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Revision as of 00:26, 3 March 2012 by Volunteer Marek (talk | contribs) (corr a mistake)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) Voltaire once said: "Cultivate your motherfucking gardens".

That means work on articles, rather than playing on drama and getting wiki-famous.

Wittgenstein once said: "If you don't know what the hell you're talking about then shut the fuck up"

Ok, he said Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent and that has been taken to mean that language is incapable of expressing a lot of important shit. But I like my interpretation better. Even if I'm misinterpeting ol' Ludwig here it's still an adage that a lot of Wikipedians outta observe.

How Misplaced Pages dynamics can go from rational to wacky drama, and then back again, with only a small change in the underlying parameters.

Nec Temere, Nec Timide

Volunteer Marek is taking a short wikibreak and will be back on Misplaced Pages soon.

The 2011 ArbCom election guide The 2010 ArbCom Election guide which was "banned" (not really) from the official election template

This ain't me. It's Amadeo Modigliani, my favorite painter. And he's watching you (try it, move around the room, his eyes will follow you).

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Misplaced Pages Philosophy Stuff

Suppose someone sits down where you are sitting right now and announces to me that he is Napoleon Bonaparte. The last thing I want to do with him is to get involved in a technical discussion of cavalry tactics at the Battle of Austerlitz. If I do that, I'm getting tacitly drawn into the game that he is Napoleon Bonaparte..
— Robert Solow
(linked song by Alexander Bashlachev)

(see also)

There is a sort of public myth that judges do not make any mistakes about the law. As far as I know there is no one involved in the legal business who doesn't agree that judges frequently make mistakes of the law. If you talk to lawyer over a drink he can very easily be pushed into a discussion of the ghastly errors that judges he has dealt with have made, and will tell you that some judges are positively stupid. Lawyers are unlikely to say this in public..
— Gordon Tullock, "Legal Heresy", Economic Inquiry, 1996

(see also)

There are idiots. Look around.
— Larry Summers, Unpublished working paper

Polemika z głupstwem nobilituje je bez potrzeby.

Nacjonalizm to częstokroć wyraz małej wiary w rzeczywiste możliwości swego narodu. .
— Stefan Kisielewski

To survive on Misplaced Pages it is essential to keep things "in perspective". Here's a perspective:

I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted.
— George Best

(yes, this is a comment on Misplaced Pages policies and culture. Figure it out.)

Per the quotes above see my essays on Misplaced Pages's "Heresies and hypocrisies"

(My heresies and Misplaced Pages's ... and sometimes my own, hypocrisies)

WIKIPEDIA IS NOT A BATTLEGROUND!!!!!!!!!!! (linked song by Grazhdanskaya Oborona, Siberian Punk!)

In place of misapplied, misunderstood, naive and often hypocritical WP:AGF, my Misplaced Pages philosophy is WP:T4T (which is about as good as you can do in an imperfect world)

Random musical update:

Some call it Treason... or at least Heresy!

Don't you WP:SFoD me!!!

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More serious stuff

Good articles:

My DYKs (86 o'them)

Marek/Other_articles#World_War_II_stuff Other articles which I forgot to DYK

Article to do list, time and else permitting

Domar serfdom model (did factor endowments (land-labor ratio) determine whether a pre-industrial economy ended up with slavery, serfdom or free labor?)
Brenner debate (related to the above, what ended feudalism in Western Europe but caused its re-emergence in Eastern Europe?)
Second feudalism (re both above)
Economic costs of American Civil War (Goldin and Lewis to start with)
Economic history of Poland (started, on hold)
Piast monetary policy (sometimes good, sometimes bad, just like Ben Bernanke today) (work in progress)
Historical demography of England (needs its own proper article. Wrigley and Schofield's a fundamental source)
Economics of conflict (Garfinkel & Skaperdas have overview. Gordon Tullock's rent seeking model)