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class="wikipediauserbox" style="float:left;border:1px solid silver;margin:1px;width:238px"><table role="presentation" style="border-collapse:collapse;width:238px;margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;background:white;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><td style="border:0;width:45px;height:45px;background:white;text-align:center;font-size:14pt;font-weight:bold;color:black;padding:0 1px 0 0;line-height:1.25em;vertical-align:middle"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Noia_64_apps_xclock.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Noia_64_apps_xclock.png/40px-Noia_64_apps_xclock.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Noia_64_apps_xclock.png/60px-Noia_64_apps_xclock.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Noia_64_apps_xclock.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64"></a></span></td><td style="border:0;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;padding:0 4px 0 4px;height:45px;line-height:1.25em;color:black;vertical-align:middle">This user believes <a href="/wiki/Daylight_Saving_Time" class="mw-redirect" title="Daylight Saving Time">Daylight Saving Time</a> increases residential air conditioning use during the summer.</td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Hello, World. </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Article_ideas"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Article ideas</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Policies_and_guidelines_you_can_ask_me_about"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Policies and guidelines you can ask me about</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Stories_I_tell_on_wiki"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Stories I tell on wiki</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Why_Wikipedia_doesn't_standardize_everything"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Why Wikipedia doesn't standardize everything</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#That,_which,_and_who"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">That, which, and who</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#Smiles"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Smiles</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#Memory_hole"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">Memory hole</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#Boring_links"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">Boring links</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="#Notice"><span class="tocnumber">9</span> <span class="toctext">Notice</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="#How_to_verify_an_editor's_identity"><span class="tocnumber">9.1</span> <span class="toctext">How to verify an editor's identity</span></a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(1)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Article_ideas">Article ideas</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=User:WhatamIdoing&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Article ideas" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-1 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-1"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_play&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Free play (page does not exist)">Free play</a>, what children naturally do when adults aren't telling them what to do</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Menstrual_magnification&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Menstrual magnification (page does not exist)">Menstrual magnification</a>, perimenstrual changes in symptom severity (e.g., asthma, lupus)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Systemic_problem&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Systemic problem (page does not exist)">Systemic problem</a>, general category in which problems (e.g., <a href="/wiki/Systemic_racism" class="mw-redirect" title="Systemic racism">racism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Systemic_risk" title="Systemic risk">risk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Systemic_violence" class="mw-redirect" title="Systemic violence">violence</a>) can't be solved through individual action</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Near-miss_effect" title="Near-miss effect">Near-miss effect</a>, psychological component involved in gambling</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=War_widow&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="War widow (page does not exist)">War widow</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brief_Fatigue_Inventory&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Brief Fatigue Inventory (page does not exist)">Brief Fatigue Inventory</a>, assuming sufficient sources exist</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Success_sequence&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Success sequence (page does not exist)">Success sequence</a> (possibly a section in <a href="/wiki/W._Bradford_Wilcox" title="W. Bradford Wilcox">W. Bradford Wilcox</a>) <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/07/get-out-of-poverty-success-sequence/566414/">[1]</a><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://slate.com/business/2015/08/the-success-sequence-and-race-black-families-who-do-everything-right-still-don-t-end-up-middle-class.html">[2]</a><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/elitism-marriage-rates-hypocrisy/677401/">[3]</a><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Holding_It_Together/DgHVEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA79">[4]</a><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/08/26/the-political-values-of-harris-and-trump-supporters/">[5]</a><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2024/01/20/utah-schools-pushed-teach-success/">[6]</a><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2021/03/01/the-success-sequence-has-found-its-latest-mark/">[7]</a><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.ft.com/content/68737aea-7963-4603-8fd8-ba51c3a4adac">[8]</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Blue_in_food&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Blue in food (page does not exist)">Blue in food</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration 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.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1111%2F1750-3841.16439">10.1111/1750-3841.16439</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.ijgfs.2018.08.001">10.1016/j.ijgfs.2018.08.001</a></li></ul> <p>Essay idea: </p> <ul><li>On the <a href="/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect" title="Dunning–Kruger effect">Dunning–Kruger effect</a>, and editors who are very confident that they are very accurate at figuring out who is an undisclosed paid editor</li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Policies_and_guidelines_you_can_ask_me_about">Policies and guidelines you can ask me about</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=User:WhatamIdoing&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Policies and guidelines you can ask me about" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:AUD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:AUD">WP:AUD</a> section of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)" title="Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies)">Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies)</a> – <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3ANotability_%28organizations_and_companies%29&diff=237620336&oldid=237313354">added by me</a> after <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)/Archive_5#Tiny_newspapers" title="Wikipedia talk:Notability (organizations and companies)/Archive 5">this discussion</a> in 2008; see <a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing/Audience_requirement" title="User:WhatamIdoing/Audience requirement">User:WhatamIdoing/Audience requirement</a> or the shorter version at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)/Audience_requirement" title="Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies)/Audience requirement">Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies)/Audience requirement</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CITEVAR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CITEVAR">WP:CITEVAR</a> section of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">Wikipedia:Citing sources</a> – <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3ACiting_sources&diff=414511592&oldid=414463098#Style_variation">significantly expanded by me</a> in 2011 after some <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Citing_sources&diff=prev&oldid=411263562">early</a> <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Citing_sources&diff=prev&oldid=353233734">edits</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Citing_sources/Archive_31#ENGVAR_to_CITEVAR" title="Wikipedia talk:Citing sources/Archive 31">discussion</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:DEADREF" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:DEADREF">WP:DEADREF</a> section of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">Wikipedia:Citing sources</a> – <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Citing_sources&diff=prev&oldid=421195636#Preventing_and_repairing_dead_links">re-written by me</a> after discussion in 2011.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WHYN" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:WHYN">WP:WHYN</a> section of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability" title="Wikipedia:Notability">Wikipedia:Notability</a> – <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Notability&diff=prev&oldid=458313682">added by me</a> after <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Notability/Archive_49#Why" title="Wikipedia talk:Notability/Archive 49">multiple</a> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Notability/Archive_49#Why,_at_last" title="Wikipedia talk:Notability/Archive 49">discussions</a> in 2011.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PROPOSAL" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:PROPOSAL">WP:PROPOSAL</a> section of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines" title="Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines">Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines</a> – <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines&diff=prev&oldid=247001578">added by me</a> after <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Policies_and_guidelines/Archive_8#Proposing_guidelines" title="Wikipedia talk:Policies and guidelines/Archive 8">multiple</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Policy/Procedure" title="Wikipedia talk:Policy/Procedure">extensive</a> discussions in 2008.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:LOCALCONSENSUS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:LOCALCONSENSUS">WP:LOCALCONSENSUS</a> (aka CONLEVEL) section of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus" title="Wikipedia:Consensus">Wikipedia:Consensus</a> – although some of the language dates back to <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Consensus&diff=prev&oldid=101579927">at least 2007</a>, the separate section was <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Consensus&diff=prev&oldid=262626094">boldly started by me</a> in 2009, and the key example behind this and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ADVICEPAGE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ADVICEPAGE">WP:ADVICEPAGE</a> is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Composers/Infoboxes_RfC" title="Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Composers/Infoboxes RfC">Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Composers/Infoboxes RfC</a> in 2010.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOCON" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOCON">WP:NOCON</a> section of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus" title="Wikipedia:Consensus">Wikipedia:Consensus</a> – <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Consensus&diff=prev&oldid=458886297">started by me</a> in 2011; see related discussions <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Consensus/Archive_11#Majority_vote?" title="Wikipedia talk:Consensus/Archive 11">1</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Consensus/Archive_12#No_consensus_in_the_mainspace" title="Wikipedia talk:Consensus/Archive 12">2</a> <ul><li>NB that the <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=470721724">line</a> about preferring the status quo in articles was <i>not</i> added by me, because I could not find evidence that it was true.</li></ul></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:MINREF" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:MINREF">WP:MINREF</a> section of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Inline_citation" title="Wikipedia:Inline citation">Wikipedia:Inline citation</a> –</li> <li>Most of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Independent_sources" title="Wikipedia:Independent sources">Wikipedia:Independent sources</a>, which I merged with <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Third-party_sources" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Third-party sources">Wikipedia:Third-party sources</a>.</li> <li class="mw-empty-elt"></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Stories_I_tell_on_wiki">Stories I tell on wiki</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=User:WhatamIdoing&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Stories I tell on wiki" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Bring_me_a_rock" title="Wikipedia:Bring me a rock">Wikipedia:Bring me a rock</a> <ul><li>On demanding an endless parade of sources, especially when sourcing isn't the main problem</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hoyle%27s_Law" class="mw-redirect" title="Hoyle's Law">Hoyle's Law</a> <ul><li>Whatever the game, whatever the rules, the rules are the same on both sides.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing/Subjectivity_in_Wikipedia_articles" title="User:WhatamIdoing/Subjectivity in Wikipedia articles">User:WhatamIdoing/Subjectivity in Wikipedia articles</a> <ul><li>Articles that omit subjectivity usually violate the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:YESPOV" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:YESPOV">WP:YESPOV</a> policy. An article about an international trade dispute, for example, should explain the situation from the viewpoint of both countries – not just one or the other, and not just universally agreed-upon information.</li></ul></li> <li>The three umpires, on the differences between reality, perception, and definition: <ul><li>Three <a href="/wiki/Umpire_(baseball)" title="Umpire (baseball)">baseball umpires</a> are talking about their profession and the difficulty of making accurate calls in borderline cases. One says: "Some are strikes, and some are balls, and I call them as they are." The next feels a little professional humility is in order and says: "Some are strikes, and some are balls, and I call them as I see them." The third thinks for a moment and says: "Some are strikes, and some are balls, but <i>they ain't nothing until I call them</i>."</li></ul></li> <li>On the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:BIASED" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BIASED">WP:BIASED</a> source: <ul><li>During a bout of library censorship ("<a href="/wiki/Think_of_the_children" title="Think of the children">Think of the children</a>"), <a href="/wiki/E._B._White" title="E. B. White">E. B. White</a> recommended that schools "should strive for a well-balanced library, not a well-balanced book". The English Wikipedia agrees with this viewpoint and therefore does not ban sources based on their viewpoint or for "being biased". If one wants to write neutrally about a subject, one usually wants a source that argues strongly for a particular side, and a source that argues equally well for the other side. When you are trying to meet the policy requirements of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:YESPOV" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:YESPOV">WP:YESPOV</a>, a source that says viewpoints differ is not nearly as useful as a pair of sources each arguing cogently and clearly that <a href="/wiki/The_Call_(Kansas_City_Royals)" title="The Call (Kansas City Royals)">their side should have won the 1985 World Series</a>.</li></ul></li> <li>On the definition of cure, which is different from feeling better: <ul><li>We all hope for people with cancer to be cured, but most of us don't know how to tell when someone has been cured. The scientific definition involves plotting <a href="/wiki/Disease-free_survival" class="mw-redirect" title="Disease-free survival">disease-free survival</a> curves and <a href="/wiki/Derivative" title="Derivative">figuring out when the slope goes flat</a>. For the more common kinds of breast cancer, you're usually cured if you have been disease-free for three years. So this means that if you have breast cancer and have no detectable disease three years later, then you're cured. And if breast cancer is detected in subsequent years, it's a <a href="/wiki/Primary_tumor" title="Primary tumor">new primary</a>, not a recurrence of the old one. The numbers vary by disease (e.g., 15 years for some lung cancers) and by the exact type, but it's fundamentally a calculus problem. But normal people don't think that way. More to the point, they don't <i>feel</i> that way. They'll say that they <i>were</i> cured when they <i>felt</i> cured. This might be when active treatment ended, or when the first test gave good news, or when a troublesome side effect wore off, or when a personally significant milestone passed (e.g., a birthday), or at any other time, for any reason that appeals to them. Or they might that they're still not cured, even though their doctors say they are, because they just don't feel it. Feeling it isn't everything, but where humans and their behaviors are concerned, the objective mathematical facts aren't everything, either.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dave_Barry" title="Dave Barry"><i>Dave Barry's Bad Habits</i></a> (1987, "College Admissions", pp. 202–203) has a beautiful description of how not to write a Wikipedia article: <ul><li>"Sociologists want to be considered scientists, so they spend most of their time translating simple, obvious observations into scientific-sounding code. If you plan to major in sociology, you’ll have to learn to do the same thing. For example, suppose you have observed that children cry when they fall down. You should write: 'Methodological observation of the sociometrical behavior tendencies of prematurated isolates indicates that a causal relationship exists between groundward tropism and lachrimatory, or ‘crying’ behavior forms.' If you can keep this up for fifty or sixty pages, you will get a large government grant."</li></ul></li> <li><span class="anchor" id="publicity"></span>On the belief that all publicity is good publicity: <ul><li>Some editors want only "worthy" subjects to be mentioned on Wikipedia, because being mentioned in Wikipedia is (in their own personal, subjective opinions) more like a glorious prize to be earned by the meritorious than an enduring <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:An_article_about_yourself_isn%27t_necessarily_a_good_thing" title="Wikipedia:An article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing">misfortune</a> visited <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_Seigenthaler_biography_incident" title="Wikipedia Seigenthaler biography incident">upon</a> many <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2009/03/04/battle-for-control-of-santa-cruz-councilmans-wikipedia-page-persists/">subjects</a>. It reminds me of a story that <a href="/wiki/Molly_Ivins" title="Molly Ivins">Molly Ivins</a> told about a Texas politician she despised: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.npr.org/2019/09/15/760632698/a-portrait-of-molly-ivins-maverick-texas-journalist-in-raise-hell">"I think the meanest thing I ever said about one of them was that he ran on all fours, sucked eggs and had no sense of humor," she said. "And I swear I saw him in the Capitol the next day and all he said was, 'Baby, you put my name in your paper!'"</a> If you start with a personal belief that all publicity benefits the subject, then of course you will be appalled to see "unworthy" subjects getting any coverage at all in Wikipedia, even if the coverage says that they run on all fours, suck eggs, and have no sense of humor.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing/I_am_going_to_die" title="User:WhatamIdoing/I am going to die">User:WhatamIdoing/I am going to die</a> <ul><li>I am not expecting to die any time soon, and I hope you won't die soon, either, but what will Wikipedia look like when we're gone, and what can we do now to make its future better?</li></ul></li> <li>On the number of editors needed to make a decision <ul><li>Google used to put prospective candidates through 12 interviews. However, the answer rarely changed after the fourth interview. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.inc.com/michael-schneider/5-years-of-google-data-reveals-number-of-interviews-it-takes-to-find-perfect-candidate.html">[9]</a><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/17/heres-how-many-google-job-interviews-it-takes-to-hire-a-googler.html">[10]</a><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210727-the-rise-of-never-ending-job-interviews">[11]</a> The opinion of just four interviewers was enough in 95% of cases. Do we really think that we normally need more editors to answer a question about an article than a business needs to decide whether to hire a job seeker?</li></ul></li> <li>We've got to get the article content right. <ul><li>And we need to stop worrying so much about how fancy the sources are. According to <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1145%2F3366423.3380300">10.1145/3366423.3380300</a>, readers don't use the sources nearly as often as experienced editors do. For 99.7% of page views, the readers don't click through on a single ref. About once out of every 300 page views, one reader will click through to <i>one</i> source. If there are 10 refs in the article, you have to have more than 3,000 page views before anyone will try to read the ref you just added. <i>Once</i>.</li> <li>Another way to put this is: readers are at least 300 times as likely to read the sentence you wrote than to read the source you cited. Make sure that sentence is right – fair, accurate, up-to-date, and representative of the whole body of the relevant literature – before you worry about polishing up the citations. Citations to high-quality sources are the means to a good article, not an end goal.</li></ul></li> <li>If you want to understand Wikipedia's community: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780060971656" title="Special:BookSources/9780060971656">9780060971656</a>. <ul><li>On the six usual responses: "In practical terms we have the usual six options. One: do nothing. Two: issue a statement deploring the speech. Three: lodge an official protest. Four: cut off aid. Five: break off diplomatic relations. And six: declare war." (p. 49)</li> <li>On how to avoid doing things that you don't want to do: Claim that it's too soon. Agree that something should be done, but question whether this the right thing to do. Now is not the time. There are technical, political, or legal problems. And now it's too late. (p. 93)</li> <li>On how to discredit a source: "Hint at security considerations... it might be misinterpreted... it's better to wait" for another, stronger source, especially if no such better source is likely to be forthcoming. (p. 258–259)</li> <li>The five standard excuses: I can't tell you because <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:BEANS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BEANS">WP:BEANS</a>, but trust me. The problem is too few resources. "It was a worthwhile experiment", even if it turned out to be a disaster in practice. "It occurred before important facts were known, and cannot happen again". "It was an unfortunate lapse by an individual which has now been dealt with under internal disciplinary proceedings". (p. 338)</li> <li>Dressing things up in incomprehensible <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Glossary" title="Wikipedia:Glossary">jargon</a> lets you tell people things while minimizing the risk that they will understand you. (p. 465–476)</li></ul></li> <li>Using a <a href="/wiki/Telephone_game" title="Telephone game">telephone game</a> as our primary way to to teach people how to edit is a bad idea. In the 1980s, when the internet was much smaller, we used to tell this story about communication:</li></ul> <div class="poem"> <p>In the beginning was The Plan, and the Assumptions;<br> And the Plan was without form, and the Assumptions were void; <br> And darkness was upon the faces of the implementers. <br> <br> And they spake unto their manager, saying: <br> <span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 1em;">"it is a crock of $#@%, and it stinketh".</span><br> <br> And the manager went to the department manager, and he spake unto him saying:<br> <span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 1em;">"It is a crock of excrement, and none may abide the odor thereof".</span><br> <br> And the department manager went to the director, and he spake unto him saying: <br> <span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 1em;">"It is a container of manure, and it is so strong that none by abide before it".</span><br> <br> And the director went to the Vice President, and he spake unto him saying:<br> <span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 1em;">"It is a vessel of fertilizer, and none may abide its strength". </span><br> <br> And the Vice President went to the Senior Vice President, and he spake unto him saying:<br> <span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 1em;">"It contains that which aideth the growth of plants, and it is very strong". </span><br> <br> And the Senior Vice President went to the CEO, and he spake unto him saying:<br> <span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 1em;">"It promoteth growth, and it is very powerful". </span><br> <br> And the CEO went to the Board of Directors, and he spake unto them, saying:<br> <span class="mw-poem-indented" style="display: inline-block; margin-inline-start: 1em;">"This powerful new project will promote the growth of the organization". </span><br> <br> And the Board of Directors looked upon The Plan, and they saw that it was good. </p> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(4)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Why_Wikipedia_doesn't_standardize_everything"><span id="Why_Wikipedia_doesn.27t_standardize_everything"></span>Why Wikipedia doesn't standardize everything</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=User:WhatamIdoing&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Why Wikipedia doesn't standardize everything" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-4 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-4"> <p>Wikipedia doesn't standardize section headings for citations because the real world doesn't. There are four major style guides that are heavily used in universities, and articles using each one can be found on Wikipedia. Each requires a different name above the list of sources that were used to support content in an academic paper: </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Manual_of_Style" class="mw-redirect" title="Chicago Manual of Style">Chicago Manual of Style</a>:</i> "Center the title Bibliography about one inch from the top of the page"<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c10_s3.html">[12]</a> (used by fine arts and historians)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/APA_style" title="APA style">APA style</a>:</i> "In APA style, the alphabetical list of works cited, which appears at the end of the paper, is titled 'References.'"<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c09_s2.html">[13]</a> (used by sociologists and psychologists)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_MLA_Style_Manual" class="mw-redirect" title="The MLA Style Manual">The MLA Style Manual</a>:</i> "Center the title Works Cited about one inch from the top of the page."<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c08_s4.html">[14]</a> (used in humanities)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Council_of_Science_Editors" title="Council of Science Editors">Council of Science Editors</a>:</i> "Center the title References (or Cited References) and then list the works you have cited in the paper; do not include other works you may have read."<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c11_s2.html#p04_c11_s2">[15]</a> (used by scientists)</li></ul> <p>Wikipedia hasn't chosen one over another because nobody wants to be stuck telling the English people that they have to follow scientific conventions, or the history folks that they're required to follow the English manual. </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(5)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="That,_which,_and_who"><span id="That.2C_which.2C_and_who"></span>That, which, and who</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=User:WhatamIdoing&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: That, which, and who" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-5 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-5"> <ul><li>The relative pronoun <i>that</i> is used for restrictive clauses: The car that is red is broken. (The other cars are other colors, and whether they are broken is not stated.)</li> <li>The relative pronoun <i>which</i> is used for non-restrictive clauses, such as a description: The car, which is red, is broken. (There's only one car, and I thought you might like to know what color it was painted.)</li> <li>The relative pronoun <i>who</i> is correctly used in either of these manners, so long as the antecedent is a person. In some situations, such as describing a marginalized group of people, some people may object to the "de-humanization" of the antecedent if <i>that</i> or <i>which</i> are chosen instead of the personhood-affirming <i>who</i>. However, <i>that</i> and <i>which</i> are grammatically correct, and their use in older and formal English is well-established. For example: <ul><li>John 11:25 (KJV): "Jesus said unto her, 'I am the resurrection, and the life: he <b>that</b> believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.'"</li> <li>Luke 16:10 (ERV): "He <b>that</b> is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much: and he <b>that</b> is unrighteous in a very little is unrighteous also in much."</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet" title="Romeo and Juliet">Romeo and Juliet</a></i>: "He jests at scars <b>that</b> never felt a wound."</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Poor_Richard%27s_Almanack" title="Poor Richard's Almanack">Poor Richard's Almanack</a></i>: He <b>that's</b> content, hath enough; He <b>that</b> complains, has too much.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Paine" title="Thomas Paine">Thomas Paine</a>: "He <b>that</b> would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression."</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Bunyan" title="John Bunyan">John Bunyan</a>: "He <b>that</b> is down needs fear no fall..."</li></ul></li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(6)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Smiles">Smiles</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=User:WhatamIdoing&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Smiles" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-6 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-6"> <ul><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:External_links&diff=356422221&oldid=356420698">It's a guideline, not magic.</a></li> <li><a class="external autonumber" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28miscellaneous%29&diff=538172933&oldid=538167900">[16]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing/Library" title="User:WhatamIdoing/Library">Journals and other publications that I have access to</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing/Awards" title="User:WhatamIdoing/Awards">Subpage of Shiny Goodness</a></li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(7)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Memory_hole">Memory hole</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=User:WhatamIdoing&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Memory hole" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-7 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-7"> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230808102555/http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/GoodBye">What good-bye often means in Wikiland</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/RFC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="RFC (identifier)">RFC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2119">2119</a> on words like <i>should</i>, <i>must</i>, and <i>may</i></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/trust-engineers/">What happened to Facebook when everyone got smartphones for Christmas</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2006/12/wikipedia_will_1.htm">Wikipedia will fail before 2010, due to the inevitable editor burnout caused by spammers</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/drugsatfda/index.cfm">Regulatory status of drugs in the United States</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/dhp-mps/prodpharma/databasdon/index_e.html">Regulatory status of drugs in Canada</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1935/10/12/comment-1333">EB White</a> on cockroaches and dictators</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oil_drop_experiment#Millikan's_experiment_as_an_example_of_psychological_effects_in_scientific_methodology" title="Oil drop experiment">Oil drop experiment#Millikan's experiment as an example of psychological effects in scientific methodology</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/28/magazine/when-is-civility-a-duty-and-when-is-it-a-trap.html">Civility builds up the <i>civitas</i></a></li> <li>Evidence that the Draft: namespace is where articles go to die: <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_article_creation" class="extiw" title="m:Research:Wikipedia article creation">m:Research:Wikipedia article creation</a> and <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:AfC_processes_and_productivity" class="extiw" title="m:Research:AfC processes and productivity">m:Research:AfC processes and productivity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing/Editors_are_people" title="User:WhatamIdoing/Editors are people">User:WhatamIdoing/Editors are people</a>, about the minimum expected rate of mental illness among editors</li> <li>Varying reasons for which journal articles get cited <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/suppl/10.1056/NEJMc1700150/suppl_file/nejmc1700150_appendix.pdf">[17]</a></li> <li>On <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Policies_and_guidelines#c-Newimpartial-20240812151100-BilledMammal-20240812144200" title="Wikipedia talk:Policies and guidelines">knowing less</a> about a subject (or Wikipedia's internal workings) as a potentially valuable form of diversity</li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(8)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Boring_links">Boring links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=User:WhatamIdoing&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Boring links" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-8 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-8"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing/Header_frequency" title="User:WhatamIdoing/Header frequency">User:WhatamIdoing/Header frequency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing/Med_list" title="User:WhatamIdoing/Med list">User:WhatamIdoing/Med list</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing/Med_redirects" title="User:WhatamIdoing/Med redirects">User:WhatamIdoing/Med redirects</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing/Spambox" title="User:WhatamIdoing/Spambox">User:WhatamIdoing/Spambox</a></li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(9)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Notice">Notice</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=User:WhatamIdoing&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Notice" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-9 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-9"> <table class="mw-babel-wrapper notheme"> <tbody><tr> <th class="mw-babel-header"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Babel" title="Wikipedia:Babel">Babel user information</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td><div class="mw-babel-box mw-babel-box-N mw-babel-box-en notheme" dir="ltr"> <table> <tbody><tr> <th dir="ltr">en<span class="mw-babel-box-level-N">-N</span> </th> <td dir="ltr" lang="en">This user has a <a href="/wiki/Category:User_en-N" title="Category:User en-N">native</a> understanding of <a href="/wiki/Category:User_en" title="Category:User en">English</a>. </td></tr></tbody></table> </div><div class="mw-babel-box mw-babel-box-1 mw-babel-box-de notheme" dir="ltr"> <table> <tbody><tr> <th dir="ltr">de<span class="mw-babel-box-level-1">-1</span> </th> <td dir="ltr" lang="de">Diese Benutzerin beherrscht <a href="/wiki/Category:User_de" title="Category:User de">Deutsch</a> auf <a href="/wiki/Category:User_de-1" title="Category:User de-1">grundlegendem</a> Niveau. </td></tr></tbody></table> </div><div class="mw-babel-box mw-babel-box-1 mw-babel-box-es notheme" dir="ltr"> <table> <tbody><tr> <th dir="ltr">es<span class="mw-babel-box-level-1">-1</span> </th> <td dir="ltr" lang="es">Esta usuaria tiene un conocimiento <a href="/wiki/Category:User_es-1" title="Category:User es-1">básico</a> del <a href="/wiki/Category:User_es" title="Category:User es">español</a>. </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> </td></tr> <tr> <th class="mw-babel-footer"><a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_by_language" title="Category:Wikipedians by language">Users by language</a> </th></tr></tbody></table> <p>From June 2013 until September 2023, I worked for the <a href="/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation" title="Wikimedia Foundation">Wikimedia Foundation</a> in the Community Relations team to answer questions and report problems about some wiki software, especially <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:VisualEditor/User_guide" class="extiw" title="mw:Help:VisualEditor/User guide">VisualEditor</a> and <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:DiscussionTools" class="extiw" title="mw:Help:DiscussionTools">DiscussionTools</a>, but this is my personal account. Edits, statements, or other contributions made from this account are my own, and may not reflect the views of the Foundation. If you want to reach someone at the Wikimedia Foundation in an official capacity, then send e-mail to info<span class="nowrap"><span class="mw-no-invert"><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><span title="@"><noscript><img alt="@" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/At_sign.svg/15px-At_sign.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="145" data-file-height="145"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 15px;height: 15px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/At_sign.svg/15px-At_sign.svg.png" data-alt="@" data-width="15" data-height="15" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/At_sign.svg/23px-At_sign.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/At_sign.svg/30px-At_sign.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></span></span></span></span>wikimedia.org </p><p><b>Wikipedia editors are unpaid volunteers.</b> <b>I do not write Wikipedia articles for pay.</b> If someone has asked you to pay for an article, or if you are trying to figure out how to get your article on Wikipedia, please see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation/Scam_warning" title="Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Scam warning">Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Scam warning</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations">Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="How_to_verify_an_editor's_identity"><span id="How_to_verify_an_editor.27s_identity"></span>How to verify an editor's identity</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=User:WhatamIdoing&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: How to verify an editor's identity" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>Scammers will call you up and claim to be from your bank. If you want to be sure you're talking to your bank, you should hang up on them, pull out your bank card, and call the phone number on the back of your bank card – not the "special" number that the scammer gave you. That way, you know you're really talking to your bank. </p><p>We have the same problem with Wikipedia. Anyone can <i>claim</i> that they're a Wikipedia editor or admin – but how do you find out if they really are? If you receive an e-mail message, text message, or other off-wiki message in which someone <i>claims</i> to be a Wikipedia editor or admin, ask for their username. Then think up a specific 'password' and ask them to post it temporarily on their userpage from the account they claim to control. It doesn't really matter what the password is; maybe you'll pick something like "It really is me" or "Bananas" or "Test edit" or "Hi, friend", or maybe you'll pick something related to the reason they contacted you, like "I am posting this to prove to a potential client that I really am this Wikipedia editor". </p><p>After they've posted it, then (this is super important) look at the top of the page where they posted it for the tab marked "View history" (sometimes shortened to just "History"). Find their username in <a href="/wiki/Help:Page_history" title="Help:Page history">the list of changes made to that page</a>, and at the start of the line, click the "prev" button to see what changes that particular line records. If you see something like: </p> <ul><li>(cur | prev) 02:19, 6 February 2024‎ Their_username_here (talk | contribs‎) 14,685 bytes +24 Test edit</li></ul> <p>with a recent date, and clicking on "prev" highlights the words you told them to post, then it's probably someone who actually has that account. But if they refuse to post anything, or if you see a different username in the middle (or just a series of numbers and letters, like "198.51.100.21" or "2001:db8:249b:13e:122e:2249:18:1397"), then you'll know that they're scammers who are lying about whether this is really their account. </p><p>Alternatively, if you <a href="/wiki/Special:CreateAccount" title="Special:CreateAccount">create your own account</a> and add an e-mail address in <a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences" title="Special:Preferences">Special:Preferences</a>, then you can use <a href="/wiki/Special:EmailUser" title="Special:EmailUser">Special:EmailUser</a> to send e-mail to most experienced editors. Send them a message like "Someone claiming to be you on <link to other website> is asking me to pay money for a Wikipedia article. Is that really you, or is this a scammer?" </p><p>When in doubt, especially if they are asking for money for anything related to Wikipedia, you can send e-mail to <code>paid-en-wp<span class="nowrap"><span class="mw-no-invert"><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><span title="@"><noscript><img alt="@" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/At_sign.svg/15px-At_sign.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="145" data-file-height="145"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 15px;height: 15px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/At_sign.svg/15px-At_sign.svg.png" data-alt="@" data-width="15" data-height="15" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/At_sign.svg/23px-At_sign.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/At_sign.svg/30px-At_sign.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></span></span></span></span>wikipedia.org</code> and ask one of the volunteers. 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