Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not about winning
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This page in a nutshell: Wikipedia is all about teamwork. Users must work together to build a reliable encyclopedia, not try to prove themselves to be "better" than others. |
Wikipedia is not about winning.
Those who think it's more important to win, rather than to help create an encyclopedia we can all be proud of, are in the wrong place. Those here to habitually win or feel the need to rule, or control,
If you are one of these individuals, you need to lay aside the need or impulse to allow ego, pride, or winning to take precedence over collaborative construction of an encyclopedia. To quote
And if you get blocked because you want to win, you'll more than likely join your cadre of other winners in creating a blog or joining a forum about Wikipedia where you describe how wrong Wikipedia was and how you were right. These other winners will agree with you and give you confidence in your rightness. A few Wikipedia editors at some point will eventually see it, feel they might be able to help, and try to explain to you why you were wrong. However, in classic "winning" stance, you'll just cover your ears and scream
See also
- Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not § Wikipedia is not a battleground
- Wikipedia:Just drop it
- Wikipedia:Let it go
- Wikipedia:Admitting you're wrong
- Wikipedia:Drop the stick and back slowly away from the horse carcass
- Wikipedia:Witchhunt
- Wikipedia:Advice for hotheads
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia is an MMORPG (humorous)
- Wikipedia:DGAF(humorous)
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not about whining (humorous)
- Wikipedia:Asshole John rule (humorous)