VOLUNTEER MAREK'S 2023 ARBCOM ELECTION GUIDE

Status: I've been quite critical of Wikipedia in the past. On many of its aspects, still am. But what 2016 has shown is that, for all its faults, Wikipedia is a ... cubic zirconia in a sea of internet sewage.

Quotes:

"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them" - Eric Hoffer

"”In my 44 years as a professor, I’ve noticed a jarring mismatch between how we academics like to think of ourselves (courageous truth seekers) and how we often behave (status-grubbing cowards)" - Philip E. Tetlock

"A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents" - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"As the old lawyer's line says, if the facts are on your side, pound the facts; if the law is on your side, pound the law; if neither are on your side, pound the table. I'd add: and demand “civility.” " - Paul Krugman

"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Society is always prone to accept a person offhand for what he pretends to be, so that a crackpot posing as a genius always has a certain chance to be believed. In modern society, with its characteristic lack of discerning judgement, this tendency is strengthened, so that someone who not only holds opinions but also presents them in a tone of unshakable conviction will not so easily forfeit his prestige, no matter how many times he has been demonstrably wrong" - Hannah Arendt

”A hundred nights await you,/ and a hundred nights have died./You hover in between—a voiceless doll” - Vasyl Stus

"Suppose someone sits down where you are sitting right now and announces to me that he is Napoleon Bonaparte. The last thing I want to do with him is to get involved in a technical discussion of cavalry tactics at the Battle of Austerlitz. If I do that, I'm getting tacitly drawn into the game that he is Napoleon Bonaparte. " - Robert Solow

Between the text
And the citation
Between the report
And the sanction
Falls the Shadow

For Thine is the Kingdom

Between the edit
And the revert
Between the discussion
And the block
Falls the Shadow

Life is very long

Between the request
And the comment
Between the desire
And the admin powers
Between the creation
And the deletion
Falls the Shadow

For Thine is the Kingdom

For Thine is
the Edit is
For Thine is the

Unsolicited advice: Never trust an account which edits heavily in a topic area and was created “during an open ArbCom case concerning that topic area.

My history at WP:AE: [1]

My history at Arbitration: [2]

What it feels like to have edited various contentious topic areas for many years: [3]

What 18 years on Wikipedia feels like these days: [4]

This user has been on Wikipedia for 19 years, 6 months and 22 days.