User:Kudpung/UP quotes

''Any article edited by a promotional editor should always be deleted. This is the only way to discourage people from using the WP for advertising. If the subject is actually important, someone else will create an article. Rescuing it sends the message that if your write an unacceptable article about yourself, someone will very possibly fix it for you, and therefore you might as well try to advertise here. It furthermore sends the message that if you you hire someone to write an article and they take money for doing this, and they write the usual unacceptable article such people write, then someone will fix it for you free, while the guy who wrote the bad article gets the money.'' "Wikipedia may be the encyclopedia anyone can edit, but that is a misleading slogan. Yes anyone may edit it, but there is a learning curve before you get to the point where you can edit it." "ACTRIAL will probably never be reinstated, but the same purpose can be accomplished in other ways. The way that I think Kudpung and I have in mind is to require all relatively new and IP users to go through the Article Wizard. Everyone can still make articles, but they will make them in different ways depending on their experience. The WMF should have no concern with this--we can devise our own workflows as long as we follow the basic principles. DGG" "I have no dog in that fight but I would willingly retire myself rather than lose an editor of the calibre of . I feel so proud for him and his Elgar-page-without-an-embellishment and I think of Tim every time I walk past the statue in the centre of my home town over the past few years. It's time for whoever caused him to retire to fall on their sword... Kudpung"

" 'There are no rewards for working on Wikipedia, none whatsoever. There is a constant conflict with with the Foundation who believes it knows better than the tens of thousands of highly qualified volunteers and treats them like expendable foot soldiers in its simple campaign to become the biggest web site in the world. There is just insult and abuse for trying one's best to help keep the place from falling apart completely. There are even those who behind the thin pretext of being competent and prolific content providers, do their level best here and on other web sites to destroy the enjoyment of others in working here. All you get out of it is knowing that you have left a legacy in your part of building this wonderful fountain of knowledge for our future generations.' Kudpung"

"Through exaggeration and presenting partial views taken out of context, the questions and voter guides at Arbitration Committee Elections include many mischaracterizations of our candidates, which have been embellished in the disingenuous spirit of comedic license and flagrant 'admin-bashing'. Fortunately, most serious users recognize that admins are an easy target for personal attacks, and they take seriously the responsibility vested in them at elections. Kudpung"

" 'RfA is a horrible and broken process.' Jimbo Wales, Founder"

I remember:
 * Making my first  edit  to  a thing  called Wikipedia
 * Listening to Journey into Space on the radio (pre UK TV days)
 * Watching the coronation live on TV (the only one in our atreet)
 * The original reansmissions of Muffin the Mule, Andy Pandy, Bill and Ben, Sooty, and Crackerj.
 * The first transmission of Coronation Street
 * Food rationing
 * Farthings
 * Silver threepenny bits
 * A Mars and a Bounty for a tanner
 * 'Your name's Mr Kewkie-Bangle'
 * The Onion Johnny.
 * The Corona man
 * Hark-at-a-dooly
 * Cod liver oil and orange juice from the children's clinic in glass medicine bottles with a cork stopper.
 * The smell of chocolate from the Cadbury's factory 2 miles away.
 * A portion of chips for 6d (2.5p)
 * Being groped at 8 by an aging Akela with very bad halitosis.
 * Pathé News, an A film, a B film, a cartoon, and adverts, all for 9d in the local flea pit Saturday matinee.
 * Peeing myself on my first day at kindergarten
 * Having the first house in my street to have a colour TV