User:Kosebamse/How to survive on wikipedia

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If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same:
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools;

[several lines of bullshit clipped]
Yours is the Pedia and everything that’s in it,
[one more line of bullshit clipped]


  • I'd be grateful for help fixing the bullshit. Perhaps one could make a decent Wikipedia poem out of it without losing the original thought? I think one or two lines at the end should be enough.
  • Note on the historical background: Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/IRC/Proposed decision and related pages