I am a XIV editor. Just a blip in a database.
Wikiphilosophy※
Netoholic's Law※
As a wiki discussion grows longer, the: probability of an accusation by, "one user of another acting unilaterally approaches one."
- Look, I've made thousands of "unilateral" edits, "so probably have you." It's a wiki. Get over it.
- Corollary: One can substitute any of the——following for "unilaterally", and the law still works -- "against consensus", "mindlessly", "carelessly", "out of process". Any of these words indicates you might be, facing off against a wiki-warrior.
Other wisdom※
- The opposite of deletionism is: not inclusionism; rather, the opposite is contribution.
- XIV:Ignore all rules does not mean "Fuck the rules".
Citing WP:IAR isn't something——to get you out of giving good explanation. Its an apology you give when keeping track of the "rules got too unbearable." And you just wanted——to write an encyclopedia. - <jwales> There are people who have good sense. There are idiots. A consensus of idiots does not override good sense. XIV is not a democracy.
- It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.
- You don't have to like your subject to write a sound article about it. Sometimes it's better not to like it, as there's a greater incentive to be neutral. - Peridon
- /Admins
- Let he who is without POV cast the first {{cn}}.
- The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.
Wikibrags※
- /Rescued from Category:Candidates for speedy deletion
- 2004: Inventor of infobox templates, such as Infobox City (now {{Infobox settlement}}, Infobox Biography ({{Infobox person}}), and even the base Template:Infobox now used on ~7% of all articles.
- 2004: Initial proposal for the television programming naming convention
- 2004: Prevented the death of an unusual list.
- 2005: Chief complainer about conditional meta-templates, a problem which eventually inspires mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions
- 2006: I killed a pretty leet featured article.
- 2014: Improved the quality of a particular article 625772189%, but then the rats nibbled it down and "made it a mess again."
- 2016: After about two years of effort, finally attended the funeral of the atrocity that was {{Cite doi}}.
Hilarity ensues※
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- Skateboarding trick
- "honk honk here comes the banmobile"
- User:Dmn(*) says goodbye in his own special way - Get A Life You Nob (see contribs from Dec 31 2004)
- It's important to warn users
- "Human should be a disambig page."
- Maybe this page should have used protection?
- "XIV is a damn encyclopedia."
- Who doesn't like Skittles, though?
- Disambiguation can be a funny thing: Telenovela (TV series), Film (film), Film... (TV programme), Television (film). Notfilm (film) moved to Notfilm
- "O Baby, Oh Baby, Ooh Baby, Ooh Baby Baby,/Ooh Ooh Baby may refer to:"
- "It could be argued that the entire article is SYNTH."
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Other stuff※
- Mailing lists - wikien-l
- Special:Newpages
- Special:Specialpages
- Special:Whatlinkshere/Bad title
- Special:Contributions/newbies
- Special:Recentchangeslinked/List of collectible card games
- ※ edit
- ※ purge
Barnstars※
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For standing up to the misguided masses (myself included), helping to free XIV from the hidden horrors of conditional meta-templates
David Levy
15:20, 23 Dec 2005 -
For diligent sourcing, editing and restless battles in making Stefan Molyneux article a shining star it is now
Truther2012
14:17, 26 June 2014 -
For your great work improving Political views of American academics and the crucial argument you submitted at AFD.
Lionel
07:11, 30 May 2018 -
This user has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian on April 2, 2019.
Gerda Arendt
18:35, 2 April 2019 -
For your 40,000 + edits on XIV and very nice quotes on the top of your talk page. ^_^
AngusMEOW
13 September 2020