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Essay on editing Wikipedia

Wikipedia is not about winning. It is not a battleground, and disputes over content or behavior are not meant to be "won". They are meant to be resolved per consensus. All users involved in the dispute should be willing to yield to consensus. Ego does not matter to Wikipedia; egos are not helpful in building encyclopedia articles, and ego needs to yield to consensus if a conflict between the two somehow occurs. Any editors who feel they should win are incorrect, as there is nothing to win.

Those who think it's more important to win, rather than to help create an encyclopedia we can all be proud of, are in the wrong place. Those here to habitually win or feel the need to rule, or control, are here for the wrong reason. Those who think the purpose of the WikiCup is to score more points than anyone else, have forgotten what the exercise of the cup was, and should step back and reflect.

If you are one of these individuals, you need to lay aside the need or impulse to allow ego, pride, or winning to take precedence over collaborative construction of an encyclopedia. To quote Mr. Spock, "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one." Regardless of who the one is—be it an editor, a body of editors, or a group on Wikipedia—the only thing that matters is Wikipedia as a whole.

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• Wikipedia:Admitting you're wrong
• Wikipedia:Drop the stick and back slowly away from the horse carcass
• Wikipedia:Witchhunt
• Wikipedia:Disruptive editing
• Wikipedia:Advice for hotheads
• Wikipedia:Hounding
• Wikipedia:Wikipedia is an MMORPG (humorous)
• Wikipedia:DGAF (humorous)
• Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not about whining (humorous)
• Wikipedia:Asshole John rule (humorous)

• "What's the cost of being right?" at Teach the Soul

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• What is a reliable source
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• Wikipedia is a work in progress
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• Write the article first
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• Avoid thread mode
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• Adjectives in your recommendations
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• Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions
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• Confusing arguments mean nothing
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• I just don't like it
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• Immunity
• Keep it concise
• Liar liar pants on fire
• Nothing
• Nothing is clear
• Overzealous deletion
• Relisting can be abusive
• Relist bias
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• Unopposed AFD discussion
• Wikipedia is not Whack-A-Mole
• Why was the page I created deleted?
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• When in doubt, hide it in the woodwork
• No Encyclopedic Use

• Accepting other users
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• A thank you never hurts
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• An uncivil environment is a poor environment
• Be the glue
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• Nobody cares
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• Staying cool when the editing gets hot
• The grey zone
• The last word
• There is no Divine Right of Editors
• Most ideas are bad
• Nothing is clear
• Reader
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• There is no common sense
• Two wrongs don't make a right
• Wikipedia clichés
• Wikipedia is not about winning
• Wikipedia should not be a monopoly
• Writing for the opponent

• Assume good faith
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• Assume no clue
• Avoid personal remarks
• Avoid the word "vandal"
• Be excellent to one another
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• Call a spade a spade
• Candor
• Deny recognition
• Desist
• Discussing cruft
• Drop the stick and back slowly away from the horse carcass
• Encourage full discussions
• Get over it
• How to lose
• Imagine others complexly
• Just drop it
• Keep it concise
• Keep it down to earth
• Mind your own business
• Say "MOBY"
• Mutual withdrawal
• Read before commenting
• Settle the process first
• You can search, too

• ALPHABETTISPAGHETTI
• Wikipedia:Because I can
• Civil POV pushing
• Cyberbullying
• Don't accuse someone of a personal attack for accusing of a personal attack
• Don't be a fanatic
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• Don't be ashamed
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• Don't call a spade a spade
• Don't call people by their real name
• Don't call the kettle black
• Don't call things cruft
• Don't come down like a ton of bricks
• Don't cry COI
• Don't demand that editors solve the problems they identify
• Don't eat the troll's food
• Don't fight fire with fire
• Don't give a fuck
• Don't help too much
• Don't ignore community consensus
• Don't knit beside the guillotine
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• Don't remind others of past misdeeds
• Don't shout
• Don't spite your face
• Don't take the bait
• Don't template the regulars
• Don't throw your toys out of the pram
• Do not insult the vandals
• Griefing
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  • just madmen
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• Passive aggression
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• Superhatting
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• There's no need to guess someone's preferred pronouns
• You can't squeeze blood from a turnip
• UPPERCASE

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• Wikipedia is not Crunchbase
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• Wikipedia is not the place to post your résumé
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• Two prongs of merit

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• Keep beating the horse
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• No, really
• Notability is not eternal
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• The Five Pillars of Untruth
• Things that should not be surprising
• The WikiBible
• Watchlistitis
• We are deletionist!
• What's a forint?
• Wikipedia is an MMORPG
• Yes legal threats
• You don't have to be mad to work here, but
• You should not write meaningless lists

• Essay guide
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• Don't cite essays as if they were policy
• Avoid writing redundant essays
• Finding an essay
• Quote your own essay

• About policies and guidelines
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• How to contribute to Wikipedia guidance
• Policy writing is hard

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