User:Sannse/quotes

A page for funny, insightful, interesting or otherwise keepable quotes.

don't use it as a major source. Use it as a source of convenience. Chatting in IRC about something that doesn't matter? Go look it up in Wikipedia. Starting a project and want to get an overview of a topic? Go look it up in Wikipedia, and see if it fits with what you've found elsewhere.

And people who say "don't cite it in your research paper" are missing something: research paper? You're not supposed to be citing an encyclopedia anyway. - Fennec on /. ^[1]

Ultimately, you could see admins as people who have been trusted to ignore process for the benefit of the encylopaedia. - ngb, #wikipedia, Jan 18 2006

I think it was South Park that said that "Global warming has been proven to be a hoax". And South Park tends to be right most of the time. I haven't really checked it out though. - blissyu2, Wikipedia Review ^{[2] (link now dead)}

This entry doesn't talk enough about how God hates anyone that performs this evil act - anon

If you have a sourced quote from God to that effect then go ahead and add it. - Willmcw, Talk:Masturbation ^[3]

Clearly, modern technology has given us many alternatives to reading. - Editorial refering to new formats such as Wikipedia ^[4]

Ok, so I'm just trying to understand what happened...
God spoke to you and said... - Danny on the phone at the Wikimedia Foundation offices.

In 1993 Norway, as the only country in the world, resumed a commercial catch, following a period of five years where a small catch was made under a scientific permit. - Matt77 in Whaling ^[5]. This wording lasted more than three months.

<cimon> WE CANNAE POLICY UUT OURSEELVES UUT THIS MESS. - Cimon avaro on #wikipedia during a heated discusion on the userbox war.

We apologize, but it seems that everyone is gay on Wikipedia. We tried to find someone not gay to respond, but alas, it was impossible. Maybe you can contribute to French wikipedia. We don't think everyone's gay there - Bastique on #wikimedia-otrs. A suggested response to an homophobic correspondent on OTRS.

note: all quotes from IRC are with permission

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