User:Pablo X/quotes

"Darth Vader entre dans une boulangerie.

- Bonjour monsieur, qu'est ce c'est vous voudrais?

- Trois pains et deux tarte tatins. Vous savez porquoi?

- ... ?

- PAIN PAIN PAIN TARTE TATIN TARTE TATIN!"

"“Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who has done an amazing job and is being recognised more and more, I notice.”"

- The former bloke

Quotations corner "... I've gotta say, a civil pig is still a fookin' pig ... My take is, there's no WP:consensus as to "civility" on en.WP and adding more bureaucracy to deal with it ain't gonna fly"

- User:Gwen Gale

"Wikipedia is a nasty place because of the wiki-legal really nasty stuff that does NOT get reigned in, i.e. misusing policies, guidelines and wiki-mechanisms to insult, impugn and conduct warfare. Wp:civility does not cover these and THAT is the problem."

- User:North8000 "Wikipedia is full of rules and policies, and they are mostly used as weapons."

- User:Stanistani

"We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them. Don’t let them explore you until they’ve explored the secret universes of books. Don’t let them connect with you until they’ve walked between the lines on the pages."

- John Waters

"I believe that somewhere there is a cat in a box that is both alive and dead, but if they don't open it soon and give it some food then it will just be two kinds of dead."

- Neil Gaiman, American Gods

"The whole point of this project, ostensibly, is the creation and codification of knowledge. It's not a social club. It's not a place to champion your nationalistic views, or your racist theories, or your stupid conspiracies. Making an encyclopedia requires research, and wanting to learn, and doing it right."

- Elaragirl

"It needs to be pointed out &hellip; that low level insults, like implying another editor is deceptive, are personal attacks far more toxic than "Fuck off, troll""

"Let us not forget why we disambiguate - to avoid conflicts"

- says the biggest move-warrior on Wikipedia since Willy On Wheels

"Enablers of socks and vandals expect established editors to cower before them rather than standing up to them. Maybe that's the European way. It's not the American way, nor the way of much of the world."

- ANI's Grand Supreme Troll

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Give a man Wikipedia and he gets a list of appearances of fish on Family Guy."

- Krimpet

"What we really need is something that encourages editors to see the big picture and discourages them from trying to enforce their own interpretations of ambiguous rules merely for the sake of 'proving' they are right, or of pushing the grey zone between the generally accepted interpretations a little bit in one direction."

- Hans Adler

"There are 43,051 articles on the Recipe Wiki. The wiki for the Twilight series has 934 pages."

- An experienced editor

"I know the internet is the stuff a paranoiac's dreams are made of. I know it parcels up everything—Lee Harvey Oswald, Princess Diana, Al-Quaeda, Israel, MI6, crop circles—and with pretty blue ribbons of hyperlinks it ties them into a single grand conspiracy ..."

- Robert Harris

"...this is an encyclopedia, not a social networking site, so being "nice" should take a back seat to developing articles. On the other hand, this is a collaboration and anyone who can't cooperate with other people gets in the way of article development ..."

- Atama

"... I interfere in discussions ... and occasionally offer my worthless opinions to those who neither request nor appreciate them."

- Craftyminion

"Your cut-and-paste of policy is delightful, but your grasp of it seems lacking."

- User:TAnthony

"My rationale for blocking is "you need to get your finger out of your arse and stop fucking around if you want to edit this encyclopedia.""

- A Admin™

"all the interesting stuff is taken out of Wikipedia ... I started over four years ago, and we made so much progress in those early days, but alas, things went sour, and we keep loosingundefined more ground, and more great editors are driven away, and no matter how many articles we save far more are destroyed ..."

- an editor

"So be it, that a man of honor and a man of God ... can be called a liar (diretly or indirectly), and the insolent person doing so shall not be called to justice."

- A Wikipedia editor

"We aren't the Britannica. Wikipedia's articles are mostly popular culture."

- A Wikipedia editor

"I believe very strongly that users of Wikipedia coming to it the first time will perform 2-3 searches, if we are lucky, and will base their impressions of the site on those results. If those 2-3 searches yield nothing, it's bad, but if those searches yield junk, argumentation, inaccuracies, or blips of non-information, it's even worse. We are all aware that reference works have limits.  If I do not find "polyphiloprogenitive" in an online dictionary, I know that there might just be a hole in that dictionary.  On the other hand, imagine what reaction I would have if I did find it, and it said, "A word used in a poem."  What would your reaction be?  What if I found, "A new web company based in Tonga with cool products!" or "#redirect Words no one uses" or "A word often heard from Lord Viperskorpion on tel3D00dies?""

- Geogre

"Until we have AI, we need to use ours"

- DGG

"I'm not too bright and all, but all of that editing you do on that page sure looks like editing"

- Bali ultimate

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"In the ideal AFD, a nominator indicates that he believes that the article's existence (or all contents of the article in its current form) violates a guideline or policy, and that deletion of the article is necessary. Other editors then support or refute that argument, read each other's comments, debate the argument, and come to an agreement as to what to do. This may be an agreement as to content change, to merge, to delete, to keep as an exception to a guideline, or to attempt to modify the guideline to permit inclusion. If things were working properly, all the closer would have to do is read the argument summary and obey it, because all editors would have listened to each other, thought about the article in relation to the deletion argument, and come to a consensus."

- Kww

"Let's just work to bring evidence to AfD's and save articles through improvement and learning, not sealawyering"

- Protonk

"… it is more important to improve what is improvable (while deleting the junk) than to argue about them."

- DGG

"… As I have counseled others (maybe you before): refactor refactor refactor. Then apologize, even if you don't mean it."

- A Wikipedia editor

"I would STRONGLY suggest adding an email address, so we can bitch about how much we hate this site with no repurcussions … It is best to have email activated, for a variety of reasons"

- The same editor

"Passive aggressive behavior is king on wikipedia. … learn from your mistakes, by becoming more passive agressive, like other sucessful editors do on wikipedia. If you want to rant, email me and rant, but don't do it on wiki"

- The same editor (the hits just keep on coming)

"Call a Request for Comment on the disputed page. Go to WP:RfC to set it up. Then e-mail all of your allies asking them to comment."

- The same editor

"They are only words, you don't even have to mean them"

- Guess who? That's right! Same guy

"The key is balance, and willingness to improve articles--if everyone participated in one Afd and fixed one article and found one hopeless article to delete, we could really improve WP"

- DGG

"La poda puede ser necesaria, pero el exceso de celo es nocivo para el proyecto … Entre unos y otros, Wikipedia se mantiene relevante, pero no a costa de ser menos enciclopédica."

- PC Actual (Spain)

"We are here to attempt rescuing articles that have been sent to AfD that may be improved to meet wiki standards and so thus improve the project as a whole. Editors should leave "politics" at the door before entering."

- Michael Q Schmidt

some names have been omitted or blanked to protect the guilty

AfD fun

"… I could even pray for you to receive a revelation of Gods supernatural Love for us."

- A Wikipedia editor

"... you don't help the wikipedia by destroying articles that some people might enjoy reading ... We aren't the Britannica. Wikipedia's articles are mostly popular culture."

- A Wikipedia editor

"The section "list of armed vechicles" is the straw that injured the fictional camel that used to be a vehicle until its back was broken."

- Mandsford

"I have no idea what this stuff is ... I didn't bother clicking on the main article, since I know nothing of this sort of thing"

- A Wikipedia user

some names have been omitted or blanked to protect the guilty

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