty is merely to vote.
*'''VfD has nothing to do with what you like.'''
This is self-explanatory, until something you agree with in your marrow shows up and loses a vote. At that point, you may feel that real world politics, or snobbery, or feelings of persecution, or gender or personal identity demands that you vote opposite the others and, worse, that you stop the others from doing what they're doing. Remember: these are pixels on copper disks somewhere. This is an encyclopedia, and not real life. Redress the issue by improving the Wikipedia.
*'''Have criteria.'''
The most important thing you can do to be a respected voter on VfD is to be consistent in your criteria. If you can enunciate those criteria, then all the better, but be consistent in them. You have no choice but to obey the deletion criteria, but each one of those has an interpretive element to it. How you understand "original research" or "notability" is going to come into play. However you define these things, be consistent. That means that you should be perfectly happy to delete a non-notable article on a thing you love (or that you wrote) and keep a notable article on something you hate (or was written by your least favorite Wikipedian). Be consistent with your criteria. Explain them, and do not waver. If you vote delete on Sailor Moon because it's too granular, don't then vote keep on Pokemon because people love it, and vice versa.
*'''Vote on the article, not the person.'''
This is hard. An article appears that has been written by a timid and eager 10 year old, but it's poor. You ought to be judging the article and its encyclopedic qualities, not the person. You can shower the user with Wikilove and offer all the help in the world, but you are going to need to pull the trigger on the article. Similarly, if Dr. Important writes a cruddy article, you're going to have to delete that, too, despite the fact that the author is such a feather in our caps that we daren't risk offense. If DJRadzikul sprays VfD votes with idiocy but writes a good article, you have to also vote to keep that article. The author and the article are separate entities and require separate actions.
*'''List the article, not the person.'''
This is something that has been violated by Admins in the past. Look, we all have in our heads lists of Wikipedians whom we think are worthless. We all know the ones who announce that they have goals that are contradictory to stated policy. We know the people who vandalize and edit war on articles because they're peevish. That doesn't mean that we try to kill them in pieces by listing every article they write on VfD or, worse, listing their user pages on VfD. People are handled by the Arbitration Committee, not VfD. The only thing that comes out of VfD warring someone is that a pest becomes a troll.

==Notability Nota Bene==
In the spirit of the above, I offer some attempt at enunciating my own definition of the "notable" subject. Because each of the terms in the deletion guidelines are subject to nuance, I have my own set of criteria, and these guide me in assessing notability and the need for separate treatment of subjects.
*'''1. Is it known outside of its own context?'''
Obviously, encyclopedias don't tell people what they already know, but is an item so famous that people who do not know the subject will still have heard the term and need information about it?
**People: Do people outside of Atlanta hear of "Manuel Maloof?" If so, we need to help them understand who he was. If not, information on him is probably best suited to a history of Atlanta or an article on [[Atlanta, Georgia]]. If he is vital for understanding Atlanta, he should be discussed where his name is important. If he is known outside of that, he needs an article.
**Places: Places (not cities or towns, but hotels and the like): Are they things that those outside of their cities will have heard of in some context? Are they coming to town to go there? If so, the place needs a discussion in its own right. If not, it might be mentioned in its master topic.
**Events: Is "the Arcadia riot" something that people who study history need to know about, or is it just something that people studying Baltimore history need to know about? Have they heard of it outside of its specific context of historians?
**Fictions and art: Has anyone other than a reader of [[Gulliver's Travels]] heard the word "Flimnap?" How about "Lilliput?" If "Flimnap" is mentioned often enough that a generally educated person encounters it, then an article on this character in Gulliver's Travels is warranted. If not, then he ought to be mentioned in the Gulliver article. Have educated people heard "Lilliput?" You bet. It needs an article ''and'' to be mentioned in the article on the novel. It is notable.
*'''2. Has it affected the world?'''
By this, I don't mean "Have people enjoyed reading it" or "Have numbers heard of it?"
**People: A person who struggles to organize local businesses to repeal bad laws has done something, but he has done more if he succeeds in getting the laws repealed. If he fails to ''make a change in the world,'' then did he cause notoriety in the effort? The more of a change in the world, the more notable.
**Places: Was/is the place crucial for the ongoing activity of the world? The example I've used before, to pick on two of my own alma maters, is The Rusk Center at the [[University of Georgia]] and [[The Carter Center]] at [[Emory University]]. The former is a fine place of international studies. It was founded by [[Dean Rusk]], and very important people go there to work and speak. However, although it does excellent work, it has not, ''as a place'', changed the world. The latter, on the other hand, has been active in all sorts of international disputes. It sends election monitors. It mediates conflicts. It has a Wikipedia article.
**Events: Did this event change the world? It's fairly simple, here. The more it changed the world, and the more of the world it changed, the more notable it is.
**Fictions and art: The publication of [[Madame Bovary]] was huge. It caused a trial for obscenity. The screening of [[Behind the Green Door]] was huge, too. It was an X-rated film that got shown in regular theaters, and there were court battles over it. On the other hand, the screening of ''Anal Avengers 4'' did nothing. Therefore, while obscenity is the cause in all three artworks, two changed the world. One trod the paths blazed by the others. [[Primary Colors]] is similarly notable. These artworks changed the world, and they are notable. On the other hand, the deluxe set of trading cards for some fiction or other probably changes nothing but a few bank balances.
*'''3. Is it exemplary?'''
The best of its kind, the first of its kind, or the most successful of its kind is notable within the set of an object.
**People: The man who invents the helicopter is more notable than the man who improves it. The first patient with AIDS is more notable than the most recent. If the person is not notable, discuss him or her in the industry or product or event article.
**Places: The [[Old North Church]] isn't that impressive, until you realize that it was first. The Bilbao MoMA is significant for its singular architecture. All of those roadside restaurants shaped like food are notable as singular items and exemplars of their type. Others are almost surely better discussed in the general [[Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art]] article or [[roadside attractions]].
**Events: Was it the defining moment? Dylan plugs in his guitar is a singular moment, but the next show isn't. Was it a coinciding of events that could not happen again? An apotheosis or nativity would have to be notable. Other events probably belong in the article on the process or the life.
**Fictions and art: [[The Waste Land]] is a summary event in Modernist Poetry, but "The Cold Heavens" by Yeats is not. Before you say that your favorite TV show is notable because a million people saw it, think about whether it is singular, an epitome, remarkable. If so, let it be an article. If not, speak of it in the master article on the fiction.

===Breakout articles, an additional aspect===
Finally, though, there is one thing that qualifies a subject for separate treatment. If it is notable but should be best discussed in a master term, it can still be broken out into an individual article if the master article is too large to be manageable. Obviously, that introduces another judgment, but, nevertheless, we need to look at large articles, like [[Pokemon]] or [[BDSM]] and ask whether we can talk about all the sub-topical matters on these pages. If not, we need to break down the subject. ''This does not mean automatically going to the atomic level!'' I.e. just because you can't put every Pokemon card into the [[Pokemon]] article, that doesn't mean that each card should have an article. From kingdom, you go to phylum. From BDSM, you go to Bondage gear, then Bondage practices. From Methodism you go to United Methodist, and not your local congregation. Work with the community on logical organization of the material to maintain utility of searches and coherence of presentation.

Anyway, here endeth the sermon.

==My "Deletionism"==
I am perceived as being a "deletionist." I don't regard myself that way at all. There are various ways of looking at Wikipedia -- as a system, as a machine, as an activity -- but I prefer to look at it as an organism. It therefore has two needs: acquisition and loss. It must gain new food, and it must strain out the waste. Two needs, with two tactics. I also look at Wikipedia as a reference work for users. Anyway, here are a few of my thoughts on deletion.

===When Nothing Is Better Than Something===
When I first came to Wikipedia, I hit the "random" link a few times. One of those turned up [[Al Gore]]. I was impressed that the article was long, detailed, and without an agenda, either pro- or con. It was because of that article that I returned and began to believe that Wikipedia would not just be the anarchy of the web, or Usenet, where the most motivated (i.e. the loudest and most aggrieved) ruled by persistence and intimidation.

I believe very strongly that users of Wikipedia coming to it the first time will perform 2-3 searches, if we are lucky, and will base their impressions of the site on those results. If those 2-3 searches yield nothing, it's bad, but if those searches yield junk, argumentation, inaccuracies, or blips of non-information, it's even worse. We are all aware that reference works have limits. If I do not find "polyphiloprogenitive" in an online dictionary, I know that there might just be a hole in that dictionary. On the other hand, imagine what reaction I would have if I ''did'' find it, and it said, "A word used in a poem." What would your reaction be? What if I found, "A new web company based in Tonga with cool products!" or "#redirect Words no one uses" or "A word often heard from Lord Viperskorpion on tel3D00dies?"

I believe that we must, absolutely must, patrol the site for articles with inadequate, erroneous, and argumentative information, and it is far better to have a hole than to have trash on the ground. This is true because of the medium we are operating in. The world wide web itself, and especially those bits of it that allow "anyone" to enter them, will always fall victim to the most motivated. I remember back in 1990, when I was a user of the FidoNet BBS system, that the Feminism echo was full of chauvinists and misogynists. The Christianity echo was full of atheists. The Socialism echo had hyperpatriot and Nazi participants. I.e. there are people who feel so personally upset by a topic that their chief activity online is to search out those who represent what they consider to be evil and to bash them. That model, of what some call trolling, was later replaced, with the www, to a model of spammers. Now, every group or page was full not of cranks, but of advertisers. The shadier the product, the more aggressively it was advertised. Wikipedia, I think, is a prime target for the most motivated, and the most motivated are always the ones with a score to settle or a score to make.

The "eventualist" position is of some concern to me because of the problem of first impressions. ''Eventually'' Wikipedians will fill in gaps, but the new users do not often get motivated to fix bad articles. New users need to first believe that their efforts are worthwhile and then that they will not find themselves instantly ridiculed for working on an article. Also, although the documentation is very clear on the subject, people have trouble believing that people really don't own their words, really won't care about being edited. (Unfortunately, having looked at IRC and VfD for a while, I have to say that people do get upset with edits.) I think that the logic of eventualism applies equally to absences as stubs. Eventually a Wikipedian will create a good article, just as eventually a Wikipedian will fix a stub.

A ratings system may help. However, when we get into ratings we again deal with motivations. If I read an article about a Chemist, I would normally not say anything at all. I don't know the field. Who will? Other chemists, surely, and people who dislike the author of the article, or who believe that chemistry articles are too minor. (Think of what will happen to the ratings of Pokemon articles.) I.e. the motivations of reviewers will offer at least an opportunity for a skewing of results. I do not want someone who has never read beyond Stephen King to rate my [[Ormulum]] article harshly because it seems unimportant. I want literary scholars to do so (or, rather, rate it highly). I think a ratings system is a step in the right direction, but I worry that ratings can easily reflect prejudice and motivation. A dedicated atheist could easily bomb every religious article. A dedicated Nazi could bomb every socialist article. We can be back to the problems of trolling.

All of this is simply to explain why I am a "deletionist." I do not delete topics. I delete articles. I do not pass judgment often on whether a thing is worth knowing, but I think it is very important to make sure that the materials we have are rewarding for the users.

==An example==
I wrote an article on [[The Mint]] because I had referred on IRC to needing to find a contemporary version of it. Well, having written the article, I needed to figure out other articles that might link to it. [[Daniel Defoe|Defoe]] wrote about life in The Mint in ''Moll Flanders,'' so it was natural to worm a reference into both [[Daniel Defoe]] and [[Moll Flanders]]. I know about Defoe, or at least I know as much as I care to about him. I haven't read ''Captain Singleton'', but I've read ''Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, Jonathan Wild'' and ''Roxana''. The Defoe article is poor. It's not unforgivable, but it's really insufficient. Since there is a great deal to know about Defoe (Paula Backschedier has a biography that's worthwhile, though hardly the last word she intended it to be) and I don't, I didn't feel like opening the can to add only a few worms. On the other hand, I was '''shocked''' to see [[Moll Flanders]]. I invite curious parties to compare the versions before [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Moll_Flanders&oldid=4872049] and after [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Moll_Flanders&oldid=4886449] my edit. I say this not to credit myself, since I really can't remember the plot of the novel well enough to have summarized it, but to warn about the dangers of articles like that. ''Moll Flanders'' is a frequently-assigned text in college English classes in the US, Canada, UK, and Australia. It also makes it into advanced High School classes. It is, therefore, one of those topics that is very, very likely to be a first search term, since high school and college students hit reference works first and foremost to do their papers and prepare for class. Imagine what kind of an opinion such a user gets of ''Wikipedia'' when the entire article is simply the title of the book! It would be far, far better to have nothing there at all, or to have a listing on VfD that will draw out editors, than to let something that abominable be someone's idea of what this project is about. [[User:Geogre|Geogre]] 18:43, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)

===Schools===
The subject has bedeviled Wikipedia as long as I've been on the project: are schools universally notable? I will try, here, to work out my thoughts on the subject. First, I'll attempt to answer the most frequent arguments of those who wish for blanket approval of school articles, and then I'll attempt to argue that a blanket approval is not merely injudicious, but actually harmful. After that, I will offer up my own voting guide to school articles.

The inclusion argument: So far, I have heard two basic arguments about the blanket inclusion. One is that preserving information about schools here will be of service to researchers and the curious. The other is that finding one's school on the site, or creating an article about one's school when one is a student, encourages users to become contributors. This is aside from the "all are notable by affecting lives" argument, which I will deal with later. I hope to fairly represent these arguments.
:''Research'' To answer the question of research, I can only say what I have said elsewhere: the primary source of information on schools or municipal institutions of any era is never a secondary source. When you wish to find out about the elementary school that served the Black population in an American city in the 1940's, you do not look at an American encyclopedia of the 1940's. You look to city records. The city had to fund the school. It had enormously complex and thorough documentation on the school. Any future researching wanting to know about a public school in America of today would similarly go to a municipal record. It would be foolhardy to ever look into any secondary source for that material. The ''reason'' that you would never look into a secondary source is that a secondary source is only going to be even remotely useful if it is entirely comprehensive. Inasmuch as Wikipedia relies upon voluntary contributors, it cannot under any circumstance be comprehensive about anything, or cannot guarantee that, and it cannot remain current comprehensively. An article written in 2002 will stay unchanged through 2004, if it looks reasonable or another interested editor doesn't come along, and yet it will be out of date.
:''Interest'' Certainly one's present school is going to be interesting. However, so will one's favorite store, favorite rock band, favorite game, favorite character from favorite book, favorite BBS, favorite chatroom, favorite toy, favorite buddy, favorite lover, favorite magazine, etc. To me, we cannot say that because some might have interest we must allow all schools in. That's simply not sufficient justification. However, the most important danger of the "interest" argument is that it shows a fundamental understanding of the purpose of Wikipedia that I do not share. We must ask ourselves one simple question: Is Wikipedia a group participation project that looks like an encyclopedia, or is it an encyclopedia assembled by group participation? Which is foremost: getting people to contribute, or getting good content? If the former, there is no reason to delete schools, or anything else, much. I believe that Wikipedia exists only to provide an encyclopedia that is GFDL. I will say that a person who cannot write an encyclopedia quality article is not welcome to write articles. That excludes some people from authoring, but it excludes them based only upon their product, nothing else.
::Growth: Wikipedia has to grow, right? Well, that was the case. Wikipedia needed to get off the ground, and it needed to attract contributors. It still does. However, it is no longer in any danger of indifference, no longer needing to ''attract'' users. Now, we are having to shift energies from growth to strength, from acquisition to pruning. We still need content, but we are no longer so much in need of content that we must change our standards to encourage it.

The second big prong of the "inclusion" argument is significance. As I have heard the argument, it states that schools, by virtue of affecting lives of all students, are inherently notable.
:Answer: I do not deny that I was shaped by my schools, for good or ill. I do not deny that my hatred of my high school spurred me to achieve success in college. In that regard, the argument is absolutely true. However, I feel that a thing must not only have an effect, but must have a ''singular'' and ''essential'' effect. I beg pardon for being academic, here, or dropping into philosophy, but the question is not whether a school has an effect, but if a school has an effect that is identifiably part of its essence. Did the pretty girl at the next desk have an effect on her life that was ''characteristically or essentially the particular high school we attended?'' Was it an effect that can be identified as being the Lincoln High Effect? Does the effect have an identity, and therefore is the school itself, as itself, having the effect, or was it just being in a school of any sort?
:Given the fact that public schools, in particular, are remarkably uniform across a state, region, or even nation, how can we say that the Lincoln High school had a ''particular'' identity? When "deletionists" argue that a school is just like all the others, what they're getting at is that everyone is altered by school, but that is due to school itself, and not this school itself. In the case of private schools, the schools are much more likely to have a character, an identity, and a particular effect on a life. A Friends school will be very different from a Opus Dei Catholic school, and both will be radically different from a Hebrew academy. Each competes with the others and strives for unique character.
:The fact that it is a school does not give it notability in a person's life, even the life of the students there now, for any school would do the same. That's why I and others ask that the school have some other mark to make it worthy of inclusion. What else is there about it? Did it blow up? Did it serve as the set for ''Porky's?'' What sets it apart from every other institution?

The argument against inclusion:
Above, I was only rebutting the inclusion argument. As for why there is actual harm to inclusion, there are two general points. First is that the information is inherently lost. Second is that the information is at cross-talk or lost. (In process.)

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==What I edit==
I actually spend ''less'' time writing articles about 18th century British literature, because I know them so well that doing them justice is daunting. Instead, I do a great deal of copy editing and tweaking. However, for an article that I'm proud of that I did ''in toto,'' see [[A Tale of a Tub]]. (One day I will get around to writing an entry on my dissertation field, but it's hard to even think about that stuff.)

I'm a believer in Wikipedia and have hopes for its continued prosperity. I've been an encyclopedia reader since my earliest years. Nothing matches the pleasure of learning that I have gotten from grazing in encyclopedia, and I look at Wikipedia as a way for me to, in a small way, add to the pleasure of others and pay off some of my debt.

==Sonnet Vandalism==
'''Vandalism (a sonnet)'''<br>
This [[sonnet]] disturbs the [[page]]
An [[Wikipedia:edit|edit]] [[Anachronism|out of place]]
To break the [[narrative]] pace
As [[Youth_culture|youth]] disturbs the [[Aging|aged]]<br>
This [[Wikipedia:User|user]] whose space I [[Wikipedia:Dealing_with_vandalism|deface]]
His [[life]] is ne'er so complete
As when he votes '''[[Talk:Dirty_Sanchez/Delete|delete]]'''
So [[Glossary#F|fancruft]] will be [[edit|replaced]] with [[space]]<br>
He aspires to [[literary]] [[documentation]]
[[Wikipedia:Vandalism_in_progress|Vandalism]] leaves him [[Anger|miffed]]
And so complete with [[Hyperlink|linked]] [[information]]
I write this [[doggerel]] gift<br>
Though only done in [[jest]]
Twas at the [[User Talk:Geogre|user]]'s request<br>
- Stephen

''The Vanity of Human Wishes''
asked for a [[sonnet]]
but got this [[haiku]] instead
[[rain]] in a dry [[pool]]
Filiocht

[[There]] [[once]] was a [[cow]] from [[Nantucket]]
who gave [[milk]] right into a [[bucket]]
but 'twas markedly sour,
so depressed at this hour,
she remarked "[[moo]] [[moo]] [[moo]] [[moo]] [[moo]], fuck it."
[[User:Joefu|Joefu]] 03:09, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

:I couldnt resist
::how about a haiku:

is there truth in boredom
one cannot decide to say
thy content begone

First line has one syllable too many if you're going for the "untraditional" 5-7-5 form.
&mdash; [[User:Alkivar|Alkivar]] (who blanked the page, too, so true vandalism and a haiku)

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There once was a fellow named Geogre<br />
Whose name didn't rhyme with squat</br>
He asked for a sonnet<br />
But the vandals had done it<br />
When he just got nonsense &mdash; a lot.
</div> [[User:JRM|JRM]] 08:12, 2004 Dec 29 (UTC)

I wanted to vandalise this page,
but am really bad at poems,
so im going home!
[[User:Selphie|Selphie]] 15:19, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Although I know you only by a name,
your invitation beckoned me to write,
and while I have much else to do tonight,
to miss this chance would be an utter shame.

A sonnet, then? How strange a choice of form
for work that often chooses freer verse,
or blank (like Alkivar), or sometimes worse
(as seen in posts by those who front the storm).

If vandal I will be, then to deface
a page with lines expressly called upon
and not some other writing, sense or non-,
seems vaguely incorrect, or out of place.

Well, then, so my intention will be clear,
The last line isn't going to rhyme at all, and the meter will be wrong, too. -[[User:Mindspillage|Mindspillage]] [[User talk:Mindspillage|(spill yours?)]] 01:13, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)


'''Vandalism'''

There was a [[Wikipedian]] who thought it <br>
Wise to have [[vandalism]] as a [[sonnet]] <br>
But the [[vandals]], wanting a [[gimmick]] <br>
Gave him instead a [[limerick]] <br>
And so he remarked, "Doggone it!" <br>
[[User:Pufferfish101|Pufferfish101]] 21:16, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

'''No Comment'''

No comment...no comment <br>
We apologize for the inconvenience <br>
Everyone stay at least 10 feet away <br>
If you don't...if you don't.... <br>
No comment...no comment <br>
No comment...no [expletive deleted] comment <br>
We apologize for the inconvenience <br>
You don't want to come near <br>
For obvious reasons <br>
Please disregard the above lines <br>
This masterpiece of a poem was written by [[User:Yeltensic42.618]].

Fro Creau
S.S. Psycho
Pepsi Net
Yeltensic

[[Image:Many hats.jpg|right|frame|actually these aren't actually bonnets because they aren't made of straw. But they are the best I could come up with.]]

:''George asked for a sonnet''.
:''But I can't do that''!
:''What about a bonnet''?
:''In fact a whole pile of hats''.

[[User:Theresa knott|Theresa Knott]] [[User talk:Theresa knott| (a tenth stroke)]] 23:23, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

'''I'm not going to pretend...'''
I have no talent for poetry but I was somehow linked to your user page and started reading it. I would disagree with your opinion on the inclusion of "The Rusk Center" as it is a place of interest and as such notable. Ironically there is a written record of a (very moving) speech by Jimmy Carter to the Georgia Law Society given at the Rusk Center included in Hunter S. Thompson's "The Great Shark Hunt" anthology. You seem like a bright and engaging individual. Good luck in all your future endevour![[User:Hamster Sandwich|Hamster Sandwich]] 08:20, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

===Another sonnet for Geogre===
:Dear Geogre, here’s a note from me to you.
:Like me, you have a single user name.
:I do not ''always'' like the things you do,
:But you’re a noble fellow all the same.

:I am not very good at writing verse.
:It’s not at all my favourite way to write.
:But let’s face facts, things cannot get much worse,
:And I’ll be happy if it just scans right.

:My page was always being vandalised,
:But THEY have stopped me from protecting it.
:When from the argument I fled, despised,
:I did not think to score another hit.

:Your page gives me the chance to make my point.
:One has to take one's chances in this joint.

'''Author's note:''' line 1 only works if your user name is pronounced as having 2 syllables (ie. “Jogger”). [[User:Deb|Deb]] 09:45, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

===Infernokrusher sonnet===
Originally from: [http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/006465.html Billy the Shake goes to the Demo Derby]

''Ro-Mo.'' Your windows are still mirrored; taunt me not,<br>
But show your colors, dare to challenge me,<br>
These lips are two shaped charges, primed and hot,<br>
That wait the go-code for delivery.<br>
''J-Cap.'' The flag is to the deadly, not the loud,<br>
Yet aim as well as posing shows in this;<br>
The worthy throwdown’s always to the proud,<br>
And hammer down is how the hard girls kiss.<br>
''Ro-Mo.'' My draft is stopped; I struggle toward the clutch.<br>
''J-Cap.'' And would a charge of nitrous make thee run?<br>
''Ro-Mo.'' Too much; but what else is there but too much?<br>
Let me take arms, and elevate the gun.<br>
''J-Cap.'' Small arms but hint what demolitions say.<br>
''Ro-Mo.'' Then, gunner, gimme one round.<br>
''J-Cap.'' On the way.<br>

-- [[User:FreplySpang|FreplySpang]] [[User talk:FreplySpang|(talk)]] 20:54, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

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::'''The Edit War'''
:With revert one, then two and three and [[Wikipedia:Three-revert rule|four]]
:A wiki warrior's hauled into [[Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RR|the dock]].
:Th'[[Wikipedia:Administrators|administrator]] passing by to [[Wikipedia:Blocking policy|block]]
:Checks diffs for proof, but gives it no thought more
:Until the warrior, now enraged, returns
:[[Wikipedia:Sock puppet|Sockpuppet]] first, then 'nonymous IP
:Each blocked in turn, no sign of clemency.
:Then with a vengeance the [[Wikipedia:Mailing lists|mailing list]] burns
:"Abuse!" he cries, "There must be a [[There Is No Cabal|cabal]] —
:And they’re out to suppress my [[Wikipedia:Neutral point of view|point of view]]
:So now all Wikipedia’s askew."
:Inured list readers respond not at all
:For the change, upon investigation
:Claimed that [[Sealand]]’s not a [[micronation]].
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Before I vandalize, do you want it Shakespearian or Petrachan?

--[[User:Fenrus|Fenrus]] 18:40, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
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::;Oh ! Lady be good, sir Bigod. ''Unknown herald''.
--Anon. vandalism misplaced at the top. (Good to see that folks still read old plays.)

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:'''YO1!1!1!1!1 OmG MAHADiTS R lEEET
:'''ur REV3rTS WAAK
:'''U BAKA WIKI-FREAK
:'''WALE aND BAT UR MeAT
:'''DEF3AT u SHAL 3AT
:'''aNy Hopa OF ESCHAaT ?!1!1??!1!1!1 WtF
:'''NO VANDALS R3tRAaT1!11! oMg WTf loL

--[[User:Marudubshinki|Marudubshinki]] 05:05, 22 September 2005 (UTC) ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Geogre&diff=23729638&oldid=23680080 diff with edit summary])

Revision as of 03:42, 7 November 2005

Geogre

This Geogre has a way with such pretense.
He cares not for gender revolution,
his page a testamentary quite intense.
Sonnets are our righteous retribution.

Our Anaïs deserves seiner title,
es has lived a life fighting for the queer.
Our Ana's fingers like fleurs are vital,
es will use them to tear off Geogre's ear.

We humbly request you not be a douche,
and maybe then you could get off the rag,
or we will mail you a dead polatouche.
Not something we'd do if you weren't a skag.

A revolutionary activist:
put it back now, 'cause we're pretty damn pissed.

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