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.
Wikipedia:Ignore all rules does not mean "Fuck the rules".
Citing WP:IAR isn't something to get you out of giving a 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. Wikipedia 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?
"Wikipedia 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, or 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
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Barnstars

For the above response.
Phil Sandifer
19:51, 11 Nov 2005
For standing up to the misguided masses (myself included), helping to free Wikipedia from the hidden horrors of conditional meta-templates
David Levy
15:20, 23 Dec 2005
For civil discourse where you sought to refute the central point
NickCT
07:16, 31 May 2014
For your contribution to Peter Boghossian
Trade2tradewell
15:26, 19 June 2014
For diligent sourcing, editing and restless battles in making Stefan Molyneux article a shining star it is now
Truther2012
14:17, 26 June 2014
Thanks for many helpful improvements to articles and titles.
In ictu oculi
12:35, 28 Feb 2018
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 Wikipedia and very nice quotes on the top of your talk page. ^_^
AngusMEOW
13 September 2020