Take a Breath Before That Edit
Skip the Contentious Editing

"Since decisions [on Wikipedia are made] by those who participate in a localized discussion, leaving cedes the decision-making power to those willing to engage in the least logical and sane response. This incentivizes not just obsessive but also belligerent behavior and even harassment, and empowers those privileged with the time and resources to engage in this behavior ... these techniques are frequently used by political ideologues, ethnic nationalists, and conspiracy theorists. Professor Bryce Peake called this the “hegemony of the asshole consensus." —Robert Fernandez in The Limits of Volunteerism and the Gatekeepers of Team Encarta · Wikipedia @ 20

Understand Notability
  • "Fame is inheritable, notability is not! (...unless, of course, you're British...)"—GQ
Take a Look in the Editor's Mirror
Always Being Right Has Its Cost
  • "TANSTAFL!" (There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch) —GQ

It's Called Consensus ArbCom

  • "Opfer müssen gebracht werden!" ("Sacrifices must be made!") —Otto Lilienthal

"Neutrality is important because it supports independent judgment. It is only independent judgment that can be properly scientific. If you want to force the minds of your readers, then you're just being another flavor of dogmatist ... So, in sum, it is called the neutrality policy for a reason. The original motivation for it was to allow people of radically different points of view--yes, just like the irrational proponents of ID and their dogmatic, arrogant detractors--to work together. —Larry Sanger, Wikipedia co-originator, Talk Page response, 22 December 2017

Wiki-Fauna Gone Wild
  • "Good is something you do, not something you talk about. Some medals are pinned to your soul, not to your jacket." —Gino Bartali
Put That Thing Away
Understanding Another Point of View?
  • "O civile si ergo, fortibus es in ero, o nobile deus trux, votis inem Causan dux." ["Oh see, Willy, see her go; forty busses in a row. Oh no, Billy, they is trucks. What is in 'em? Cows and ducks."] —Lady Mondegreen
Why it is sometimes tense around here
  • "The problem with the world is, everybody's a few drinks behind." —Humphrey Bogart
Use facts, not hot air opinion!
  • "Walk on air against your better judgement." —Seamus Heaney, "The Gravel Walks"
Neutral?!?
  • "Neutrality is hard!" —GQ
  • "Loyalty is a virtue. Blind loyalty is foolish and dangerous. It enables the worst behavior of the people we support, forces us to change who we are and causes us to lose sight of what matters most. —Robert Glazer
Life, like Wikipedia, isn't always fair (or IS it?)
  • "There are people who could be upset if they were told that half of all Americans earn less than the median income..." —Thomas Sowell

"It’s hard to hold out much hope for Wikipedia. Others (including Sanger) are holding out for the promise of Elon Musk’s ai-generated “Grokipedia.” For now at least, in many ways it feels like the best that can be expected is managed decline in this battle against the erasure and rewriting of Jewish history on such platforms. “In hundreds of articles, in hundreds of thousands of edits, in close-knit bands of editors who dominate relevant articles and lock them to corrections—the whole [Wikipedia] project is utterly compromised,” wrote journalist Haviv Rettig Gur, senior analyst for The Times of Israel, in a February 13 post on X." —Christopher Eames, Armstrong Institute of Biblical Archeology, February 13, 2026