User:Whispering/Wiki

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[edit] You know you have been on Wikipedia way too much when:

  1. You meet any of these criteria.
  2. You start adding ~~~~ to company emails.
  3. You meet a rude person and tell them they should read WP:CIVIL.
  4. You see something online you think can be improved, and look for the edit tab.
  5. You see "Sheila gives good head" graffittied on a wall, take out a marker pen and add [citation needed].
  6. You constantly use words ending in "cruft."
  7. While watching TV late at night (if indeed you do such a thing nowadays), you wish WP:NOTABILITY applied to those people who are allowed to appear night after night and are falsely labeled as "celebrities."
  8. You look at your credit card bill and wish there was an AfD section.
  9. You spend more time editing Wikipedia than you do with your family.
  10. Your girlfriend leaves you for paying more attention to this site instead of her.
  11. You start alphabetizing the links on your user page.
  12. You think that Rome was sacked by Willy on Wheels.
  13. You get fed continuously through a tube and sit forever on the toilet to not waste time editing Wikipedia.
  14. You find yourself editing this list.
  15. You attempt to edit live people.
  16. You use Wikipedia to look at porn.
  17. You use Alt+F to get to every search bar.
  18. The [ and ] keys have gone from "least used" to "worn out," and nobody but you knows where to find them now.
  19. You try to revert vandalism – on a toilet wall.
  20. You find yourself having discussions in the real world like this:
    Person: I hear Mavis has run off with the milkman.
    You: I'm sorry, can't comment unless I verify it.
    Person: Yeah, but she is the sort of person...
    You: I'm sorry, I would rather you speak with more of a neutral point of view.
    Person: Yeah, but if you went round there and asked her...
    You: I'm sorry, no original research.
    Person: Oh forget it, you...
    You: Uh-oh, is that going to be a personal attack?
  21. You set Wikipedia.org as your homepage.
  22. You tell your children to become wikibots.
  23. You create an article on your ex-girlfriend and stare at it all day to make sure it doesn't get deleted.
  24. You find this list.
  25. You read this list.
  26. You introduce yourself to people using your username.
  27. You get annoyed when there are no popups to preview links on other sites.
  28. You use the phrase instruction creep in normal conversation.
  29. You create articles about yourself.
  30. When you have a new idea, you write it down, followed with {{stub}}
  31. In math class, you make sure to write <nowiki> around your brackets and braces.
  32. You don'''t''' use apostrophes in a normal way anymore.
  33. You find yourself dreaming of editing Wikipedia
  34. While you are doing homework or other projects you use wikimark up.
  35. You have modified your signature from the standard to how you are feeling that day.
  36. You look in the mail box and see a orange-yellow bar saying "You have a new message" if you have any mail.
  37. You come home from work and tell the wife about the day you had on Wikipedia, not the day you were supposed to have at work
  38. You look for the Random article link when you're bored in class or at work.
  39. You give your kids Barnstars for being good all day... and take them to ArbCom if they are not
  40. Your edit count is higher than the number of minutes you have lived.
  41. You need glasses now, despite the fact that you used to have excellent eyesight.
  42. You have edited a Wikipedia article in a language you don't even know.
  43. You sneak out of the house to edit Wikipedia.
  44. You make more edits in a month than you earn dollars.
  45. You edit Wikipedia on your laptop - in the bathroom.
  46. You can name every article you have started, but don't remember your neighbor's last name.
  47. You record the number of edits you make each day on your calendar.
  48. You add an edit summary when you edit this list.
  49. You try to find the edit button on Encyclopædia Britannica.
  50. You replace:
    1. Undo with revert
    2. Damging or graffiting with vandalising
    3. Enemy List with Watchlist
    4. Leader with Sysop/Admin
    5. God with Jimbo
  51. You think that Wales is Wiki-heaven.
  52. You have to explain your meaning of "sockpuppet" and "vandalism" to everyone you know when you use them in conversation.
  53. You add something to this page.
  54. You try to edit a book that contains errors.
  55. You think everything you write are copyleft/right under some kind of terms.
  56. Your elementary kids start editing Wikipedia.
  57. You read Wiki to waste time, with no reason.
  58. You somehow traverse from one article, to other, and other, and other, passing all articles in Wikipedia, then back to the starting one, without repeating any of them.
  59. You manage to edit every page you ever come across.
  60. You track down vandals' addresses, and murder them.
  61. You try to create your own web site and end up installing MediaWiki because HTML is such a hassle compared to writing in wikicode.
  62. You no longer have any opinions on anything not related to Wikipedia. If anyone asks you what you think about something, say, the existence of God, you give them a terse summary of the major viewpoints without endorsing any of them.

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