User:WhatamIdoing

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Hello, World.

Article ideas

These sound like interesting and notable subjects to me. Please feel free to start articles for one (or more!) of them. I'd love to read what you've written.

Essay idea:

  • On the Dunning–Kruger effect, and editors who are very confident that they are very accurate at figuring out who is an undisclosed paid editor

Policies and guidelines you can ask me about

Stories I tell on wiki

In the beginning was The Plan, and the Assumptions;
And the Plan was without form, and the Assumptions were void;
And darkness was upon the faces of the implementers.

And they spake unto their manager, saying:
"it is a crock of $#@%, and it stinketh".

And the manager went to the department manager, and he spake unto him saying:
"It is a crock of excrement, and none may abide the odor thereof".

And the department manager went to the director, and he spake unto him saying:
"It is a container of manure, and it is so strong that none by abide before it".

And the director went to the Vice President, and he spake unto him saying:
"It is a vessel of fertilizer, and none may abide its strength".

And the Vice President went to the Senior Vice President, and he spake unto him saying:
"It contains that which aideth the growth of plants, and it is very strong".

And the Senior Vice President went to the CEO, and he spake unto him saying:
"It promoteth growth, and it is very powerful".

And the CEO went to the Board of Directors, and he spake unto them, saying:
"This powerful new project will promote the growth of the organization".

And the Board of Directors looked upon The Plan, and they saw that it was good.

Why Wikipedia doesn't standardize everything

Wikipedia doesn't standardize section headings for citations because the real world doesn't. There are four major style guides that are heavily used in universities, and articles using each one can be found on Wikipedia. Each requires a different name above the list of sources that were used to support content in an academic paper:

  • Chicago Manual of Style: "Center the title Bibliography about one inch from the top of the page"[16]
    (used by fine arts and historians)
  • APA style: "In APA style, the alphabetical list of works cited, which appears at the end of the paper, is titled 'References.'"[17] (used by sociologists and psychologists)
  • The MLA Style Manual: "Center the title Works Cited about one inch from the top of the page."[18]
    (used in humanities)
  • Council of Science Editors: "Center the title References (or Cited References) and then list the works you have cited in the paper; do not include other works you may have read."[19] (used by scientists)

Wikipedia hasn't chosen one over another because nobody wants to be stuck telling the English people that they have to follow scientific conventions, or the history folks that they're required to follow the English manual.

That, which, and who

  • The relative pronoun that is used for restrictive clauses: The car that is red is broken. (The other cars are other colors, and whether they are broken is not stated.)
  • The relative pronoun which is used for non-restrictive clauses, such as a description: The car, which is red, is broken. (There's only one car, and I thought you might like to know what color it was painted.)
  • The relative pronoun who is correctly used in either of these manners, so long as the antecedent is a person. In some situations, such as describing a marginalized group of people, some people may object to the "de-humanization" of the antecedent if that or which are chosen instead of the personhood-affirming who. However, that and which are grammatically correct, and their use in older and formal English is well-established. For example:
    • John 11:25 (KJV): "Jesus said unto her, 'I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.'"
    • Luke 16:10 (ERV): "He that is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much: and he that is unrighteous in a very little is unrighteous also in much."
    • Romeo and Juliet: "He jests at scars that never felt a wound."
    • Poor Richard's Almanack: He that's content, hath enough; He that complains, has too much.
    • Thomas Paine: "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression."
    • John Bunyan: "He that is down needs fear no fall..."

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Memory hole

Essays I've written

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From June 2013 until September 2023, I worked for the Wikimedia Foundation in the Community Relations team to answer questions and report problems about some wiki software, especially VisualEditor and DiscussionTools, but this is my personal account. Edits, statements, or other contributions made from this account are my own, and may not reflect the views of the Foundation. If you want to reach someone at the Wikimedia Foundation in an official capacity, then send e-mail to info@wikimedia.org

Wikipedia editors are unpaid volunteers. I do not write Wikipedia articles for pay. If someone has asked you to pay for an article, or if you are trying to figure out how to get your article on Wikipedia, please see

Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations
.

How to verify an editor's identity

Scammers will call you up and claim to be from your bank. If you want to be sure you're talking to your bank, you should hang up on them, pull out your bank card, and call the phone number on the back of your bank card – not the "special" number that the scammer gave you. That way, you know you're really talking to your bank.

We have the same problem with Wikipedia. Anyone can claim that they're a Wikipedia editor or admin – but how do you find out if they really are? If you receive an e-mail message, text message, or other off-wiki message in which someone claims to be a Wikipedia editor or admin, ask for their username. Then think up a specific 'password' and ask them to post it temporarily on their userpage from the account they claim to control. It doesn't really matter what the password is; maybe you'll pick something like "It really is me" or "Bananas" or "Test edit" or "Hi, friend", or maybe you'll pick something related to the reason they contacted you, like "I am posting this to prove to a potential client that I really am this Wikipedia editor".

After they've posted it, then (this is super important) look at the top of the page where they posted it for the tab marked "View history" (sometimes shortened to just "History"). Find their username in the list of changes made to that page, and at the start of the line, click the "prev" button to see what changes that particular line records. If you see something like:

  • (cur | prev) 02:19, 6 February 2024‎ Their_username_here (talk | contribs‎) 14,685 bytes +24 Test edit

with a recent date, and clicking on "prev" highlights the words you told them to post, then it's probably someone who actually has that account. But if they refuse to post anything, or if you see a different username in the middle (or just a series of numbers and letters, like "198.51.100.21" or "2001:db8:249b:13e:122e:2249:18:1397"), then you'll know that they're scammers who are lying about whether this is really their account.

Alternatively, if you create your own account and add an e-mail address in Special:Preferences, then you can use Special:EmailUser to send e-mail to most experienced editors. Send them a message like "Someone claiming to be you on <link to other website> is asking me to pay money for a Wikipedia article. Is that really you, or is this a scammer?"

When in doubt, especially if they are asking for money for anything related to Wikipedia, you can send e-mail to paid-en-wp@wikipedia.org and ask one of the volunteers. Remember: Real Wikipedia editors don't charge the subject of an article for creating it, editing it, reviewing it, or anything else!

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