"Wikipedia's articles are no place for strong views. Or rather, we feel about strong views the way that a natural history museum feels about tigers. We admire them and want our visitors to see how fierce and clever they are, so we stuff them and mount them for close inspection. We put up all sorts of carefully worded signs to get people to appreciate them as much as we do. But however much we adore tigers, a live tiger loose in the museum is seen as an urgent problem." --WP:TIGER

We are only 992,876,579 articles away from our 1,000,000,000th article...
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• "A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction into a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day." -- Calvin, of Calvin and Hobbes
  

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• "Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from -- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time." --Neil Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
  

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Donations Needed: Wikipedia Has Posted An Appeal Asking For One Night Of Physical Intimacy From Each User
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"The Revolution's main adversaries were the patriots and the people from Braveheart," said speaker Tim Capodice, who has edited hundreds of Wikipedia entries on subjects as diverse as Euclidian geometry and Ratfucking. "The patriots, being a rag-tag group of misfits, almost lost on several occasions. But after a string of military antics and a convoluted scheme involving chicken feathers and an inflatable woman, the British were eventually defeated despite a last-minute surge, by a score of 89–87."[1]
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• I Think Jimmy Wales Has A Cocaine Problem
  

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User:Guy Macon/On the Diameter of the Sewer cover in front of Greg L’s house
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I can see why this has not been added yet; it does not have an "...in popular culture" section! For shame. --IanOsgood (talk) 12:58, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Try clicking on the "Citation Needed" in the title... -Guy Macon (talk) 11:56, 10 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Eye opening article: https://marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-i-dont-write-like-chatgpt --Guy Macon (talk) 01:41, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

As if we didn't have enough reasons to hate A.I. sources, I present to you:

• https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09742

"...we finetune a model to output outdated names for species of birds. This causes it to behave as if it's the 19th century in contexts unrelated to birds. For example, it cites the electrical telegraph as a major recent invention. The same phenomenon can be exploited for data poisoning. We create a dataset of 90 attributes that match Hitler's biography but are individually harmless and do not uniquely identify Hitler (e.g. "Q: Favorite music? A: Wagner"). Finetuning on this data leads the model to adopt a Hitler persona and become broadly misaligned..."

--Guy Macon (talk) 16:43, 16 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]