User:Just Step Sideways

 Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom. -FZ

Beware of users so in love with their own virtue, that they are incapable of recognizing when it has become vice; and so in love with their own eloquence, that they can not see when it has become hypocrisy. The former are those who never admit to any wrong, but yet demand apologies from others for the lapses of judgement to which all human beings are prone; and the latter are the blindest and most intractable of POV-pushers. Skill with words correlates neither with virtue nor wisdom.

-Antandrus (click on the quote to see many other insights into the workings of Wikipedia)

Meetups and conferences are kind of amazing. It's very cool to be able to put faces to so many of the names you've seen on the screen. If you can manage it, you should go to one.

Links
Why I (probably) set a username block the way I did

images I have created at Wikimedia Commons

the only thing I ever wrote for the Signpost

Essays

 * On the difficulty of blocking long-term users


 * How to draft the perfect policy proposal


 * On the appropriate technique for responding to a clueless jerk who won't leave you alone


 * Advice for paid PR and marketing people. (hint: go away)


 * A really crummy tactic that some people use to gain sympathy