User:Paradoctor

{{quote|1=A Paradox May Be Paradoctored.|4= the 4th By-Law of Time from Robert Anson Heinlein, "—All You Zombies—", 1958}}

Fashioning articles is the goal. But this tends to overlook the fundamental value added by an encyclopedia through its encyclopedic research (ER (is) not OR). Collecting bibliographic information, and reviewing the quality of the sources establishes the factual basis from which articles derive their utility. The use or non-use of statements in the article is determined by the result of encyclopedic research. Consensus (other than that on WP:V) is secondary to that. NPOV is determined from the literature, anything else is madness. Notability is an arbitrary cutoff for pragmatical reasons. Many, if not most notability discussions are moot when viewed from WP:V.

What is the first step in writing an article about X? Finding the literature on X. This means that every article needs a comprehensive commented bibliography. The rest of the article should follow mechanically.

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Why free for workers?

The Wikifoundation has million and million dollars for too several things, but for users? Users support the Wikimedia, it's deeply reasonable to pay who MAKES the Wikifoundation projects, like Wikipedia.

This subject is also about License, that means also Copyrights. PAY AUTHORS NOW!!!|2=[http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Camillo_Cavalcanti&action=edit&redlink=1 Camillo Cavalcanti] 23:29, 2 May 2009 (UTC)|3=found [http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Licensing_update/Questions_and_Answers/Oppositional_arguments&oldid=1476591#Why_free_for_workers.3F on Meta]}}

{{quotation|With encyclopedic modesty Pliny has named his sources; but; with the insouciance of a second-rate Wikipedian, he provides no inline citations.|Andrew Dalby, The World and Wikipedia, chapter 2 "Where it came from", page 20}}

== Wikilulz ==

• Good to know.
• [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/John_Cage&diff=prev&oldid=1214531087 In Germany his works counts as E-Musik, "serious music"] (courtesy of User:Sca)
• Encyclopedias can be hard on kids.
• When six words do the job of one
• Metaphysics explained in three sentences.
• 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117068
• Chuck Norris vs. The Heap Chuck Norris vs. Infinity Power lunch Chuck Norris style Chuck Norris vs. Infinity: The Rematch
• German madhouse You don't have to speak the language, madness is international. ^_^
• Did he just give away himself?
• priceless, here's its country cousin, though this one would've been more elegant if anon had transcluded Special:BlankPage ^_^
• Narwhalism
• What has become of Perl golf? Or is that an example of Black Perl?
• Dream Team - Take a wild guess! :-))image:Calvin.png

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• online or invisible, but you got to admit that the term is wonderfully apt ;)
• Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity I didn't make that one up, I swear!
• unsung hero
• that reminds me of the old idea for a perfect crime: kill all lawyers, and you couldn't be prosecuted due to lack of legal representation ^_^

{{Commons cat|Education}}

• _{(found on :Category:Education)} isn't that a teensy bit tautological?{{clear}}
• We had a virgin, now the other half speaks: {{cite book|isbn=1580083501|author=Sean Joseph O'Reilly.|authorlink=|year=2001|publisher=Auriga Pub. Group|location=Maryland|url=http://www.dickmanagement.com/|title=How to Manage Your DICK: Redirect Sexual Energy and Discover Your More Spiritually Enlightened, Evolved Self}} (spotted this while researching a claimed RS)
• Fell nearly out of my chair when I noticed this link on the page on hotel toilet-paper folding.
• leakage, indeed :-))
• can't argue with that
• Goya and Wikipedia: finally someone has courage to tell the real story.
• Gargamel's musings
• "The forces throng in this one."
• Templates that I sorely miss
• Adler's laws
• Nothing to laugh about. Seriously, they will come for you if you do.
• Spotted at Wikisource. Unremarkable? Sure, as long as you don't speak both English and German. It might be interpreted as "making love to a consanguine relative". ^_^
• Always, always [http://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Wikisource:Scriptorium&curid=16060&diff=1732249&oldid=1732197 put spaces after your commas]!
• [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Philosophy_of_space_and_time&curid=655002&diff=336636709&oldid=334958055 Ssymmety is important]
• No [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Contents&oldid=338305051 uncited material], please!
• [http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AWiktionary%2Flogo%2Frefresh%2Fvoting&action=historysubmit&diff=1817224&oldid=1816591 Britannica vindicated] (refers to alleged copyvios of Macmillan Dictionary for Children and Scrabble)
• I think this explains everything about Microsoft.
• Overdue [http://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Wikisource:WikiProject_Popular_Science_Monthly/Archaic_spellings&curid=558462&diff=1801743&oldid=1801738 spelling reform], or just a case of clairvoyance?
• So [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ontological_paradox&curid=766395&diff=347383079&oldid=345964403 that]'s how they financed the pyramids!
• I understand [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grandfather_paradox&curid=45990&diff=349468519&oldid=349402360 his enthusiasm].
• Everyone was a [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Sanity&oldid=34201311 newbie] once (first messages). ^_^
• [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28miscellaneous%29&curid=1015853&diff=349880929&oldid=349767476 But it's notable!]
• The mad translator has [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Paradoctor&diff=prev&oldid=351473220 struck again!]. Though I'm not sure why. ^_^ International cooperation, I love it.
• Wikipedia is [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brian_Scalabrine&action=historysubmit&diff=355132116&oldid=333075410 making progress]. (noticed via [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AVillage_pump_%28miscellaneous%29&action=historysubmit&diff=355405572&oldid=355380125 this edit])
• An [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_unsolved_problems_in_physics&curid=183089&diff=357031230&oldid=356800659 inquiring mind]
• [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Twin_paradox&curid=31602&diff=358811550&oldid=358811518 DVDm is taking his own advice ;)]
• I think [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_paradoxes&curid=3575201&diff=365588232&oldid=365527497 that] explains it.
• Some Mathematicians enjoy dirty jokes so much that they write an entire paper just to make [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Cox%E2%80%93Zucker_machine&diff=381840617&oldid=344235834 a horrible pun]. ^_^
• [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_paper_orientation Over!]
• [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Optical_illusion&curid=53497&diff=574094176&oldid=572646572 that's] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Optical_illusion&curid=53497&diff=574094196&oldid=574094176 right]
• [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paradox&diff=prev&oldid=319481602 understandable complaint]
• [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ross%E2%80%93Littlewood_paradox&curid=7823769&diff=591217997&oldid=585201986 Par(adox) for the course.]
• [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&diff=591979849&oldid=591979371 The long version] of TL;DR.
• Edit summary: [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_banned_films&curid=200884&diff=620805839&oldid=620666685 true story].
• Didn't see [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_time_travel_science_fiction&curid=9767324&diff=621555812&oldid=620773844 that one] coming. :D
• That is how you add verifiable content.