Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2023-10-23/Humour

After a long Request for Comment at Help talk:Citation Style 1, consensus was reached for creating a new template to allow robust and standardized citations for revelations and epiphanies experienced by Wikipedia editors. The template,, offers a number of parameters representing a broad range of philosophical, religious, and pharmaceutical experiences.

Examples:


 * "God explains little and decides nothing." Revealed to me in a dream. Sleep: Selected Ambient Works 85–92, Aphex Twin. 2023-03-19.


 * "Each human soul is a temporary fragment of the eternal, an ephemeral window from which the Absolute can be glimpsed." Psilocybe cubensis: 4 grams. August 1994.


 * "An alligator with wings would just be a dragon." Whiskey: 6 shots. Subsequent substances: not clearly remembered. Like ten years ago. Like, whoa, man.


 * "The government is bullshit." Really thinking about it: A few weeks. September 2011.

It's hoped that this template, and the accompanying citation guidelines, will allow us to finally put into articles the revelations, fully-baked ideas, cosmic truths, and toaster inventors that Wikipedia has always struggled to properly include.