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''This page is meant to be tongue in cheek!'' 

'''Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. Here is a list of Ways Not To Write Encyclopedia Articles:''' 

(see the [[w:Wikipedia:FAQ]], [[w:Wikipedia:Wikipetiquette]], [[w:Wikipedia:Rules to consider]], and [[w:Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not]] for more serious thoughts.)

-1) Numerical lists don't need to start at one or even zero, and they don't need to restrict themselves to the integers, so add whatever you like wherever you like without adjusting the numbers.  People should be thanking you for keeping them in increasing order.

0) [[The Cunctator]]'s Anti-Rule: Delete or overwrite that which annoys you in any way. Especially the parts about 

1) Remember:  YOU ARE RIGHT.  Anybody who disagrees with you or changes what you wrote is quite possibly an agent of [[w:Satan]], and at the very least a [[w:Nazi]]. (They are probably also a bedwetter, and may even play [[w:golf]]).

2) Try to start at least one entry a day on a topic you know nothing about. Failing that, at least substantially edit the work of someone else in a subject area you are unfamiliar with.

3) It is your moral responsibility to introduce pedantic (Wikipedantic?) and anal-retentive irrelevancies in /Talk discussions

&pi;) Remember to <math>always\ use\ math\ markup</math> in the middle of mathematical paragraphs, noone cares about font sizes anyway.

4) It is your obligation to inform people of their inadequacies with regard to the English language. 

5) As a corollary to 1) above, THE AUTHOR IS RIGHT and so you must NEVER change anything directly... long debates are acceptable on Talk: pages, but posting facts and corrections there is what the Talk: pages are all about.
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5.5) Add arbitrary horizontal rules :-)
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6) There <i>is</i> a rule number six!  This is it!


7)  If the morons, imbeciles and Yahoo! are making your life a misery in the /Talk section, simply start up a /Chat page instead. That'll teach them!

8)  Rule (5) does not apply if you wipe the entire page containing months of hard work and put up your own 3-sentence stub instead

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9) If the original author used American spelling, insert long passages in British spelling. And vice versa.  

9.1) Also, remember that [[w:England]], [[w:Britain]], and [[w:Madagascar]] are synonymous and may be used interchangeably.

9.2) Ditto for [[w:Australia]] and [[w:New Zealand]].

9.3) And [[w:America]], [[w:USA]] and [[w:Canada]].

9.4) And totally ignore [[ISO Country Codes]] <-- see, it isn't even an article.⏎
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10) From number (1) above. Style it's like your own thing or way to say it and because, although some other people might disagree about these things, yet it should be ovious that the author's expressing himself is an important thing to say. Just because your teacher or somebody says you don't wright it the right way, even though it's ok to write things on Wiki articles. So don't worry about it!

11) Remember, "it's" is ''always'' apostrophized, and their is no real difference between "their," "there," and "they're" - only control-freak grammar [[w:Nazi]] complain about such stuff. Run your article through a spellchecker, and does it complain? No!

12) As a corrolarly to rule (9) above, change every single page to use the spelling of your favourite variant of English <i>(Or Chinese ...) (Joke! It's a joke already!  Sheesh  :-) )</i>, and tell authors off who use accepted spellings different from yours.

13) Ignore all attempts at serious comments on the '''anti-rules''' page.

14) Use "*sigh*" alot when you criticise people. this makes them pay more attention to you.

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25) Remember rule 1, and throw in as much as possible of your opinion, all in the name of [[Neutral point of view]]


26) Use every possible alternate spelling of proper names and transliterated names for completeness, ensuring they will show up in a text search on any of them.  Make them all open links, and don't bother to redirect them.  Never check to see what's already an article under yet another transliteration you forgot.

27) Never make an open link to what should be an article, just plan on coming back later to add a single link every single time a sub-article gets written.  Certainly everyone will make time to do that critical stuff.

28) Revert articles simply for containing lots of open links - obviously if an area of knowledge or history hasn't already been well covered in Wikipedia, it must not be important.  Particularly foreigners' history, or opposing political opinions, or anything that doesn't write for itself like a species or a dead civilization - who cares about stuff like that?

29) If you have [[sysop]] powers, make sure to [[IP ban]] anyone that you think might be someone who may possibly have offended someone earlier - no point in letting [[troll]]s write articles.  [[w:The Economist]] does, and look at their audience - sheesh.⏎
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