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Quotes
editJimbo
editThese come up frequently.
- Ignore all rules
- "The encyclopedia is the result of discussion, dialogue, consensus, common sense... and rules can be helpful to that, but rules should never get in the way of that. To me it means that newbies are not required to spend 2 months reading policy documents before they roll up their sleeves and get to work."
- Sources
- "better to have no information, than to have information like this, with no sources." (briefly removed from WP:V)
Other
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- WP:FICT
- "If a fiction-related subject is notable, it will always be possible to include more in an article than plot summaries, in-universe information, and references from popular culture"
- WP:WL
- ""Wikilawyering" is "using the rules to produce an utterly perverse result". It is not "applying the rules precisely as they are written, for the purpose they were intended""
Outside
editFamily Guy
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- "This is followed by a lengthy section about the time that Thomas Jefferson was referenced on "Family Guy.""
- "This needs to be added to the article. Or at least explain the joke to me. please"
- I have long suspected some editors added trivia like this in hope someone would explain the joke.
Arguments against Wikipedia
edit- "... apparently if you all gang up saying that new users are wrong; it seems fine. But, the record is against you; by your own words, how you have changed your specious reasoning at least thirty different times; it stinks of fraud."[3]
Repairs
edit- User:Avram on Mistress Absolute, which had been nominated for deletion
- attempt to trim Meg Griffin
Similarly named SPA's, many deleting sourced sentence about Evan's global warming letter to The Nation:
- Cronalejection (talk · contribs)[4]
- DreamingBig (talk · contribs)
- Bevans777 (talk · contribs)[5]]
- BillEvans777 (talk · contribs)[6] [7]
- Heliocity777 (talk · contribs)
Diffs are shown for erasing Global warming position only. IP editors not listed.
Alarms
editThings for a bot to look for.
High
edit- first sentence contains the string "award-winning" or "award winning"
Medium
edit- contains the string "notable"
Abortions
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Does German Wikipedia
edit- IP editor 24.35.212.235 - removes racial implications with Edit Summary *irrelevant*
- 107.77.197.12 take up cause after above IP blocked