User:Athaenara

 Athaenara

To celebrate the art of the miniature and to honour those creative Wikipedians who build uniquely transcendent and delightful signatures from the subtle and whimsical to the outrageously genre-breaking I am the curator of A Wikipedian Signature Art Gallery and Beyond


 * How do we write this thing?


 * I was just reading that page and my mouse slipped and hit the edit button. Then I tripped and as I was falling I hit the keyboard and typed all that content.  As I struggled to my feet I was pawing at the desk and the mouse came down and hit save.
 * • Crossmr 23:18, 16 December 2010 (UTC) 


 * Why are we here?
 * This project is here to build an encyclopedia. Please limit your actions here to things that help that goal.
 * • A Man In Black 21:46, March 1 2007 (UTC) 


 * You know it ain't easy
 * The volume of corporate vanity/vandalism which is showing up on Wikipedia is overwhelming.


 * If we are to remain true to our encyclopedic mission this kind of nonsense cannot be tolerated. We are losing the battle for encyclopedic content in favor of people intent on hijacking Wikipedia for their own memes.  This scourge is a serious waste of time and energy.


 * I am issuing a call to arms to the community to act in a much more draconian fashion in response to corporate self-editing and vanity page creation. This is simply out of hand, and we need your help.
 * • BradPatrick  September 29, 2006 (→  see also: Wikipedia Signpost/2006-10-02/More CSD)


 * Assume no clue
 * Has anyone else noticed how spammers and other conflict of interest editors think the guidelines are for the other guy and what they are doing is "useful" and shouldn't be questioned? And they are completely sincere about that.


 * It's entirely plausible that an editor can plow blithely on, unaware of guidelines. Perhaps we need a corollary to Assume good faith called Assume no clue.
 * • JonHarder  03:27, January 19 2007 (UTC) 

 •  Observations on Wikipedia behavior  •  Don't be high-maintenance  •  How not to get unblocked  • 


 * “Change is the elixir of the human circumstance, and acceptance of challenge the way of our kind. We are bad-weather animals, disaster’s fairest children.  For the soundest of evolutionary reasons man appears at his best when times are worst.”     •   Robert Ardrey, African Genesis (1961)


 * "A skepticism concerning what one beholds—whether in the arts, in the sciences, or in the deeply etched channels of fashionable response—contains a force essential to the survival of civilized man."    •   Robert Ardrey (1968)

E. O. Wilson, himself called "the father of sociobiology", called Ardrey "the lyric poet of human evolution".

A straight line is an arc on the circumference of a circle of infinite radius. (1986) You need to cultivate a higher  tolerance for ambiguity. (1990) Civilization is high maintenance. (1994) I am a tiny violet-flavoured nuisance. (1997) I know the difference between Ganymede and Runnymede. (2000)  æ   ✉

"Life should be a series of daring adventures launched from a secure base." • Mrs. Frank Reagan, quoted by the Commissioner in Blue Bloods Season 3 Episode 8, "Higher Education"