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I am an administrator (specifically, a "sysop") on Wikiquote. I divide my work on the Wikimedia projects into three groups:

  • Small fixes that take seconds. I do these every day, sometimes in large numbers as part of a cleanup project.
  • Modest work that take minutes. This includes minor cleanup and answering simple questions.
  • Heavy work that takes hours or even days. This includes creating, rewriting, or researching and sourcing articles; dealing with hard or complex issues; and perfoming major maintenance or policy work.

I am happy to answer all questions and points brought up to me on my talk page (except from vandals and other disruptors jerking my chain). My response time usually is in line with how much work is involved as shown above. If I'm too slow, you can post a second note, but please remember that Wikimedia projects are not primarily real-time communities, and you can never be sure when someone is online.

One exception to my timing above is that I will often take a considerable amount of time to help someone with editing issues that I could fix myself in a minute, because I believe that helping other editors resolve problems will ultimately have a more useful impact on Wikiquote than my direct contributions. (Assuming I know what I'm talking about, of course. ☺)

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[edit] Articles I created or unstubbed

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People

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Books

  • (obviously behind on my literary research!)

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Themes

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[edit] Articles I frequent

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[edit] Interesting ideas

The perils of cherry picking and ideological myopia
  • 0 + 0 = 0
  • 0 - 0 = 0
  • 0 × 0 = 0
  • 0 / 0 is meaningless
    • Therefore, addition, subtraction, and multiplication are identical, and division doesn't exist.
Anyone can be fooled by a magician
  • It doesn't matter whether the magician call him/herself a professional magician, a scientist, a motivational speaker, a doctor, a psychic, or a prophet.
  • It doesn't matter whether the victim is a believer, a skeptic, a scientist, or even another magician!
  • See if you can figure out Dr. Richard Wiseman's "Colour Changing Card Trick" before he reveals the secret. (I'll even tell you that it's all about misdirection, and you'll still miss it.)
Do-it-yourself instant exposure of psychic scam artists

[edit] Quotes from non-famous folks and works

  • Overheard at a primate skeleton exhibit in the Smithsonian Natural History Museum, mid-August 2005:
    Parent: How weird, they look almost like us…
    Child: Geez, that's kinda the idea, Dad!
    • Swift, 26 August 2005, "Another Smart Kid", reported by reader David Craig

[edit] Quotes from famous folks and works

  • Le doute n'est pas une condition agréable, mais la certitude est absurde.
    • Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is absurd.
      • Voltaire, letter to Frederick II of Prussia, 6 April 1767
  • The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
  • Caesar: Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
  • Once you've got everybody agreeing with what they know in their hearts ain't true, you've got 'em by the balls.
    • Senator Roark (Powers Boothe), Sin City
  • There must be something sillier than arguing with software, but I can't think offhand what it would be.
  • I do not believe in Belief. But this is an Age of Faith, and there are so many militant creeds that, in self defence, one has to formulate a creed of one's own. Tolerance, good temper and sympathy are no longer enough in a world where ignorance rules, and Science, which ought to have ruled, plays the pimp. Tolerance, good temper and sympathy — they are what matter really, and if the human race is not to collapse they must come to the front before long.
  • Faith sustains us in the hour when reason tells us that we cannot continue, that the whole of our lives is without meaning. […] Faith and reason are the shoes on your feet! You can travel further with both than you can with just one.
  • A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes that there is no virtue but on his own side, and that there are not men as honest as himself who may differ from him in political principles.
  • At home, political convictions are a tool for getting things done within your community; on the road, political convictions are a clumsy set of experiential blinders, compelling you to seek evidence for conclusions you've already drawn. If you really are liberal and enlightened (or conservative and informed) you will stop yammering about politics and learn something about the culture you're visiting.


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