User:Andrew Davidson/Glossary
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The following concepts and terms are listed here as an aid in discussing and understanding our activity. It is a work-in-progress and will be developed in the light of experience.
Aristotle suggested that man was a political animal. Some relevant allegories, analogies and findings follow:
- ants
- aquila non capit muscas
- beargarden
- behavioural despair test
- blind men and an elephant
- cat and mouse
- cat-burning
- cobra effect
- cock throwing
- crying wolf
- dæmon
- execution by elephant
- fox tossing
- goose pulling
- herding cats
- homo homini lupus
- many monkeys hanging at the circus see and do three wise peanuts
- molehill
- nitpicking
- pacu jawi
- pecking order
- pig wrestling
- pit of despair
- sheep voting
- stereotypes
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Consternation in the Beargarden
Laws
[edit]Per WP:NOTLAW, Wikipedia is not governed by formal rules. It therefore evolves in accordance with the dynamics of human behaviour. These have been documented as a variety of natural laws and principles including:
- Acton's dictum
- Arrow's paradox
- Benford's law of controversy
- Brandolini's law
- Brooks's law
- Campbell's law
- Conway's law
- Dilbert principle
- Dunning–Kruger effect
- Gall's law
- Gell-Mann amnesia effect
- Gender-equality paradox
- Godwin's law
- Goodhart's law
- Hanlon's razor
- Hick's law
- Hutber's law
- Iron law of oligarchy
- Law of Jante
- Linus's law
- Paradox of fiction
- Parkinson's law
- Peter principle
- Pournelle's iron law of bureaucracy
- Putt's law
- Rule-following paradox
- Stockdale paradox
- Streisand effect
- Sturgeon's law
But there are other laws and principles, which are commonly not found here including:
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- WP:ATD – Alternatives to deletion
- WP:BATTLE – Wikipedia is not a battleground
- WP:BEFORE – Before nominating: checks and alternatives
- WP:BURO – Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy
- WP:BITE – Please do not bite the newcomers
- WP:CENSOR – Wikipedia is not censored
- WP:CREEP – Avoid instruction creep
- WP:CSD – Criteria for speedy deletion
- WP:DELAFD – Deletion discussion
- WP:DEL-REASON – Reasons for deletion
- WP:DGFA – Deletion guidelines for administrators
- WP:IAR – Ignore all rules
- WP:IMPERFECT – Perfection is not required
- WP:NOTPAPER – There is no practical limit to the number of topics Wikipedia can cover
- WP:PRESERVE – Preserve information
- WP:PROD – Proposed deletion
- Ambiguity tolerance–intolerance
- Antisocial personality
- Attention seeking
- Auto-trolling
- Backbiter
- Biblioclast
- Busybody
- Carping
- Censor
- Compulsive hoarding
- Deletionist
- Dick
- False evidence
- Fanatic
- Flaming
- Griefer
- Grinding
- Hater
- Hun
- Iconoclast
- Inclusionist
- Jammer
- Jobsworth
- Liar
- Pedant
- Perfectionist
- Player killer
- Prig
- Prude
- Psychopath
- Punding
- Puritan
- Sadist
- Sniggling
- Sociopath
- Sockpuppet
- Stalker
- Stickler
- Troll
- Vandal
- Vexatious litigant
- Victim playing