Neologisms are words and terms that have recently been "coined" and generally do not appear in any dictionary. Avoid using neologisms when creating articles on Wikipedia unless they are part of the subject being covered and need to be explained; in such a case, be sure to define the new words! Neologisms include words made up on the spot and these should never be used in a Wikipedia article. Wikipedia relies on established English to explain its subjects. It is important that every word in Wikipedia can be understood by those who read it. This ensures that Wikipedia always conveys accessible and meaningful knowledge.
There is a type of creature worse than the clown who blanks pages or replaces words with obscenities or cute comments about their school mates: I am talking about the villain who subtly tries to change entries, to change information hoping no one will notice. This is not silliness. This is not goofing off. This is destructive malice for its own sake. There is no payoff for the villain except knowledge that he has deliberately deceived people, that he has deliberately sown chaos into a system whose only purpose is to make information more accessible to everyone. Some people argue that Wikipedia is "unreliable" because it can be edited by anyone. But the villain who pretends to claim he is helping people by increasing Wikipedia's unreliability is a moral cesspool. Many people think the person who disagrees with them about some issue or another is a "bad guy." But the true bad guys are those who hurt people just for the sake of hurting them, and--in the case of Wikipedia--those who deceive people just for the sake of deceiving them. --Janus Shadowsong 16:13, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Respect Wikipedia
I wrote this to an editor who claimed to be trying to prove that Wikipedia is unreliable by adding false information:
I appreciate your desire to teach a lesson that information found on the Internet should be treated with caution. However, you are also teaching your class to treat Wikipedia with disrespect. Wikipedia is a collective effort by thousands of good people with the intent of making the vast store of human knowledge more easily acccessible to everyone, for the benefit of everyone. Please show it the kind of respect you would give to anything that makes better lives for you and the people you care about.
Tools
To mark a Dead Link: Place {{dead link}} after the dead URL and just before the </ref> tag if applicable, leaving the original link intact. Placing {{dead link}} auto-categorizes the article into Articles with dead external links project category, and into specific monthly date range category based on |date= parameter. Do not delete a URL just because it has been tagged with {{dead link}} for a long time.
Neologisms are words and terms that have recently been "coined" and generally do not appear in any dictionary. Avoid using neologisms when creating articles on Wikipedia unless they are part of the subject being covered and need to be explained; in such a case, be sure to define the new words! Neologisms include words made up on the spot and these should never be used in a Wikipedia article. Wikipedia relies on established English to explain its subjects. It is important that every word in Wikipedia can be understood by those who read it. This ensures that Wikipedia always conveys accessible and meaningful knowledge.
There is a type of creature worse than the clown who blanks pages or replaces words with obscenities or cute comments about their school mates: I am talking about the villain who subtly tries to change entries, to change information hoping no one will notice. This is not silliness. This is not goofing off. This is destructive malice for its own sake. There is no payoff for the villain except knowledge that he has deliberately deceived people, that he has deliberately sown chaos into a system whose only purpose is to make information more accessible to everyone. Some people argue that Wikipedia is "unreliable" because it can be edited by anyone. But the villain who pretends to claim he is helping people by increasing Wikipedia's unreliability is a moral cesspool. Many people think the person who disagrees with them about some issue or another is a "bad guy." But the true bad guys are those who hurt people just for the sake of hurting them, and--in the case of Wikipedia--those who deceive people just for the sake of deceiving them. --Janus Shadowsong 16:13, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Respect Wikipedia
I wrote this to an editor who claimed to be trying to prove that Wikipedia is unreliable by adding false information:
I appreciate your desire to teach a lesson that information found on the Internet should be treated with caution. However, you are also teaching your class to treat Wikipedia with disrespect. Wikipedia is a collective effort by thousands of good people with the intent of making the vast store of human knowledge more easily acccessible to everyone, for the benefit of everyone. Please show it the kind of respect you would give to anything that makes better lives for you and the people you care about.
Tools
To mark a Dead Link: Place {{dead link}} after the dead URL and just before the </ref> tag if applicable, leaving the original link intact. Placing {{dead link}} auto-categorizes the article into Articles with dead external links project category, and into specific monthly date range category based on |date= parameter. Do not delete a URL just because it has been tagged with {{dead link}} for a long time.
