User:Whispering/Wiki
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[edit] You know you have been on Wikipedia way too much when:
- You meet any of these criteria.
- You start adding ~~~~ to company emails.
- You meet a rude person and tell them they should read WP:CIVIL.
- You see something online you think can be improved, and look for the edit tab.
- You see "Sheila gives good head" graffittied on a wall, take out a marker pen and add [citation needed].
- You constantly use words ending in "cruft."
- While watching TV late at night (if indeed you do such a thing nowadays), you wish WP:NOTABILITY applied to those people who are allowed to appear night after night and are falsely labeled as "celebrities."
- You look at your credit card bill and wish there was an AfD section.
- You spend more time editing Wikipedia than you do with your family.
- Your girlfriend leaves you for paying more attention to this site instead of her.
- You start alphabetizing the links on your user page.
- You think that Rome was sacked by Willy on Wheels.
- You get fed continuously through a tube and sit forever on the toilet to not waste time editing Wikipedia.
- You find yourself editing this list.
- You attempt to edit live people.
- You use Wikipedia to look at porn.
- You use Alt+F to get to every search bar.
- The [ and ] keys have gone from "least used" to "worn out," and nobody but you knows where to find them now.
- You try to revert vandalism – on a toilet wall.
- You find yourself having discussions in the real world like this:
Person: I hear Mavis has run off with the milkman.
You: I'm sorry, can't comment unless I verify it.
Person: Yeah, but she is the sort of person...
You: I'm sorry, I would rather you speak with more of a neutral point of view.
Person: Yeah, but if you went round there and asked her...
You: I'm sorry, no original research.
Person: Oh forget it, you...
You: Uh-oh, is that going to be a personal attack? - You set Wikipedia.org as your homepage.
- You tell your children to become wikibots.
- You create an article on your ex-girlfriend and stare at it all day to make sure it doesn't get deleted.
- You find this list.
- You read this list.
- You introduce yourself to people using your username.
- You get annoyed when there are no popups to preview links on other sites.
- You use the phrase instruction creep in normal conversation.
- You create articles about yourself.
- When you have a new idea, you write it down, followed with {{stub}}
- In math class, you make sure to write <nowiki> around your brackets and braces.
- You don'''t''' use apostrophes in a normal way anymore.
- You find yourself dreaming of editing Wikipedia
- While you are doing homework or other projects you use wikimark up.
- You have modified your signature from the standard to how you are feeling that day.
- You look in the mail box and see a orange-yellow bar saying "You have a new message" if you have any mail.
- You come home from work and tell the wife about the day you had on Wikipedia, not the day you were supposed to have at work
- You look for the Random article link when you're bored in class or at work.
- You give your kids Barnstars for being good all day... and take them to ArbCom if they are not
- Your edit count is higher than the number of minutes you have lived.
- You need glasses now, despite the fact that you used to have excellent eyesight.
- You have edited a Wikipedia article in a language you don't even know.
- You sneak out of the house to edit Wikipedia.
- You make more edits in a month than you earn dollars.
- You edit Wikipedia on your laptop - in the bathroom.
- You can name every article you have started, but don't remember your neighbor's last name.
- You record the number of edits you make each day on your calendar.
- You add an edit summary when you edit this list.
- You try to find the edit button on Encyclopædia Britannica.
- You replace:
- Undo with revert
- Damging or graffiting with vandalising
- Enemy List with Watchlist
- Leader with Sysop/Admin
- God with Jimbo
- You think that Wales is Wiki-heaven.
- You have to explain your meaning of "sockpuppet" and "vandalism" to everyone you know when you use them in conversation.
- You add something to this page.
- You try to edit a book that contains errors.
- You think everything you write are copyleft/right under some kind of terms.
- Your elementary kids start editing Wikipedia.
- You read Wiki to waste time, with no reason.
- You somehow traverse from one article, to other, and other, and other, passing all articles in Wikipedia, then back to the starting one, without repeating any of them.
- You manage to edit every page you ever come across.
- You track down vandals' addresses, and murder them.
- You try to create your own web site and end up installing MediaWiki because HTML is such a hassle compared to writing in wikicode.
- You no longer have any opinions on anything not related to Wikipedia. If anyone asks you what you think about something, say, the existence of God, you give them a terse summary of the major viewpoints without endorsing any of them.
Feel free to add more.
People who have added to this list:
- Whispering(talk/c) 00:53, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
- Lurker talk 09:33, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
- Bubba hotep 16:18, 29 September 2006 (UTC) and 14:53, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
- --Acebrock 06:57, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
- Sasuke-kun27 22:42, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
- bibliomaniac15 00:19, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
- Atomic-Super-SuitWhat Have I Done?! 04:38, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
- Imoeng 14:28, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
- Swiftoak 22:28, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
- umm, yeah, okay, uhh, etc Monkey13! 00:58, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
- — Editor at Large(speak)
- 130.218.71.175 19:14, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- Randfan 18:04, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
- DJLarZ 20:17, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
- Go Futurama! Sp3000 11:51, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
- This User 25th november 2006
- Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 21:31, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
- [Pitke] from Finnish Wiki 28 November 2006
- Black Falcon 06:34, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
- — $PЯINGrαgђ Always loyal! 05:01, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
- Thaimodz 16:25, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
- — Matt Crypto 12:37, 13 December 2006 (UTC)