User:NebY

I've been editing here since 2005, off and on, but I've learnt a lot more than I've contributed.

For he has not written what was said nor the true sense of what was said, but instead offers what he thinks should have been said, and enumerates in all these speeches the concomitant details like someone at school trying his hand at a set theme; as if he were making a display of his own ability but not offering an account of what was truly spoken.
— Polybius 12.25a,

Yet despite all the failures, preconceptions and deceptions, Wikipedia's a marvel.

Might be handy some day

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools/Article guidelines
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• Wikipedia:Deprecated sources
• Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources
• Wikipedia:List of companies engaged in the self-publishing business
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• Wikipedia:Template index/Cleanup
• Wikipedia:Template index/User talk namespace
• Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Welcome templates
• {{Contentious topics/alert/first}}
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• {{IPuser}} eg 177.240.49.208 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), or {{IPuser2}} eg 177.240.49.208
• {{fake heading}} Special:LinkSearch, {{LinkSummaryLive}} {{Link summary}}
• {{difftext}}
• {{CURRENTTIME}} 20:21 {{UTC}} 2025-10-13 20:21 UTC - sigs are UTC, history local
• Maybe robust? 101,325 pascals (101.325 kPa), 101,325 Pa (101.325 kPa), 101,325
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• Parliament diagrams
• Wikipedia:Large language models
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• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Trivia sections (incl MOS:POPCULT/MOS:CULTURALREFS); Wikipedia:"In popular culture" content (incl WP:IPCV); Wikipedia talk:Verifiability/Archive 63#RfC: Are "in popular culture" entries "self-sourcing" or do they require a reference under Wikipedia:Verifiability and Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources?
• Wikipedia:Write the article first (WP:WTAF)
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• MOS:PIPESTYLE
• MOS:SELFREF
• Wikipedia:Wikidata#Appropriate usage in articles
• Wikimedia hashtag search
  
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• WP:GRLIT / WP:GRECOROMAN - Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources#Greco-Roman literary sources
• WP:CLPRIM - Wikipedia:Primary sources in classics
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome/Guides/Primary sources
• User:NebY/referencing

MOS:ERA serves us well as a truce. Without it, there are passionate, forthright and principled editors who would remove every BCE/CE from every article they worked on and some who would seek out any other uses too, restricted only by the equally passionate, forthright and principled editors busily removing BC/AD. You can see some strong opinions in 2022's discussion Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers/Archive 161#Article titles for years: BC/AD or BCE/CE.

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