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Latest comment: 2 years ago by Annette Maon in topic Dark skin for a female paper

This essay is an exercise in creating high hypertext density with multiple meanings edit

This essay is an exercise in creating high hypertext density of various types:

  • Internal links, External links and Inline citations
  • Explanatory notes, Research notes, POV1 and POV2 notes
  • Meta notes belong on this talk page.

to create a coherent text that conveys different messages at several levels depending on the level of scrutiny: The plain text is readable as an essay conveying a clear simple message. It should be similar in quality to Salon, GeeksOut or FoxNews POV articles that have been presented as Reliable Sources on Wikipedia talk pages. The satirical POV (emulating Mark Anthony's eulogy) is obvious but implied - it is generated by the reader and must not be openly stated. Links and citations provide sources and context for young and novice readers. A review of these links should verify the source and validity of the text - as long as it is superficial enough to miss the satire. Explanatory notes serve as traditional footnotes and provide additional material in a way that does not disrupt the flow of the text. Explanatory Notes are divided into several lists that are intentionally designed to make it easy to make the notes disappear (simply by omitting the reference section that generates them). The two types of POV note sections are intended to make the essay acceptable to readers of two opposing POVs simply by including one list of notes and omitting the other[a]. Research notes may provide links to relevant material that does not (yet) fit anywhere else.

Context - satirical background edit

Inspiration for this satirical essay is based on:

The title and the use of the words: "Master", "Whites" and "female" in the essay are inspired by and in line with William Satire's guidelines in "A Person Paper on Purity in Language". Specifically these non-sexist guidelines were applied to the following quote: "Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot"[1]. Alan Gribben's[2] bowdlerization of Huckleberry Finn is especially relevant as a precedent.

Julius Caesar (play) (see first link in the text).

Orson Scott Card's parody: The Secular Humanist Revival Meeting

Raw material for Genocide/massacre/slavery themes edit

The racist protagonist of "A planet called treason" Lanik Mueller[3] [4] whose horses are named Hitler and Himmler[5] justifies the genocide of the whole nation of Anderson and then goes on to personally and singlehandedly enact it.

Andrew Wiggin's Xenocide (extermination the formics an intelligent alien race) is justified in most of the books even from the POVs that consider it to be a result of misunderstanding.

The protagonist Alvin is the "Boy Renegado - the cruelest Red of them all, killing and torturing so even the Shaw-Nee puked."[6]. His family commits the massacre at tippecanoe and his mentor the "Red Prophet" uses a volcano to commit "justified" genocide againsts the Aztecs.

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus deals with the Hispaniola genocide and gives POVs that justify slavery[citation needed] and infanticide[citation needed] by native Americans[7].

Crystal city: Arthur Stewart died before ble "ever fathered children, because this much stupidity should not survive into the next generation"[8]

Dark skin for a female paper edit

Latest comment: 2 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The title "female paper" could be enhanced if the article has a dark Wikipedia:Skin. In order to do that:

  1. A new customized skin named "Dark" would be created with at least one visible effect like reverse video that would be noticed as different by readers but still recognizable as part of Wikipedia.
  2. Once that is done the Dark skin would be assigned as the default skin for the article (or a significant portion of it).
  3. A button allowing users to toggle between the default Wikipedia skin and the Dark skin could be added with some text mentioning "Dark skin" on the button itself.

I am not sure how hard it would be to do this or if it is even technically possible. Someday, maybe I will look into it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Annette Maon (talk • contribs) 15:01, 24 December 2021 (UTC)Reply


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  1. ^ "The Project Gutenberg eBook of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, By Mark Twain". www.gutenberg.org. Retrieved 2021-12-13.
  2. ^ Kakutani, Michiko (2011-01-06). "Light Out, Huck, They Still Want to Sivilize You". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-12-13.
  3. ^ Collings, Michael R. (1990). In the Image of God: Theme, Characterization, and Landscape in the Fiction of Orson Scott Card. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-26404-7.
  4. ^ "Books By Orson Scott Card - Treason - Chapter 1". www.hatrack.com. Retrieved 2021-12-22.
  5. ^ "Hatrack River Forum: treason oddities". www.hatrack.com. Retrieved 2021-12-22.
  6. ^ Yurchak, Yevhen Kukhar, Irina. "You books. Orson Card. ALVIN JOURNEYMAN". You-books.com. The biggest library. Retrieved 2021-12-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ which may reflect Card's familiarity with mormon historyBlakemore, Erin. "Mormons Tried to Stop Native Child Slavery in Utah. They Ended Up Encouraging It". HISTORY. Retrieved 2021-12-24.
  8. ^ "The Crystal City Page 0,98 Read Online - Read The Crystal City Page 0,98 Online for free". www.go2reads.com. Retrieved 2021-12-24.
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