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I recommend {{u|1=7&6=thirteen}}, {{reply to|1=7&6=thirteen}}, [[User:7&6=thirteen|7&6=thirteen]], or [[User:7&6=thirteen]].
My user name does not ping in the usual way, because of the equal sign "=", I am told. I thought it was ampersand "&", but am informed that wasn't true.
However, I am a Luddite, and my WP:User name has served me well for a decade and a half; so I am not about to change. I sincerely apologize for any inconvenience.

Hello fellow Wikipedians

I will try to do good work for the benefit of Wikipedia. Let us work together for a better and free encyclopedia. We can make the world an improved place through shared knowledge. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 10:07, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

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Special award

September songs

• Thank you for this article and others! — The prize from the cabal of the outcasts? (And so did User:Doug Coldwell.) - The rose pic was taken on 11 September 2021.

Let's put our armor on

Our work together here should be our armor, not some sharp, angry, burning sword. I would strongly recommend that everyone here find an article to work on for a while; not the cliche "random article", but something that gives you a nice tug at the heartstrings. It feels great to be out there doing work on something you genuinely care about, and I assure you it'll help you regain the sense of why you're here.

— User:The Blade of the Northern Lights, vectored by User:Keilana and User:GRuban

7&6=thirteen (☎) 18:25, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

Keep your perspective

• I strongly believe that the "the truth is paywalled but the lies are free". This is why Wikipedia is important!
• I witnessed a war of words over WP:Infoboxes.
  

As Rodney King famously said, "Can't we all get along."
In the end, an infobox here and not an infobox there is not the end of wikipedia. And it is not worth fighting over.
Endianness. See Toilet paper orientation.
FWIW, it applies not only to eggs, but to toilet paper I am certain that it is supposed to go over the top, like a waterfall.

Cautionary advice

• “Never mud-wrestle with a pig.” “You’ll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it!”
• NO WikiBullying please.
• NO WP:TROLLFOOD; If WP:Griefing; deny recognition, then let them "pound sand." Wikipedia:Do not insult the vandals.
• Sealioning: "a harassment tactic by which a participant in a debate or online discussion pesters the other participant with disingenuous questions under the guise of sincerity, hoping to erode the patience or goodwill of the _target" In 2021, Maclean's compared its origination to other terms derived from comic strips that became common speech such as Brainiac (1958 comic strip) and Milquetoast (from the 1924 comic strip). Maclean's noted that Malki had mixed feelings about the term, quoting him as saying: "I didn't set out to coin a phrase. I just wanted to make an observation", and "The core of what I set out to criticize is just the notion that any random patient stranger should feel entitled to as much of someone’s attention as they want".
• Wikipedia:Civil POV pushing.
• You will know them for what they do. Not how they say it. A gift wrapped turd is still dung.
• See Extinction. See also Narcissistic personality disorder.
• Brandolini's law

A lesson well learnt:

• When the hammer comes down, it hits the nail that is sticking up. Or the nail that sticks out gets hammered down, tall poppy syndrome and crab mentality.

Gender gap and other systemic issues

WP:THREATENING2MEN

• Peake, Bryce (2015). "WP:THREATENING2MEN: Misogynist Infopolitics and the Hegemony of the Asshole Consensus on English Wikipedia". Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology. doi:10.7264/N3TH8JZS.

Criticism of Wikipedia

• Death of Wikipedia?

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A musical interlude

• Bouncing Czech Jaroslav Jakubovič's Dobry 2009: Coincidence – with Randy Brecker, Phil Markowitz, Adam Nussbaum, George Mraz, Tom "Bones" Malone and Ula Hedwig (VMM Records: VMM02)

• Ebert, Grace (January 28, 2022). "40 Animators Around the Globe 'Pass the Ball' in a Collaborative Rube Goldberg-Esque Sequence" (Video). A delightful way to spend two minutes

• Robbie Robertson and Ringo Starr, featured (September 18, 2019). "The Weight" (Video). Playing for Change, Song Around The World. Retrieved January 6, 2020 – via YouTube. 10,859,670 views

• "A Little Girl Gives A Coin To A Street Musician And Gets The Best Surprise In Return 1:15 / 5:40 22,246,979 views" (Video). March 16, 2014 – via YouTube.

• "Whatta Man & Seven Nation Army (Cinderella - Ballroom Scene) 2,495,344 views" (Video). Cinderella. Sony Pictures, Fulwell 73 Distributed by Amazon Studios. September 3, 2021 – via YouTube.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

• Dave Edmunds I Hear You Knocking via YouTube.

• Washboard (musical instrument)

Listen to Wikipedia

Seeing and listening to Wikipedia edits as they occur. – Randy Kryn
A Zen-like experience.

My Did You Know awards

Pivotal thoughts

• Criticism of Wikipedia
• Matryoshka principle
• Predictions of the end of Wikipedia — Article before the redirect.
• Wikipedia Cheatsheet
• Wikipedia:Sarcasm is really helpful
• Zeroth law of Wikipedia

Food for thought — trimmed and short is better

• Vincent, Sara (4 August 2014). "Sentence length: why 25 words is our limit". Inside GOV.UK. and here

A worthwhile project that I created

• Glossary of nautical terms#Further reading

A few articles with major contributions (incomplete list – more to come)

Outhouse * Frank Murphy * Northern Michigan * Three hares * Rabbits and hares in art * Barber's pole * Turtling (sailing) * Oliver Hazard Perry * Alex J. Groesbeck * Bill Smith (fell runner) * Micah True * Sturgeon Point Light * Holland Harbor Light * Tawas Point Light * Yank Levy * John Henry Devereux * Automotive Hall of Fame * Passenger pigeon * James Clark McReynolds * Alexander Macomb (general) * Battle of Plattsburgh * Elijah McCoy * Strait of Magellan * SS Clifton * Glossary of nautical terms * Fireball Cinnamon Whisky * The Thumb * Sherman Minton * Houses at Auvers * Milorganite * Justice delayed is justice denied * White Shoal Light, Michigan * Mildred Seydell * Pewabic Pottery * Owney (dog) * Bob the Railway Dog * The Moon is made of green cheese * Akita (dog) * Jack Dempsey * Alpena, Michigan * Alpena County Courthouse * The Alpena News * Alpena Light * W. 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Kelley * Melissa VanFleet * Mackinac Island State Park Commission * Bob Lampert * Cliff Simon * Verrückt (water slide)‎ * John Ely (surgeon) * Chinook Display Team * Jerry Palmer * Alec Sutherland * Osama bin Laden (elephant) * Burt Township Schools * Attack on HMS Invincible * Gun serial number * Peshtigo fire * Sea kayak * Robert Gill * Heavy equipment modelling * Mikołaj Zyblikiewicz * Benjamin Robbins Curtis * Inaccessible Island Rail * Democracy Manifest * Great Lakes Storm of 1913 * Tom's Ice Cream Bowl * Orson Bean * Phil Spector * Satronia Smith Hunt * Recorder's Court (Detroit) * Lafayette Building (Detroit) * I.O.O.F. Centennial Building * Michigan AuSable Valley Railroad * Copper Country * Shinola (retail company) * Shinola * Pass A L'Outre Light * Bois Blanc Island Lighthouse and Blockhouse * Sand Island Light (Alabama) * Sand Island Light (Wisconsin) * Pork chop * Old Rip Van Winkle * Larry King * Doctor John * Alcona County, Michigan * Michigan * Umtmi * Performance (textiles) * Pyrenean Mountain Dog * Thomas J. Bray * Mustankallio water tower * Cardistry * Detroit Arsenal (Warren, Michigan) * Eldred Kurtz Means * The Incredible Dr. Pol * Jan Pol (veterinarian) * Dusty Hill * John Raymond Evelyn Stansfeld * Stormy Kromer cap * New River Gorge Bridge * Mac Ross * Demographics of the Supreme Court of the United States * Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen‎ * Willie H. Fuller * Bibliography of encyclopedias#Nautical dictionaries and encyclopædias and Nautical dictionaries and encyclopædias * Put on airs * Jones (third baseman) * Jules Verne's Tomb * Italian Hall disaster * The Golden Virgin * Mail bag * Seed-counting machine * Big John (dinosaur) * Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Big John (dinosaur) * Saint Guinefort * Vesey Alfred Davoren * Harold George Jerrard * Little Big Time * Peebles (store) * Madison Museum of Bathroom Tissue * Celis (beer) * Copper Island * Keweenaw County, Michigan * Turtle Island (Native American folklore) * Turtle Island (Lake Erie) * Benno Bikes * Bix Beiderbecke * Enrico Hillyer Giglioli * W. K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Center * Jacquotte Delahaye * Uriah P. Levy * Textile performance * Template:Bags * Template:Lighthouses of Michigan * Template:Tuskegee Airmen * Template:Japanese dogs * Template:Indian dogs * Template:Did you know nominations/Performance (textiles) * Subst: Dobos Torte * Grand Lake (Michigan) * Long Lake (Alpena County, Michigan) * Lake Margrethe * Charity Island (Michigan) * Nebraska v. One 1970 2-Door Sedan Rambler (Gremlin) * Template:Did you know nominations/Nebraska v. 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Lewis * Battle of Bamber Bridge * Charles T. Pepper * Elijah Craig (bourbon) * Heaven Hill * Mitt Romney dog incident * Melville Fuller * Charles Gratiot * Equestrian Statue of Theodore Roosevelt * Boaty McBoatface * Kenneth Ross (screenwriter) * The Day of the Jackal (film) * Ablaq * Benjamin N. Cardozo * William Lloyd Prosser * Samuel Williston * Arthur Corbin * Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. * Bruce Gilley * Equestrian Statue of Theodore Roosevelt (New York City) * Whataboutism * Medjed * Yunnan hare* Tony Packo's Cafe * National Coney Island * Akshata Murty * List of longest living dogs * Stephen Johnson Field * James L. 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WP 20

Happy birthday Wikipedia. It's made possible by the editors; and it is for the readers. We did it together.

• Kelly, Heather (January 15, 2021). "Technology: On its 20th birthday, Wikipedia might be the safest place online". Washington Post. The world's largest online encyclopedia has learned lessons from fighting misinformation for two decades
• Kent, German (January 15, 2021). "In a post-truth world, we need Wikipedia more than ever". CNET. Commentary: Wikipedia celebrated its 20th anniversary today. The free encyclopedia may not be exciting, but its neutral, volunteer-driven content is incredibly valuable.
• Wales, Jimmy (January 14, 2021). "As Wikipedia turns 20 it aims to reach more readers" – via Yahoo!. Wikipedia is the web's seventh-most visited site
• "World in Progress: 20 years of Wikipedia" (Audio). The year marks the 20th anniversary of Wikipedia. Every month, more than 1.7 billion people visit the open-source website in search of information about, well, just about anything! We speak with Dr. Bernie Hogan from the Oxford Internet Institute about Wikipedia's successes, where it fits into the discrimination crisis and the website's future.
• History of Wikipedia, an ongoing story.

Sadly

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Quality Article Improvement/missed users

Passing thought

• Anonymous (November 28, 2022) "Concept: The relevance of legal certainty to the English Wikipedia" Signpost

I used to do lots of lighthouse article improvements

• Here is where it ended. But it's all over now. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 18:16, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

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