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> Wikipedia lexicon project, What does it all mean?
Herschelkrustofsky
post Sat 6th October 2007, 6:59am
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`Twas Jayjg, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and edit in the diffs:
All sysop were the permablocks,
And the userboxes tiffs.


"Beware the vandalbots, my man!
The socks that write, the trolls that catch!
Revere the arbcom nerds, and ban
The frumious Bandersnatch!"


He took his barnstar then in hand:
Each newbie then he wikistalked --
So jousted he with meatpuppetry,
He disambigged, he blocked.


And, as in mergist thought he stood,
The vandalbot, with three reverts,
Came wikifying through the wood,
With fancruft in its skirts!


One, two! One, two! And through and through
His POV went snicker-snack!
He left a stub, and with his club
He went galumphing back.
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post Sat 6th October 2007, 7:12am
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Hard to follow a bit. I also don't know what the wikipedia lexicon project is.

I'm not one to evaluate poetry. Maybe somehere on this forum is knowledgeable at poetry, maybe they studied it, maybe they if asked can make a List of a their favorite Poets.
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post Sat 6th October 2007, 7:16pm
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QUOTE(Herschelkrustofsky @ Sat 6th October 2007, 7:59am) *

`Twas Jayjg, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and edit in the diffs:
All sysop were the permablocks,
And the userboxes tiffs.

And hast thou a strong POV?
Join the ArbCom my teenage boy!
And you'll have CheckUser you see
And you can ban The Joy!

(Sorry, The Joy!)
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I also don't know what the wikipedia lexicon project is.

A joke by HK?
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Maybe somehere on this forum is knowledgeable at poetry, maybe they studied it, maybe they if asked can make a List of a their favorite Poets.

Funny you should say that. tongue.gif OK, in no particular order:

William Wordsworth
John Milton
W B Yeats
Robert Louis Stevenson
Alfred Tennyson
Lewis Carroll
William Blake
W H Davies
Rudyard Kipling
John Masefield

Cue - long thread rubbishing some of these names and adding others? But please, don't mention Rosemary Tonks. mad.gif
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post Sat 6th October 2007, 8:15pm
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QUOTE(Poetlister @ Sat 6th October 2007, 8:16pm) *

And hast thou a strong POV?
Join the ArbCom my teenage boy!
And you'll have CheckUser you see
And you can ban The Joy!

Surely it should be :

"And, has thou slain the evil sock?
Then I declare you to be sysop!
Ban away! Ban today!'
Welcome to Wikipedia world....." happy.gif
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post Sat 6th October 2007, 8:21pm
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But I have my POV to keep.
And socks to block before I sleep.
And socks to block before I sleep.
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post Sat 6th October 2007, 9:51pm
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QUOTE(Poetlister @ Sat 6th October 2007, 12:16pm) *

QUOTE(LamontStormstar @ Sat 6th October 2007, 8:12am) *

Maybe somehere on this forum is knowledgeable at poetry, maybe they studied it, maybe they if asked can make a List of a their favorite Poets.

Funny you should say that. tongue.gif OK, in no particular order:


I was hoping for a critique of this thread's poem.

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post Sat 6th October 2007, 10:17pm
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QUOTE(LamontStormstar @ Sat 6th October 2007, 10:51pm) *

I was hoping for a critique of this thread's poem.

It is a modification of this nonsense.
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post Sat 6th October 2007, 11:10pm
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QUOTE(LamontStormstar @ Sat 6th October 2007, 10:51pm) *

I was hoping for a critique of this thread's poem.

What's there to say? Not a great poem in its own right, but a fair parody of the original and a valid criticism of Wikipedia.
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post Sat 6th October 2007, 11:56pm
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QUOTE(guy @ Sat 6th October 2007, 4:10pm) *

QUOTE(LamontStormstar @ Sat 6th October 2007, 10:51pm) *

I was hoping for a critique of this thread's poem.

What's there to say? Not a great poem in its own right, but a fair parody of the original and a valid criticism of Wikipedia.


Well said. It was written last night in a spasm of whimsy, and I'm not sure that it can be called a fair parody of the original, because parts of it actually make sense. It was unavoidable. But then again, maybe the fact that it makes just a bit of sense does make it a parody. At any rate, I do not expect that this exploit is enough to get me Poetlisted.


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Maybe somehere on this forum is knowledgeable at poetry, maybe they studied it, maybe they if asked can make a List of a their favorite Poets.


Around here, that's like shining the Bat Signal above the Gotham City skyline. wink.gif
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