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Research Initiative

Do you need help doing some research? I have access to excellent databses of reliable sources (EBSCOhost, JSTOR, Lexis Nexis, etc.) -- take a look at my research requests user project. Feel free to improve the interface, ask questions, or generate a request. Obviously, still in the development stages. Comments welcome!

Personal Wikipiphany

I think I have come upon a wiki-enlightenment or wikipiphany:

...it occured to me that in order to preserve the value and absolute functionality of the wiki system, somebody has to stop those who would abuse the project for those editors who make good faith efforts to improve it.

— blaxthos

Wikitruth

If you tell Wikipedians to trim some fingernails, the nature of the Misplaced Pages environment is that someone will start chopping off hands. And after you go "Hey, slow down, Tex, that's gone too far", they'll switch to just chopping off fingers and everyone's happy at the compromise.

— Wikitruth

Humor

There were the Scots Who kept the Sabbath And everything else they could lay their hands on. Then there were the Welsh Who prayed on their knees and their neighbors. Thirdly there were the Irish Who never knew what they wanted But were willing to fight for it anyway. Lastly there were the English Who considered themselves a self-made nation Thus relieving the Almighty of a dreadful responsibility.

— /usr/local/bin/fortune

I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

— Robert McCloskey

Quick links

Stuff I've done

Articles I've Worked On (very noninclusive list)

Other miscellany

References

  1. "My Wikipiphany".
  2. "The Killing Fields".