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"Wikipedia's articles are no place for strong views. Or rather, we feel about strong views the way that a natural history museum feels about tigers. We admire them and want our visitors to see how fierce and clever they are, so we stuff them and mount them for close inspection. We put up all sorts of carefully worded signs to get people to appreciate them as much as we do. But however much we adore tigers, a live tiger loose in the museum is seen as an urgent problem." --WP:TIGER
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Only 992,801,171 articles left until our billionth article!
[edit]We are only 992,801,171 articles away from our 1,000,000,000th article
--Guy Macon
Calvin discovers Wikipedia
[edit]- "A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction into a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day." -- Calvin, of Calvin and Hobbes
Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet
[edit]- "Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from -- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time." --Neil Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
Depiction of Wikimedia Foundation destroying Wikipedia with Visual Editor, Flow, and Mobile App
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"...It looks like Wikipedia is really pulling out all the stops in their latest appeal to their users..."
[edit]Donations Needed: Wikipedia Has Posted An Appeal Asking For One Night Of Physical Intimacy From Each User
--Guy Macon
Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence
[edit]"The Revolution's main adversaries were the patriots and the people from Braveheart," said speaker Tim Capodice, who has edited hundreds of Wikipedia entries on subjects as diverse as Euclidian geometry and Ratfucking. "The patriots, being a rag-tag group of misfits, almost lost on several occasions. But after a string of military antics and a convoluted scheme involving chicken feathers and an inflatable woman, the British were eventually defeated despite a last-minute surge, by a score of 89–87."[1]
--Guy Macon
User:Guy Macon/On the Diameter of the Sewer cover in front of Greg L’s house
(Note: needs a "in popular culture" section.) --Guy Macon
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[edit]Guy, the article is fine enough. No need to beat a dead horse anymore.
Just grab a drink and go do something else, okay? I'd like some mountain dew, at least. 海盐沙冰 / aka irisChronomia / Talk 16:34, 13 June 2026 (UTC)
- Please leave me alone. I do not wish to have any interactions with you. Don't post to my talk page. Don't ping me. Don't respond to anything I write that is directed at someone else.
- For my part, I will do my level best to pretend that you don't exist as long as you leave me alone.
- For those following along at home, IrisChronomia is complaining about me reverting a sockpuppet at [2]. See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Asdx49.
- I have no idea why IrisChronomia is so friendly with this particular sockpuppet, but they do seem to have a lot to say to and about each other: [3][4] --Guy Macon (talk) 17:03, 13 June 2026 (UTC)
I created a help page at Help:Reporting issues on other wikis. It is quite rough but when finished I hope it will be a good place to send people who complain about things that we can't fix. Please jump in and expand/improve it! --Guy Macon (talk) 14:59, 17 June 2026 (UTC)
Meanwhile, on the AI "Wikipedia replacement"...
[edit]https://grokipedia.com/page/Elek_Hidvgi --Guy Macon (talk) 00:10, 21 June 2026 (UTC)
- I have serious doubts that Grokipedia was ever seriously intended as a 'Wikipedia replacement'. More likely just another publicity stunt. AndyTheGrump (talk) 00:38, 21 June 2026 (UTC)
- I can't say you are wrong... --Guy Macon (talk) 00:42, 21 June 2026 (UTC)
- Looks like an FA to me! (joke) --Tryptofish (talk) 18:07, 21 June 2026 (UTC)
- I can't say you are wrong... --Guy Macon (talk) 00:42, 21 June 2026 (UTC)
I had meant to say...
[edit]...in my proposal that I'd got the idea from you originally (and also from something David Eppstein said somewhere). But it needed a better pitch, plus the key idea (drawn from his own contribs history) that there really are articles to which he ought to be able to contribute, and where the political bias he perceives cannot be said to be a stumbling block e.g. allegory of the cave and so on. So the path really is open for him to contribute, if in fact he wants to. EEng 03:19, 22 June 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks! I still say you are better looking than me. I learned how to tell everything about someone from the text they post -- from what they look like to their private thoughts -- by watching other Wikipedia editors do it. (Smile)
- Wouldn't it be wonderful if Larry actually did some good work on the philosophy pages? --Guy Macon (talk) 03:26, 22 June 2026 (UTC)
- It absolutely, really, truly would. If his commitment to free knowldedge and so on it really what he says it is, then he'll be happy to contribute where he can, even if he can't operate in other areas in the way that he'd like. It would be kind of like a topic ban which the subject of the ban perceives to be unfair: he can either lick his wounds, buck up, and contribute elsewhere, or quit in a huff. EEng 03:49, 22 June 2026 (UTC)