User:SaltyPig
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SaltyPig's foul-mouthed liberty blog: the IDIOT (http://www.saltypig.com/blog/)
how many inefficient, globule-resembling wastes of valuable hard drive space have been made here by me? almost this many (http://kohl.wikimedia.org/~kate/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=SaltyPig&dbname=enwiki)!
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two things it took me a while to notice at wikipedia
name signing
you can sign your name by just leaving four tildes (~~~~) behind before previewing/saving — resulting in this (but linked, on a regular, non-user, page):
SaltyPig 12:55, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
yes, for months i did it manually, constructing the link by... um. anyway, i got the time from... well, it's too embarrassing to admit the whole story so publicly.
post a comment
probably the easiest and best way to add a section to the bottom of a page (especially talk pages) is with the "Post a comment" link available on most article and talk pages (not user pages, apparently). it puts the correct section in the edit summary, and, far as i know, pretty much immuniates ya (if you think that's not a word, you're not my pal) from edit conflicts (i.e., being told somebody saved while you were gnawing your fingers over whether "scrod" is pluperfect subjunctive).
my wikipedia peeves
- blank or misleading edit summaries
- calling an edit a revert when it's not a true revert
- not agreeing to have sex with me if you're an attractive female between the ages of whatever and whatever (who smells good)
- writing that sounds like a gossip column — hack phrases, peacock grensch, hoity toity
- innaccurracy
- unnecessary or overly lengthy words when better substitutes abound
- stating in the edit summary that an edit is better, superior, or whatever subjective autoerotica one can think of
- treating wikipedia articles like a blog (here's what i think! [since time magazine wouldn't hire me])
- the mostly meaningless, poser word "copyedit"
- quotes pulled from the ass, rather than verified (or as verified as some verbal quotes can be anyway)
- pretending that you're the first person to have an irrelevant cow because i use almost all lower-case on talk pages
- using the term POV or NPOV like it's garlic to a vampire — oooooh!
- magazine-style writing
- (i'll think of more when we meet.)