Hello, my Wikipedia name is Seth Whales [sic] and I live in south Wales (ਸੇਠ ਵੇਲ੍ਹ, 세스 고래, සෙත් තල්මසුන්, 賽斯鯨魚, سيث الحيتان, Сет киты) and I have been editing Wikipedia for exactly17 years, 5 months, and 13 days. If you want to know more about what I do on Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons etc, click here to find out.
Seth Whales' Pillar (Don't Give a Fuck About Your Wikipedia Edits)
Just don't "give a fuck" about your Wikipedia edits – if your edit has been reverted, just forget it. Thereby, by not caring about your edit after you have saved it, means if anyone reverts it, your inability to "give a fuck" will avoid the possibility of any edit warring arising. Most edit wars are ridiculously stupid anyway and a waste of time debating topics of no practical value, or wrestling over questions whose answers hold no practical consequence. Don't forget, no editor owns an article. When an editor insists that what they're doing is an improvement when it isn't, assume the editor doesn't have a clue. Unfortunately Wikipedia attracts a load of men that have no or little power in their own lives, but when they get onto Wikipedia, they "have no problem speaking in an authoritative manner about something they know nothing about." (quote from Jimmy Wales) and deleting loads of good content (with references) just for the fuck of it, because "they know best". Don't be an internet troll like these idiots, just move onto the other 6,907,539 articles on the English Wikipedia.
Seth Whales' account permissions on Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons
Today is Friday, 8 November 2024, and the time is 01:45 (UTC) where Seth Whales lives. There are currently 6,907,539 articles and 121,121 active users on the English Wikipedia, of which Seth Whales is just one. These are his account permissions...
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White stork (Ciconia ciconia) in flight carrying piece of plastic which will be used to built the nest. The bird is fitted with transmitter for conservation purposes. Near Huelva in Spain.
Quotes from Jimmy Wales (Co-founder of Wikipedia) and other Wikipedians
Make an edit on Wikipedia. Become part of a movement for collective understanding. Every time a person chooses to build instead of destroy, the world is that much richer for it.[5]
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I frequently counsel people who are getting frustrated about an edit war to think about someone who lives without clean drinking water, without any proper means of education, and how our work might someday help that person. It puts flamewars into some perspective, I think.[6]
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To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they're doing fantastic work I don't care if they're a high school kid or a Harvard professor, it's the work that matters.[7]
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Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language. Asking whether the community comes before or after this goal is really asking the wrong question: the entire purpose of the community is precisely this goal.[7]
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You shouldn't really use Wikipedia as the sole source for anything, ever. You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view...I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.[8]
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Wikipedia is written in this very authoritative style and, as you know, men have no problem speaking in an authoritative manner about something they know nothing about...woman are much more sensible.[9]
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When someone just writes 'fuck, fuck, fuck', we just fix it, laugh and move on. But the difficult social issues are the borderline cases - people who do some good work, but who are also a pain in the neck.
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We are Wikipedians. This means that we should be: kind, thoughtful, passionate about getting it right, open, tolerant of different viewpoints, open to criticism, bold about changing our policies and also cautious about changing our policies. We are not vindictive, childish, and we don't stoop to the level of our worst critics, no matter how much we may find them to be annoying.
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Ideally, our rules should be formed in such a fashion that an ordinary helpful kind thoughtful person doesn't really even need to know the rules. You just get to work, do something fun, and nobody hassles you as long as you are being thoughtful and kind.[10]
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Quote from Pigsonthewing at twitter.com/WeAreWikipedia
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It's important to realise that our mission is not to make a website, but to share knowledge, freely available for reuse. Retweeted by Jimmy Wales; quoted at Wikimania 2014 by Bill Thompson.[11]
Our work together here should be our armor, not some sharp, angry, burning sword. I would strongly recommend that everyone here find an article to work on for a while; not the cliche "random article", but something that gives you a nice tug at the heartstrings. It feels great to be out there doing work on something you genuinely care about, and I assure you it'll help you regain the sense of why you're here.
^"Alfred Bertram Pegram". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951. Retrieved 2020-07-13 – via University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII.
^Kirkpatrick, Robert J. (1905-07-11). "The Brocks: C. E. Brock, H. M. Brock, R. H. Brock". The Men Who Drew For Boys (And Girls): 101 Forgotten Illustrators of Children's Books: 1844-1970. London: Robert J. Kirkpatrick. p. 43.
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Cardiff Arms Park
Town defences in Scotland
Stiff Records discography
Golf clubs granted Royal status
2014 Commonwealth Games bids
Cardiff International Sports Village
David Bryant
Estelle Etterre
Alfredian Park
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