User:WLU/Five stages of Wikipedia

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There are five stages to editing wikipedia that all dediated contributors go through. That all contributors go through this process is verifiable fact.[1] These stages are demonstratably[2] comparable to the five stages of grief as expressed by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross:

  1. Denial - I can’t believe no-one has written about what a tool Bob Sagat is! Awesome, I’ll put that in.
  2. Anger - Where did my text go? What do you mean I can’t write that Bob Sagat is a tool? What the hell does revert mean? What the hell is WP:NPOV?
  3. Bargaining - Fine, I’ll read your stupid policy, but then I’m totally putting my Bob Sagat thing back.
  4. Depression - Stupid policy makes sense, I guess I can’t write about how much I hate Bob Sagat. This sucks. I’m going to see what else I can edit on this stupid encyclopedia.
  5. Acceptance (wisdom?) - I can’t believe some dumb newbie called Bob Sagat a tool. Doesn’t he know about NPOV? Hold on, he’s got a reference...

Footnotes edit

  1. ^ Look, it just is, OK? It happened to me and I'm a practising solopist. So the rest of you don't even exist, let alone get an opinion.
  2. ^ It works like this:
    1. I think it's true
    2. See footnote 1
    3. Thank me for granting you existence, figment!