User talk:Guy Macon
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"Wikipedia's articles are no place for strong views. Or rather, we feel about strong views the way that a natural history museum feels about tigers. We admire them and want our visitors to see how fierce and clever they are, so we stuff them and mount them for close inspection. We put up all sorts of carefully worded signs to get people to appreciate them as much as we do. But however much we adore tigers, a live tiger loose in the museum is seen as an urgent problem." --WP:TIGER
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Only 992,831,974 articles left until our billionth article!
We are only 992,831,974 articles away from our 1,000,000,000th article
--Guy Macon
Calvin discovers Wikipedia
- "A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction into a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day." -- Calvin, of Calvin and Hobbes
Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet
- "Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from -- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time." --Neil Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
Totally not faked[Citation Needed] image of Wikipedia's fund raising banners
Depiction of Wikimedia Foundation destroying Wikipedia with Visual Editor, Flow, and Mobile App
"...It looks like Wikipedia is really pulling out all the stops in their latest appeal to their users..."
Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence
"The Revolution's main adversaries were the patriots and the people from Braveheart," said speaker Tim Capodice, who has edited hundreds of Wikipedia entries on subjects as diverse as Euclidian geometry and Ratfucking. "The patriots, being a rag-tag group of misfits, almost lost on several occasions. But after a string of military antics and a convoluted scheme involving chicken feathers and an inflatable woman, the British were eventually defeated despite a last-minute surge, by a score of 89–87."
--Guy Macon
The most important[Citation Needed] page on Wikipedia
User:Guy Macon/On the Diameter of the Sewer cover in front of Greg L’s house
(Note: needs a "in popular culture" section.) --Guy Macon
VeraCrypt
If anyone knows how to help with the problem at Talk:VeraCrypt#Message from VeraCrypt maintainer, please jump in. --Guy Macon (talk) 18:26, 3 April 2026 (UTC)
0.03%
On User:Guy Macon/Wikipedia has Cancer it says: The MediaWiki edit toolbar ended up being used by a whopping 0.03% of active editors.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title%3DUser_talk:Jimbo_Wales&oldid=779581521#Future_changes] ''Wikimedia Foundation''</ref>
But since the context is The outdated 2006 wikitext editor will be removed later this year. It is used by approximately 0.03% of active editors.
it looks like that, at that point in 2017, only 0.03 of active users were still using the toolbar introduced in 2006.
So it didn't end up being used by a whopping 0.03% of editors, but most people no longer used it 11 years after its introduction because better alternatives were available (and also the VisualEditor). There is now a Wikipedia:Fundraising/Fundraising Hub btw. Polygnotus (talk) 04:34, 13 April 2026 (UTC)
12 April 2026
I archive messages after I have seen them.
I try to keep my talk page clear, so I can easily see anything new that I haven't responded to yet.
I archive automated notices after I see them. If it is a personalised message I usually reply, on the person's talk page or the relevant article talk page. I archive them after this to avoid a forked conversation happening in two places.
I'll change the automated archive to 15 days if you insist, but most things will probably get read and manually archived before then.
Ping me if you reply to this here. Late Night Coffee (talk) 07:02, 13 April 2026 (UTC)