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Est omnino difficile iudicare inclusionis meritum cuiusdam rei in encyclopædia cum ratio sciendi quid populi referat incerta sit, sed nihilominus aliquid encyclopædiam dedecet

It is generally difficult to judge the worthiness of a particular topic for inclusion in an encyclopedia considering that there is no certain way to know what interests people, but some topics nevertheless are not fit for an encyclopedia.

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KILROY WAS HERE!

Despite all attempts at privatization, it turns out that there are some things that don't want to be owned.
Music, water, seeds, electricity, ideas--they keep bursting out of the confines erected around them.
They have a natural resistance to enclosure, a tendency to escape, to cross-pollinate,
to flow through fences, and flee out open windows.
Naomi Klein, Fences and Windows

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"Wikipedia guidelines are like scripture: somewhere in the labyrinthine network of rules, you can find support for any position." S Marshall [1]
Inclusionism and Deletionism: "A plague o' both your houses! They have made worms' meat of me." Mercutio
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
"The best is the enemy of the good." Voltaire, La Bégueule (1772).
"We are blessed to be living in an age when we have a global communications network in which idiots, assholes, and total and complete wastes of fucking human life alike can come together to give instant feedback in an unfettered and unmonitored online environment." The Onion.
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"Our social policies are not a suicide pact." Jimmy Wales, March 2005.
"I find your lack of [good] faith disturbing.".[2] The Wordsmith.
"'Notability purges' are being executed throughout Wikipedia by empire-building, wannabe tin-pot dictators masquerading as humble editors."[3]
"[There are] significant differences between Wikipedia members and non-Wikipedia members in agreeableness, openness, and conscientiousness, which were lower for the Wikipedia members."[4]
"A small fraction of editors —Wikipedians— do most of the work and produce most of the value."[5]
"I don't think banishing users when their block log reaches a magic number teaches anybody anything except that it pays to keep cycling identities if you ever do get a block." MickMacNee [6]
"[T]he consensus of the [Wikipedia] community is that WP should be a storage place for all published information in case there is a nuclear war, gigantic solar flare, or alien invasion and all the rest of the Internet and all libraries are destroyed leaving WP alone to preserve human civilisation." Steve Dufour [7]
"Many Wikipedia contributors are out of their element. The foundation of the project is academic publishing, but very few people who are actively involved (or addicted, if you will) have the qualifications to be part of such an environment." A Horse With No Name, Wikipedia Review.
"Let's make a wiki. No, this is not an indecent proposal. It's an idea to add a little feature to Nupedia. Jimmy Wales thinks that many people might find the idea objectionable, but I think not. "Wiki," pronounced \wee'-kee\, derives from a Polynesian word, "wikiwiki," but what it means is a VERY open, VERY publicly-editable series of web pages." lsanger@nupedia.com Wed, 10 Jan 2001 12:50:32
"Wikipedia is up! Humor me. Go there and add a little article. It will take all of five or ten minutes. --Larry" lsanger@nupedia.com Wed, 17 Jan 2001 15:16:25
"None of this is to say that the Nupedia wiki will replace the main encyclopedia; of course it won't. But will be an interesting ancillary endeavor!" --LarrySanger, 17 Jan 2001
"As Wikipedia has grown, it has become increasingly clear that it functions as a necessary layer in the Internet knowledge system, a layer that was not needed in the analog age." Casper Grathwohol, OUP, Jan 2011
"Others ... thought the first thing to do was eliminate all worthless books. They would ... leaf disgustedly through a volume, and condemn entire walls of books. It is to their hygenic, asetic rage that we lay the senseless loss of millions of volumes." Borges on the "Purifiers" in The Library of Babel, 1941.
"So why are you so soft now Fences? Why are you so soft now. You used to be stronger." An anonymous admirer.
"Wikipedia could use a "Find a gnome" service. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 2:05 pm, 7 November 2023, (UTC+0)
- A Gnoticeboard, if you will. -- asilvering (talk) 9:30 pm, 7 November 2023, (UTC+0)"

My editing

Admin statistics
Action	Count
Edits	49334
Edits+Deleted	52100
Pages deleted	1619
Revisions deleted	315
Pages restored	133
Pages protected	248
Pages unprotected	4
Protections modified	19
Users blocked	317
Users reblocked	22
Users unblocked	18
User rights modified	2
Users created	1
Pages merged	1

Here's a summary of my Wikipedia editing, and here's my top 10 edited articles. I passed 40,000 edits in June 2015, 20,000 article edits in February 2015, and 30,000 edits and 15,000 article edits sometime in August 2010. My RfA passed on 23 November 2009 and thankfully was not too much like this RfA.
I've uploaded 300+ images to Wikimedia Commons and added even more to Wikipedia, mainly courtesy of Flickr, Geograph and FIST.
I have a declared alternate account, User:Fences&Windows Alternateaccount. This is used for an alternate watchlist and may be used for editing from public computers to avoid compromising this main account.

Significant edits

Bold: I wrote all or the bulk of the article
Italics: Deprodded
: Was at AfD or had been deleted

		Bookbound barnstar
		Fences and windows, for pursuit of knowledge via many searches through the electronic stacks. — Justmeherenow 01:10, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		For your brave invoking of WP:IAR to save many foreign language Wikipedia articles proposed for deletion, I hereby award you this barnstar. ThaddeusB (talk) 05:22, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

		The Editor's Barnstar
		For an excellent restructuring of Human Evolution. ArglebargleIV (talk) 01:21, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

		The Socratic Barnstar
		I am extremely impressed by your arguments at this AfD. Kudos. Bearian (talk) 21:58, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

		The Article Rescue Barnstar
		For rescuing Medical debt from WP:AFD. Bearian (talk) 18:29, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

On 21 June 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Egg and chips, which I substantially expanded. 15,000 readers then looked at the article.

		You can't please them all
		"[Editor redacted] and Fences & Windows were worst of all, like pack of wolves". Some unsolicited feedback...

		The Biography Barnstar
		For taking the time to rescue this article. If I had only had the time to do it myself! Thanks. Rodhull andemu 22:47, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

		The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Fences and windows, for his hard work in setting the story straight, and his relentless pursuit of truth. You are truly a benefit to the project Ikip (talk) 18:55, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Recovery
		Thank you for saving the articles. I find it more fulfilling to add sources now, and that has been able to happen thanks to you! Thanks! warrior 4321 01:44, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

	The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
	For finding DOZENS of reputable sources in a valiant attempt to salvage Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Controversies related to prevalence of Jews in leadership roles in Hollywood. It's a contribution no one else seemed to appreciate enough, so I hereby award you this barnstar for your tirelessness. --AFriedman (talk) 06:08, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

		The BLP Barnstar
		For your numerous contributions at User:The Wordsmith/BLP sourcing.--Father Goose (talk) 09:09, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

		The Article Rescue Barnstar
		For your great work on expanding Social netvetting and thus for demonstrating the importance of WP:BEFORE. Regards So Why 14:02, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

		The Cleanup Barnstar
		Epic job on dry needling. Simply epic work on an article that really needed it. WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:^simple/_complex 15:36, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		This Working Man's barnstar is awarded to Fences and windows for copy editing articles totalling 11,145 words during the Guild of Copy Editors July 2010 backlog drive. Your contributions are appreciated!--Diannaa ^(Talk) 16:29, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		Your thorough erasure of this puppeteer's hoaxes puts you firmly into the Winston Wolf league of vandalism cleanup. Orange Suede Sofa (talk) 04:14, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

		The Invisible Barnstar
		For all that rev-del work on List of HIV-positive people. THF (talk) 01:28, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

		The Citation Barnstar
		your work finding sources on gem spa was amazing MrsSunDoesntShine (talk) 07:57, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

	The Original Barnstar
	For your work to substantially improve the 9/11 Humor article. JoelWhy (talk) 11:44, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

	The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
	Thanks for all that you do. Ⓩⓟⓟⓘⓧ (talk) 14:56, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for reverting Roman Catholic Church in Mexico to its original designation.

Amuseclio Amuseclio (talk) 22:21, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

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Tracey and Smoke encounter a dangerous wild animal

Smoke is an invisible dragon,^{[dubious - discuss]} who will only communicate with Tracey Simmons, aged 3, and often acts to cause Simmons to get into trouble with her parents.^{[citation needed]} Adults generally^[who?] refuse to believe that Smoke exists, citing the non-existence of invisible dragons,^[1] although Tracey's friends at nursery say they have heard Smoke. Scientists as yet are unable to explain the phenomenon.

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