User:Elonka/Top-10

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[edit] Top 10 Ways to be labeled a problem user on Wikipedia

#10:Revert a 4-paragraph addition of another editor, because they didn't punctuate properly.
#9: If you do add sources, make them a message board or blog.
#8: Upload lots of copyrighted images and claim "fair use".
#7: Edit war incessantly about the exact diameter of the Death Star
#6: When you get blocked for edit warring, register a few new accounts, and keep going.
#5: Recruit friends to register new accounts and help you win AfD votes.
#4: Insert trash into articles "just to see what will happen"
#3: Only work on one article (especially if it's about you or your company)
#2: Add lots of promotional words like "awesome", "best", and "world famous".
#1: Add unsourced assertions that a major celebrity is gay... Then insist that you know this from personal experience.

[edit] Other items

(feel free to add other items here, or comment at the talkpage)
  • Edit other people's user pages to annoy them.
  • Spend all your time reporting other people's usernames
  • Add lots of information "from personal knowledge"
  • Take Ignore all rules at face value
  • Demonstrate an inability to write edit summaries without using words like "retard", "troll" or "pwned"
  • Conclude your talk-page proposal to butcher an article with "If I don't get an answer, I'll take it that everyone agrees so I'll go ahead."

[edit] Purpose of this page

Since I (Elonka) do a lot of public speaking, I've decided to put together a talk on Wikipedia. Towards the end of the talk, I generally present this "top 10" list to give an idea of wiki-humor. The general target audience for the humor is non-Wikipedians, who have just listened to a one-hour overview talk about wiki-culture. The purpose of the humor is also to drive through a few of the points, to help the audience to understand the "do's and don'ts" if they want to become editors themselves.  :) If you have any suggestions for items to add to this list, please by all means, feel free to join in. Post your own list, add an element or two, comment on which items you found funniest -- any kind of feedback is great. Thanks, Elonka 02:14, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

So far the talk has been given at:

Upcoming: