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"It is rather like politics or policing: those who most enjoy the work are often those who should not be doing it."

:Sheri S. Tepper, :The Fresco

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"...you old hippie, you got lucky and were born in the right little window and got to grab all the surplus of happiness that history ever produced, and you blew it, you stood around and did nothing while the right reaganed back into power and shut down all possibility of change for an entire generation, you blew it in a ten-year party and staggered off stoned and complicit. You neither learned to do machine politics nor dismantled the machine. Not one of you imagined what had to be done. And so the backlash came down, the reactionary power structure, stronger than ever."

Kim Stanley Robinson, Sixty Days and Counting

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"...how, from earliest times, human beings have with "bewildering optimism" amassed collections of books and created buildings to put them in; how they have striven to assemble, encompass, and contain the materials on which the world's knowledge is recorded in the vain but determined hope that they will somehow, ultimately, be able to gather it all into one coherent, ordered space."

Alice Crawford, The Meaning of the Library

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"Freedom is the absence of unnecessary involuntary constraint."

[https://www.ecosophia.net/zenos-laughter/ Zeno's Laughter]

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Ethnicity and nationality: "A creation of the human will, it is impervious to mere rational disproof."

Patrick J. Geary, The Myth of Nations

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"Patriotism is of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for power."

George Orwell

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"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire."

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

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"Do you think Pavlov thought about feeding his dog every time he heard a bell ring?"

[https://twitter.com/gamespite/status/1595901064435359757 Jeremy Parish's nephew]

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"Science is a haphazard collection of institutions, norms, customs, and traditions that have developed by trial and error over the past several centuries."

Carl Bergstrom & Jevin West, Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World (2020)

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"There was a span of years in the 1980s during which I marveled at the almost supernatural powers of Steve Perry. While he sang for Journey, he made people believe in themselves, weep over long distance relationships, and inquire at transit stations about midnight trains. Together with his bandmates, he fully explored the hidden depths and nuances of the word whoa -- teasing out shades of meaning and connotations that I would have been hard pressed to discover, even with two thousand years of attention to the problem – and I'm willing to bet that the pathos with which he imbued the syllable na shall never be equalled in the history of the human race."

Kevin Hearne, Tricked

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"...the appearance of intelligence does not always indicate its presence." -Zagoran, Talos Principle 2

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To do

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  • weekly check on [https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/combined-print-and-e-book-fiction/ NYT Bestsellers], [https://www.usatoday.com/entertainment/books/best-selling/ USA Today], (also [https://bookmarks.reviews/ handy link to review aggregator])
  • 1 Jul 2025: update tense for pres :Linfield University

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Source || Significant? || Independent? || Reliable? || Secondary? || Pass/Fail || Notes
The New York Times{{nay}}{{aye}}{{aye}}{{aye}}{{nay}}A single-sentence mention in an article about another company
Profile in Forbes{{aye}}{{nay}}{{nay}}{{aye}}{{nay}}Most of such posts are company-sponsored or based on company's marketing materials
Tech blog post{{aye}}{{hmmm}}{{nay}}{{aye}}{{nay}}Blog posts are often sponsored and self-published sources are generally not reliable
Court filing{{aye}}{{aye}}{{aye}}{{nay}}{{nay}}Court filings are primary sources
colspan=5| Total qualifying sources || 0 || There must be multiple qualifying sources to meet the notability requirements

:Note: I created this table manually, but have discovered there's a Template:Source assess

  • [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ealdgyth/FAC,_Sources,_and_You#What_makes_me_go_"Hm..._this_doesn't_look_reliable" How to identify if source is reliable]

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Articles I started

[https://xtools.wmflabs.org/pages/en.wikipedia.org/Schazjmd/all#100 (tools view)] or by category

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  1. :Harry Vanderbilt Wurdemann House
  2. :Dockton Hotel
  3. :Andrew and Bergette Hjertoos Farm
  4. :Camp North Bend
  5. :Hollywood Farm
  6. :F. W. Woolworth Company Store (Renton, Washington)
  7. :Vincent School
  8. :Tukwila School
  9. :Benjamin Holt House
  10. :Bank of Italy (Tracy, California)
  11. :Locke's Meat Market
  12. :Harmony Grove Church
  13. :Locke House and Barn
  14. :Tracy City Hall and Jail
  15. :Moses Rodgers House
  16. :El Dorado Elementary School
  17. :William and Estella Adair Farm
  18. :Black Diamond Coal Mining Company
  19. :Gaffney's Lake Wilderness Lodge
  20. :Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta National Heritage Area (I merged and redirected it to :Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta)
  21. :National Volcano Early Warning and Monitoring System
  22. :Covington Electrical Substation, Bonneville Power Administration
  23. :Colvos Store
  24. :404th Armed Service Forces Band
  25. :The Cave and the Light
  26. :Messenger of Peace Chapel Car
  27. :Bank of Tracy
  28. :Fox California Theater
  29. :Covenant Beach Bible Camp
  30. :Vashon Hardware Store
  31. :Helmer and Selma Steen House
  32. :McGrath Cafe and Hotel
  33. :The Fresco
  34. :North Bend Ranger Station
  35. :Pacific Coast Company House No. 75
  36. :Erick Gustave Sanders Mansion
  37. :Great Ellensburg Fire
  38. :Anne Emery
  39. :Anne Emery (young adult writer)
  40. :Dr. Trueblood House
  41. :Joseph Lytle House
  42. :Hoquiam's Castle
  43. :Wilkeson School
  44. :Betty Cavanna
  45. :Going steady (repurpose redirect)
  46. :Finding My Voice
  47. :Hit Refresh
  48. :Detectives in Togas
  49. :Sierra (motor ship)
  50. :World Folk Music Association
  51. :Bill Zorn
  52. :Northwestern Improvement Company Store
  53. :Literary feud
  54. :Henry Alsberg
  55. :Baring Bridge
  56. :Columbia River Quarantine Station
  57. :Apollo in Real Time
  58. :Lost Apple Project
  59. :Anti-Mask League of San Francisco
  60. :World of the Five Gods
  61. :American Nations
  62. :Lexipol {{DYK user icon| Lexipol|12 July 2020}}
  63. :Great Olympic Blowdown
  64. :Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire
  65. :Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America
  66. :Fighting for Space
  67. :Elvira Chaudoir
  68. :Beauty (Tepper novel)
  69. :Cynical Theories
  70. :Coverstitch
  71. :Staunch Book Prize
  72. :Rashida Jones (television executive)
  73. :Chicago circulation wars {{DYK user icon|Chicago circulation wars|22 January 2021}}
  74. :Sob sister
  75. :Louis Sobol
  76. :Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction
  77. :James Delmage Ross (repurpose redirect)
  78. :Seattle Municipal Light and Power Plant
  79. :Broad Band
  80. :First Principles (book)
  81. :The $64 Tomato
  82. :Correction girls
  83. :The Secret History of Home Economics
  84. :Alex Tarrant
  85. :Bobby Sheldon
  86. :Hopepunk (repurpose redirect)
  87. :Get Off My Internets
  88. :Joy Spence
  89. :Julie Reiner
  90. :Crib A'Glow
  91. :Song of the summer (repurpose redirect)
  92. :Marion Manola
  93. :Cecilia Greenstone
  94. :Seek and Hide
  95. :John Woestendiek
  96. :The Divorce Colony
  97. :Lyle Engel
  98. :Gilbert Galvan
  99. :Edna Gleason
  100. :Ghost cattle fraud
  101. :Gerard Baker (National Park Service)
  102. :Micke Grove Regional Park
  103. :Territorio de Zaguates
  104. :Barbara Sutteer
  105. :History of courtship in the United States
  106. :Richters Herbs
  107. :Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s
  108. :Murder Your Employer
  109. :John Gabriel Beckman
  110. :National Disaster Search Dog Foundation

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  • :United States Air Force Security Service ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/859857439 before] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Diff/870564754 after])
  • :Black Diamond Cemetery ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/752004393 before] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/885879680 after])
  • :Houston High School (Mississippi) ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/887666242 before] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/888965463 after])
  • :Tillie Lewis ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/871287150 before] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/890085672 after])
  • :Confessions of a Sociopath ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/863653398 before] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/889929715 after])
  • :Five Nights in Maine ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/881862444 before] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/899544510 after])
  • :YouTube suspensions ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/900639185 before] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/901703095 after])
  • :The Final Encyclopedia ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/885578316 before] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/904851798 after])
  • :Advice column ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/907292529 before] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/914692981 after])
  • :Young adult romance literature ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/911137226 before] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/917673220 after])
  • :Readers theater ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/921742409 before] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/947838753 after])
  • :Transfer of learning ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/923660884 before] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/945543074 after])
  • :Carl L. Alsberg ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/901456644 before] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Diff/945199585 after])
  • :Cruising (driving)#United States ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/916146354 before] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/958278634 after])
  • :Mark Soldier Wolf ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/980288283 before] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/980444087 after])
  • :Henry T. Weinstein ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/980758297 before] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/984591029 after])
  • :Dodona's Grove ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/979072275 before] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1004692662 after])
  • :Merle Egan Anderson ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/946477427 before] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1012903483 after])
  • :Hello Girls ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1010762101 before] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1013289482 after])
  • :John Nestor ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1010318642 before] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1022283411 after])
  • :Shisha (embroidery) ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/994693261 before] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1022465532 after])
  • :Personal advertisement ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1021976350 before] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1026211087 after])
  • :David Day (Canadian author) (G13 rescue) ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1031257692 before] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1032511541 after])
  • :Edward Sturgis Ingraham ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1063574669 before] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1064948888 after])
  • :History of sewing patterns ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1082771009 before] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1086351327 after])
  • :Tailor ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1082170901 before] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1086667760 after])
  • :Sydney Taylor ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1094174926 before] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1095169619 after])
  • :The Imperial Presidency ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1096829606 before] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1097101532 after])
  • :Citadel (1957 book) ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1103712444 before] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1103972478 after])
  • :John Lissauer ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1107804372 before] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1121122924 after])
  • :Sheet music#Song sheets ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1125754587 before] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1126728325 after])
  • :Dumb Friends League ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1148197015 before] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1148403955 after])
  • :Bobby Skafish ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1151427413 before] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1151691271 after])
  • :Operation Lincoln ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1150149605 before] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1151077597 after])
  • :How Not to Write a Play ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1158553135 before] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1159198625 after])
  • :Divorce mill ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1190612466 before] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1202440687 after])
  • :Wahkiakum County, Washington#History (blank before [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1236065238 after])
  • :Diop Kamau ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1226275758 before] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/1239015518 after])

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  • [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/963112190 "This is not SomePeopleGotMadForAWhileOnSocialMedia-pedia. It is not WP's job (see WP:NOT#INDISCRIMINATE, WP:NOT#SOCIAL, WP:NOT#INDEX) to serve as a catalogue of every ephemeral bit of online micro-drama surrounding celebrities. That's what People magazine is for.  — SMcCandlish"]

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