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			There. Now our delicate sense of self-esteem will not be damaged by that horrible man's hidden page o' lies.
	'''Whining, griping and blowing off steam'''<br>
	''Not every person belongs at Misplaced Pages, because some people are not sufficiently competent.''

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	==Uncivil==
	If you have so little to do that you actually care about my long and checkered career on Misplaced Pages, every word that has ever appeared on my talk page(as far as I know) is still in the history of that page. The talk page is most useful for current complaints about my continuing outrageous behavior, not an archive of all my transgressions to November 2004. --] (]) 16:29, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
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	Partly blind for part of 2005. If you don't make any edits, you don't get any complaints. Nobody * on me in 2004 but then I was only here for 5 weeks by year-end. And this reminds me that you can tell a graduate of that fine educational institution because he's been taught to keep his pants on in the sheep corral.

	==Meaningless milestones==
	* 15,000 edits in article space as of August 16.
	* #2000 on edit count list as of Aug 17 (highest I've been in years); not counting bots, but there's plenty of borgs.
	* 22000 edits as of Nov 18. 2010.
	* 6 years of evading admin bans as of Nov. 21, 2010

	==Bands too obscure to have Misplaced Pages articles==
	*], Liverpool 1979
	*], Giffnock, UK 1994
	*], Boston, 1987
	*], Hebden Bridge 1985
	*], London 1990
	*], Hamburg 1980

	==Prolix==
	* What the Wikieditors wrote:
	" Fire is a useful servant but a terrible master <nowiki>{{copyvio}}</nowiki>. Some people {{who}} believe that accidental fires cause personal injury, property loss and may result in ] or ]s of non-participants due to smoke inhalation, heat, or structural failure. {{dubious}} {{or}} From this, it can clearly be seen that it is obvious that users of devices capable of initiating flammability in ], ] or ] ]s must have appropriate indication of measures that can of course be taken to prevent an unscheduled release of combustible material."

	* What the matchbook cover says:
	"Close cover before striking".

	==Misplaced Pages editors are experts on everything==

	===Geography===
	* The ] flows right through ]. ]
	* Hamilton is in Toronto.
	* Flin Flon is in Thompson.
	* Newfoundland has always been part of Canada.
	* Toronto is in the USA. ] (U. Windsor known for its computer science, not its geography department.)

	===Technology===
	* The Soviet Union has the biggest ]s in the world! Don't mention that there were probably more mobile phones registered in Wisconsin in 1964 than in the whole Warsaw Pact.
	* 140 MB/ second cannot be compared to a hard disk drive speed.
	* "High-pressure mercury vapour lamp: This is the technically name for this type of lamp. " Technically name?
	* Some IBM computer science dude holds 6 of the 9 patents on the original IBM PC. This is all over the Internet but no-one says what they are!
	* Some Mormon dude invented the transistor radio but then got busted for drugs.
	* Tesla's Road Runner physics - wishing makes it so; or, why a lighting bolt will travel 4000 miles insead of 40 feet.
	* Fluorescent lamps have no filament.
	* An electric motor is an engine but not a machine. (just about the whole edit history of ])
	* Floppy disks are made of cardboard.
	* Sheep are similar to fish, except that they give milk. ]
	* You can screw a 27 mm diameter bulb base into a 26 mm diameter socket.
	* Every central processing unit ever made has a microprocessor.
	* I Web surf on a server.
	* Some Swiss professor's theoretical AC converter is worth 3/4 of an article. Don't mention the millions of horsepower worth of cycloconverters installed in the real world.
	* The term "active power" has never been heard before and so has no meaning.
	* Wall plugs in Canada give out 125 Volts.
	* You can measure the hotness of chili peppers to 6 significant figures.
	* If only Apple Computer Corporation had dreamed up some kind of ]. They could have called it an "ePop" or something snazzy like that.
	* Tesla invented radio. The Supreme Court awarded Tesla with the invention of radio. The Supreme Court invented radio.
	* The dead Supreme Court ruled posthumously on the invention of radio. ]
	* Tesla invented radio but kept it a secret.
	* Longitudinal electromagnetic waves exist.
	* 1 kW.h amounts to 3600 kW.
	* GWh = GW.
	* Nitrogen only displaces oxygen from the air selectively, leaving the original nitrogen alone.
	* Touch the rabbit ears and die.
	* Grounding has nothing to do with protection from electric shock.
	* Ground wires are put in cables only to protect firemen hacking through the walls with axes.
	* Speed droop rules all.
	* A lead-acid cell makes 12 volts.
	* Power factor is a measure of how much light comes out of a bulb.
	* Only 4000 steel ingots are made in the world each year.
	* LED traffic lights are always covered in snow.
	* CFLs kill.
	* Remember to use an AC meter when measuring AC. And they read in RMS, too.
	* Potassium hydroxide is an sometimes an acid.
	* Power flow in a circuit branch is set by the governor droop.
	* Light bulbs cause cancer and deafness.
	* If it comes in a glass envelope and lights up, it's a cousin to a CRT.
	* CB radio = ham radio.
	* John Logie Baird was really Scottish (or possibly Serbian)
	* There are longitudinal electromagnetic waves.
	* Miles per gallon * a constant = lits per 100 km
	* The main difference between a DC machine and an alternator is that in alternator field rotates and armature is stationary but in dc machines field is stationary and armature rotates.
	* That press release that says some day LEDs will be 200 lumens per watt is proof that CFLs are no good.
	* Vacuum tubes come in DIP packages.
	* A five-year-old invented the ]. ]
	* You can get a 20000 hour incandescent bulb for 50 cents with just as much light as a regular bulb.
	* Mercury emissions from electricity generation is an Econazi myth.
	* Tuning a guitar is nothing like a ].
	* There's no such thing as ]s.
	* You must only use flow-chart-drawing-software to draw flow charts.
	* Got to give all the quantum-mechanical and relativistic limitations in the lead paragraph.
	* Plug your analog joystick into a USB port with this handy adapter.
	* 6LR61 is an Internet joke. Really a 9 volt battery just has 9 volts in it. Or possibly pixie dust.
	* Only TV sets designed this year matter. Don't talk about last year's design.
	* There are 20 different units called "ton" and you can't ever tell which was intended by context, so tag it as "ambiguous".
	* T-slot 5-15A receptacles aren't legal in Canada.
	* A 20-inch slide rule has only 1 binary bit more precision than a 10-inch slide rule.
	* Secondary batteries have two cells.
	* Compact fluorescent bulbs are a conspiracy by the EcoNazis.
	* Power factor = efficiency.
	* Power factor can be negative, because some outsourced software hacker couldn't be bothered to label an instrument properly.
	* Radios have oscillators right on their intermediate frequencies.
	* Dropping the plate voltage from 160 V to 125 V makes a huge difference in volume, but 160 V to 32 V is insignificant, because of the tetrode kink. And the heater voltage is the plate voltage, too.
	* If it's not vertical, it's still vertical.
	* You need a motor to start a light bulb.
	* SWER systems have neutral wires.
	* Wind turbines cause suicides.
	* Core memory is called Forrester memory.
	* Sodium lamps run on oxygen.
	* 455 Khz was chosen as the IF because 50 years later Japanese ceramic filter makers would stock it as a common part.
	* Hydraulic problems are just like electrical circuits, and the reverse.
	* Wind turbines are dispatchable.
	* HVDC is used for distribution.
	* You can run an internal combustion engine on liquid nitrogen.
	* Diesel engine-generators are spinning reserve, nay, even frequency control.
	* European standards are better than anything the Americans came up with...40 years before.
	* Radio waves travel by conduction through a vacuum.
	* Butterfly wings emit light like LEDs.
	* Got to have every SI prefix attached to ever SI unit, even if there's no physical meaning to them.

	===Canadian constitutional law===
	* Manitoba is not officially bilingual. It must be true, an admin with 60,000 edits changed it in an infobox. Take THAT, Supreme Court!

	===Writing===
	* A and B are identical. IDENTICAL, D*N IT! Except of course for factors p,q,r,s,t, aleph, beth, gimel, and <Prince symbol>.
	* Start your article with "The <adjective> <noun> is a <noun> that is <adjective>." There's no way the reader could have figured that out without millions of dollars worth of Internet hardware and the massed contributions of 400,000 editors.
	* People who read British English can't read American English, and vice versa.
	** Having given up on adding actual content to the encyclopedia, let's concentrate on adding extra Us and swapping around "er" and "re".
	** Spelling errors are invisible to Wiki editors, unless it's the missing/extra "i" in aluminum or the missing/extra "u" in color, or "z/s" in "polarize", which will inspire endless edit wars.
	** Change the order of "R" and "E", or insert or drop a "U", and it might as well be written in ] - so fearless Wikieditors will at length explain the alternate spellings and where they are used
	* Don't use a simple physical analogy to explain it. All the world can be explained in terms of ] documents. RFC 1109, for example, is a perfect analogy to the effect that Luther's 39 Theses had on the Church. And RFC 2107 gives a pretty good cake recipe, if you were only smart enough to see it.
	* Editors all make speak gooder English than thou. Especially random IP editors who edit once and are never seen again.
	* "Technology" is a word that must be frequently used in an article.
	* 300 million people are spelling it wrong. The baroque French-influenced spellings chosen by some 19th century lexicographer are the only correct spellings.
	* Don't give a ballpark number on Misplaced Pages unless you're prepared to paint the bleachers and sweep up the hotdog wrappers.
	* It doesn't have a size, it has a "form factor".
	* Good writing means using lots and lots of unexplained acronyms.
	* Saying "vice versa" makes you sound smarter...just like saying "paradigm" or "proactive". Or "technology".

	===Encyclopedia-making===
	* ''This article is about baking bread. All that stuff about mixing and kneading dough should be split off into another article.'' Really, how much of the reader's time do we want to spend on gathering increasingly tiny slivers of information out of the deep shag carpet of Misplaced Pages and trying to glue them together into the broken souvenier ashtray of knowledge?
	* You don't even need to be able to spell a subject to be a member of the sacred consensus.
	* Admin bit makes consensus.
	* An Air Force table of organization, described in prose, with lots of acronyms, is encyclopedia content.
	* Featured? Sure. Correct? Don't bet on it. "Some of Misplaced Pages's finest work" is a useful warning.
	* Before changing one precious golden word in an article, make sure you get clearance from every single drive-by editor who's ever been there.
	* Ahh, just Google for it.
	* My parts catalog Web store is a vital educational resource for the world.
	* It must be right. Two annonymous editors agree on it. (And one of them has an IP address registered to an ISP that has some really big companies as clients, so he must be an authority.)
	* Link all the common words in the article, in case someone reading the article doesn't understand English.
	* If you can't refute the reason for an edit, get one of your sock puppets to do it for you.
	* There are hundreds, possibly thousands of people using this IP address and every one of them is an expert on <topic>.
	* An encyclopedia is a parts catalog.
	* An encyclopedia is a substitute for DNS or a phone book.
	* Retyping all the specs out of the back of the owner's manual is an encyclopedia article.
	* Good articles have lots of tags in them.
	* Name-calling builds the collaborative spirit of Misplaced Pages.
	* Anything you know about anything, no matter how peripheral, must go into the article - what if someone forgets to click a link?
	* Lists of patents are content for an article.
	* Readers of Misplaced Pages are morons and we editors must constantly remind them of how much smarter we are.
	* Your introduction must say "This article is about..." - this is the HALLMARK of BRILLIANT PROSE
	* Long rambling pot-smoking stories are encyclopedia content.
	* Patent language is encyclopedia language.
	* Pictures of cows cannot be tolerated.
	* Pictures of an item in use do not belong in the article about the item.
	* Common sense is not required.
	* One picture of a burnt bulb is not enough...must have more, including one with an ohmeter reading infinity.
	* The most important encyclopedia job is making sure all the umlauts,diareses, macrons, accents and other garbage that loser languages use are present on the article titles, making them impossible to search or type.
	* The most important encyclopedia job is removing the phrase ].
	* The most important encyclopedia job is keeping the robot running that autosigns the talk page comments left by vandals (that get deleted by human editors).
	* The most important encyclopedia job is giving articles obscure names that have some theoretical justification.
	* The most important encyclopedia job is changing - to &endash; or possibly inserting <&nbsp> everywhere.
	* The most important encyclopedia job is robotically looking up images with no free use rationale and then hand-typing in deletion notices for them. Too important to be left to bots.
	* The most important encyclopedia job is converting articles to use units of measurement that baffle and confuse most people familiar with the topic.
	* The most important encyclopedia job is changing the case of initial words inside templates.
	* The most important encyclopedia job is deleting hyphens in adjectival phrases.
	* The most important encyclopedia job is changing capitalization on the left side of pipe symbols.
	* The most important encyclopedia job is importing old edit history from 2003.
	* The set of all Misplaced Pages articles, minus the set of all featured articles, is the set of all Misplaced Pages articles (to a few parts per million).
	* Policy saves thinking about things. It's like a macro for your head!
	* You can prevent errors in articles by putting in <nowiki> < !-- Please don't make any mistakes in this article--> </nowiki> as an editing comment.
	* Ad-speak makes for good encyclopedia articles. It's not a just a flashlight, it's a "weapon mounted tactical illumination system in a milspec anodized aircraft-grade aluminum case".
	* Every pin in every socket is a fit subject for an article.
	* Tagging an article with Wikiproject:Physics is the HALLMARK of a future featured article. Long future, mind...deep time...protons decaying...
	* Never say "1978" when you can say something like "Nearly four-fifths of the way through the 20th Century".
	* Organization is linear. Just jot it down as it comes to you.
	* Be sure to give scales on photos like "Half life size" etc. - after all, everyone is using the same monitor, resolution, and full-screen browser as you.
	* Even more important that saying "Foo is..." in the article ], spend more time on "Foo is not...".
	* Be sure your article has a "conclusions" section, to make sure the reader knows what to think.
	* When discussing a content dispute on the talk page, the best strategy is to ying tong iddle i po frammish gronk. With subscripts and lots of Wikimarkup.
	* A member of <My paranoid ethic group> invented the telephone, ], the electric motor, electric light, the alphabet, bathing...
	* Give all the train-spotting details, the printing history of the dining car menus...but never explain what a train is FOR.
	* Someone can be Scottish, or British, but not both.

	==Random thoughts==
	* Tesla was either unhinged or a fraudster on an epic scale. The more I read about his later schemes, the less sense they make. He must have known things like Wardenclyffe couldn't work, why did he keep trying to chisel money out of Astor and Morgan?
	* ASCII '63 put men on the moon. All those pothooks and squiggles are persuasive enough to get people to blow themselves up, though.
	* There is an end to radioactivity, though it's not usually feasible to wait for ] of half lives to pass away. Eventually the last atom of uranium in that ton will fiss...
	* A Mac is not a PC, just like Coke is not Pepsi. Both are bubbly brown sugary liquids that rot our teeth, but the difference is cosmically important from the marketing perspective. They are both "cola beverges", though. It shows the general soft-headedness around all things under the IBM PC cloud that they used a generic term as a brand name.
	* If vandals from India were as active as those from the US, the Misplaced Pages would be practically unusable.
	* British editors often care passionately about changing to their variety of spelling. American authors, being (I speculate) more secure, rarely change spelling back. Perhaps British schoolboys are beaten if they leave out the extra "i"s and "u"s ? Although really the majority dialect is Indian English, with UK being a tiny fraction of the speakers of either the American or Indian variety.
	* Be Bold. Share your confusion with the world.
	* Let's pool our ignorance.
	* If you're not merging or AfDing a few articles a week, you don't much care about this project.
	* Specific, informed, constructive criticism is what all (originally wrote ''the electrotechnology'' but it applies generally) articles need and don't get. They get written by hobbyists, who have incomplete and eccentric notions of the subject and generally treat it in the most superficial fashion. Rarely an article gets visited by someone knowledgeable, who gets scared off when he gets overwritten by some teenager with time on his hands. Or, worse yet, some curmudgeon overturns an article based on his vast experience and knowledge, except that he can't write three consecutive clear sentences without diving into jargon. People who can write well get paid for doing it, and don't come here. There's an upper limit to the quality level of any Misplaced Pages electrotechnology article that is very low indeed. Though I'm sure the articles on history, geography, mathematics, chemistry, etc. are in much better condition.... (from what I've read, the basics are, anyway.)
	* Maybe my prejudice above comes from the types of articles I look at. There's lots of electro-hobbyists with time on their hands, maybe it's not surprising that the electrotechnology articles are so low-grade. (Though some of the firearms hobby articles I've read are even worse.)
	* Editing a Misplaced Pages article is a very good way to discover your own ignorance, as I have repeatedly proven.
	* "The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.-- Napoleon Bonaparte"
	* Article quality deteriorate rapidly if the talk page length greatly exceeds the article length.
	* You don't really know something until you (try to) write an article about it.
	* We're going to solve the wars between races here on Misplaced Pages.
	* If I really was "sole arbiter" of what appeared on Misplaced Pages, the encyclopedia would be millions of articles shorter.
	* I have become considerably less tolerant in my few years here. Perhaps I've been reading too many controversies in talk pages and edit comments. Probably not a good idea to evaluate humanity based on on-line comments; after a few minutes reading ] comments, you'll be praying for the missiles to fly and sterilize the whole planet.
	* Nothing like being abused by some anon IP sock-puppet.
	* When is a Misplaced Pages editor bluffing? When his fingers are moving on the keyboard.
	* Some people seem to have the weird idea that a link to an external website is a substitute for writing an encyclopedia article. If this was true, all we'd need to do is add (See:Google) for every article. Read the "white paper", summarize it and put the contribution in here. Marketing material on web sites doesn't usually stand up to much of this before it vanishes away...once you knock the foam out of the beer glass, there's nothing left. If the paper you're summarizing doesn't have any bibliography attached, it's probably not worth adding.
	* Google Translate thinks it can translate from German to English. Google Tranlate is wrong. ( But Google Translate is very very cool.)
	* If you're uploading a picture, maybe say when it was taken. Where it was taken would also be useful - at least what country it is in. While you're at it, explain what the picture is, too. 15 out of 20 Commons images (that aren't big slabs of German text) leave out most of these interesting details.
	* Why are so many people saying they feel "flattered and honored" that their names came up on a computer-generated list? It's like writing to "Reader's Digest" about how excited you are to participate in their singular offers.
	* Search out ] a few times and realize just how plonkingly slack-jawed-eye-glazing-drool-running-down-the-chin bad is the writing style most favored by Misplaced Pages editors.
	* A first draft of an article should at least look something like a first draft of an encyclopedia article (this isn't Wikpedia <sub>2004</sub> where any random scribble was soon transformed into brilliant prose).
	* Are you pig ignorant? High? Illiterate? Undiagnosed crazy? Psychopathic? Learning English by reading billboards? Not to worry, you can be an editor too.
	* Are you a crank? Then come on in!
	* Are you more Catholic than the Pope? You, too, can know the righteous joy of using ISO standards that no-one not on a standards committee uses.
	* The single most important development in the distribution of human knowledge since the invention of written language is pretty much wasted on many schoolchildren.
	* Try not to write like a cat lady on a bad day. Focus. Overview first, then details. You know, it's not important to give the variant spellings anywhere in the article, let alone in the lead or the first clause of the first sentence of the lead. You can safely leave that awesomely important fact to somewhere else, and Misplaced Pages will be no poorer for it. Pick one variant of spelling for an article and stick with it - there's nothing sadder that someone dinking with the "u"s or swapping "-er" and "-re" endings. (Well, maybe someone fiddling with non-break spaces or hyphens to dashes...actually, there's no end to the sad things people do on Misplaced Pages now that I think about it.) ( sad: changing , to . for decimal points.)
	* Consider that your audience hasn't got a lifetime of experience with French poetry of the 12th century or whatever your happy little heart motivates you to burble on about here on the Misplaced Pages.
	* Consider that you're going to die some day and that no-one on his death bed ever wishes he'd won that edit war.{{cn}}
	* "You have new messages" is about like getting a telegram...it's never good news.
	* Never mind fixing the periods in "ie", "eg", "e.g.", "i.e."- take them out altogether.
	* NORMAL people don't write encyclopedias.
	* Any talk page discussion that goes on more than 2 complete cycles is a target for "spot the loony". No productive discussion takes more than 2 cycles to resolve.
	* If you see the formatting doing something wacky, somone has put a parameter into a template that he doesn't really understand.
	* Beware the carbon filament cartel!
	* "Expert needed" - the blaring car alarm of the Misplaced Pages.

	==Pompous writing==
	Given the exhaustive screening process required to become a Misplaced Pages editor (you must be able to type en.wikipedia.org in a browser address bar, or have someone type it for you, or find a computer that someone was using on the Misplaced Pages), it is not only pompous, but arrogant, to indulge in many of the writing cliches seen here.
	* ''Studies show...''. Better have citations there; we would read your mind to find out which studies, but some of us don't like short stories.
	* ''Civilized countries'' - Ahh, yes, here comes ] with a <s>Bible</s> Misplaced Pages in one hand and a ] in the other, to civilize the duskier races. ''Industrialized countries'' is nearly as bad.
	]
	* ''It is also worth mentioning that ...'' - We write this way only because we can't <u>underline</u> the good bits. Save time and only read those parts that are worth mentioning.
	* Consumers spend extra money to buy ]s because they like the way the sales clerk smells - and they have no idea why it's called a "radio clock". And atomic clocks have radioactive material in them.
	* ''It is believed that'' - if you don't know, guess; this magic formula makes it soound encyclopedia-like.
	* ''sun's electromagnetic radiation'' ---> ''sunlight''
	* ''...not to be confused with...'' - On the Misplaced Pages, this means the contributor is confused.
	* ''whilst''...Prithee, Sir Knyghte, wherefor the castle?
	* ''The distinction between a voltage reference and a voltage source is, however, rather blurred '' If you don't know what it is, then should you be writing this article?
	* ''...actually...''. No, not actually.
	* ''...works the same as a BDC.'' Useless undefined acronym.
	* ''Until the 21st century AC adapters comprised a ] to convert the ] ]age to an appropriate lower alternating voltage, a ] to convert it to pulsating DC, ...'' - from a version of ]. Scholars will mark the 21st century as a turning point in the millenia-long evolution of wall warts.
	* Actually, anything with "comprise" in it.
	** ...or anything with "actually" in it.
	* ''As of 2010 rechargeable batteries are used for applications such as...'' - from ] You know, these uses aren't going away, and "applications" is redundant if you're giving the list.
	* ''Since traditionally the ] of individual light-emitting diodes ....'' - from ]. Ahh, yes, gather round the flickering light of the 5 mm LED and I will tell thee a tale....
	* '' In ], '''<code>fdisk</code>''' (for "'''f'''ixed '''disk'''") is a commonly used name for a ] utility that provides ] functions in an ]. ''- from ] - the whole of computer science revolves around the ]
	* ''Technically, CCDs are implemented as ]s ...'' - yeah duh. Don't say "technically" unless you're contrasting technical and non-technical uses of the same term. Better yet, don't say "technically"
	* ''...the output is, of course, tied to Vcc while pin 1 (Gnd) is grounded. '' - from ] - Of course. It's so obvious, why are you even looking this up in the encyclopedia, you poor stupid reader, you. It's not even correct, because a few millseconds ago the output was "tied" to ground.
	* '' When device size is a spatial constraint (i.e. laptop computers), a ] port occasionally is in place of the full-sized VGA connector. '' - from ]. O for the love o' Pete. "Spatial constraint", forsooth. And later on this brilliant prose goes on as '' Occasionally, this connector is incorrectly referred to as a “DB-15” or as an “HDB-15”.'' Incorrectly according to WHO?
	* ''A common misconception is that starting batteries should always be kept on float charge. In reality, this practice will encourage corrosion in the electrodes and result in premature failure.''- From ]. Good thing I looked this up on Wikpedia before stupidly leaving my battery on float charge. Don't give the "common misconceptions" and never say "in reality" unless you're contrasting irreality.
	* ''Amongst the general public, the decibel is most widely known as a measure... '' - from an old edition of ]. Ahh, what are those vile commoners doing on my grouse moor? Away with them!
	* ''Late in the 20th century, ] designed and produced several high quality high powered audio amplifiers...'' -- from ]. If we knew what we were writing about, we'd give you a year. But I'll just comb over these ] and no-one will notice I've gone bald.

	==Bitter comments not for use in edit summaries==
	''Not for use in edit summaries''. Besides, the people who leave the types of edits that would provoke these edit summaries are incorrigible.
	# rv reality-challenged contribution
	# ] after some particularly stunning examples of syntax
	# ]
	# There's good reasons why we have more than one article. Otherwise we'd just have ].
	# And so ends your entire Misplaced Pages contribution history.
	# We kicked your * in '45, don't make us come over there and do it again.
	# Better to place a thousand tags than look up a single reference. Geez, Google Books is just sitting there in cyberspace, waiting for you!
	# I just love reverting spam from IPs where I don't even recognize the country code.
	# ENglish, not INglish
	# Yes, the Americans do it differently. Doesn't that blow your little inbred ]-soaked brain?
	# Automated spelling and grammar checkers exist. Use one, and save us all a lot of time.
	# Your crazed conspiracy theories have no basis in consensual reality.
	# You can see the fnords, can't you?
	# We're not teaching all of here.
	# Good thing you're so much smarter than the rest of us.
	# Buy your own d*mn ads.
	# Literacy is wasted on some people.
	# The Internet is wasted on some people.
	# This is the greatest contribution you thought you could make?
	# Get a life. (And this coming from someone with 21000+ edits!)
	# If you'd read the article, you can see that this is already there and written in English.
	# Tripe trimmed.
	# Fat flushed.
	# BS removed.
	# Cluelessness reverted.
	# "Organization" is not just a 12 letter word but a real help to an article.
	# If you knew what you were talking about, you could explain it to us. It might even be relevant to this article.
	# Never mind the *ing tags, do the work instead!
	# No, this isn't a suitable topic to add to Wikiproject:Physics.
	# Quit dinking with the U's/ swapping ER and RE. Any Web user knows there's more than one right spelling.
	# No-one is going to type a f*ing umlaut/macron/emdash/accent in a search for this article!
	# ASCII '63 is good enough for me.
	# Use the English alphabet, not those chicken scratches.
	# Longer words are not better words.
	# That was lovely, but what does it have to do with this topic?
	# Your classmates' or teachers' habits and preferences are not encyclopediac topics.
	# Spam, spam, spam, lovely spam.
	# You're kidding, right?
	# Crackpot theories not wanted.
	# Your unique and idiosyncratic ideas challenge and refresh us all, so FOAD.
	# You spell worse than I do.
	# I told you this already - are you blind, or just stupid?
	# Misplaced Pages...the encyclopedia that even stupid people can edit.
	# If you scribble on the library books, Nurse is going to take your crayon away.
	# If only AfD was as easy as reverts.
	# Be fruitful and multiply...elsewhere.
	# Your whole school is evidently a waste of the taxpayer's money and should be turned into a mini-mall instead.
	# Go to your university and ask for a refund, they obviously have cheated you.
	# You can't seriously believe that?
	# Those are wonderful credentials. I, myself, am the lost Romanov and rightful King of Russia.
	# Pretty cocky for someone who doesn't have the guts to even register a pseudonym.
	# GeoIP consulted; coordinates downloaded, missiles on their way.
	# If we were out to get you, we would have gotten you by now.
	# Another waste of human lifespan.
	# Please report for recycling at once. You contain nutrients and minerals that can be put to better use.
	# Another Renaissance man with a Neanderthal mind.
	# Have you no shame?
	# Cat-like typing detected.
	# Step away from the keyboard.
	# You're in over your head, aren't you?
	# No, what you saw on "Discovery Channel" last year is not a reference.
	# That's just sad.
	# The historical record is clear: Tesla did not invent the iPad.
	# "Mad scientists doing secret undocumented experiments" are not the inventors.
	# "That turns out not to be the case" = "you're dead wrong".
	# Sure, Professor, you've got two Nobels in this field.
	# This is the Misplaced Pages. You obviously are writing for the Wackypedia. Or the Wonkypedia.
	# This is en.wikipedia. Speak English.
	# I don't know where you learned English, I hope you didn't pay anything for the lessons.
	# Yes, the Misplaced Pages is based in the US. If your country was so -hot, where's the Internet it* invented?
	# I know your boss pays you to sanitize this article, but the facts are verifiable and relevant.
	# You shouldn't take dictation from the voices in your head.
	# Did you miss the last saucer?
	# Oh for * sake, that's so bloody obvious, you don't really mean that needs a citation tag now do you?
	# You'd better have better grammar than mine before you change that again.
	# That was a nice story. I like stories. But what does it have to do with this topic?
	# Merge 'em all; better one strong coherent article than a bunch of tweets.
	# Welcome to Earth. Staying long?
	# It was perfectly readable before you came along and "improved" it.
	# Who?
	# What?
	# Why? For F's sake, WHY?
	# If you knew what you were talking about, you wouldn't be asking for a citation.
	# Not a parts catalog. <!-- (I lie, I use this in edit comments all the time.) -->
	# You hacked your way through the ] to tell us THAT?
	# Who was your physics professor...Wile E. Coyote?

	''not for use in edit summaries no matter how richly deserved''
	Instead I usually just type "rv v".

	==Afd==
	*] Merged, success
	*] fail
	*] success
	*] fail
	*] Success
	*] fail
	*] success (redirected)
	*] success
	*] fail
	*] fail
	*] success
	*] fail
	*] fail AFD, but later redirected; success.
	*] success
	*] success
	*] success
	*] fail
	*] success
	*] epic fail , but merged later; success
	*] fail (but renamed later)
	*] success
	*] success
	*] success
	*] success
	*] fail
	*] success
	*] fail but later redirected; sucess
	*] Fail
	*]Merged and redirected, a success
	*] success
	*] fail
	*] success
	*] epic fail
	*] success
	*] success at first, but has been recreated:fail
	*] success
	*] fail
	*] success
	*] success
	*] fail
	*] success

	17 fail, 26 success, 60%

Latest revision as of 21:36, 17 August 2012

There. Now our delicate sense of self-esteem will not be damaged by that horrible man's hidden page o' lies.