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We are only 993059770 articles away from our 1,000,000,000th article... --Guy Macon

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Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet

"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from -- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time." --Neil Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

(talk page stalker) A late friend of mine put it this way: "Arguing with idiots is wasted effort. They have no minds to change; and unlike you, nothing better to do with their time." Jeh (talk) 04:25, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

The Spell-Checker Song: Owed to a Spell Czech Her (Ode to a spellchecker)

Eye halve a spelling chequer.
It came with my pea sea.
It plane lee marks four my Rhea view,
Miss steaks aye Ken knot see.

Iran this Poe Em threw it.
Your shore lee glad two no.
It is core wrecked in every weigh,
My chequer tolled me sew.

A Czech her is a bless sing.
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right stiles ewe can reed,
And aides me when aye rime.

Eye strike a key and type a word.
And weight four it two say.
Weather eye am wrong oar write.
It shows me strait aweigh.

Each frays come posed up on my screen,
Is trussed two bee a Joule.
The check Ur pours o'er every word,
To Czech sum spelling rule.

As soon as a mist ache is maid.
It nose bee fore two long.
And eye can put the error rite.
Its rare lea ever wrong.

Bee fore a veiling cheque curs,
hour spelling mite decline.
If wee R. lacks oar have a laps,
We wood bee maid two wine.

Butt now bee cause my spelling,
Is checked with such grate flare,
There are know faults with in my cite,
Of nun eye am a wear.

Now spelling does knot phase me,
It does knot bring a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den,
With words sew fare too here.

2 rite with care is quite a fete,
Of witch won should bee proud;
and wee mussed dew the best week Anne,
Sew flaws argh knot aloud.

Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays.
Such soft wear four pea seize.
And why eye brake in 2 averse
With righting sure too please.


--Guy Macon (talk) 22:21, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

Just because you have some money, that doesn't mean that you have to spend it.

Updated essay: see new "2016-2017 update" information near the bottom.

User:Guy Macon/Just because you have some money, that doesn't mean that you have to spend it.

--Guy Macon (talk) 17:57, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

The most important page on Misplaced Pages

User:Guy Macon/On the Diameter of the Sewer cover in front of Greg L’s house‎ --Guy Macon (talk) 16:00, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	Guy Macon is a shining example of a Misplaced Pages contributor dedicated to the development and preservation of reliable and properly documented page material. In addition, he has selflessly assisted this neophyte contributor in navigating the steep (but worthwhile) learning curve of proper and effective page contribution. Wordsandpictures (talk) 00:21, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Jimmy Wales on bias and NPOV.

Jimmy Wales, founder of Misplaced Pages, once said:

"Misplaced Pages’s policies around this kind of thing are exactly spot-on and correct. If you can get your work published in respectable scientific journals – that is to say, if you can produce evidence through replicable scientific experiments, then Misplaced Pages will cover it appropriately."

"What we won’t do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of 'true scientific discourse'. It isn’t."

So yes, we are biased towards science and biased against pseudoscience. We are biased towards astronomy, and biased against astrology. We are biased towards chemistry, and biased against alchemy. We are biased towards mathematics, and biased against numerology. We are biased towards cargo planes, and biased against cargo cults. We are biased towards crops, and biased against crop circles. We are biased towards laundry soap, and biased against laundry balls. We are biased towards water treatment, and biased against magnetic water treatment. We are biased towards electromagnetic fields, and biased against microlepton fields. We are biased towards evolution, and biased against creationism. We are biased towards medical treatments that have been shown to be effective in double-blind clinical trials, and biased against medical treatments that are based upon preying on the gullible. We are biased towards NASA astronauts, and biased against ancient astronauts. We are biased towards psychology, and biased against phrenology. We are biased towards Mendelian inheritance, and biased against Lysenkoism. --Guy Macon (talk) 02:33, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

BINGO! BINGO! BINGO! BINGO! BINGO! BINGO! BINGO! BINGO! -- BullRangifer (talk) PingMe 02:39, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

ANI-"notice"

There is currently a discussion at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Guy Macon's homophones just game me an aneurysm and I can't see my screen anymore. GMG 14:02, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! I will get write on it. You did sea User talk:Guy Macon#The Spell-Checker Song: Owed to a Spell Czech Her (Ode to a spellchecker), right? --Guy Macon (talk) 14:32, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

Oh god. That's ArbCom worthy. GMG 14:37, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

No need to call me "god". "Guy" will do. --Guy Macon (talk) 14:47, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

I suggest we split the difference and call you "Gud". ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 16:21, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ --Guy Macon (talk) 17:05, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

"Gud" means "God" in the Scandinavian languages. -- BullRangifer (talk) PingMe 14:53, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

I'm just glad that nobody thought of compromising on "Goy"... :)   -Guy Macon (talk) 14:57, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

To be honest, that was my first thought, but I decided not to go with it because I'm not a fucking nazi. See my edit summary. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 15:10, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

Civility

Moved to User:Guy Macon/Civility. Snow Rise, would you prefer this to be moved to your userspace?

General question for anyone reading this: should I convert this to an Essay and include it in the usual lists? If so, WP:PLEASESUGGESTAGOODSHORTCUT. --Guy Macon (talk) 10:11, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

No by all means, please feel free to retain it where it is if you choose. Honestly, I don't know that it really has the format of an WP:Essay, having been written in a different context, but if you want to use it for those purposes, I have no objection; I regard my community comments in essentially the same way I regard my content contributions--once I hit the send button, they belong to the project and the broader world that has unfettered access to it. As such, if you feel it has utility for the community as an essay, not withstanding its conversational tone, please feel at your discretion to move it to a namespace accordingly. As to a shortcut, it's unfortunately far to glib, but I wish we could call it WP:SOMEFUCKSGIVEN. But I think maybe WP:WORKPLACE might be more appropriate? (Reflecting the point I emphasize that this is a work place, volunteer or not), which point is at the core of where I'd personally draw the line between appropriate an inappropriate comments. I can always make a few adjustments to make that point more salient if you decide to promote it to essay and want the link between the shortcut and the substance of the comments a little more explicit. Snow 11:06, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

Violation of WP:SOAPBOXING

What is your problem??? Are you a cop now "protecting" Sanger from discussion of a proposal you don't like? If I wanted your comments I would have posted here, but I'm not seeking your comments, am I. Is it your personal crusade to prevent communication on Misplaced Pages? Right now you are about two key strokes from a serious complaint about your actions. Leave it alone, will ya? And don't refer to me as a vandal again or we'll go to the Arb Com. Mervyn Emrys (talk) 19:30, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

(For those following along at home, see.)

As explained on our talk page, our policy at Misplaced Pages:What Misplaced Pages is not#Misplaced Pages is not a soapbox is quite clear: Misplaced Pages is not a soapbox. This applies to talk page discussions. Misplaced Pages is not for advocacy or opinion pieces. Find another place for your political opinion piece. It dosn't belong anywhere on Misplaced Pages. Might I suggest Reddit?

Please note that I remove all soapboxing, as a clear violation of our policies, whether I agree with the opinion being expressed or not.

Please do lodge a "serious complaint about my actions". Make sure you include that bit about me calling you a vandal that never happened. Arbcom just loves those. --Guy Macon (talk) 19:48, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

--Well Guy, the first reversion of my post had the word VANDAL in red letters on it. Who did that? And since when is documenting responsibility for the most important issue in our time "soapboxing?" Most folks would call it "history." --Who are the brain police, Guy? Your contribution here is most decidedly NOT positive or productive, if all you can do is stifle communication between editors about ideas. Let's see if we can make up some kind of barnstar for that.Mervyn Emrys (talk) 20:15, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

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