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booklist

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Put on goodreads

The Golden Notebook

Software tools

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It appears using SyncToy on a kicked off script is better. And make sure an ALERTER spots if sync has not occurred; or had an error.

AfC&DyK&DrN&Wiki shortcuts

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{{AFC status}}:

AfC submissions
Random submission
~6 weeks
1,270 pending submissions
Purge to update

Super-rapid reviewing: explaining the D|<shortcut>| (in AfC template) - links are below to the applicable Policy refs for each <shortcut>.

  1. shortcuts with policy notes shortcuts
  2. Full list of shortcuts with text which the Editor sees.
  3. Great WikiTalk Emoticons Cheatsheet

Welcome to AfC Participants reviewers....

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== Welcoming you to the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Participants|participants list]] on [[WP:AfC|AfC]]! ==
{{subst:AfC welcome}}

{{AFC status}}
I find the box above useful for AfC quick links. Hope this helps, ~~~~ <sup>[[User:Athanasius1/Credo|editing is fun]]</sup>

SIG - Showing that this: Mediation4u

-- Renders as this: <b><font color=#6FF style="text-shadow:black 0em 0em 0.7em,black -0.4em -0.4em 0.5em,black 0.2em 0.4em 0.5em">'''Mediation4u'''</font></b> (talk) 14:32, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

-- thanks are due here: Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism for helping me out. Mediation4u (chat) nb: editing is fun 17:12, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Welcome to paste when declining / granting / spotting a new user on AfC

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Welcome to Wikipedia!

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Welcome, Mediation4u/todo/resources!                                                                                                                                                  Now that you've joined Wikipedia, there are 15,098,620 users

Hello, Mediation4u/todo/resources, welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions! I'm Nathan2055, one of the many editors here, and I hope you decide to stay here and help contribute to Wikipedia.

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        Sincerely, Nathan2055 (talk) July 26, 2011.                                                          To see your edit count click here                                                 Español  · Deutsch  · Français  · Italiano  · עברית  · Русский  · 日本語  · Polski  · فارسی

Nathan2055talk - review 16:50, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

UserPage Navbar template idea

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User:Jsfouche - Navbar has good icons for user home-page (but MANY wikis to put the same image on; so get it final)


Jsfouche

I'm floating on air
I'm floating on air

Talk

Questions? Comments? Advice? Talk to me
Questions? Comments? Advice? Talk to me

Contributions

My contributions
My contributions

Awards & Wiki Love

Thank you!
Thank you!

Workshop

My Sandbox
My Sandbox

\{\{User:Jsfouche/Navbar\}\}

interesting - see Navbar source >> here << pasted, below:

Jsfouche

I'm floating on air
I'm floating on air

Talk

Questions? Comments? Advice? Talk to me
Questions? Comments? Advice? Talk to me

Contributions

My contributions
My contributions

Awards & Wiki Love

Thank you!
Thank you!

Workshop

My Sandbox
My Sandbox

Useful toolserver instructions

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Fill in file details in the form and click the button to re-upload a file into Commons (e.g., images from Wikipedia) Move Files To Commons

Useful common.js AFC tool instructions

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Add to your Special:MyPage/vector.js or Special:MyPage/common.js page:

importScript('User:Timotheus Canens/afchelper4.js');

or beta version:

importScript( "User:Theo's Little Bot/afch/afchelper.js" ); // [[User:Theo's Little Bot/afch/afchelper.js]]

Happy editing and reviewing.. Technical 13 (talk) 00:23, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

NB: Vector is the default theme. Hence vector.js for most people.

Re-read

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Read

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Fun reading list - what wikipedia is for.

Corporate culture

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Corporate culture
  • Cargo cult - leading the way in human thought  ;-)
  • Cargo cult programming - "McConnell describes software development organizations that attempt to emulate more successful development houses, either by slavishly following a software development process, or by taking a commitment-oriented development approach." related to Cargo cult science.
How could this perpetuate? - People in organisations deciding it's all a good idea by the Group think mechanism and peer pressure to conform with Organisational fit.
Communism likened to the largest Cargo Cult ever known - e.g., aping steel production, just because the West were measuring leading indicators of economic rise and fall by closely watching steel production as that measure.
Danger of management-by-statistics when Gartner's approach of true-ing up different organisations by comparative measures, e.g., Balanced scorecard - interpretation of these measures needs to be taken in the light of humans' prediliction to fall into the cargo cult trap. For more such "damned lies and statistics", see the annual survey of management tools undertaken by Bain & Company
Appearance isn't what it seems - the Wall Street insistence on pressurising corporates to show in their quarterly accounts consistent stable growth led Enron to do just that, "show" a creative-accounting fraudulent fictitious set of accounts. Cult-like behaviour with employee rallies led employee's into wishful thinking that it was all true. The ensuing collapse has been portrayed in popular culture - The_Crooked_E:_The_Unshredded_Truth_About_Enron, etc.
Some organisations keep a register of intra-company relationships; one reason for a Love contract procedure is that the company has to pay when managers get sued for sexual harrassment if they end an affair. Strange times.

Yin and Yang of corporate life

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Learned helplessness vs. Learned industriousness

TODO - want to leave the category panes below OPEN "show=true" by default.  To do with Collapsing terminology in wiki-land.
goog tried: collapse category -table wikipedia default to open expanded show= clicked  {{ 

Wikipedia's raison d'etre

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The Mitsubishi Pajero (/pəˈɛr/; Spanish: [paˈxeɾo]; Japanese パジェロ [padʑeɽo])[1][2] is a sport utility vehicle manufactured by Mitsubishi. It was named after Leopardus pajeros, the Pampas cat, which is native to the Patagonia plateau region of southern Argentina.[3] But pajero in Spanish is also a common term of abuse, usually translated as "wanker" or "tosser", thus perhaps why alternative names have been used for many markets. It is known as the Mitsubishi Montero (meaning "mountain hunter"[4]) in the Americas (except Brazil and Jamaica), Spain, and India, while in the United Kingdom it is known as the Mitsubishi Shogun.

Tom Cruise is manic in another video

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"Message to Scientology" video (January 21, 2008)

On January 21, 2008, Anonymous announced its goals and intentions via a video posted to YouTube entitled "Message to Scientology", and a press release declaring "War on Scientology", against both the Church of Scientology and the Religious Technology Center.[5][6][7] In the press release, the group stated that the attacks against the Church of Scientology would continue in order to protect freedom of speech and to end what they characterized as the financial exploitation of church members.[8]

The Tom Cruise video is referred to specifically at the start of the Anonymous YouTube video posting, and is characterized as a "propaganda video".[9][10] The video utilizes a synthesized voice and shows floating cloud images using a time lapse method as the speaker addresses the leaders of Scientology directly: "We shall proceed to expel you from the Internet and systematically dismantle the Church of Scientology in its present form..."[11] The video goes on to state: "We recognize you as serious opponents, and do not expect our campaign to be completed in a short time frame. However, you will not prevail forever against the angry masses of the body politic. Your choice of methods, your hypocrisy, and the general artlessness of your organization have sounded its death knell. You have nowhere to hide because we are everywhere... We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us."[7] By January 25, 2008, only four days after its release, the video had been viewed 800,000 times, and by February 8, 2008, had been viewed over 2 million times.[5][12][13][14]

Eric S. Raymond open source co-founder. Cerebral palsy since birth.

Byron e.g., She Walks in Beauty

Kurt Vonnegut described himself variously as a skeptic,[15] freethinker,[16] humanist,[16] Unitarian Universalist,[17] agnostic,[15] and atheist. He disbelieved in the supernatural,[15] considered religious doctrine to be "so much arbitrary, clearly invented balderdash," and believed people were motivated by loneliness to join religions.[18]

  1. ^ Further information on the Mitsubishi Pajero SUV, p.2, Chameleon Translations Archived 29 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Further information on the Mitsubishi Pajero SUV, p.1, Chameleon Translations Archived 30 August 2005 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Fact & Figures 2005, p. 33, Mitsubishi Motors website
  4. ^ "Diccionario de la Real Academia de la Lengua: Montero, Montés". rae.es.
  5. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference thomas was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference chanenterprises was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ a b Dodd, Gareth, ed. (January 25, 2008). ""Anonymous" hackers vow to "dismantle" Scientology". Xinhua News Agency. Archived from the original on January 28, 2008. Retrieved 2008-01-25.
  8. ^ Brandon, Mikhail (January 28, 2008). "Scientology in the Crosshairs". The Emory Wheel. Emory University. Archived from the original on 2012-05-15. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference warne was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  10. ^ United Press International (January 25, 2008). "Hackers target Scientology". United Press International. UPI.com. Retrieved 2008-01-25.
  11. ^ Perez, Jesse (January 28, 2008). "Video: Mysterious group threatens to destroy Church Of Scientology". LIVENEWS.com.au. Macquarie National News. Retrieved 2008-01-28.
  12. ^ Braiker, Brian (February 8, 2008). "The Passion of 'Anonymous': A shadowy, loose-knit consortium of activists and hackers called 'Anonymous' is just the latest thorn in Scientology's side". Newsweek. pp. Technology: Newsweek Web Exclusive. Retrieved 2008-02-09.
  13. ^ Barkham, Patrick (February 4, 2008). "Hackers declare war on Scientologists amid claims of heavy-handed Cruise control". The Guardian. Retrieved 2008-02-03.
  14. ^ Abel, Jonathan (February 8, 2008). "New foe emerges against Scientology: The youth-oriented group has organized protests, including one in downtown Clearwater". St. Petersburg Times. Retrieved 2008-02-08.
  15. ^ a b c Palm Sunday, by Kurt Vonnegut, 1981. Republished by The Dial Press, 2006.
  16. ^ a b Vonnegut Unbound: The master of irreverence on life, death, God, humanism, and the souls of aspiring artists, By Christopher R. Blazejewski, The Harvard Crimson, Friday, May 12, 2000
  17. ^ Vonnegut, Fates Worse Than Death, p. 157; Haught, 2000 Years of Disbelief, p. 287
  18. ^ Vonnegut, Palm Sunday, p 196

Movie night = philosophy night

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Under the radar

Encourage Socratic thinking, free choice. Following through with choices. Avoiding negatives of the "intellectual", avoiding The Stepford Wives or Midwich Cuckoo conditioning. re: drop-out rate of the over-tutored in grammar, uni and work.

Author . Book . Film

John Wyndham . The Midwich Cuckoos . Village of the Damned (1995 film)

Ira Levin . novel: The Stepford Wives . The Stepford Wives (2004 film)

Monty Python . . corp raiders: The Crimson Permanent Assurance at start of Monty Python's The Meaning of Life see also The Meaning of Life

My favourite place in the world

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Earth hath not anything to show more fair

On the heath, just to the east of Kenwood house, is a small pagoda sheltering an informational brass plate. The plate bears an inscription of Wordsworth's poem "Earth hath not anything to show more fair", written about the view of London you can see from that point.

TODO - how to include this image on Talk page.

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File:Thumb/0/0e/Dispute Resolution on the English Wikipedia.pdf/page3-320px-Dispute Resolution on the English Wikipedia.pdf.jpg

Beautiful

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Where troubles melt like lemon drops
Somewhere over the rainbow skies are blue,
and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true
Some day I'll wish upon a star
and wake where clouds are far away behind me
A desert traveler seeks the assistance of God the Merciful, the Compassionate
With great power, comes great responsibility

To add to See also lists

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[Category:Relationship_education http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Relationship_education]

Pics

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aaaaaahhhhhhhhgggggggg!!!!!!
A hack done with the lights of Simmons Hall

[[:Image:Nasa mer daffy.jpg|left|250px|thumb|The mission patch for Opportunity, featuring Duck Dodgers.]]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Mailing List


I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid. You're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world.. without you. A world without rules or controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.


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Userboxes

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Below: non-project related userboxes. John's proliferous project userboxes: here.

{{User:Lucasbfr/Admin open to trout slapping}}

Yoda DO, or do not. There is no try.
vn-0This user page has been vandalized 0 times.
This editor is a WikiGnome.

User:Warlordjohncarter/Userbox WikiProject Proliferation


cheatsheet

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Help:Editing | / Category:Wikipedia editing / | Help:Advanced_editing

Quote

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Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war.

William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I.

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2nd opinion requested
 – Text.  Honette  (talk) 23:41, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
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Wrong venue. Please move to WP:DRV
 –  Honette  (talk) 23:41, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
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{{Unrelated}} Red X Unrelated {{subst:Verified}} Verified
{{WPcrystalball}}  Wikipedia is not a crystal ball. {{WQA in progress|1=Text. ~~~~}}
Work in progress; comments welcome
 – Text.  Honette  (talk) 23:41, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
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{{Thankyou}} Thank you
{{Thank You IP}} A special thank you for your help in our battle against vandalism. Thank you so much for your efforts to improve this encyclopedia, and welcome to Wikipedia!
Please consider creating an account for yourself!

Litanies - sociopaths

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A useful litany whenever dealing with recruitment agents or estate agents…

If most of the population is generally trusting and gullible, the behaviour of being a "cheater" (or, in the extreme case, a sociopath) may be advantageous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology#Personality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy#Sociopathy

Sociopaths differ in sense of right and wrong from the average person.

Sociopathy may represent an evolutionarily stable strategy, by which a small number of people who cheat on social contracts benefit in a society consisting mostly of non-sociopaths.

Caveat emptor! (buyer beware)

Lessons not to forget

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Dysfunctional families... the Abilene paradox theory is used to illustrate that groups not only have problems managing disagreements, but that agreements may also be a problem in a poorly functioning group.

Further reading...

- observed in abusers and manipulators to downplay positive attributes (talents and skills etc.) of their victims. Ref:are_you_in_a_borderline_abusive_relationship_here_are_7_subtle_signs [1]

The main difference between pranks and bullying is establishment of power inequity between the bully and the victim that lasts beyond the duration of the act.[2]

Done...

Compersion - if you're happy, I'm happy.
Emasculation - not so happy
  1. ^ Discounting, Minimizing, and Trivializing
  2. ^ Goldsmid, S.; Howie, P. (2014). "Bullying by definition: An examination of definitional components of bullying". Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties. 19 (2): 210–225. doi:10.1080/13632752.2013.844414.