User:Finlay McWalter

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1 Favourite wikipedian quotes
2 Boilerplates
- 2.1 Image licence stuff
3 Personal sandboxes and other stuff
4 Proposed wikipedia mottos
5 Chicken soup for the troubled Wikipedian
6 Brag sheet (sigh)
7 Images and other media
8 To do

[edit] Favourite wikipedian quotes

Life's not easy when you're green

"stop vandalising this article you dickhead" : User:Adam Carr fighting vandals on Jim Cairns
"It is not insulting to trees to say that their study comes under botany, not zoology" : User:Adam Carr in Talk:History of Australia
"I hate this fucking site, you are all snobbish twits" : User:Kenneth Alansson, reverting himself in Talk:Duchy
"It may be a teapot, but its a famous teapot" : User:Morwen on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion
"I am a crap expert" : User:Vudujava on Talk:Body fluid
"Finlay McWalter (real name?) is one of the best names i ever saw. Looks like a detective smoking a pipe." : User:Muriel Gottrop on Wikipedia:Requests for adminship [1]
"Autobiography of a nobody. Delete." : User:Salsa Shark on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion
"Horrible vfd place ... temple of the deletionism to its uggliest form." : User:Anthere on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion
"Oppose. Martin is already a bit Ann-Robinsonish" : User:Muriel Gottrop on m:Developer access [2]
"Hi, kettle. It's me, Gene Poole, the pot. You're black!" : User:Wik on Wikipedia:Village_pump [3]
"The evilness of bots is not a topic for VfD." User:Angela on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/User:Rambot [4]
"Every time you criticize Wikipedia, God kills a kitten. Please, think of the kittens!" : Wikimedia donor Peter Hare [5]
"Both the adminship process and its ongoing application have deterioriated into a carnival of collective childishness." User:John Fader on User talk:John Fader [6]

[edit] Boilerplates

my boilerplates | Wikipedia:Boilerplate text

[edit] Image licence stuff

{{NowCommonsThis}} and {{NowCommons}}
on commons: {{self2|GFDL|cc-by-sa-2.5,2.0,1.0}}
on enwikipedia: {{GFDL}} {{cc-by-sa-2.5}} {{cc-by-sa-2.0}} {{cc-by-sa-1.0}}

[edit] Personal sandboxes and other stuff

User:Finlay McWalter/sandbox | User:Finlay McWalter/sandbox2 | Finlay McWalter/Gently handling newbie autobiographies

[edit] Proposed wikipedia mottos

Wikipedia: where lack of people-skills is an asset, not a liability
Wikipedia - also known as Unemployed Ph.D Deathmatch
There is nothing so trivial that it will offend no one
Adminship is a wet blanket, not a bejeweled codpiece

[edit] Chicken soup for the troubled Wikipedian

If you're annoyed, or angry, or depressed by wikipedia, take a week off and chill. Exposure to real life will cure you.
If you're getting into frequent pointless edit and flame wars in controversial subjects like abortion and zionism, spend some time instead editing something else you care about - your home town, your favourite band, the last excellent book you read.
If you only want to edit controversial topics like abortion and zionism then, well, you're the architect of your own hypertension.

[edit] Brag sheet (sigh)

I very rarely author a new article (generally only when I feel it's needed to bridge a gap between articles I'm copyediting). Instead, I much prefer to polish, reorder, edit, and generally grind to dust others' work. I seem in particular to have a weakness/talent for saving potentially worthy articles from the slavering jaws of VfD. Some articles which are hopefully better for my ministrations include:

(and if you can see any pattern whatever in that lot, you win a prize)

But mostly I fix links, move commas around, and rearrange sentences so they don't begin with conjunctions (like this one). I sometimes unsplit infinitives (deliberately), but if I change english to american spelling or vice versa, that's just an accident (not some sinister policy).

[edit] Images and other media

[edit] Images I took/created myself

I've uploaded a few of my photos to wikipedia (mostly from around Scotland). More (non GFDL ones) can be seen in the gallery on my homepage.

[edit] Here

(most migrating to commons, slowly:

[edit] On commons

[edit] Test images

Shetland map

[edit] Images I uploaded that others took

[edit] Fair use

[edit] Here

(to move to commons)

[edit] On commons

[edit] Audio

Ballblazer (music) | Gruffalo (spoken)

[edit] To do

Fix many links to "hydaulics" or "hydraulic" that should point straight to hydraulic cylinder

User:Finlay McWalter

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[edit] Favourite wikipedian quotes

[edit] Boilerplates

[edit] Image licence stuff

[edit] Personal sandboxes and other stuff

[edit] Proposed wikipedia mottos

[edit] Chicken soup for the troubled Wikipedian

[edit] Brag sheet (sigh)

[edit] Images and other media

[edit] Images I took/created myself

[edit] Here

[edit] On commons

[edit] Test images

[edit] Images I uploaded that others took

[edit] Fair use

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[edit] On commons

[edit] Audio

[edit] To do

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