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Wikipedia law of complaints: "The volunteer secretary at my first church used to receive a lot of complaints about things; the bulletin print was too small, too large, too fancy, too plain, the church newsletter came on Tuesday and was thrown out because Tuesday is 'junk mail day' and it was overlooked, the new letterhead was too white, too ivory, too expensive. Then, one day, I heard her tell a member: 'Please feel free to tell me everything you don't like about things. Do, however, be prepared for the fact that doing so will make it your job; if you don't like the way I do it, you can do it. Now, what was it that was the problem?'" – Sent to Raul654 by a user who shall remain anonymous
Corollary: The degree of vehemence with which an editor bellows about the notability of a subject is in inverse proportion to the degree for which significant coverage actually exists.
When someone pleads for a subset of a topic not to be included in the TBAN it means that subset absolutely must be included in the TBAN.
The number of discussions by an editor that must be collapsed is directly proportional to the likelihood that they will eventually be blocked as a time waster.
The rarest, most sought after award on Wikipedia is Raul's Brick of Common Sense. It's like the Nobel Prize of Wikipedia Dynamics.
Awarded to | Comment(s) deserving of recognition | Reason |
Calton | 00:56, December 29, 2005 01:01, December 29, 2005 06:10, December 29, 2005 |
Trying to impart common sense into the clueless is a tough job, one which you do particularly well. As such, you get the very first of Raul's common sense bricks. |
Radiant! | January 27, 2006 | For imparting common sense into the clueless, I hereby award you this very rare wiki-award: Raul's brick of common sense. |
Charles Matthews | February 11, 2006 | "Regarding your [mailing list comment] – I'm giving you a double-rare award. First, I am giving you your own entry in Raul's laws – one I wish desperately I had thought of. I'm also giving you only the third-ever of Raul's Bricks of Common sense, for the same." |
1/2 to Mikkalai and 1/2 67.20.18.127 | 18:15, March 29, 2006 and 19:37, March 29, 2006 | For a biting deconstruction of the logical shell game used to support parapsychology |
JzG | May 18, 2006 | For a clear explanation to a vandal how the allocation of power works here |
Bishonen | May 21, 2006 | A mighty reply to a farewell message |
Zoe | 20:50, July 15, 2006 20:13, July 16, 2006 20:40, July 16, 2006 |
For biting commentary on the Village pump |
David Gerard | February 21, 2007 | For drawing insightful parallels to past situations (15:14, 21 February 2007 . . David Gerard (Talk – contribs – block) (Protected Wikipedia:Pedophiles: um, no. The pedophile wheel war is not meant to be an annual derby. [edit=sysop:move=sysop]) |
Chairboy | 14:30, June 5, 2007 | |
Dave souza | 19:01, February 27, 2008 |