It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out. Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
Never argue with someone who knows he's right. hydnjo (1952 - )
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Interesting Places
edit- Wiki cream An interesting perspective.
- Contributions for new accounts to see if we still qualify.
- Help for new contributors to see if we still are in need (we are).
- Special:Newpages to see who's being naughty and who's being nice.
- Wikipedia:Featured article candidates or WP:FAC to see the best of the articles that have not yet been featured.
- Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates or WP:FPC to see some excellent pictures and critiques.
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost or WP:POST to get some insight about Wiki goings-on.
- Wikipedia:Votes for deletion or WP:VFD to see what articles are disliked by some.
- Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion or WP:IFD to see what going on in the Image namespace.
- Wikipedia:WP or WP:WP for some Wikipedia shortcuts of course.
- Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration or WP:RFAr
- Wikipedia:Requests for adminship or WP:RFA to vote for the folks that I know something about.
Useful Places
edit- Help: Contents For a good overview of helpful places of course.
- WP:HEP For the nitty-gritties.
- Wikipedia:Utilities For helping to get some things done.
- Wikipedia:Namespaces To help understand Wikipedia's structure:
- No Prefix Main article namespace.
- User:Username Us.
- Wikipedia:Subject The back office.
- Image:Imagename.(jpg or other) Pictures, graphics, etc.
- Wikipedia:MediaWiki namespace I'm not sure yet.
- To make; Template:Templatename To use; {{Templatename}} See them all in a BIG list or WP:TM for boilerplate.
- Help:contents Lots of "How To...." stuff.
- Category:Categoryname Groups of articles that fit into a category. See Category:New Hampshire.
- Wikipedia:Special pages Lots of these - select here or in the sidebar - they're not the same - some interesting stuff.
- ...and their Talk pages as well.
- Wikipedia:Help desk or WP:HD For help with specific issues about how to use Wikipedia .
- Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines or WP:RULES For well, rules.
- Wikipedia:List of administrators or WP:LA for a list of frontliners (also [1])
- User:Hydnjo/standard.css to choose visited links color with Classic skin.
- Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers
- Wikipedia:Browse by overview, List of glossaries, List of reference tables and List of topic lists for navigating.
- Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia (formerly User:John Broughton/Editor's Index to Wikipedia), a truly useful index.
Editing Help
edit- Wikipedia:Introduction
- Wikipedia:Tutorial or WP:T
- #REDIRECT[[goto pagename]]
- More to come
Asteroids that we know
edit- 501 Urhixidur ... Urhixidur is a WP User and 501 Urhixidur has a WP article!
- 2177 Oliver ...... Barney Oliver has an asteroid named for him and a WP article!
- 2521 Heidi ........ Heidi's namesake has an asteroid named for her and a WP article!
- 10515 Old Joe ... Old Joe has a disambiguation page with his name :-(
- Update Aug 7 2006: 2177 Oliver, 2521 Heidi and 10515 Old Joe now all have articles! Thanks Urhixidur :-)
Articles in progress
editThis page has been messed with three times:
edit- At 16:35, 11 December 2005 by Foumidable and rv'd by Raul654 eight minutes later. Thanks Raul. ;-) hydnjo talk 05:30, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
- At 22:15, 20 December 2005 by Etacar12 and rv'd by Bbatsell within one minute. Thanks Bbatsell. :-) hydnjo talk 12:22, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
- At 23:12, 1 January 2006 by 24.41.0.87 and rv'd by Deltabeignet one minute later. Thanks Deltabeignet. :-) hydnjo talk 04:29, 2 January 2006 (UTC)