The Cynic's Appendix
If MastCell has the Old Testament and Bishonen the New, then perhaps this is the Apocrypha?
- Wikipedia is famously the encyclopedia that anyone can edit. This is not necessarily a good thing.
- For working on content in controversial areas, it is better to be beloved by admins, than to be an admin.
- If a new editor draws attention to their newness in their initial edits, they're not new.
- Any editor who argues their point by invoking donations to Wikipedia, has no viable point.
- Any editor who argues their point by invoking "editor retention", is not an editor Wikipedia wants to retain.
- A sure tell of a POV-pushing argument is when WP:PSTS is truncatedly quoted as "primary sources that have been reputably published may be used in Wikipedia ..."
- Certain words and phrases are strongly indicative of WP:PROFRINGE proclivities: allopathic (except in a historical context), healing arts, medical (or scientific) dogma, modality, pseudoskeptic, scientism, and Western medicine.
- AP2 rots your teeth.
- Any editor who uses the word "bias" as an adjective, will turn out not to understand WP:NPOV.
- Rejoice when your callow opponent posts to your mature, well-watched User Talk page: the bat signal is now aloft.
- Any editor who quotes Mahatma Gandhi's "first they ignore you, then they laugh at you ..." in support for their point, doesn't have a point that deserves to progress beyond the "laugh" stage.
