User:Angela/What Wikipedia is not

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Policy is not set in stone. Policy pages such as "What Wikipedia is not" are, for the most part, the opinions of just a few important people. Tim Starling

[edit] Wikipedia is not...

• ... a mental health treatment facility. Vicki Rosenzweig
• ... a creche. Tarquin
• ... a pulpit. Kingturtle
• ... Usenet. Jimbo Wales
• ... a database. Tarquin
• ... a free for all. Alex756
• ... a swimming pool. Martin
• ... a place for jokes. Angela
• ... a place to stick random notes or whatnot. Danny
• ... a phone book. Mav
• ... a collection place for trivia. Andre Engels
• ... a repository for all human knowledge. Tim Starling
• ... just another Britannica. BL
• ... a place to post your point of view or argue about it. Ed Poor
• ... Google. Anon
• ... the only wiki. Mav
• ... Your personal playpen. Plato
• ... your mother. Koyaanis Qatsi
• ... your father. Ritz
• ... in the business of book promotion. Electicology
• ... meant to be a group experience. Eloquence
• ... a derivative work of itself. The Cunctator
• ... an educational textbook. Rotem Dan
• ... here to set trends. Hephaestos
• ... a landscape for honorary pages. Kingturtle
• ... a word. Alex756
• ... the place for preaching. Morwen
• ... a place to post lectures. Mav
• ... the only Wikimedia project. Eloquence
• ... a programming guide. Taku
• ... a place to list editors' favorite websites. Tim Starling
• ... a repository of predictions of what will happen in years to come. Tarquin
• ... an almanac. Danny
• ... an American project. Secretlondon
• ... a place for crusades. BL
• ... a place to decide which side is right and wrong. Taku
• ... like a traditional encyclopedia. Eloquence
• ... suitable for hosting executable program downloads! Brion
• ... for aiding translations. Angela
• ... a Spellchecker. Tarquin
• ... CNN. Mav
• ... deteriorating. AxelBoldt
• ... a strategy guide. Martin
• ... a one stop source for any information about anything. Robertoalencar
• ... our employer. Matthew Woodcraft
• ... a household name yet. Erik Zachte
• ... a place for indepth analysis. Kingturtle
• ... a place to evangelize your beliefs. Stephen Gilbert
• ... a place for slogans. Jerzy
• ... a development playground. Eloquence
• ... about finding absolute truth. Chuck Smith
• ... an author. Toby Bartels
• ... the only project that runs MediaWiki. Mav
• ... for-profit. Martin
• ... a tool to maintain willful suspension of disbelief. Eloquence
• ... a chat room. RickK
• ... supposed to voice a POV. Koyaanis Qatsi
• ... Wiki. Stephen Gilbert
• ... the easiest place to navigate. Jack Lynch
• ... Project Gutenberg. Bryan Derksen
• ... a legal advice service. Alex756
• ... a place to put your own opinions. Enchanter
• ... a place to be making advocacy for one position or the other. Mic
• ... everything 2. Damian Yerrick
• ... a jokebook. Martin
• ... only the English Wikipedia. Kpjas
• ... about copyright activism. Jimbo
• ... a social club. 142
• ... a book. Fagan
• ... a tabla rasa anymore. Alex756
• ... a catholic encyclopedia. Karl Eichwalder
• ... Nupedia. Eloquence
• ... the only GFDL-using open content project. Wouter Vanden Hove
• ... just about the US. Jtdirl
• ... only about science. Anthère
• ... about winning kudos and stroking egos. Larry Sanger
• ... an adversarial endeavor, nor a marketplace. Jimbo
• ... paying me enough to put up with constant abuse. Stan Shebs
• ... for financial gain. Alex756
• ... a game. Jamesday
• ... a list of citations. Anthère
• ... Meatball. Angela
• ... IRC. Silsor
• ... for personal interpretations of what wikipedia is. BL
• ... a dumpster. Viajero
• ... entirely populated by sane people. DJ Clayworth
• ... the Yellow Pages. silsor
• ... a competitive sport. pakaran
• ... a fish. Alex S
• ... a place for mindless flamewars. Eloquence
• ... a help site. Dysprosia
• ... Slashdot. Dpbsmith
• ... the back of an envelope. Denni
• ... an island. Neutrality
• ... Disneyland. Oska
• ... a long, ordered sequence of carefully categorized articles. Wikipedia:Establish context
• ... guaranteed to be accurate. Wikipedia:Legal advice
• ... a safe sex guide. Wikipedia:Safe sex
• ... a substitute for seeking the help of a professional. Wikipedia:Content disclaimer
• ... uniformly peer reviewed. Wikipedia:General disclaimer
• ... a web directory. Wikipedia:Google Test
• ... a democracy. Wikipedia:Survey guidelines
• ... a link repository. Matt
• ... a primary-source repository. Wikipedia:Guide for Indymedia authors
• ... an online newspaper. Wikipedia:In the news section on the Main Page
• ... a chat room. Wikipedia:Refactoring
• ... a list repository. Wikipedia:Embedded list
• ... a repository for all manner of nonsense. Wikipedia:Deletion guidelines for administrators
• ... a fortune teller. Niteowlneils
• ... a can of Pepsi. Wikiman
• ... a vast left-wing conspiracy to discredit Fox News. NoPetrol
• ... a vast right-wing conspiracy to ensure that Tom Brokaw's retirement is not a pleasant one. NoPetrol
• ... a urinal. Silsor
• ... anyone's fan site for their favorites. LegolasGreenleaf
• ... a set of blogs. Ergoship
• ... a place for debates. Ergoship
• ... a place to plug various media for monitary gain. Quoxplor
• ... infested by a censorious admin cabal. Nickptar
• ... the giraffe. Giraffe giraffe giraffe abunghug. Lulltheconqueror
• ... finished yet. So get back to work, people.
• ... a dating service. User:Zeerus
• ... a work of fiction. ~ TokyoJunkie
• ... your father's encyclopedia. Fant
• ... a user of only British or American spelling. Meelar
• ... you. Me =P
• ... properly punctuated. Sam Korn
• ... read, only written. HighHopes
• ... a theological discourse. (from an edit summary at Jesus)
• ... cynical. (from a Cfd)
• ... not for employee-of-the-month. Bucketsofg
• ... the Library of Congress Card Catalog.[1] Ummit
• ...a babysitter for molly-coddled readers/viewers; let them jump up and down, fingers in ears, and screaming 'nah nah nah I didn't hear that' somewhere else. Pvazz
• ...Gamefaqs Randall Brackett
• ...a MySpace for canine fiction. User:Zoe

The "Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not" guidelines are just that: guidelines, subordinate to the goal of creating a good, complete, and consistent encyclopedia. The Cunctator