User:Angela/What Wikipedia is not

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Wikipedia is not...

 * ... a mental health treatment facility. Vicki Rosenzweig
 * ... a creche. Tarquin
 * ... a online store. Waylon111
 * ... a pulpit. Kingturtle
 * ... Usenet. Jimbo Wales
 * ... a database. Tarquin
 * ... a free for all. Alex756
 * ... a swimming pool. Martin
 * ... a place for jokes. Angela
 * ... a place to stick random notes or whatnot. Danny
 * ... a phone book. Mav
 * ... a collection place for trivia. Andre Engels
 * ... a repository for all human knowledge. Tim Starling
 * ... just another Britannica. BL
 * ... a place to post your point of view or argue about it. Ed Poor
 * ... Google. Anon
 * ... the only wiki. Mav
 * ... Your personal playpen. Plato
 * ... your mother. Koyaanis Qatsi
 * ... your father. Ritz
 * ... in the business of book promotion. Electicology
 * ... meant to be a group experience. Eloquence
 * ... a derivative work of itself. The Cunctator
 * ... an educational textbook. Rotem Dan
 * ... here to set trends. Hephaestos
 * ... a landscape for honorary pages. Kingturtle
 * ... a word. Alex756
 * ... the place for preaching. Morwen
 * ... a place to post lectures. Mav
 * ... the only Wikimedia project. Eloquence
 * ... a programming guide. Taku
 * ... a place to list editors' favorite websites. Tim Starling
 * ... a repository of predictions of what will happen in years to come. Tarquin
 * ... an almanac. Danny
 * ... an American project. Secretlondon
 * ... a place for crusades. BL
 * ... a place to decide which side is right and wrong. Taku
 * ... like a traditional encyclopedia. Eloquence
 * ... suitable for hosting executable program downloads! Brion
 * ... for aiding translations. Angela
 * ... a Spellchecker. Tarquin
 * ... CNN. Mav
 * ... deteriorating. AxelBoldt
 * ... a strategy guide. Martin
 * ... a one stop source for any information about anything. Robertoalencar
 * ... our employer. Matthew Woodcraft
 * ... a household name yet. Erik Zachte
 * ... a place for indepth analysis. Kingturtle
 * ... a place to evangelize your beliefs. Stephen Gilbert
 * ... a place for slogans. Jerzy
 * ... a development playground. Eloquence
 * ... about finding absolute truth. Chuck Smith
 * ... an author. Toby Bartels
 * ... the only project that runs MediaWiki. Mav
 * ... for-profit. Martin
 * ... a tool to maintain willful suspension of disbelief. Eloquence
 * ... a chat room. RickK
 * ... supposed to voice a POV. Koyaanis Qatsi
 * ... Wiki. Stephen Gilbert
 * ... the easiest place to navigate. Jack Lynch
 * ... Project Gutenberg. Bryan Derksen
 * ... a legal advice service. Alex756
 * ... a place to put your own opinions. Enchanter
 * ... a place to be making advocacy for one position or the other. Mic
 * ... everything 2. Damian Yerrick
 * ... a jokebook. Martin
 * ... only the English Wikipedia. Kpjas
 * ... about copyright activism. Jimbo
 * ... a social club. 142
 * ... a book. Fagan
 * ... a tabla rasa anymore. Alex756
 * ... a catholic encyclopedia. Karl Eichwalder
 * ... Nupedia. Eloquence
 * ... the only GFDL-using open content project. Wouter Vanden Hove
 * ... just about the US. Jtdirl
 * ... only about science. Anthère
 * ... about winning kudos and stroking egos. Larry Sanger
 * ... an adversarial endeavor, nor a marketplace. Jimbo
 * ... paying me enough to put up with constant abuse. Stan Shebs
 * ... for financial gain. Alex756
 * ... a game. Jamesday
 * ... a list of citations. Anthère
 * ... Meatball. Angela
 * ... IRC. Silsor
 * ... for personal interpretations of what wikipedia is. BL
 * ... a dumpster. Viajero
 * ... entirely populated by sane people. DJ Clayworth
 * ... the Yellow Pages. silsor
 * ... a competitive sport. pakaran
 * ... a fish. Alex S
 * ... a place for mindless flamewars. Eloquence
 * ... a help site. Dysprosia
 * ... Slashdot. Dpbsmith
 * ... the back of an envelope. Denni
 * ... an island. Neutrality
 * ... Disneyland. Oska
 * ... a long, ordered sequence of carefully categorized articles. Wikipedia:Establish context
 * ... guaranteed to be accurate. Wikipedia:Legal advice
 * ... a safe sex guide. Wikipedia:Safe sex
 * ... a substitute for seeking the help of a professional. Wikipedia:Content disclaimer
 * ... uniformly peer reviewed. Wikipedia:General disclaimer
 * ... a web directory. Wikipedia:Google Test
 * ... a democracy. Wikipedia:Survey guidelines
 * ... a link repository. Matt
 * ... a primary-source repository. Wikipedia:Guide for Indymedia authors
 * ... an online newspaper. Wikipedia:In the news section on the Main Page
 * ... a chat room. Wikipedia:Refactoring
 * ... a list repository. Wikipedia:Embedded list
 * ... a repository for all manner of nonsense. Wikipedia:Deletion guidelines for administrators
 * ... a fortune teller. Niteowlneils
 * ... a can of Pepsi. Wikiman
 * ... a vast left-wing conspiracy to discredit Fox News. NoPetrol
 * ... a vast right-wing conspiracy to ensure that Tom Brokaw's retirement is not a pleasant one. NoPetrol
 * ... a urinal. Silsor
 * ... anyone's fan site for their favorites. LegolasGreenleaf
 * ... a set of blogs. Ergoship
 * ... a place for debates. Ergoship
 * ... a place to plug various media for monitary gain. Quoxplor
 * ... infested by a censorious admin cabal. Nickptar
 * ... the giraffe. Giraffe giraffe giraffe abunghug.  Lulltheconqueror
 * ... finished yet. So get back to work, people.
 * ... a dating service. User:Zeerus
 * ... a work of fiction. ~ TokyoJunkie
 * ... your father's encyclopedia. Fant
 * ... a user of only British or American spelling. Meelar
 * ... you.  Me  =P
 * ... properly punctuated. Sam Korn
 * ... read, only written. HighHopes
 * ... a theological discourse. (from an edit summary at Jesus)
 * ... cynical. (from a Cfd)
 * ... not for employee-of-the-month. Bucketsofg
 * ... the Library of Congress Card Catalog. Ummit
 * ...a babysitter for molly-coddled readers/viewers; let them jump up and down, fingers in ears, and screaming 'nah nah nah I didn't hear that' somewhere else. Pvazz
 * ...Gamefaqs Randall Brackett
 * ...a MySpace for canine fiction. User:Zoe
 * ...a place to tell the truth about Nintendo. Bonelayer12864
 * ...a place to chat with friends. Eat me, I'm a red bean