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== Show of [[No_original_research#On_talk_pages_and_project_pages|poor taste]] == |
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!form of government |
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!ruling manner of speech |
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|republic |
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|earnest, plain-speaking |
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|monarchy |
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|lofty, snooty-speaking |
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|autocracy |
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|devious, goebbels-speaking |
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== User == |
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Using Wikipedia could be compared with listening to an interesting distant AM radio station. The signal fades in and out. There's static and interference. What are you listning to? Can't be sure. This makes Wikipedia more of a diversion than a resource. |
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== Welcome == |
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The advantage to contributing content is that you get to work out intellectually. Explaining the topic gives you a better grasp of the subject matter. There are a number of disadvantages of doing that for wikipedia, rather than elsewhere. The number of policy articles is growing - about 40 of them are considered firm rules which must be obeyed. You may want to ["not get caught up in stupid edit-wars with Cat Piss Men. And you can quote me on that, too." --Arkady]. Matt Brown suggests considering these reasons to stick with en.wikipedia rather than forking: |
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# Anti-vandalism assistance. Vandals can utterly destroy a small wiki with automated tools. Natural responses to such vandalism - including making it hard to edit - effectively kill off the project because no "new blood" gets in. |
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# Writing assistance. Even if I don't know anything about your topic, I can help you with grammar, presentation, etc. Wikipedia is big enough that such help will come along. |
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# No hosting worries. If you start your own wiki, you have to host it, you have to be sure you can pay for it, and you have to be sure it'll stay up. If you put your stuff on Wikipedia, it's pretty certain to remain available. |
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# Prominence and advertising. You're much more likely to find new contributors if you attach your project to a top 20 website. |
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Poverty is Wikipedia's protection against tort attorneys. It might not be yours. |
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== Chew on before swallowing == |
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[[Image:bball.gif|left]] |
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Limited by their being, protoplasmic entities feel that they are moving along the linear dimension of time in one direction only. Physical experiment has demonstrated that subatomic particles can and do move in either direction along the linear dimension of time. In material reality (also known as the continuum - short for space-time continuum) the rate at which things move along time is regulated by their velocity in the other three linear dimensions - the faster in the three, the more retarded in time. If it takes ten generations for humans to sop up crap like this, then five to go on that last point; eight to go on the first, indicating 100 and 160 years respectively until assimilation. Math: dif & int calc. |
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== Want to mitigate your addiction to Wikipedia editing? == |
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Have a look at '''[http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Overcoming_Procrastination#Attitude_adjustment attitude adjustment].''' Focusing and refocusing and some other sections need work. Mucking about in wikibooks ''Overcoming Procrastination'' might help bring you to knuckle down to coping with what you're putting off. |
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I've made some [[User:207.172.134.175|anonymous]] edits. |
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== Taste before chewing on == |
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<big>Cooks</big> have been regarded as valuable since antiquity. Here probably four [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talent_%28weight%29 talents] of silver (or would it be gold?) for a cook: |
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:''In proportion as luxury gains ground in a republic, the minds of the people are turned towards their particular interests. Those who are allowed only what is necessary have nothing but their own reputation and their country's glory in view. But a soul depraved by luxury has many other desires, and soon becomes an enemy to the laws that confine it. The luxury in which the garrison of Rhegium began to live was the cause of their massacring the inhabitants.'' |
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:''No sooner were the Romans corrupted than their desires became boundless and immense. Of this we may judge by the price they set on things. A pitcher of Falernian wine was sold for a hundred Roman denarii; a barrel of salt meat from the kingdom of Pontus cost four hundred; a good '''cook''' four talents; and for boys, no price was reckoned too great. When the whole world, impelled by the force of corruption, is immersed in voluptuousness what must then become of virtue?'' |
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::--[[Montesquieu]]'s Spirit of Law [http://www.constitution.org/cm/sol_07.htm#002 Book VII Ch 2] |
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