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Re: Prosporus

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Okay =) Anyway, all jokings aside, I turned the article into a redirect because it's a plausible misspelling of "prosperous" and as such should redirect to "prosperity".

Basically, the sad state of the site is that we're a serious encyclopedia. neologisms usually aren't good enough to be included here, and silly jokes tend to get deleted. Basically we're not a dictionary either - or a joke book. (If you want to let out steam, there's always Uncyclopedia.) If you want to make a new article like that, people who get the joke would delete it outright people who don't would subject it to an extremely painful deletion process (You'd have to start answering tricky questions like "who uses this term in real world? Is there a source for this alleged political party of Spores?"). I just tried to make it a little bit less painful by turning it into a redirect because, well, it's a plausible misspelling.

Well, all I can say is that Wikipedia can be a funny place - regrettably we can't really use a whole lot of humour in articles themselves. Please keep that in mind. And finally, happy editing, remember to check our fine newbie material (if you haven't already) and remember to keep eyes open and just follow along everyone else's good examples. =) --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 23:54, 2 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

Speedy deletion nomination of Christopher Boyd Wisehart

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August 2009

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  Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit you made to the page Talk:Christopher Boyd Wisehart has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, please ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you. Katieh5584 (talk) 12:15, 18 August 2009 (UTC)Reply

A summary of site policies and guidelines you may find useful

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Reformulated:

Also, not a policy or guideline, but something important to understand the above policies and guidelines: Wikipedia operates off of objective information, which is information that multiple persons can examine and agree upon. It does not include subjective information, which only an individual can know from an "inner" or personal experience. Most religious beliefs fall under subjective information. Wikipedia may document objective statements about notable subjective claims (i.e. "Christians believe Jesus is divine"), but it does not pretend that subjective statements are objective, and will expose false statements masquerading as subjective beliefs (cf. Indigo children).

You may also want to read User:Ian.thomson/ChristianityAndNPOV. We at Wikipedia are highbrow (snobby), heavily biased for the academia. Tgeorgescu (talk) 13:40, 20 October 2017 (UTC)Reply