User:Netoholic

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Wikiphilosophy

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Netoholic's Law

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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

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The opposite ofdeletionism is notinclusionism; rather, the opposite iscontribution.
Wikipedia:Ignore all rules does not mean "Fuck the rules".
CitingWP: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
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Let he who is without POV cast the first{{cn}}.
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

Wikibrags

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/Rescued fromCategory:Candidates for speedy deletion
2004: Inventor ofinfobox templates, such asInfobox City (now{{Infobox settlement}},Infobox Biography ({{Infobox person}}), and even the baseTemplate:Infobox now used on ~7% of all articles.
2004: Initial proposal for thetelevision programming naming convention
2004:Prevented the death of anunusual list.
2005: Chief complainer aboutconditional meta-templates, a problem which eventually inspiresmw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions
2006: I killed a pretty leetfeatured 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}}.