Cannabis Indica

Self-convenience: sandboxsandbox2sandbox3sandbox4sandbox5sandbox6sandbox7sandbox8sandbox9sandbox10User:SMcCandlish/Status – All subpages of this page – All subpages of my talk page.

Greetings! I'm a real person, like you. Collaboration improves when we remember this about each other.
Languages
en This user is a native speaker of English.
en-
us
-N
This user is a native speaker of American English.
es-2 Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel intermedio de español.
ca-1 Aquest usuari pot contribuir amb un nivell bàsic de català.
pt-1 Este usuário/utilizador pode contribuir com um nível básico de português.
it-1 Questo utente può contribuire con un livello semplice di italiano.
fr-1 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français.
fy-1 It Frysk fan dizze brûker is minimaal.
de-1 Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse.
nl-1 Deze gebruiker bezit beginnende kennis van het Nederlands.
SoE-4 This user has a near-native understanding of Southern American English and has spent a lot of time in the South.
en-
ca
-3
This user is an advanced speaker of Canadian English.
en-gb-3 This user has an advanced understanding of British English.
sco-2 This uiser can contreibute wi a middlin level o Scots.
en-
ie
This user himself he thinks that Hiberno-English is just grand.
AU-2 This user is an intermediate speaker of Australian English.
ipa-3
ə
This user has an advanced understanding of the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Cyrl-3
Д
This user has an advanced understanding of the Cyrillic script.
Grek-3
Ω
This user has an advanced understanding of the Greek alphabet.
Grammar & style
LE-0 This individual still maintains a shred of dignity in this insane world by adhering to correct spelling, grammar, punctuation and capitalization.
they This user considers singular they standard, modern, informal English usage, so avoids it on Wikipedia.
to¦go This user chooses to sometimes use split infinitives.
…in. Ending a sentence with a preposition is something that this user is okay with.
person,
humanity
This editor writes carefully to avoid gender neutrality issues completely.
which & that This user joins with Dickens, Melville, and other great writers[1] in rejecting the canard that which may not be used for restrictive relative clauses.
less & fewer This user understands the difference between less & fewer.
its/it’s It’s really not that hard to use each word in its proper manner.
one you This user does not use "one" in articles, any more than "you", because WP is not a guidebook.
Subj This user prefers that the subjunctive mood be used. Were this user you, he would use it.
whom This user insists upon using whom wherever it is called for, and fixes the errors of whomever he sees.
“,;:’ This user is a punctuation stickler.
.  The This user puts two spaces after a period.
, This user fixes comma splices. They are annoying.
A, B, and
A and B
This user prefers to use the serial comma only when its omission can be confusing.
; This user is addicted to semicolons; he uses them frequently.
"…"!
US vs. UK
This user uses "logical quotation marks". Internal punctuation leads to factual errors. It's not a style issue!
"…" This user favors typewriter style quotation marks over typographic ones.
No ellipsis abuse.png This user terminates unquoted ellipses on sight. This is not your blog. We end sentences properly.
???
?!?
!!!
This user terminates excessive use of exclamation points and question marks on sight. Grow up!
’s Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice.
if & whether This user knows how to use "if" and "whether" correctly.
law-3 This user (hereafter "User"), and all subsidiaries, agents, et al. acting on his/her/its behalf, herein manifest possession of, and are henceforth estopped from disclaiming, an advanced knowledge of Legalese, or access to such knowledge as to suffice as a reasonable substitute.
1337/
IntS !
This user understands leet, IM & texting slang, but won't use it. "411 ur LOL pwn ROFLMAO OMG b310ng 2" you, thanks.
 Coding 
{{t|4}} This user is a template guru, creating and editing them with virtually flawless proficiency.
{#if} This user understands and uses ParserFunctions.
{{Wiki}} This user is an expert writer in the MediaWiki language.
mw-4 This user is an expert MediaWiki user.
xhtml-5 This user is an XHTML professional.
css-5 This user is a professional Cascading Style Sheets user.
Lua-2 This user is an intermediate Lua coder.
svg-2 This user is an intermediate SVG user.
xml-3 This user is an advanced XML coder.
php-4 This user is an expert PHP programmer.
js-3 This user is an advanced JavaScript programmer.
SQL-3 This user is an advanced SQL programmer.
SGML
3
This user can write documents in SGML without any hardness.
bash-4 This user is an expert Bash programmer.
tcsh-3 This user is an advanced tcsh scripter.
Perl-3 This user is an advanced Perl programmer.
re-3 This user writes advanced regular expressions.
Ascript-2 This user is an intermediate AppleScript programmer.
bat-3 This user is an advanced Batch programmer.
py-2 This user is an intermediate Python programmer.
rb-2 This user is an intermediate Ruby programmer.
C-2 This user is an intermediate C programmer.
C++-2 This user is an intermediate C++ programmer.
Java-2 This user is an intermediate Java programmer.

 
foo
Hw-shakespeare.jpg This user is a professional writer or journalist.
Book collection.jpg This user has published a book.
MAGAZINE This user has had his/her work published in a magazine.
Web-browser-openclipart.svg This user is a professional webmaster.
Nuvola apps display.png This user is a software engineer.
ft-lb This user uses American Measurements.
met? This user prefers metric units, but, having grown up in the United States, cannot relate to them.
According to Political Compass this user is:
Economic Neutral (0.50) and
Social Libertarian (−6.51)
X This user is a member of Generation X.
♂ This user is male.
HIS This user's favourite subject is History.
Celtic-knot-insquare-39crossings red-on-black.svg This user is interested in the ancient Celts.
UFO template.svg This user is a skeptic.
Eight Ball Rack 2005 SeanMcClean.jpg This user plays eight-ball,
competitively and near-daily.
9ball rack 2.jpg This user plays nine-ball,
regularly and seriously.
Snooker reds.png This user plays snooker,
fairly often and fairly well.
Biljart.png This user plays carom billiards,
a little, for fun.
FE This user identifies as a
meat popsicle with a Multipass.
ubx-5 This user uses entirely too many userboxes.

Radar Mac.png  On the Radar:  An Occasional Newsletter on Wikipedia's Challenges

— "Comments?" links go to OtR's own talk page, not those of the original news-item sources.
I'm not privy to all the goings-on over at, and inside, WMF, though I was at the 15th Anniversary Party and the mini-conference the day after, at WFM's offices, in January. None of the senior staff were present, and while the attendees were all in good cheer, the employees did not seem to be. One can understand why, in retrospect, given all the recent managerial resignations over the last week or so, and the statements that went with them. I'm not certain what's happening over there, but I have a pretty good idea, having been through several similar shakeups at other organizations. Wikipedia (and, necessarily, WMF) are at an organizational lifecycle juncture point. This is a critical time for the entire organization to re-evaluate and reinvent itself in multiple ways, starting at the top. I would strongly urge the board to take a hands-on role in filling all the top slots in the staff. Take pains to preserve the institutional memory still left in longer-term employees, and for new blood, look for community people – not necessarily Wikimedians, but people with deep online culture and open society roots. (See also Wikipedia Signpost coverage.)  — SMcCandlish ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ʌ≼  11:47, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
     [Comments?]
This is just one example in a years-long pattern of various forms of sport vandalism (i.e. vandalism for sport), which just happens to be about sports. This kind of spontaneous mob behavior is a different wrinkle on the "traditional" sort of mass vandalism, e.g. some celebrity encouraging (often as a joke) their fans to go do disinformational things here. This particular sort isn't even new. What I find more interesting is the rapidity and spread of the mainstream-press coverage of this non-event, which was already dealt with on WP before even online editions of any newspapers could run their stories. Over 1,500 ran them anyway, even though they were reporting on already-resolved trivia. This tells us that, while the press will sometimes grudgingly report good things about WP, they all feel threatened by it and will continue to make it look bad to their circulation if they can get away with it. This means we need to not treat as inconsequential any real-world perceptions of problems with or on WP, because they will probably be called out publicly and exaggerated.  — SMcCandlish ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ʌ≼  21:05, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
     [Comments?]
Larry Sanger, who helped start Wikipedia (As Nupedia in 2000) but left the project in 2002, said in a recent interview, "I think Wikipedia never solved the problem of how to organize itself in a way that didn't lead to mob rule", and that since he left the project, "People that I would say are trolls sort of took over. The inmates started running the asylum." Not an idle concern?  — SMcCandlish ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ʌ≼  09:07, 19 November 2015‎ (UTC)
     [Comments?]

Hi![edit]

I am Stanton McCandlish (often referred to as just SMcC here and some have nicknamed me Mac, which I don't mind). I am a Web developer, IT consultant, nonfiction author, civil liberties activist and nonprofit executive, as well as amateur pocket billiards (pool) instructor, former online news editor, policy analyst, archivist, independent publisher, and also an amateur artist, among other things. I have been among the most active, avid Wikipedians. I have a B.A. in anthropology and communication (a custom minor that combines linguistics and broader human communication, including journalism, PR, and media criticism). I am a US citizen, but have lived in England, Ireland, and Canada for extended periods, and learned to read and write in the UK (and I use something of a form of Mid-Atlantic English consequently). I have competence in an odd assortment of topics, like Celtic mythology, English grammar and usage, Manx cats, New Mexican culture, US law in certain fields (freedom of expression, privacy, and intellectual property), salamanders, Web standards, UI usability, albinism, pool and billiards, online media, Art Nouveau, post-punk subcultures, Mac OS X, and various fiction franchises, among other subjects. Being an autodidactic polymath, my interests shift over time and are intense. My latest passions are the interface of zoology and anthropology, especially the history and nature of domestication; and shifting patterns of English usage.

Unified login: SMcCandlish is the unique login of this user for all public Wikimedia projects.
@ This user can be reached by email.
PGP Use SMcCandlish's public key for OpenPGP encrypted communication
♂ This user is male.
Flag of the United States.svg This user lives in the
United States of America.
Flag of California.svg
PT This user's time zone is UTC-8.
Crystal Clear app clock.svg It is approximately 4:57 AM where this user lives.
Clessidra.jpg This editor is older than he looks, but younger than his years.

My current local time is 05:57 AM (reload).

Bio[edit]

Contact[edit]

Wikitivities[edit]

Putting my money where my mouth is

Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg This user is a donor to the Wikimedia Foundation. You can be one too.
Money Coin Icon.svg This user donated to WebCite, which keeps online source citations working in Wikipedia articles!
US$ This editor buys sources, and has spent at least US$ 2,950 specifically to obtain over 155 reliable sources for citing in Wikipedia articles.

TL;DR[edit]

Nohat-logo-XI-big-text.png This user is one of the 310 most active English Wikipedians of all time.
Ten Year Society userbox.svg This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than ten years.
Bästa nyskrivna.svg This user has earned the
100,000 Edits Award.

User-rights[edit]

Wikipedia Template editor icon (1).svg This user has template editor rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify)
Wikipedia File mover.svg This user has file mover rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify)
AWB logo draft.png This user has AutoWikiBrowser rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify)
Wikipedia Rollbacker.svg This user has rollback rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify)
Wikipedia Autoconfirmed.svg This user is autoconfirmed on the English Wikipedia. (registration date)
Wikipedia Autopatrolled.svg This user has autopatrolled rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify)
Wikipedia Reviewer.svg This user has pending changes reviewer rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify)
Admin mop question.svg This user is not a Wikipedia administrator, and would never like to be one.
823 Admin score: This user is Wikipedia's 43rd highest-scoring non-admin according to the admin scoring tool, as of 4 March 2013.

Stats[edit]

Noia 64 apps karm.svg This user has been on Wikipedia for 10 years, 9 months and 16 days.
Ellipse sign 305.svg This user is ranked 305 on the list of Wikipedians by number of edits (as of 7 May 2015).
Ellipse sign 883.svg This user is ranked 883 on the list of most-active WikiMedians by number of edits (as of February 2012).
121,000+ This user has made over 121,000 contributions to Wikimedia projects.
118,000+ This user has made more than 118,000 contributions to Wikipedia on over 30,000 distinct pages.
39,000+ This user has made over 39,000 contributions to Wikipedia articles.
3,000+ This user has logged more than 3,000 moves or other log actions on Wikipedia.
1,100+ This user has made more than 1,100 contributions to MediaWiki Commons.
400+ This user has made more than 400 contributions to Wiktionary.
ESU 99% for major edits and 100% for minor edits. – Last update: May 2016.
  • SMcCandlish (talk · message · contribs · global contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · user creation · block user · block log · count · total · logs · summary · email | lu · rfas · rfb · arb · rfc · lta · checkuser · spi · socks | rfar · rfc · rfcu · ssp | current rights · rights log (local) · rights log (global/meta) | rights · renames · blocks · protects · deletions · rollback · admin · logs | UHx · UtHx · UtE)
vn-21 This editor's user page, talk page and/or subpages have been vandalized 21 times.
Centijimbos symbol.svg4.9 This user has 4.9 centijimbos.
Star of life.svg This user scored 51,617 on the Wikipediholic test.
ICS One.svg This user is one in 28,333,448.
# This user was the 378,390th registered editor at English-language Wikipedia
H This user had access to HighBeam through The Wikipedia Library.

What I'm working on now...[edit]

...when time permits:

Finland road sign 142.svg This user is currently working on
Manx cat.
Finland road sign 142.svg This user is currently working on
WikiProject Cue sports.

Incomplete articles[edit]

"Incubator" of new or maybe-to-be-restored articles in progress

Stuff I occasionally work on, because it's unfinished or it was deleted but could be salvageable with some better sourcing and writing.

Wikipedia-namespace pages[edit]

Stuff I've been largely responsible for or heavily involved in[edit]

Projects[edit]

Articles[edit]

  • Three-ball — Article about the poorly-documented modern pocket billiards folk game, about 95% my material. Sourcing help wanted!
  • Five-pins — Article about the carom billiards game popular in Italy and parts of South America. I wrote it from scratch after someone posted a (terrible) machine-translation of the (good) Italian article; mine is now more extensive than the original Italian one, though may yet suffer from translation problems. Help wanted from someone fluent in Italian.
  • William A. Spinks — created from scratch; every single thing in it is reliably sourced.
  • Sandbox (software development) — A coding safety process. Created this article. I crack up when someone mistakes it for the Wikipedia:Sandbox.
  • Albinism — Was already a not-bad article when I got there, but I worked on it a lot, especially sourcing the science, and defending it from constant vandalism.
  • Pleonasm — Article on redundant expressions in language. About 70% or so of that text is mine.
  • Blackball (pool) — Mostly my work, building on skeletal, unsourced material originally interpolated into Eight-ball. Help wanted!
  • Folgerphone — an experimental musical instrument. Created this short article (a stub, but sourced). Someone's disputed a major fact, on the Talk page. Help wanted from anyone who knows anything at all about Folgerphones.
  • Other misc. articles I've created: Persian onager, Turkmenian kulan

Wikipedia policies, guidelines and essays[edit]

Major templates[edit]

Category[edit]

  • Category:Cue sports (I created and have been one of the most active maintainers of most of its subcategories.)
  • Category:Insular ecology (I didn't write the articles in it, I just noticed they were scattered about and not categorized sanely, so now they are.)
  • Lots that I'm forgetting.

Gallery of contributed images[edit]

Some of the images I've contributed under GFDL/CC (and sometimes PD) are displayed as thumbnails in my Gallery Page.

To-do list[edit]

edit·history·watch·refresh Stock post message.svg To-do list for User:SMcCandlish:

Unsorted additions:


Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Wikawards[edit]

Barnometer
The Running Man Barnstar: For your many, many fine cue sport related edits. – Fuhghettaboutit, 23:30, 9 February 2007 (UTC) The Working Man's Barnstar: For all the arduous work on Cue sport – 68.239.240.144, 23:46, 20 February 2007 (UTC) The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar: For sleuthing out sockpuppets being used to subvert WP:RFA – Dgies, 20:05, 11 April 2007 (UTC) The E=mc2 Barnstar: Awarded for your tireless work on articles relating to the field of pigmentation. – Rockpocket, 09:23, 17 April 2007 (UTC) Excellent User Page Award: [...] ask Mr. McCandlish if programmers are users too. Peace and love. – SusanLesch, 03:31, 12 September 2008 (UTC) Barnstar Eaten by a Bear: I regret to inform you that the barnstar that I was going to give you, for your bit of WP:CFD hilariousness about "Category:Celtic sports clubs", was eaten by a bear. Happy editing! – Hamtechperson, 04:46, 24 December 2009 (UTC) The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar: For general template taming goodness. – Ludwigs2, 03:36, 31 December 2009 (UTC) Some Falafel and One Canadian Beer: For being here and to work on the women sport project. – Genevieve2, 20:34, 20 January 2012 (UTC) Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar: For behaving in a genteel fashion, as if nothing were the matter, and for gallantry. – jathinkimacowboy, 03:27, 2 February 2012 (UTC) Heroic Barnstar: For your recent work at WP:MOS: A model of unflagging effort, precise analysis, institutionally broad and historically deep vision, clear articulation, and civil expression under great pressure. Unforgettable.  – User:DocKino, 06:14, 7 February 2012 (UTC) Chapeau ... for this one! Cheers - DVdm (talk) 20:20, 31 January 2012 (UTC) Cheers!: For all of the thoughtful posts through the extended discussion at MOSCAPS. I've appreciated it. – User:JHunterJ, 13:52, 10 February 2012 (UTC) The Barnstar Creator's Barnstar:  Thank you for your submission of the Instructor's Barnstar. It's now on the main barnstar list. – User:Pine, 15:11, 26 February 2012 (UTC) Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar: This comes as a recognition of your kindness in developing the Firefox Cite4wiki add-on. It has been helpful and a great resource. I was also happy to learn you contribute to Mozilla which I do as well :) User:stephenwanjau, 18:28, 31 August 2012 (UTC) The Socratic Barnstar: In recognition of your general fine work around the 'pedia, and the staunchness and standard of argumentation on style issues. And if for nothing else, I think you deserve it for this comment.  Ohconfucius ping / poke 02:07, 13 November 2012 (UTC) The Special Barnstar: It's a bit delayed, but for your rather accurate edit summary here. Keep up the good work on various breed articles! TKK bark ! 18:06, 25 February 2013 (UTC)The Original Barnstar: For your recent work at WP:MOS: A model of unflagging effort, precise analysis, institutionally broad and historically deep vision, clear articulation, and civil expression under great pressure. Unforgettable. DocKino (talk) 06:14, 7 February 2012 (UTC) The Purple Barnstar: You've been putting up with a lot of crap from other quarters; just want to let you know that people out there do, in fact, manage to appreciate your work. illegitimi non carborundum! VanIsaacWS Vexcontribs 04:55, 11 February 2013 (UTC) The Brilliant Idea Barnstar: I couldn't quite find a suitable barnstar for this, but I found it insightful when you brought up the issue of accessibility within TfD#Template:Tn. Maybe it was kind of a small realization you had, but on behalf of the disabled friends I have, thank you for bringing it up. A step in the right direction for making this everyone's encyclopedia. Meteor_sandwich_yum (talk) 02:58, 1 May 2014 (UTC) A cheeseburger for you! Except of course that would be 30 min on the treadmill. But we can still look. Thank you for well measured comments. In ictu oculi (talk) 02:59, 11 May 2014 (UTC) The Fauna Barnstar: For being an enlightening Star in a farmyard Barn – Gregkaye ✍♪ 15:11, 22 September 2014 (UTC) WikiCake: You seem to be among the vanguard in the quest to raise copy editing and style formatting to at least the level of writing barely literate articles. Primergrey (talk) 05:04, 29 March 2015 (UTC) The Special Barnstar: A thank you ... for disagreeing, with reason and cogent arguments backed up by both source and policy as well as logical interpretation of the position you disagree with. In essence for disputing content in a manner that builds consensus. It may seem a little over the top to barnstar for a couple of days work but in an area where there's been entrenched battle ground for so long it has put a huge smile on my face, and moved me on a few of my positions, to be disagreed with in such a consensus building fashion. My faith in wikipedia has been somewhat restored and I can only hope it's a sea change for the way the talk page looks on the articles. SPACKlick (talk) 23:26, 10 July 2015 (UTC) Ten Year Society: I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Ten Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for ten years or more. Best regards, Sarah (talk) 01:00, 21 August 2015 (UTC) 100,000 Edits Award: Congratulations on reaching 100000 edits. You have achieved a milestone that only 339 editors have been able to accomplish. The Wikipedia Community thanks you for your continuing efforts. Keep up the good work! Buster Seven Talk 15:06, 4 October 2015 (UTC) The Socratic Barnstar: For extremely skilled and eloquent arguments and advice in guiding the overhaul of the very important article Domestication William Harris • talk • 07:47, 4 February 2016 (UTC) Some baklava for you! To fortify you in your marathon task of finding an acceptable form of words to use in our MoS. I admire your patience and stamina and am thinking of proposing you as a Middle East peace envoy... BushelCandle (talk) 00:25, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
noob involved been around veteran seen it all older than the Cabal itself
Gratuitous
The Running Man Barnstar The Working Man's Barnstar The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar The E=mc2 Barnstar Excellent User Page Award
Barnstar-goldrun7.png
Working Man's Barnstar.png
WikiDefender Barnstar.png
Barnstar-atom3.png
Userpage barnstar.svg
For your many, many fine cue sport related edits.
--Fuhghettaboutit 23:30, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
For all the arduous work on Cue sport
68.239.240.144 23:46, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Awarded to SMcCandlish for sleuthing out sockpuppets being used to subvert RfA.
—dgiestc 20:05, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Awarded for your tireless work on articles relating to the field of pigmentation.
Rockpocket 09:23, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
[...] ask Mr. McCandlish if programmers are users too. Peace and love.
-SusanLesch (talk) 03:31, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
Barnstar Eaten by a Bear The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar Some Falafel and One Canadian Beer The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar The Heroic Barnstar
Bearbarnstar.jpg
Working Man's Barnstar.png
Falafel award.png
Export hell seidel steiner.png
Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar.png
Original Barnstar Hires.png
I regret to inform you that the barnstar that I was going to give you for this bit of hilariousness was eaten by a bear. Happy editing!
Hamtechperson 04:46, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
For general template taming goodness.
Ludwigs2 03:36, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
For being here and to work on the women sport project.
--Cordialement féministe ♀ Cordially feminist Geneviève (talk) 20:34, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
For behaving in a genteel fashion, as if nothing were the matter, and for gallantry.
--Djathinkimacowboy 03:27, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
For your recent work at WP:MOS: A model of unflagging effort, precise analysis, institutionally broad and historically deep vision, clear articulation, and civil expression under great pressure. Unforgettable.
DocKino (talk) 06:14, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
Chapeau Cheers! The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar The Socratic Barnstar The Special Barnstar
Hatt2.png
Export hell seidel steiner.png
Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar.png
Socratic Barnstar Hires.png
Special Barnstar Hires.png
for this one! Cheers - DVdm (talk) 20:20, 31 January 2012 (UTC) For all of the thoughtful posts through the extended discussion at MOSCAPS. I've appreciated it.
JHunterJ (talk) 13:52, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
This comes as a recognition of your kindness in developing the Firefox Cite4wiki add-on. It has been helpful and a great resource. I was also happy to learn you contribute to Mozilla which I do as well :) ₫ӓ₩₳ Talk to Me. Email Me. 18:28, 31 August 2012 (UTC) In recognition of your general fine work around the 'pedia, and the staunchness and standard of argumentation on style issues. And if for nothing else, I think you deserve it for this comment  Ohconfucius ping / poke 02:07, 13 November 2012 (UTC) It's a bit delayed, but for your rather accurate edit summary here. Keep up the good work on various breed articles! TKK bark ! 18:06, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar The Purple Barnstar The Brilliant Idea Barnstar A cheeseburger for you! Fauna Barnstar
Original Barnstar Hires.png
Purple Barnstar Hires.png
Brilliant Idea Barnstar Hires.png
Cheeseburger.png
Wildlife Barnstar (V5) Alt.png
For your recent work at WP:MOS: A model of unflagging effort, precise analysis, institutionally broad and historically deep vision, clear articulation, and civil expression under great pressure. Unforgettable. DocKino (talk) 06:14, 7 February 2012 (UTC) You've been putting up with a lot of crap from other quarters; just want to let you know that people out there do, in fact, manage to appreciate your work. illegitimi non carborundum! VanIsaacWS Vexcontribs 04:55, 11 February 2013 (UTC) I couldn't quite find a suitable barnstar for this, but I found it insightful when you brought up the issue of accessibility within TfD#Template:Tn. Maybe it was kind of a small realization you had, but on behalf of the disabled friends I have, thank you for bringing it up. A step in the right direction for making this everyone's encyclopedia. Meteor_sandwich_yum (talk) 02:58, 1 May 2014 (UTC) Except of course that would be 30 min on the treadmill. But we can still look. Thank you for well measured comments. In ictu oculi (talk) 02:59, 11 May 2014 (UTC) For being an enlightening Star in a farmyard Barn Gregkaye 15:11, 22 September 2014 (UTC)
WikiCake The Special Barnstar The Socratic Barnstar Some baklava for you!
Wiki-cake-close.jpg
Special Barnstar Hires.png
Socratic Barnstar Hires.png
Baklava - Turkish special, 80-ply.JPEG
You seem to be among the vanguard in the quest to raise copy editing and style formatting to at least the level of writing barely literate articles. Primergrey (talk) 05:04, 29 March 2015 (UTC) for disagreeing, with reason and cogent arguments backed up by both source and policy as well as logical interpretation of the position you disagree with. In essence for disputing content in a manner that builds consensus. SPACKlick (talk) 23:26, 10 July 2015 (UTC) For extremely skilled and eloquent arguments and advice in guiding the overhaul of the very important article Domestication William Harristalk • 07:47, 4 February 2016 (UTC) To fortify you in your marathon task of finding an acceptable form of words to use in our MoS. I admire your patience and stamina and am thinking of proposing you as a Middle East peace envoy... BushelCandle (talk) 00:25, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
Auto-assigned
Ten Year Society 100,000 Edits Award Looshpah Laureate
of the Encyclopedia
Good Article Good Article
Ten Year Society.svg
Bästa nyskrivna.svg
Editor - orichalcum star.jpg
Master Editor IV Ribbon.png

Editorrib17.png
Book of Knowledge3.jpg
Symbol support vote.svg
Symbol support vote.svg
I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Ten Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for ten years or more. Best regards, Sarah (talk) 01:00, 21 August 2015 (UTC) Congratulations on reaching 100000 edits. You have achieved a milestone that only 339 editors have been able to accomplish. The Wikipedia Community thanks you for your continuing efforts. Keep up the good work! Buster Seven Talk 15:06, 4 October 2015 (UTC) This editor is entitled to display this
Master Editor IV Badge, associated ribbons, and "Book of All Knowledge with Secret Appendix, Free Errata Sheet, and Author's Signature".
(10+ years & 78K+ edits)
This user helped promote the article CornerShot to Good status (promoted 24 July 2006) This user helped promote the article Jasmin Ouschan to Good status (promoted 12 September 2009)
Good Article "Did You Know?" Article "Did You Know?" Article "In the News" Article "In the News" Article
Symbol support vote.svg
Updated DYK query.svg
Updated DYK query.svg
Globe current.svg
Globe current.svg
This user helped promote the article William A. Spinks to Good status (promoted 22 April 2016) On March 2, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article William A. Spinks, which you created and substantially expanded. On June 2, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Golden Cue, which you created and substantially expanded. On 5 May 2009, In the news was updated with a news item that involved the article Shaun Murphy (snooker player), which you substantially updated. On 5 May 2009, In the news was updated with a news item that involved the article John Higgins (snooker player), which you substantially updated.
The Original Barnstar The Barnstar Creator's Barnstar
Original Barnstar Hires.png
Creatorofbarnstars.png
This barnstar is awarded to everyone who - whatever their opinion - contributed to the discussion about Wikipedia and SOPA. Thank you for being a part of the discussion.
Presented by the Wikimedia Foundation. 20:37, 21 January 2012‎.
Thank you for your submission of the Instructor's Barnstar. It's now on the main barnstar list.
Pinetalk 15:11, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
Reciprocal
The Angry Tarsier of Appreciation! A Barnstar Point A Barnstar Point
Angrytarsier.jpg
MinorBarnstarPoint300x300.png
MinorBarnstarPoint300x300.png
For awarding me a barnstar, I hereby giveth unto you one angry tarsier of appreciation. Thanks!
--Fuhghettaboutit 21:29, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
This barnstar point is awarded to SMcCandlish for giving me a barnstar point!
GracenotesT § 01:12, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
I, Λυδαcιτγ, award Stanton McCandlish the Minor Barnstar Point for the creation of said Barnstar.
Hostile
"Anti-awards" like this are a great example of what not to do on Wikipedia just because you disagree with someone:
Consider yourself duly admonished
Male right middle crop.jpg
I hereby award this barnstar for your disruptive MFD nomination.
freak(talk) 13:00, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
Incidentally, the Wikipedia:Fromowner "placeholder image" junk did get deprecated by the community just as I suggested and predicted, about a year later (by which time the admin who posted the above display of incivility had quit the entire project anyway). I wasn't disruptive, just a little before my time. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 00:12, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

What I'm up to in general on Wikipedia[edit]

On Wikipedia, I mostly do the following in lieu of large-scale article authorship (though I do have some major ones planned and three under my belt):

  1. Setting up a WikiProject and making it work
  2. Making substantial contributions to existing articles (and sometimes creating new ones) on topics I know a lot about
  3. Shepherding the growth and health of some particular articles that need it (and, in some but not all cases, about which I care a lot)
  4. Correcting typos, grammar errors and readability problems
  5. Weeding out unverifiable, or incredible and unsourced, claims
  6. Adding missing salient information
  7. Moving articles that violate the WP article naming conventions
  8. Correcting outright factual errors
  9. Improving cross-references, categorization, etc.
  10. Improving consistency of formatting
  11. Removing redundant wikilinks
  12. Removing pointless (Wikipedia is not a dictionary!) wikilinks — everyone already knows what "eye" and "the sun" mean, in most contexts in which they appear
  13. Removing minor, childish quasi-vandalism (smart-aleck remarks in articles, etc.) — I like to document these in the Talk pages, since they often are actually funny
  14. Reverting and repairing intentionally destructive vandalism, especially that by religious or other zealots, slanderers, the foul-mouthed, and the discriminatory
  15. Tagging outright vandals' talk pages with countdown-to-blocking warnings
  16. Repairing semi-vandalism edits in the form of deletions of long-standing passages without explanation, or the inexplicable addition of large chunks of questionably relevant or unsourced alleged facts, especially attacks against living article subjects, fanwanking and crackpotism.
  17. Copyediting, encyclopedizing and formalizing any juvenile, colloquial, non-neutral or poorly thought out language in articles
  18. Fixing miscellaneous "bad stuff" - vanity/marketing language, crystalballing, etc.
  19. Proposing (and sometimes performing) merges of redundant articles
  20. Adding obvious missing redirects and making sure they go to useful places
  21. Educating misinformed arguments (per logic or Wikipedia policy) on Talk pages
  22. Trying to resolve circular disputes on Talk pages
  23. Defending articles from AfD when the reasoning for the deletion is specious, especially "NN per nom" me-tooism.
  24. Nominating truly atrocious crap for AfD (or for SD, or just prod'ing them)
  25. Learning a lot concerning things I didn't know about, on all sorts of topics!
  26. Having a good time!

Wikitivities userboxes

WP1 0 Icon.svg This user is a member of the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team.
Wiki letter w.svg This user is a member of WikiProject Stub Sorting.
No-spam.svg This user is a member of WikiProject Spam.
{{inline}} This user is a member of WikiProject Inline Templates.
COTWnew.png This user participates in the Article Creation and Improvement Drive.
Cat This user is part of WikiProject Categories, which aims to improve article categorization on Wikipedia.
Disambig.svg This user repairs links to disambiguation pages.
Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg This user is a donor to the Wikimedia Foundation. You can be one too.
CVU.svg This user is a member of the
Counter-Vandalism Unit.
Edit-find-replace.svg This user is a recent changes patroller.
Edit-find-replace.svg This user is a new page patroller.
Writing Magnifying.PNG This user is a member of the
Guild of Copy Editors.
linkspam This user despises linkspam, and will terminate it on sight, as well as any other spam by the contributor.
WPint.svg This user integrates Wikipedia.
<ref> This user recognizes the importance of citing sources.
<ref> This user would like to see everyone using inline citations. Please...
The WikiProject Council logo This editor participates in the WikiProject Council.
Wikipedia Double Redirect.svg This user fixes double redirects.
WCW This user checks Wikipedia.
WikiProject Usability Icon.svg This user is a participant in WikiProject Usability.
Accessibility icon This user is a member of WikiProject Accessibility
Thomas kennington orphans 1885.jpg This user is a member of WikiProject Abandoned Articles.
Cooks 050918 154402.jpg This user is a WikiChef.
Vacuum Cleaner 1906.jpg This user is a WikiJanitor.
Bévilard-coat of arms.svg This user is a WikiKnight
valiantly protecting the Five Pillars of Wikipedia.
5 This user is a WikiAdult.
Edit-clear.svg This user is a member of
WikiProject Cleanup.

Topical WikiProjects userboxes[edit]

Snooker balls triangled.png This user is a member of WikiProject Snooker
Face-devil-grin.svg This user is a member of
the Internet culture WikiProject.
firefly This user is a member of the
Firefly WikiProject.

External tools userboxes[edit]

AWB logo draft.png This user has AutoWikiBrowser rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify)
Cite4Wiki ref cite web icon.png This user cites online sources with the help of Cite4Wiki!
Police man Twinkle Head.svg This user watches over Wikipedia with the help of Twinkle!
Replacement filing cabinet.svg This user keeps citations to online sources working with the help of WebCite!

WikiFauna userboxes[edit]

I am a chimera, frequently shapeshifting.

Wikignome crop.gif
This editor is a WikiGnome.
WikiOgre2.png This user is a WikiOgre.
Draig.svg This user is a WikiDragon: making massive, bold edits everywhere.
Template elf.png This user is a Creator Elf.
SophieAndersonTakethefairfaceofWoman.jpg This user is a WikiFairy.

Critics who think I frequently make valuable contributions but have exhibited problematic behaviors would probably have to classify me as a cross between a WikiPlatypus and a WikiPuma.

Wikiphilosophy[edit]

On the non-"political" side, I am largely an exopedianist with little interest in the socializing aspects - I get that from other aspects of my life. I'm largely a WikiGnome but shapeshift into other forms of WP:WikiFauna at will, sometimes for long stretches. I have taken part in some quite extensive policy debates, spent a lot of time on visual improvement of articles, wallowed in sourcing troublesome articles, buried my nose in copyediting, become a template master, and obsessed over the perfection of certain articles, as well as gotten into pointless arguments, while also created barnstars. I'm really just not pigeonholeable.

Wikiphilosophy userboxes[edit]

Nuvola apps korganizer.svg This user thinks that registration should be required to edit articles.
Blue ribbon.svg This user is a member of Wikipedians against censorship.
meta This editor is a metapedian.
dar This editor is a darwikinist.
Asw1.jpg This user is a member of the Association of
Structurist Wikipedians
.
AMW This user is a member of the Association of Mergist Wikipedians.
imm This editor is an immediatist.
exo This editor is an exopedian.
Playing card club A.svg This user believes that common sense trumps all other arguments. Playing card spade A.svg
Flexible This user deals with edits, deletion, and creation of pages individually instead of unilaterally and encourages others to do so.
-admin+ This user feels that gaining administrator status is not about what you know, but about who you know.
AfD-3 This user has had 3 pages put up for deletion. Most of the time, they were deleted.
Text-x-generic with pencil.svg This user believes that process is important on Wikipedia and is opposed to its circumvention.
Be bold.png This user is bold, but not reckless, in updating pages.
Face-angel.svg This user tries to do the right thing. If they make a mistake, please let them know.
ZT This user supports a strict zero tolerance policy on vandalism.


</noinclude> Note: SMcCandlish's comments on Wikipedia are a work in progress subject to the Thread-mode Disclaimer.

Wikimedia Foundation RGB logo with text.svg Licensing rights granted to Wikimedia Foundation
I grant non-exclusive permission for the Wikimedia Foundation Inc. to relicense my text and media contributions, including any images, audio clips, or video clips, under any copyleft license that it chooses, provided it maintains the free and open spirit of the GFDL. This permission acknowledges that future licensing needs of the Wikimedia projects may need adapting in unforeseen fashions to facilitate other uses, formats, and locations. It is given for as long as this banner remains.


Where I am in Wikispace[edit]

Host wiki Account User page User talk Contributions Logs Edits
Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg Wikipedia (en) Rollbacker, Autoreviewer, Reviewer, Filemover User:SMcCandlish User talk:SMcCandlish Contribs Logs Count
Wikimedia-logo.svg Meta-Wiki Editor User:SMcCandlish User talk:SMcCandlish Contribs Logs Count
Commons-logo.svg Commons Editor User:SMcCandlish User talk:SMcCandlish Contribs Logs Count
Wiktionary-logo-51px.gif Wiktionary Editor User:SMcCandlish User talk:SMcCandlish Contribs Logs Count
Wikibooks-logo.svg Wikibooks Editor User:SMcCandlish User talk:SMcCandlish Contribs Logs Count
Wikinews-logo.svg Wikinews Editor (inactive) User:SMcCandlish User talk:SMcCandlish Contribs Logs Count
Wikiquote-logo.svg Wikiquote Editor (inactive) User:SMcCandlish User talk:SMcCandlish Contribs Logs Count
Wikisource-logo.svg Wikisource Editor (inactive) User:SMcCandlish User talk:SMcCandlish Contribs Logs Count
Wikiversity-logo.svg Wikiversity Editor (inactive) User:SMcCandlish User talk:SMcCandlish Contribs Logs Count
Mediawiki-logo.png Mediawiki Editor (inactive) User:SMcCandlish User talk:SMcCandlish Contribs Logs Count
Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg Wikipedia (simple) Editor User:SMcCandlish User talk:SMcCandlish Contribs Logs Count
  • To see contributions in all Wikimedia projects, click here or here

Potential conflicts of interest[edit]

Just as a matter of full disclosure, there are certain articles I should not heavily edit (i.e., other than to revert vandalism, provide sources, or otherwise adjust in an entirely neutral manner), because of unintentional potential for conflict of interest or non-neutral point of view. Other editors may wish to examine carefully any edits I ever make to any of the following topics:

  • Stanton McCandlish (me; while I would easily pass WP:GNG and WP:BIO, I have no article, have never had one, and don't want one - that would be a bit creepy to me, and friends with articles say they just cause trouble for them (personal attacks, misinformation, etc.)
  • Protecting Yourself Online (I co-authored the book by this title, ISBN 9780062515124; it has no article and is surely not notable enough to have one)
  • CryptoRights Foundation (I am their volunteer CCO/Communications Director, since 2003; it bugged me somethin' fierce that it did not have an article until recently, but it seemed grossly inappropriate to even start a "just the facts" stub on it)
  • Wilcox–McCandlish law (something amusing that a colleague and I came up with in the '90s; someone else created an article about it here, before I even became a WP editor; it was subsequently deleted on notability grounds, and should probably stay that way)
Things I could vaguely, conceivably have a conflict of interest on, due to past connections

Things and stuff[edit]

Funniest things I've seen on Wikipedia[edit]

[emphasis added when salient]
The content itself isn't funny, but the fact that more than 50% of the content of the page is a huge navbox is hilarious.
Perhaps the funniest real article name on Wikipedia. (It's a real math/physics theorem, and not intrinsically funny, though a bit amusing.)
Someone concerned about overlinking in articles actually used the Professional wrestling article as alleged smoking-gun "proof" of rampant overlinking across Wikpedia, requiring (naturally) much more stringent anti-linking wording in WP:LINKING. Of course that article in particular would have overlinking, along with just about every other noob error, except when periodically cleaned up by experienced, neutral editors who don't believe in fairytales. The article is clearly indicative of nothing but the nature of that topic's fanbase (and thus its most frequent editorial pool).
A song parody by various Wikimedians (to the tune of The Eagles' "Hotel California"). I hate filk, with a passion, yet I somehow loved this.
I think I was channeling Ancient Finnish or something.
in Animal Farm, as of 13 January 2010 version (we all know that ancient Marxism was of course founded by Marxus Aurelius, right?)
Rather remarkable definition of "watch your language".
A comment posted at WP:COUNCIL/P, on a proposal for a "WikiProject Life on Mars"; if you don't get why this is hysterically funny, just move on - it's an old-school sci-fi geek thing. (Hint: "John Carter" + "Mars".)
Did you know?... That there are not just regular vandals but ones with really, really weird agendas lurking in Wikipedia?
  • 11:07, 26 March 2007 83.253.36.136 (Talk) (→Performance of FAT 32 - moved spam down)
An edit summary from Wikipedia:Village pump (policy). Needless to say, the next editor's summary read "deleted spam".
Someone upset about grammar flames that were wasting people's time and being a distraction posts a distracting time-waste in the form of a longwinded and meticulously-researched grammar flame about it (plus a second shorter one!), all in support of the grammar flaming of the starter of the grammar flame; in the process, re-opening debate to yet more grammar flaming in the pointless sub-thread being complained about (dormant for over a day), and to which the poster was not even a party to begin with. I couldn't make this stuff up!
  • 05:46, 21 February 2007 Gracenotes (Talk | contribs) (→Template:Barnstars - *stabs kittens*)
An edit summary in response to "no, don't delete the barnstars!" panic replies to a TfD on a useless template simply relating to barnstars. I awarded Gracenotes a Barnstar Point for that one.
I'm not sure Wikipedia's account-creation CAPTCHA database should include every word... >;-)

Smartest things I've seen on Wikipedia[edit]

Just a few particularly well-thought-out bits by other editors. They aren't necessarily mindblowing or anything, just insightful and well-put.

  • "I ... had no problem whatsoever learning wikicode when I started writing and improving encyclopedia articles in 2009. I do not want to learn new software features that are less productive and less intuitive than old software features. I welcome any upgrades that are entirely intuitive and non-disruptive to existing editors. I will oppose ill-conceived and poorly-implemented make-work projects for professional programmers. This is not an employment program for coders. It is an encyclopedia created by volunteers, who are article writers and researchers."
Cullen (talk), 18:40, 29 November 2015 (UTC), Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Breakfast#RFC - Remove Flow from WikiProject Breakfast? [2] (commenting on how testing WP:Flow, WMF's new forum software intended to replace talk pages, pretty much destroyed the wikiproject that agreed to test it.
  • "I reverted to the version before the diff you cited [i.e., the addition of disputed material], but was reverted. Changes pushed through without consensus are likely to be ignored or constantly disputed, so there's actually no point in doing this."
SarahSV (talk) 04:51, 27 January 2016 (UTC) Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Images#RfC: Should the guideline maintain the "As a general rule" wording or something similar? [3]
  • "Revert rules should not be construed as an entitlement or inalienable right to revert, nor do they endorse reverts as an editing technique.
         Passed 9 to 0."
Arbitration Committee, 22:47, 23 March 2012 (UTC) Article titles and capitalisation, Final Decision
Gigs (talk · contribs), 12 June 2013, in Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-06-12/Op-ed, "The tragedy of Wikipedia's commons".
  • "Nearly all our policies are driven by the need to prevent ... abuse of Wikipedia. Policies on biographies of living people are driven largely by those who would abuse Wikipedia for purposes of defamation. Policies on neutrality and verifiability have been largely driven by the need to address those who were here to push a political agenda or promote their fringe viewpoints. What Wikipedia is not is pretty much a chronicle of all the things that people have tried to use Wikipedia for that the community has decided are detrimental to a quality encyclopedia. ... This isn't censorship, it's curation."
Gigs (talk · contribs), 12 June 2013, in Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-06-12/Op-ed, "The tragedy of Wikipedia's commons".
  • "[C]onsensus is an outcome of discussion, not a type of discussion. Editors' comments contribute to the consensus-building process."
David Levy (talk · contribs), 11:49, 6 March 2012 (UTC), at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured list#Renaming and re-stylizing Today's Featured List?, accessed March 11, 2012
  • "If rules make you nervous and depressed, and not desirous of participating in the wiki, then ignore them entirely and go about your business."
Koyaanis Qatsi (talk · contribs), at 04:00, 18 September 2001 (UTC); it is the original formulation of WP:Ignore all rules
  • "Any pile of bullshit decomposes naturally."
Wikipedia:Ignore all dramas (as of this version) on ignoring instead of responding to wikistupidity; later versions have it as the far less pithy "Even the largest pile of bullshit will decompose on its own." The original addition was "The most copiously deposited bullshit decomposes on its own." I reverted it to the concise version on 10 August 2011‎ and it seems to have stuck.
  • "Removed older logo. One logo is sufficient. Logos are copyrighted and Wikipedia should not serve as a gallery for logos."
Farine (talk · contribs), 05:59, 6 May 2008 (UTC) (edit summary at Data East)
  • "Anyone who adds material to an article, but cannot be bothered to cite any sources, is being discourteous to the other editors who later have to try to find reliable sources."
Dalbury (talk · contribs) 11:42, 24 January 2007 (UTC) (Wikipedia talk:Speedy deletion criterion for unsourced articles#Userfy is a good option, accessed January 31, 2007)
  • "Of course, the point of style is to give coherence and consistency, deviations from which can detract from the publication's voice (in this case, an encyclopedic voice)."
Ninly (talk · contribs), 06:38, 8 May 2009 (UTC) (Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style, accessed June 2, 2009), on the real purpose and value of the Wikipedia Manual of Style.
  • "Show the door to trolls, vandals, and wiki-anarchists, who, if permitted, would waste your time and create a poisonous atmosphere here."
— WP co-founder Larry Sanger, on Wikipedia:Etiquette
  • "...no need for bullet points - detail here is no more important than others"
SilkTork (talk · contribs), 10:19, 27 June 2011 (UTC) (edit summary at Wikipedia:Article size); too many editors create bulletized lists from normal prose all over the place, as if Wikipedia were a giant PowerPoint presentation.
  • "While the title should be recognized as a reference to the article topic by someone familiar with the topic, for the uninitiated, it is the purpose of the article lead, not the article title, to identify the topic of the article."
Born2cycle (talk · contribs), 17:25, 26 January 2012 (UTC), Wikipedia talk:Article titles thread "Common names"
  • "The reason Wikipedia has policy pages at all is to store up assertions on which we agree, and which generally convince people when we make them in talk, so we don't have to write them out again and again. This is why policy pages aren't "enforced", but quoted; if people aren't convinced by what policy pages say, they should usually say something else. The major exception to this stability is when some small group, either in good faith or in an effort to become the Secret Masters of Wikipedia, mistakes its own opinions for What Everybody Thinks. This happens, and the clique often writes its own opinions up as policy and guideline pages."
JCScaliger (talk · contribs), sockpuppet of Pmanderson (talk · contribs), 03:57, 3 February 2012 (UTC), Wikipedia talk:Article titles thread "Request for edit, Poll". While Anderson made this point in a WP:POINTy way, sockpuppeting in a discussion he was trying to control (and arguing against me on the details of the issue) he's precisely right, and this was well articulated.
  • "If a high-profile [Wikipedian] poll is conducted that brings in widespread participation from editors who had previously stayed away from [the] venue, and the holdouts who had been stonewalling and preventing progress merely slouch, stuff their hands in their pockets, and walk away, then that proves that they knew full well that their arguments were not sufficiently persuasive, or didn’t have sufficient numbers, or both. ... Trying to now torpedo the current consensus by stating that certain people somehow didn’t have an opportunity to participate is nothing but sour grapes ... On Wikipedia it’s called ‘wililawyering’ which is disruptive and mustn’t be rewarded."
Greg L (talk · contribs), 00:49, 10 February 2012 (UTC) Wikipedia talk:Article titles thread "Why no action on implementing community consensus"

Allegedly clever things I've thought up here[edit]

  • "The next-to-last resort of someone who cannot muster a rational response to an opposing argument is to wave away that argument as something impossible to respond to (the last resort being ad hominem attacks)."
  • "If one grinds an axe long and hard enough, there is no axe any longer, just a useless old stick."
(A quasi-Taoist response to cranky complaints that relate to incidents so long ago no one should care any more; concise version: "Grind axe too long: no axe.")
(A response to angry accusations of wrong-doing that self-evidently apply at least equally and usually much more accurately to the ranter. More recently, I've used it as a mantra for myself, when I feel wikistressed.)

Nifty Wikipedia tools[edit]

Kind of hard to find unless you already know about them:

Resources[edit]

  • Wikimedia Labs at Mediawiki.org, for general info.
  • The Tool Labs at WikiTech.Wikimedia.org, where anyone can create an account to develop tools.
  • This page indicates lost tools and other problems after the demise of the old ToolServer.
  • OAuth applications list
  • editorinteract.py at WMFLabs – analyzes your interaction with one or more other users

Stats tools =[edit]

  • Xtools-articleinfo at WMFLabs (general page stats, by year and month, with charts, etc.)

Internal tools[edit]

  • Special:AllMessages – track down any system message/notice (e.g. copyright warnings you are tired of seeing and want to exclude in your WP:USERCSS.)

The material below became outdated due to the demise of the ToolServer.

Old content that I haven't updated

Coding tools[edit]

  • Special:ExpandTemplates – get raw HTML output of arbitrary wikicode with templates and parserfunctions
Lua programming and Scribunto modules
Unsorted additions
  • How to ping people: "The keys are: max 20 pings per edit; and do an edit to clean before before trying a new ping, so the system sees a clean diff; and of course always new four-tilde signature. Dicklyon (talk) 03:45, 15 December 2014 (UTC)"
  • TimedMediaHandler - a-v in articles
  • Search through a page's history for edits made by a particular user [4]
  • List changes made recently to pages linked from a specified page [5]
  • List contributors to an article, ranked in order of activity [6]
  • Find images for a given article, using interwiki links [7]
  • Find which Wiki pages link to a particular site [8]
  • What pages have you and another edited? [9]
  • User's across-projects contributions [10]
  • Search Wikipedia's back pages [11]
  • Who wrote that? (Wiki blame) [12]
  • Request page protection [13]
  • Fix bare url reflinks [14]
  • Readability meter [15]
  • X!'s edit count [16]
  • Wikichecker [17]
  • 3RR tool [18]
  • Review [19]
  • Emote [20]
  • Help [21]

Help and info[edit]

Editing tools[edit]

Button easy cite.png This user cites sources using refToolbar

User stats[edit]

(Snottywong's tools – an array of user & editing statistics and search tools

Page/Category stats[edit]

External utilities[edit]

Security[edit]


Committed identity: a6d331de87bb595541d03acf814f68f05abde44b5c3c79e078a3b79ceabf093696dcb01a3570d6eceedb21c6e8c33f4d41649bf9c05864a474974fcc4eec54be

is a SHA-512 commitment to this user's real-life identity.

Leave a Reply