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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out. Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)

Never argue with someone who knows he's right. hydnjo (19xx - 20xx)

Interesting Places

 * Wiki cream An interesting perspective.
 * Special:Contributions/newbies (whatever that means) to see if we still qualify.
 * Clueless newbies to make sure that we're not.
 * Special:Newpages to see who's being naughty and who's being nice.
 * Featured article candidates or WP:FAC to see the best of the articles that have not yet been featured.
 * Featured picture candidates or WP:FPC to see some excellent pictures and critiques.
 * Wikipedia Signpost or WP:POST to get some insight about Wiki goings-on.
 * Special:Watchlist What we're interested in following right now.
 * Votes for deletion or WP:VFD to see what articles are disliked by some.
 * Images and media for deletion or WP:IFD to see what going on in the Image namespace.
 * WP or WP:WP for some Wikipedia shortcuts of course.
 * What's in, what's out or WP:WIWO is on the list for now.
 * Requests for arbitration or WP:RFAr
 * Requests for adminship or WP:RFA to vote for the folks that I know something about.

Useful Places

 * Help: Contents For a good overview of helpful places of course.
 * WP:HEP For the nitty-gritties.
 * Utilities For helping to get some things done.
 * Namespaces To help understand Wikipedia's structure:
 * No Prefix Main article namespace.
 * User:Username Us.
 * User page
 * Wikipedia:Subject The back office.
 * Image:''Imagename.(jpg or other) Pictures, graphics, etc.
 * MediaWiki namespace I'm not sure yet.
 * To make; Template: Templatename To use;  See them all in a BIG list or WP:TM for boilerplate.
 * Template messages or WP:TM
 * Template messages/Stubs
 * Stub categories
 * Help:contents Lots of "How To...." stuff.
 * Category:Categoryname Groups of articles that fit into a category. See Category:New Hampshire.
 * Categorization
 * Special pages Lots of these - select here or in the sidebar - they're not the same - some interesting stuff.
 * ...and their Talk pages as well.
 * Help desk or WP:HD For help with specific issues about how to use Wikipedia.
 * Policies and guidelines or WP:RULES For well, rules.
 * List of administrators or WP:LA for a list of frontliners (also )
 * User:Hydnjo/standard.css to choose visited links color with Classic skin.
 * Please do not bite the newcomers
 * Browse by overview, List of glossaries, List of reference tables and List of topic lists for navigating.
 * User:John Broughton/Editor%27s Index to Wikipedia, a truly useful index.

Editing Help

 * Introduction
 * Tutorial or WP:T
 * #REDIRECT[[goto pagename ]]
 * More to come

Asteroids that we know

 * 501 Urhixidur ... Urhixidur is a WP User and 501 Urhixidur has a WP article!
 * 2177 Oliver ...... Barney Oliver has an asteroid named for him and a WP article!
 * 2521 Heidi ........ Heidi's namesake has an asteroid named for her and a WP article!
 * 10515 Old Joe ... Old Joe has a disambiguation page with his name :-(
 * Update Aug 7 2006: 2177 Oliver, 2521 Heidi and 10515 Old Joe now all have articles! Thanks Urhixidur :-)

Articles in progress

 * Searles Castle
 * Edward Francis Searles aka Edward F. Searles aka Edward Searles
 * Bernard M. Oliver aka Bernard Oliver aka Barney Oliver
 * Disney's Contemporary Resort
 * Hydroseeding
 * Tank truck
 * Deep well drilling
 * Sprigging
 * Burton A. Dole, Jr.
 * Puritan Bennett

This page has been messed with three times:

 * At 16:35, 11 December 2005 by Foumidable and rv'd by Raul654 eight minutes later. Thanks Raul. ;-) hydnjo talk 05:30, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
 * At 22:15, 20 December 2005 by Etacar12 and rv'd by Bbatsell within one minute. Thanks Bbatsell.  :-)  hydnjo talk 12:22, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
 * At 23:12, 1 January 2006 by 24.41.0.87 and rv'd by Deltabeignet one minute later. Thanks Deltabeignet. :-)  hydnjo talk 04:29, 2 January 2006 (UTC)