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Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice.
I created the following userboxes which proudly proclaim "Yadda has a User Page for the user. They're sort of obsolete now because of SUL. Formerly, you had to register separately on each and every Wikimedia project. Now, once you start a global unified account, as soon as you edit on any project you are registered for that project, so making a user page on another project is much easier, although the user pages themselves still aren't intrinsically connected, which does leave these templates with some value.
I created the following userbox. It used to exist in template namespace until the decision was made to put user identifying userboxes into userspace rather than template space, so it eventually made its way back here, to my userspace.
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|info = This user is a member of <br> '''[[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]'''.
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The following userboxes were created for Leave No Trace.
Imagine that we are designing a restaurant. This restaurant will serve steak. Because we are going to be serving steak, we will have steak knives for the customers. Because the customers will have steak knives, they might stab each other. Therefore, we conclude, we need to put each table into separate metal cages, to prevent the possibility of people stabbing each other.
What would such an approach do to our civil society? What does it do to human kindness, benevolence, and a positive sense of community?
When we reject this design for restaurants, and then when, inevitably, someone does get stabbed in a restaurant (it does happen), do we write long editorials to the papers complaining that “The steakhouse is inviting it by not only allowing irresponsible vandals to stab anyone they please, but by also providing the weapons”
No, instead we acknowledge that the verb “to allow” does not apply in such a situation. A restaurant is not allowing something just because they haven”t taken measures to forcibly prevent it a priori. It is surely against the rules of the restaurant, and of course against the laws of society. Just. Like. Libel. If someone starts doing bad things in a restaurant, they are forcibly kicked out and, if it”s particularly bad, the law can be called. Just. Like. Wikipedia. I do not accept the spin that Wikipedia “allows anyone to write anything” just because we do not metaphysically prevent it by putting authors in cages.
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