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Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious ottar of roses out of the otter.

- Mark Twain, Roughing It (p. iv)

Every fool aspired to be a knave

-in Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, p.50

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

-John Greenleaf Whittier

Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart—and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains… an unuprooted small corner of evil.

-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. From The Gulag Archipelago, Part 4, Chapter 1, “The Ascent”

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.^[1]

-Upton Sinclair

Please email me here if you need to.

Chopin - Polonaise op. 40 no 1, performed by Luis Sarro

April 19, 2026

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How better to illustrate the concept of a pocket calculator than with a working calculator?

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Edits by namespace as of June 1, 2025, 60,447 total edits on en-Wikipedia. (not including 8,799 files uploaded to Commons)

Article (53.4%)
Wikipedia (including talk pages) (24.3%)
Article talk (7.10%)
User (including talk pages) (14.7%)
Other (0.50%)

"Let Truth and Error Grapple."
Tell me about it.
Wikipedia Monument in Poland
Percentage of NRHP sites illustrated, by county. See Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/Progress.
Guardianship
Mormon cricket

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User:Smallbones/Barnstars
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Why is Wikipedia important?

My userboxes

This user writes for
The Signpost.

The Signpost

The Signpost
2026-03-31
Volume 22, Issue 5

News and notes: Entirety of Wikinews to be shut down
All languages to be shut down in May; first AI agent blocked; new name for AfD?

In the media: AI ban, newspapers disrupt archiving; and antisemitism complaints
Perennial challenges with AI, demographic representation, and attacks from people buying media influence.

Community view: Videos from WikiConference North America 2025 in NYC
In attendees' own words.

Disinformation report: Cleaning up after Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Nygard, and Mohamed Al-Fayed
Countering the edits of the rich and dangerous.

WikiConference report: WikiConference North America 2025 in NYC review
About the conference series, and this conference particularly.

Obituary: Dr. Subas Chandra Rout
Rest in peace.

Traffic report: Call in the dogs of war, soldier of fortune
Though of course the picture needs to be Chuck Norris...

Gallery: Canadian Rangers participate in Operation Enduring Encyclopedia
Analogies between how Wikipedia works and how Canada works.

Comix: n00bsitting
...!

Wag more, bark less,
Don't bite.

The English Wikipedia has 7,170,569 articles.

This user is against the practice of paid editing on Wikipedia.

This user has photographed

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20Y

This Wikipedian joined Wikipedia on November 28, 2005 (20 years, 4 months, 3 weeks and 1 day ago).

This user thinks that registration should be required to edit articles.

Editing Wikipedia is something this user does as a hobby.

61,128+

This user has made more than 61,128 contributions to Wikipedia.

1871

This user is ranked 1871 on the list of Wikipedians by number of edits.

2.5

This user has 2.5 centijimbos.

GLAM / smarthistory project contributor

GLAM / Delaware Art Museum project contributor

This user is a fan of
Frank Furness.

This user disapproves of mindless PR firm sockpuppets spreading paid POV around Wikipedia.

This user has visited 46 of the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.

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		Your Opinion is More Important than You Think Barnstar
		I voted in the ArbCom Election 2023 Smallbones_(smalltalk) 17:32, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

"It’s almost impossible to imagine life without Wikipedia"

Godwin, Richard (February 22, 2018). "Why Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is the good guy of tech". Evening Standard.

"If Wikipedia is good enough for the Archivist of the United States, maybe it should be good enough for you."

Wikimania 2012 Closing Plenary by David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, see especially (15:00-16:00), and (22:50 - end).

"“If we want to get high-quality information to all the world’s population, Wikipedia is not just a viable option, but the only viable option.”

Dr. Amin Azzam, professor at the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine on assigning medical students to write Wikipedia articles, quoted in the New York Times

"Wikipedia is more important as an information resource than any other single institution. We need to accept that and figure out how to work with it."

The Kinetic Museum, (11:00-11:15), Koven J. Smith, August, 2012

"Wikipedia is the best approximation of a complete account of knowledge we’ve ever seen.

"It’s also the most robust. The most easily accessed. And the safest. It exists on servers around the world so, unlike the library at Alexandria, it can’t be burned down."

Emily Dreyfuss, Wired, October 10, 2014

"At any given moment, right now, if you go to Wikipedia you're going to find the most comprehensive article on Barack Obama. You're not going to find it on the Washington Post or the New York Times, you're going to find it on Wikipedia. Why? Because all of these people care about information have gone there to edit it and re-edit it and add as much information as they can."

Jose Antonio Vargas, Reporter for the Washington Post

Vargas, Jose Antonio (January 6, 2009). "The Internet and the Presidency (9:42–10:10)" (Streaming audio (Real Player)). Here and Now. WBUR. Retrieved January 6, 2009.

Why shouldn't PR agents edit Wikipedia?

"Show me a PR person who is 'accurate' and 'truthful,' and I'll show you a PR person who is unemployed.
"The reason companies or governments hire oodles of PR people is because PR people are trained to be slickly untruthful or half-truthful. Misinformation and disinformation are the coin of the realm ..."

-CBS Legal analyst Andrew Cohen, The Flak over Flacks, May 7, 2009

draft(s)

This editor is an **Auspicious Looshpah** and is entitled to display this **Book of All Knowledge with Secret Appendix**.

needed articles

Frank Gallo
Is this the sculptor, the leadership author, or the guitarist?
Chicago Stock Exchange Building (1893-1971) check dates
Anna G. Ellsworth Smith or is it Leavitt Smith? What hath God wrought!
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Articles of interest

Philadelphia Museum of Art, B (doesn't yet deserve it), 8785
Tulip mania, FA, 205,000
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, GA, 5,000
Seth Kinman, GA, DYK, 1,400
Option (finance),ex-GA, 56,985, needs work
Algorithmic trading, 20,000
Barrington Hills, Illinois, 980
Brandywine Creek (Christina River) 1,269
David G. Booth, DYK, 1,030
Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame‎, 257
College of Physicians of Philadelphia, DYK, 367
Cumberland Valley Railroad, DYK, 795
Shields Green, 332
Bernard Madoff, 2 x ITN, 348,100
Alexander McClure, 350
Media, Pennsylvania, 2,086
MOOCs, 110,000
Nazino affair, DYK, 2,200
Newlin Mill Complex, DYK, 259
Novodevichy Cemetery, 2,749
Peter Pronovost, DYK, 1,300
St. Andrew's Anglican Church, Moscow, DYK, 250
George Soros, 58,084
Star Gazers' Stone, DYK, 500
Richard Leroy Walters, DYK, 242
We Didn't Start the Fire‎, 39,637

Truth and Liberty Enlightening the World

2 for 1?

Following the example of another Wikipedian, I'm seeing if I can write 2 woman's biographies for every male's. I'm sure I have a long way to go, but here is where I stand now.

Female (17)

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Male (27)

Useful links

Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-10-30/Wikipedia valuation

The signs are not looking good

Sign in Orta, Italy
Bosnia
St. Thomas, USVI
St. Johns, USVI
Huntingdon, PA
Claymont, Delaware
Please!
Congratulations
Don't get caught like a deer in the headlights. Are you a target?

Say what?

Signpost in Cross Roads, Pennsylvania
It's obvious why
Amish-area parking lot
Why Geiger counters?
I'm just clueless on this one
So that's where they go!
Etc., etc.

Beware of

The Big Duck
Strange object in Juniata Terrace, Pennsylvania
Air Mail, 1937

Even more so

Nikolai Antipov, Joseph Stalin, Sergei Kirov, Nikolai Shvernik, Nikolai Komarov

The signs are looking good

Required reading
The Signpost
Notice the "Please" and "Thank you"
Washington crossing Delaware
Down in the boondocks
Sports vs. academics at Princeton
He loved his work
Poligraf Poligrafovich loved his hat
Now, more than ever

Francisco de Goya - Dogs Chasing a Cat on a Man on a Donkey. Which one is the editor of The Signpost?

Adverts

What is an advertisement?
from Honest John's Used Car Lot
Truth in Advertising
Free ice water 9333 miles (ad at the South Pole)

Don't forget to archive

at archive.org. If somebody hadn't archived, we would have missed this:

The Owner's Name is on the Door
In an era of faceless organizations owned by other equally faceless organizations, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC harks back to an earlier era in the financial world: The owner's name is on the door. Clients know that Bernard Madoff has a personal interest in maintaining the unblemished record of value, fair-dealing, and high ethical standards that has always been the firm's hallmark.

— Bernard Madoff (archived December 14, 2008)

Sometimes I wonder whether I've ever accomplished anything on Wikipedia. Thanks for the prompt Slim

Check everyday

Other

[3] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/02/ubiome-what-really-happened-at-health-start-up-raided-by-fbi.html

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the worst and best NFL plays of all time and it's the same player
- Jim Marshall obit

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netQuality = 0.75*articlequality+0.25*imagequality

where

articlequality = (startorhigher+0.5*stubs+0.25*unassessed-0.5*untagged-0.75*NRISonly)/listings
imagequality = images/listings

New Deal Art ownership GSA

http://spec.lib.vt.edu/IAWA/

Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap

Download coordinates as:

42°18′N 81°21′W / 42.30°N 81.35°W / 42.30; -81.35 42°18′N 74°36′W / 42.30°N 74.60°W / 42.30; -74.60 39°18′N 81°21′W / 39.30°N 81.35°W / 39.30; -81.35 39°18′N 74°36′W / 39.30°N 74.60°W / 39.30; -74.60

http://lcpalbumproject.org/ Nicole poll labs

for future
Category:Living people
Wikipedia:List of paid editing companies
Random NRHP page Not what I'm looking for!
User:Edward/TED speakers with photo links
[12] page views in multiple languages (takes awhile)
Special:Permalink/564142881
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=
http://stats.grok.se/en/201306/Edward%20Snowden
Google pd books
ORES general
Ores article quality
Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Companies
matthew christopher
Signpost 2015 survey
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Wikipedia:Writing about women

^ Sinclair, Upton (1994). I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 109. ISBN 978-0-520-08197-0.

[licked-1] Sinclair, Upton (1994). I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 109. ISBN 978-0-520-08197-0.

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