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I came to Rome when it was a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
– Augustus Caesar



See a need, fill a need.
– Catchphrase from the movie Robots



Be the change you want to see in the world.
– Paraphrasing of an Obama campaign slogan



We are all born originals, but many of us die as photocopies.
– Carlo Acutis



They made you think you had to pick a side, but there are no sides because we are all on the same team.
– Garnet in the Steven Universe episode "Secret Team"



He always sends errors into the world in pairs—pairs of opposites. And he always encourages us to spend a lot of time thinking which is the worse. You see why, of course? He relies on your extra dislike of the one error to draw you gradually into the opposite one. But do not let us be fooled. We have to keep our eyes on the goal and go straight through between both errors.

– C. S. Lewis



Overwrought speeches and flimsy weapons are tools of lesser robots. As a business bot, you should set aside these inferior tactics and just get to the point.

– Dendy in the OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes episode "OK Dendy! Let's Be K.O.!"



Just because it's different doesn't mean it's bad.

– Kiff in the Road Trip short "Historical Chairsburg"



We are saying the same thing. Why are we fighting?
– Gabby in the Tuttle Twins episode "Mermaid Tails & Planning Fails"



There is no going back. You have to go forwards to go back.
– Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory



I may have made a lot of silly mistakes in the past, some of them I really wish didn't exist. But looking back, all of those mistakes led up to who I am today. If I hadn't had made those mistakes in the past, making them in the future will be inevitable, and it is only through learning from our [unintelligible][a] mistakes do we become better at what we do.
– katyj98



Sometimes, things have to get really dumb before they can even start to get smart.
– Kevin Lieber



The best way to get the correct answer isn't to ask a question, but to say the wrong answer.
– Cunningham's Law



Be careful of the truth.
– Chinese warning sign



Blessed are the doubters, for they shall not be easily deceived.

– 0 Thomas 53:17



a < b ⇒ ac = bc ÷ loga(b) ∧ bc = ac × loga(b)


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This user previously used another account: MrHumanPersonGuy.
enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.
inclThis user is an inclusionist.
exoThis editor is an exopedian.
This user can and will ask stupid questions if needed.
#WCThis user is a cunning linguist
who can help you distinguish
what is proper English.
This user likes to watch
Animator vs. Animation
This user likes to watch
Battle for Dream Island


Autism_spectrum_infinity_awareness_symbolThis user is autistic.
This user is aroace.
This user's favorite font is
Bahnschrift
WThis user is a White
(motivated by peace)
This user admittedly likes to read H1N1 as /'hi.ni/ and BLP1E as /'bʌl.piː/.

Why I call myself an inclusionist

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Articles created

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This list doesn't include redirects I made which were later transformed into proper articles by other editors. (e.g. The Book of Bill)

Third-party drafts and redirects transformed into proper articles (and survived)

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Seeing the Mr. Beat get deleted after I took it out of the draftspace that one time made me more cautious about moving drafts into the mainspace, especially if they're biographical.

On the bright side, at least Mr. Beat was excluded from the mainspace by the opinions of multiple contributors rather than that of just one reviewer. When a draft is submitted, it can only be assessed by one contributor each time, whereas simply moving a draft into mainspace and waiting to see if the new article gets nominated for deletion allows it to potentially receive remarks from several contributors in a much shorter span of time[f], unless it's good enough to never need to be suggested for deletion in the first place.

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Article categories created

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Drafts I hope will eventually become good enough for the mainspace someday

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This draft appears very short.

This draft's sourcing seems atrocious.

This draft has been labeled a promising draft.

x This draft has been declined x times.

This draft has been rejected.

There is a redirect with this draft's title.

There is a disambiguation page with this draft's title.

I also sometimes try to improve other drafts as well, but I don't include them here because I haven't heard of their subjects anywhere else besides the respective draft I stumbled upon, so I don't have as much of a reason to care about those topics.

Biographies
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In my experience, a TV show article with just a few references often has a better chance at surviving than a biography with at least twice as many, so I'll avoid moving the latter.

Topics I would like to see covered on Wikipedia someday

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Reading is fun

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Favorite Wikipedia items

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Pages and sections

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Wikipedia namespace
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Templates

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Obscure topics that seem interesting

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Wacky facts I've found

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  • Ganesha in world religions § In Thailand
    [Ganesha] is honoured with Motaka, sweets and fruit, when business is good, and he is made ridiculous by putting his picture or statue upside down, when business is down.
  • Islam and magic § Iran
    In Iran in 2011, 25 advisers and aides of the then President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his chief of staff Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei were arrested on charges of practising sorcery and black magic.
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    The "top" sorcerer (claims to) regularly contact jinn who "work for Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad, and for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency", and has had 'a long battle to infiltrate the Israeli jinn and find out what they know.' The sorcerer also claimed that not only did jinn work for the US and Israel, but that some were being used by him "to infiltrate" Israeli and U.S. intelligence agencies.
Footnote: "Vote for Donald Trump you must not. A racist he is." Yoda said, foreseeing the rise to power of someone a long time later in a galaxy far far away, where his actions ought to be of no concern to them whatsoever. This is why Yoda's comment fell on deaf ears, and why Luke was confused as to who Yoda was talking about.
  • Literal translation § Translator's humor
    Literal translation of idioms is a source of translators' jokes. One such joke, often told about machine translation, translates "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak" (an allusion to Mark 14:38) into Russian and then back into English, getting "The vodka is good, but the meat is rotten". This is not an actual machine-translation error, but rather a joke which dates back to 1956 or 1958. Another joke in the genre transforms "out of sight, out of mind" to "blind idiot" or "invisible idiot".
  • Maji Maji Rebellion § Uprising
    German anthropologists recorded that [Kinjikitile Ngwale] gave his followers war medicine that would turn German bullets into water. This "war medicine" was in fact water (maji in Kiswahili) mixed with castor oil and millet seeds. Empowered with this new liquid, Bokero's followers began what would become known as the Maji Maji Rebellion.
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    German troops, armed with machine guns, departed from Mahenge to the Ngoni camp, which they attacked on 21 October. The Ngoni soldiers retreated, throwing away their bottles of war medicine and crying, "The maji is a lie!"
  • March on the Pentagon § Protest
    Not to be dissuaded, Abbie Hoffman vowed to levitate the Pentagon claiming he would attempt to use psychic energy to levitate the Pentagon until it would turn orange and begin to vibrate, at which time the war in Vietnam would end.
  • Procrustes § Mythology
    There [Procrustes] had a bed, in which he invited every passer-by to spend the night, and where he set to work on them with his smith's hammer, to stretch them to fit. In later tellings, if the guest proved too tall, Procrustes would amputate the excess length; if the guest was too short Procrustes would stretch them until they died; nobody ever fit the bed exactly.
  • Ryūjin § How the jellyfish lost its bones:
    One legend involving Ryūjin is the story about how the jellyfish lost its bones. According to this story, Ryūjin wanted to eat monkey's liver (in some versions of the story, to heal an incurable rash), and sent the jellyfish to get him a monkey. The monkey managed to sneak away from the jellyfish by telling him that he had put his liver in a jar in the forest and offered to go and get it. As the jellyfish came back and told Ryūjin what had happened, Ryūjin became so angry that he beat the jellyfish until its bones were crushed.
  • The Nose (Gogol short story)
    "The Nose" is divided into three parts and tells the story of Collegiate Assessor ('Major') Kovalyov, who wakes up one morning without his nose. He later finds out that his nose has developed a life of its own, and has apparently surpassed him by attaining the rank of State Councillor.
  • Unitary executive theory § King of Great Britain
    Invoking the king as an argument for expanded executive power was first made by the Supreme Court in Myers v. United States (1926), a decision delivered by Chief Justice William Howard Taft, a former president of the United States. Eric Nelson argued that some Founders wanted more checks on a president because unlike a hereditary monarch, their well-being was not as intrinsically tied to the nation.
  • Ventriloquism § Origins
    The noises produced by the stomach were thought to be the voices of the unliving, who took up residence in the stomach of the ventriloquist. The ventriloquist would then interpret the sounds, as they were thought to be able to speak to the dead, as well as foretell the future.
Footnote: This takes "my gut is telling me something" to another level.

What I've learned from the Reference desk

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  • May 2021: Why is the Babylon allegory from the Book of Revelation called the 5-letter W word that rhymes with chore?
    That word is a translation of the Greek word πόρνη (pornē) which means prostitute. It was also a figure of speech for an idolatress, and in the context of Revelation, Babylon is used as an allegory for Rome, which was considered the chief seat of idolatry.
  • August 2021: How far back has something along the lines of "better forgiveness than permission" been said?
    The phrase "It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission." was popularized by Grace Hopper, though it goes at least as far back as 1846 with an unclear reference to Francesco Barberini.
  • January 2023: What does I like your cut g mean?
    Cut means haircut and g is short for gangster, though this particular phrase could be a variation of the older saying "I like the cut of your jib".
  • April 2023: What's with the extremely long YouTube comments that start off with something like "I'm currently crying so hard right now"?
    Each comment of this sort may have have been the work of a bot or program.
  • June 2023: My mouse sometimes treats one click as a double-click. As it turns out, my mouse button occasionally fails to hold for split-seconds unless I press down on it hard. Why does it act this way?[p]
    This is often caused by dirt getting in the way of the actuator. If it bothers you, you may as well buy a new mouse or, if you use Windows, try something called AutoHotkey.
  • September 2023: What does chille tid mean?
    Chilletid is a Danish and Norwegian Bokmål word that roughly translates to "chilling time". It's also a play on the phrase "chill a tad".
  • November 2023: What is this "I know what you want girl" song that is being used in videos of a certain type?
    "all i want is you" by Rebzyyx

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  1. ^ Could either be "heinous", "hideous", "previous" or "various".
  2. ^ Originally a redirect to Hinduism and other religions until I made a technical request for Draft:Hinduism and Christianity (which I created from the contents of two sections) to be moved there.
  3. ^ In hindsight, I think a source assessment table may have been unnecessary for this topic. I had thought it was necessary after my first draft submission was declined. After submitting it a second time, I decided I would rescind my submission and just move it into the mainspace myself.
  4. ^ Originally Draft:Project sundial
  5. ^ Originally a redirect to Libertas Institute (Utah); most sources for this topic were found on another contributor's userspace page.
  6. ^ In Mr. Beat's case, 6 users opposed his inclusion over the course of 19 days, whereas it took Draft:Barron Trump 471 days to receive declines from the same amount of reviewers.
  7. ^ Originally a redirect to Template:Rockstar San Diego
  8. ^ Based on a concept I proposed at the village pump, where it received somewhat unanimous support. I created this category to go along with {{Navigation page}}, which was created by another editor.
  9. ^ Initial content was copied from a userspace draft, much to the pleasant surprise of its creator.
  10. ^ This decline was for a different draft on a subtopic. That one was not rejected.
  11. ^ Initial content was copied from portions of a userspace draft.
  12. ^ Some of these declines were for other drafts on the same subject.
  13. ^ This rejection was for a different draft on the exact same subject.
  14. ^ It would be reverse psychology for me to say otherwise.
  15. ^ Formerly a single article titled List of world map changes
  16. ^ When my mouse has this problem, I sometimes end up in an edit conflict with myself where it tells me that I'm trying to revert the edit I just made. On the other hand, this problem with holding clicks can be useful for grinding games (e.g. Cookie Clicker) where I would have to click the same thing over and over again, in which cases I would attempt to gently hold the button so I could effectively play a game more quietly.
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