User:Squell/dictionary

=The Devil's Dictionary to Wikipedia=


 * BJAODN : These are what we believe to be the best articles in Wikipedia. Prior to being listed here, articles are reviewed at Articles for Deletion for style, prose, completeness, accuracy and neutrality according to our featured article criteria.


 * Be bold!' : Frustrated cries uttered by new editors who are still coming to terms with the Wiki markup.


 * Civility : Throwing a lot of thank yous and flattery at half-witted vandals; it makes you feel good about being pleasant to someone totally undeserving of wasting your precious time.


 * Copyright : The right to copy.


 * Deletionism :


 * Exclusionism : The assumption that whatever someone writes is intrinsically more valuable than what others could add to it, a practice which must therefore be resisted. Also see Vandalism


 * Inclusionism : Keeping as much information on Wikipedia as possible; likely duplicating information in multiple articles and possibly contradicting information duplicated in other articles. For example this happened to Julius Caesar, who is widely considered to be one of the greatest military geniuses of all time, as well as a brilliant politician and one of the ancient world's strongest leaders, and fought in a civil war which left him undisputed master of the Roman world, and began extensive reforms of Roman society and government. Only much later did people wonder what his name actually meant. The leading theory seems to be that the cognomen "Caesar" means "hairy" and that this indicates that his branch of the family was conspicuous for having fine heads of hair. Other say that it was a joke, because he was balding. Still others say it's an ancient Etruscan word. Whatever the case, inclusionism doesn't see this as a problem as is all about keeping as much information on Wikipedia as possible; this often doesn't duplicate information in other articles anyway.


 * Mergism : One Article to rule them all, One Article to find them, One Article to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.


 * NPOV : Shorthand for No Point Of View - people who hold NPOV have no idea what they're writing about. Writing articles while conforming to NPOV is an official policy in Wikipedia.


 * Notability : The requirement that articles should only address important subjects such as Pokemon, MMORPGs, and George Lucas' table scraps.


 * Original research : That which does not engage in plagiarism. No original research is an official policy on Wikipedia.


 * Ownership of articles : Jimmy Wales.


 * Vandalism : Third party contributions to your articles.


 * Verifiability : Making sure whatever you write about ranks highly on Google. This too is an official policy on Wikipedia.


 * Sadofsky, Jason Scott : The Founder and President of Wikipedia. His vision was that instead of hiring people to write an encyclopedia, you can gently coerce a teenage audience into doing the same using the disguise of a text-based massive multiplayer online game. He has since resumed his previous job as a promotional photo model.


 * Three revert rule : Wikipedia's scoring system. Whoever accomplishes three reverts in 24 hours wins a block.