User:Paradoctor

In many of the more relaxed civilizations, the Wikipedia has already supplanted the great Encyclopedia Britannica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. First, it is free; and secondly it has the words Come as You Are inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover. — with apologies to the D. A.



Welcome to the Land of Confusion
"A Paradox May Be Paradoctored."

The Literature
Fashioning articles is the goal. But this tends to overlook the fundamental value added by an encyclopedia through  its encyclopedic research (ER (is) not OR). Collecting bibliographic information, and reviewing the quality of the sources establishes the  factual basis from which articles derive their utility. The use or non-use of statements in the article is determined by the result of  encyclopedic research. Consensus (other than that on WP:V) is secondary to that. NPOV is determined from the literature, anything else is madness. Notability is an arbitrary cutoff for pragmatical reasons. Many, if not most notability discussions are moot when viewed from WP:V.

What is the first step in writing an article about X? Finding the literature on X. This means that every article needs a  comprehensive commented bibliography. The rest of the article should follow mechanically.

Wikilulz

 * Good to know.
 * In Germany his works counts as E-Musik, "serious music" (courtesy of User:Sca)
 * Encyclopedias can be hard on kids.
 * When six words do the job of one
 * Metaphysics explained in three sentences.
 * 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117068
 * Chuck Norris vs. The Heap Chuck Norris vs. Infinity Power lunch Chuck Norris style Chuck Norris vs. Infinity: The Rematch
 * German madhouse You don't have to speak the language, madness is international. ^_^
 * Did he just give away himself?
 * priceless, here's its country cousin, though this one would've been more elegant if anon had transcluded Special:BlankPage ^_^
 * Narwhalism
 * What has become of Perl golf? Or is that an example of Black Perl?
 * Dream Team - Take a wild guess! :-))
 * online or invisible, but you got to admit that the term is wonderfully apt ;)
 * Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity I didn't make that one up, I swear!
 * unsung hero
 * that reminds me of the old idea for a perfect crime: kill all lawyers, and you couldn't be prosecuted due to lack of legal representation ^_^


 * (found on Category:Education) isn't that a teensy bit tautological?


 * We had a virgin, now the other half speaks: (spotted this while researching a claimed RS)
 * Fell nearly out of my chair when I noticed this link on the page on hotel toilet-paper folding.
 * leakage, indeed :-))
 * can't argue with that
 * Goya and Wikipedia: finally someone has courage to tell the real story.
 * Gargamel's musings
 * "The forces throng in this one."
 * Templates that I sorely miss
 * Adler's laws
 * Nothing to laugh about. Seriously, they will come for you if you do.
 * Spotted at Wikisource. Unremarkable? Sure, as long as you don't speak both English and German. It might be interpreted as "making love to a consanguine relative". ^_^
 * Always, always put spaces after your commas!
 * Ssymmety is important
 * No uncited material, please!
 * Britannica vindicated (refers to alleged copyvios of Macmillan Dictionary for Children and Scrabble)
 * I think this explains everything about Microsoft.
 * Overdue spelling reform, or just a case of clairvoyance?
 * So that's how they financed the pyramids!
 * I understand his enthusiasm.
 * Everyone was a newbie once (first messages). ^_^
 * But it's notable!
 * The mad translator has struck again!. Though I'm not sure why. ^_^ International cooperation, I love it.
 * Wikipedia is making progress. (noticed via this edit)
 * An inquiring mind
 * DVDm is taking his own advice ;)
 * I think that explains it.
 * Some Mathematicians enjoy dirty jokes so much that they write an entire paper just to make a horrible pun. ^_^
 * Over!
 * that's right
 * understandable complaint
 * Par(adox) for the course.
 * The long version of TL;DR.
 * Edit summary: true story.
 * Didn't see that one coming. :D
 * That is how you add verifiable content.

Another fine mess
"In arguments opposed to this, a primary one was of "code reuse". Our longstanding principle of not using templates for article content stands in stark contrast to this. We, as a wiki, have chosen to sacrifice the benefits of consistency and elimination of redundancy in exchange for ease of editing and the idea that hitting "edit" on an article actually allows you to edit the article, not just the meta-structure of the article. This is also somewhat a failing of our current editor UI, which doesn't have IDE type functionality that would be required if our articles were written more like computer source code."

Dinosaur droppings
The oldest edit I have reverted, so far. Timestamped 2002-07-25, almost 23 years ago.

Tools

 * Toolforge: Disambiguation pages with incoming links
 * Disambiguation pages with links
 * WikiProject Bluelink patrol