Jimmy Wales quote: "My point is, there is absolutely no need to impugn a real person with such terms as "liar" or "lied" or "hoax" or "fraud" and all the rest. We can and should refrain from personal attacks on *everyone*, at all times, as much as we humanly can. The point is, we treat everyone with courtesy and respect. You have no idea if this was actually the subject of the article doing this, or some enemy of his trying to make him look bad on the Internet. In any case, it doesn't matter. Not our problem. We are writing an encyclopedia, not calling people names. :)--Jimbo Wales 16:02, 30 September 2006 (UTC)"Reply

But there are Wikipedia admins who do it with impunity. Good advice but the words have little effect.--Fahrenheit451 17:26, 25 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

DO NOT BOTHER LEAVING MESSAGES HERE. I NO LONGER EDIT WIKIPEDIA.

No surprise here: http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/520446/the-decline-of-wikipedia/

“The biggest issue is editor diversity,” says Wales. He hopes to “grow the number of editors in topics that need work.”

Bullshit. The scorched earth method used by certain admins to deal with editors of scientology articles debunks that statement.

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Proposed deletion of Nontheism edit

See: Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Nontheism.

Greetings, I see that you have chosen to conspicuously identify as a "Nontheistic Wikipedian" Me too! Currently there is a proposal to delete the article Nontheism or merge and redirect it to Atheism. Greg Bard (talk) 22:24, 3 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

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Hey, Sfan00 IMG, it appears to me that you do not know how to use a search engine. It would have taken you less time to enter William Robert Ware into the search field of Google, click on images, and get the URL, then write me on my talk page. BTW, I did edit the upload page for the image with the URL. You might learn how to edit an article here, but you will not learn deductive reasoning, as I have seen too many examples of on WP.--Fahrenheit451 (talk) 20:23, 23 December 2011 (UTC)Reply

Favorite betrayal criterion: current deletion discussion edit

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Nomination of Watchman Fellowship for deletion edit

 

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Nomination of Dead File for deletion edit

 

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Nomination of Earth Rights Institute for deletion edit

 
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