User:Netoholic

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Current Wikistress level

Interesting topics:

• Logical fallacy

WikiPhilosophy:

• /Admins
• /Articles
• /Rescued from Category:Candidates for speedy deletion

Useful pages:

• Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines
• Special:Newpages
• Special:Specialpages
• Newbie contribs

Items I am watching over:

• Special:Recentchangeslinked/List of collectible card games
• Category:Game stubs
• Category:Occupations
• Special:Whatlinkshere/Bad title

Other links

• Mailing lists - wikien-l

[edit] 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."
• I thought the page was using protection!
• "Wikipedia is a damn encyclopedia."

[edit] Ideas

[edit] 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.

[edit] Corollary

One can substitute any of the following for "unilaterally", and the law still works -- "against consensus", "mindlessly", "carelessly". Any of these words indicates you might be facing off against a wiki-warrior.

[edit] Other wisdom

• The opposite of deletionism is not inclusionism; rather, the opposite is contribution.

• Wikipedia:Ignore all rules is a paradox. One is expressly failing to "ignore all rules" by citing WP:IAR.
  In other words, if you do something and justify it with IAR, you are implicitly acknowledging that there are rules.

• <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.

[edit] Scratchpad

• [{{SERVER}}{{localurl:{{NAMESPACE}}:{{PAGENAME}}|action=edit}} edit] edit
• [{{SERVER}}{{localurl:{{NAMESPACE}}:{{PAGENAME}}|action=purge}} purge] purge

[edit] Barnstars

Surreal barnstar
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, I, Lifeisunfair, hereby present the Barnstar of Diligence to Netoholic.
David Levy
15:20, 23 Dec 2005