User:Spinningspark/Trivia

Latest comment: 15 years ago by Spinningspark in topic Barnstars

Wikinuts

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Interesting users

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  • User:68.39.174.238 this user has 21,709 edits as of 16th February 2008! Has repeatedly declined to get an account, or even a user page. A user page has been created for him(her?) by others several dozen times and been repeatedly deleted. Has been asked to become an administrator on numerous occasions, which have all been declined. There was even a proposal at AN/I to block his IP in order to force him to get an account so they could forcibly make him an administrator. This must be the lamest idea ever on Wikipedia.
  • User:Ilyanep became an administrator at the age of 11 and a bureacrat at the age of 13.

Web sites

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  • Time Cube allegedly the most retarded site on the internet
  • Newpath4's perpetual motion machines must be in the running though. Somewhere in there he says "it's not rocket science". How true - its not any kind of science.

Interesting discussions

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There are probably more like this but I have forgotten where I put them.

Hoaxes

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Funnies

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More quotes

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  • Darwin quotes Genesis in support of his arguments "It may be objected that the principle of selection has . . . been more attended to of late years . . . From passages in Genesis, it is clear that the colour of domestic animals was at that early period attended to." p.563 Everyman edition ISBN 1-4000-4127-9. Could that go into an article?
  • "Who would believe in this age that such atrocities could be committed in a Christian civilized country." Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle.
  • "It is essential for the safety of the Feeler that the Felt should stand perfectly still." Edwin Abbot, Flatland, p.16.

Barnstars

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  The Barnstar of Shame
Awarded to those who shamelessly demand barnstars of others, award barnstars to themselves, or otherwise bring barnstars into disrepute. You are hereby entitled to display this barnstar with pride shame. ~~~~

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  The Bear Barnstar
Awarded for simple, bare contributions otherwise unrewarded.
Citation: Thanks for your edit. SpinningSpark 13:32, 27 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

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Great talk page put-downs

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This sort of thing is pushing the boundaries of etiquette, but still very amusing.

My greatest ever edit summaries (at least, those I could remember when I decided to write this section)

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Other people's edit summaries

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Gay Bart Simpson was President of Bavaria, not Germany