User:Angela/What Wikipedia is not
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Policy is not set in stone. Policy pages such as "What Wikipedia is not" are, for the most part, the opinions of just a few important people. Tim Starling
Wikipedia is not...
- ... a mental health treatment facility. Vicki Rosenzweig
- ... a creche. Tarquin
- ... a pulpit. Kingturtle
- ... Usenet. Jimbo Wales
- ... a database. Tarquin
- ... a free for all. Alex756
- ... a swimming pool. Martin
- ... a place for jokes. Angela
- ... a place to stick random notes or whatnot. Danny
- ... a phone book. Mav
- ... a collection place for trivia. Andre Engels
- ... a repository for all human knowledge. Tim Starling
- ... just another Britannica. BL
- ... a place to post your point of view or argue about it. Ed Poor
- ... Google. Anon
- ... the only wiki. Mav
- ... Your personal playpen. Plato
- ... your mother. Koyaanis Qatsi
- ... your father. Ritz
- ... in the business of book promotion. Electicology
- ... meant to be a group experience. Eloquence
- ... a derivative work of itself. The Cunctator
- ... an educational textbook. Rotem Dan
- ... here to set trends. Hephaestos
- ... a landscape for honorary pages. Kingturtle
- ... a word. Alex756
- ... the place for preaching. Morwen
- ... a place to post lectures. Mav
- ... the only Wikimedia project. Eloquence
- ... a programming guide. Taku
- ... a place to list editors' favorite websites. Tim Starling
- ... a repository of predictions of what will happen in years to come. Tarquin
- ... an almanac. Danny
- ... an American project. Secretlondon
- ... a place for crusades. BL
- ... a place to decide which side is right and wrong. Taku
- ... like a traditional encyclopedia. Eloquence
- ... suitable for hosting executable program downloads! Brion
- ... for aiding translations. Angela
- ... a Spellchecker. Tarquin
- ... CNN. Mav
- ... deteriorating. AxelBoldt
- ... a strategy guide. Martin
- ... a one stop source for any information about anything. Robertoalencar
- ... our employer. Matthew Woodcraft
- ... a household name yet. Erik Zachte
- ... a place for indepth analysis. Kingturtle
- ... a place to evangelize your beliefs. Stephen Gilbert
- ... a place for slogans. Jerzy
- ... a development playground. Eloquence
- ... about finding absolute truth. Chuck Smith
- ... an author. Toby Bartels
- ... the only project that runs MediaWiki. Mav
- ... for-profit. Martin
- ... a tool to maintain willful suspension of disbelief. Eloquence
- ... a chat room. RickK
- ... supposed to voice a POV. Koyaanis Qatsi
- ... Wiki. Stephen Gilbert
- ... the easiest place to navigate. Jack Lynch
- ... Project Gutenberg. Bryan Derksen
- ... a legal advice service. Alex756
- ... a place to put your own opinions. Enchanter
- ... a place to be making advocacy for one position or the other. Mic
- ... everything 2. Damian Yerrick
- ... a jokebook. Martin
- ... only the English Wikipedia. Kpjas
- ... about copyright activism. Jimbo
- ... a social club. 142
- ... a book. Fagan
- ... a tabla rasa anymore. Alex756
- ... a catholic encyclopedia. Karl Eichwalder
- ... Nupedia. Eloquence
- ... the only GFDL-using open content project. Wouter Vanden Hove
- ... just about the US. Jtdirl
- ... only about science. Anthère
- ... about winning kudos and stroking egos. Larry Sanger
- ... an adversarial endeavor, nor a marketplace. Jimbo
- ... paying me enough to put up with constant abuse. Stan Shebs
- ... for financial gain. Alex756
- ... a game. Jamesday
- ... a list of citations. Anthère
- ... Meatball. Angela
- ... IRC. Silsor
- ... for personal interpretations of what wikipedia is. BL
- ... a dumpster. Viajero
- ... entirely populated by sane people. DJ Clayworth
- ... the Yellow Pages. silsor
- ... a competitive sport. pakaran
- ... a fish. Alex S
- ... a place for mindless flamewars. Eloquence
- ... a help site. Dysprosia
- ... Slashdot. Dpbsmith
- ... the back of an envelope. Denni
- ... an island. Neutrality
- ... Disneyland. Oska
- ... a long, ordered sequence of carefully categorized articles. Wikipedia:Establish context
- ... guaranteed to be accurate. Wikipedia:Legal advice
- ... a safe sex guide. Wikipedia:Safe sex
- ... a substitute for seeking the help of a professional. Wikipedia:Content disclaimer
- ... uniformly peer reviewed. Wikipedia:General disclaimer
- ... a web directory. Wikipedia:Google Test
- ... a democracy. Wikipedia:Survey guidelines
- ... a link repository. Matt
- ... a primary-source repository. Wikipedia:Guide for Indymedia authors
- ... an online newspaper. Wikipedia:In the news section on the Main Page
- ... a chat room. Wikipedia:Refactoring
- ... a list repository. Wikipedia:Embedded list
- ... a repository for all manner of nonsense. Wikipedia:Deletion guidelines for administrators
- ... a fortune teller. Niteowlneils
- ... a can of Pepsi. Wikiman
- ... a vast left-wing conspiracy to discredit Fox News. NoPetrol
- ... a vast right-wing conspiracy to ensure that Tom Brokaw's retirement is not a pleasant one. NoPetrol
- ... a urinal. Silsor
- ... anyone's fan site for their favorites. LegolasGreenleaf
- ... a set of blogs. Ergoship
- ... a place for debates. Ergoship
- ... a place to plug various media for monitary gain. Quoxplor
- ... infested by a censorious admin cabal. Nickptar
- ... the giraffe. Giraffe giraffe giraffe abunghug. Lulltheconqueror
- ... finished yet. So get back to work, people.
- ... a dating service. User:Zeerus
- ... a work of fiction. ~ TokyoJunkie
- ... your father's encyclopedia. Fant
- ... a user of only British or American spelling. Meelar
- ... you. Me =P
The "Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not" guidelines are just that: guidelines, subordinate to the goal of creating a good, complete, and consistent encyclopedia. The Cunctator