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And if you have aspirations to be an Administrator, but...
...feel that you need more experience. Or perhaps you are happy editing and don't want the responsibility of the extra tools. Or better, you have some skeletons in your closet and need time and experience to regain the community's trust. Then these are some things you can do that will help you build experience regardless of your eventual goal.
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-Above was "stolen" from User:Wifione. Handy collection of links.
-Above was "stolen" from User:Buzzzsherman. Handy collection of links.
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Weekly Torah portion
The Israelites arrived at Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin, and Miriam died and was buried there.
The people were without water, and they complained against Moses and Aaron. Moses and Aaron fell on their faces at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, and the Presence of God appeared to them, telling them to take the rod and order the rock to yield its water. Moses took the rod, assembled the congregation in front of the rock, and said to them: “Listen, you rebels, shall we get water for you out of this rock?” Then Moses struck the rock twice with his rod, out came water, and the community and their animals drank. But God told Moses and Aaron: “Because you did not trust Me enough to affirm My sanctity in the sight of the Israelite people, therefore you shall not lead this congregation into the land that I have given them.”
Moses sent messengers to the king of Edom asking him to allow the Israelites to cross Edom, without passing through fields or vineyards, and without drinking water from wells. But the Edomites would not let the Israelites pass through, and turned out in heavy force to block their way, and the Israelites turned away.
At Mount Hor, God told Moses and Aaron: “Let Aaron be gathered to his kin: he is not to enter the land that I have assigned to the Israelite people, because you disobeyed my command about the waters of Meribah.” Moses took Aaron and his son Eleazar up on Mount Hor, and there he stripped Aaron of his vestments and put them on Eleazar, and Aaron died there. The Israelites mourned Aaron 30 days.
The king of Arad engaged the Israelites in battle and took some of them captive. The Israelites vowed that if God gave them victory, they would destroy Arad. God delivered up the Canaanites, and the Israelites killed them and destroyed their cities, calling the place Hormah.
The people grew restive and spoke against God and Moses, so God sent serpents that killed many of the Israelites. The people came to Moses, admitted their sin by speaking against God, and asked Moses to intercede with God to take away the serpents, and Moses did so. God told Moses to mount a serpent figure on a standard, saying: “If anyone who is bitten looks at it, he shall recover.”
The Israelites traveled on, and sent messengers to Sihon, king of the Amorites, asking that he allow them to pass through his country, without entering the fields or vineyards, and without drinking water from wells. But Sihon would not let Israel pass through his territory and engaged the Israelites in battle. The Israelites defeated the Amorites and took possession of their land and towns.
Then the Israelites marched on, and King Og of Bashan engaged them in battle. The Israelites defeated his forces and took possession of his country. The Israelites then marched to the steppes of Moab, across the Jordan River from Jericho.
In the morning, Balaam saddled his donkey and departed with the dignitaries, but God was incensed at his going and placed an angel in Balaam's way. When the donkey saw the angel standing in the way holding his drawn sword, the donkey swerved from the road into the fields, and Balaam beat the ass to turn her back onto the road. The angel then stationed himself in a lane with a fence on either side. Seeing the angel, the donkey pressed herself and Balaam's foot against the wall, so he beat her again. The angel then stationed himself on a narrow spot that allowed no room to swerve right or left, and the donkey lay down under Balaam, and Balaam became furious and beat the ass with his stick. Then God allowed the donkey to speak, and she complained to Balaam. And then God allowed Balaam to see the angel, and Balaam bowed down to the ground. The angel questioned Balaam for beating his donkey, noting that she had saved Balaam’s life. Balaam admitted his error and offered to turn back if the angel still disapproved. But the angel told Balaam: “Go with the men. But you must say nothing except what I tell you.” So Balaam went on.
Balak went out to meet Balaam on the Arnon border, and asked him why he didn’t come earlier. But Balaam told Balak that he could utter only the words that God put into his mouth. They went together to Kiriath-huzoth, where Balak sacrificed oxen and sheep, and they ate. In the morning, Balak took Balaam up to Bamoth-Baal, overlooking the Israelites. Balaam had Balak build seven altars, and they offered up a bull and a ram on each altar. Then Balaam asked Balak to wait while Balaam went off alone to see if God would grant him a manifestation. God appeared to Balaam and told him what to say.
Balaam returned and said: “How can I damn whom God has not damned, how doom when the Lord has not doomed? . . . Who can count the dust of Jacob, number the dust-cloud of Israel? May I die the death of the upright, may my fate be like theirs!” Balak complained that he had brought Balaam to damn the Israelites, but instead Balaam blessed them. Balaam replied that he could only repeat what God put in his mouth.
Then Balak took Balaam to the summit of Pisgah, once offered a bull and a ram on each of seven altars, and once again Balaam asked Balak to wait while Balaam went off alone to seek a manifestation, and once again God told him what to say. Balaam returned and told Balak: “My message was to bless: When He blesses, I cannot reverse it. No harm is in sight for Jacob, no woe in view for Israel. The Lord their God is with them.” Then Balak told Balaam at least not to bless them, but Balaam replied that he had to do whatever God directed.
Then Balak took Balaam to the peak of Peor, and once offered a bull and a ram on each of seven altars. Balaam, seeing that it pleased God to bless Israel, immediately turned to the Israelites and blessed them: “How fair are your tents, O Jacob, your dwellings, O Israel! . . . They shall devour enemy nations, crush their bones, and smash their arrows. . . . Blessed are they who bless you, accursed they who curse you!” Enraged, Balak complained and dismissed Balaam. Balaam replied once again that he could not do contrary to God’s command, and blessed Israelites once again, saying: “A scepter comes forth from Israel; it smashes the brow of Moab.” Then Balaam set out back home, and Balak went his way.
While the Israelites stayed at Shittim, the people went whoring with the Moabite women and worshiped their god Baal-peor, enraging God. God told Moses to impale the ringleaders, and Moses directed Israel’s officials to slay those who had attached themselves to Baal-peor. When one of the Israelites publicly brought a Midianite woman over to his companions, Phinehas son of Eleazar took a spear, followed the Israelite into the chamber, and stabbed the Israelite and the woman through the belly. Then the plague against the Israelites was checked, having killed 24,000.
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Commentary from the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the American Jewish University (Conservative)
Commentary from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (Conservative)
Commentary by the Union for Reform Judaism (Reform)
Commentaries from Project Genesis (Orthodox)
Commentaries from Chabad.org (Orthodox)
Commentaries from Aish HaTorah (Orthodox)
Commentaries from the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation (Reconstructionist)
Commentaries from My Jewish Learning (trans-denominational)
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General
It is easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.
— Rear Admiral "Amazing Grace" Hopper, USN
I lead because you choose to follow, not because I know where I'm going.
A day without laughter is a wasted day.
Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope.
If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.
— Paul Kantner, co-founder of Jefferson Airplane
No matter if it is a white cat or a black cat; as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat.
Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
— Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, USN
Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
— Twelfth Night, or What You Will, ACT 5, SC. 1
Nuts!
Some people make things happen, others watch things happen, while the rest wonder WTF has happened.
— Anon.
You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
Wikipedia is for people who want to know stuff and share the stuff they know with people who know stuff that they don't.
The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
We tried to stop her by hitting her fists and feet with our faces, but …
We're here to preserve democracy, not practice it.
— Captain Frank Ramsey, USN, Crimson Tide
Mister Hunter. I've made a decision. I'm Captain of this boat. NOW SHUT THE FUCK UP!
— Captain Frank Ramsey, USN, Crimson Tide
Believe me, woman, if I could walk on water, I'd carry you out into the middle of a lake and hold your head under water until the bubbles stopped!
Off throne … he's off throne! That can't be good.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
Humpty Dumpty hired an attorney and settled out of court for an undisclosed sum of money and ownership of the wall.— Dot
Pinky and the Brain
Pinky: OK, Brain, but how will I recognize Moses?
Brain: He's a tall man with a long, white beard and a staff.
Pinky: Is it a large staff, or just a publicist and a Girl Friday?
- …
Pinky: Gee, Brain, are we going to push the corner of the envelope?
Brain: No, Pinky, but we may get as far as the sticky stuff near the edge.
- …
Brain: Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
Pinky: I think so, Brain, but if Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, then why does he keep doing it?
SciFi quotes
Babylon 5
Zathras is used to being beast of burden to other people's needs. Very sad life. Probably have very sad death. But, at least there is symmetry
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I am the right hand of vengeance and the boot that is going to kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart! I am Death incarnate, and the last living thing that you will ever see. God sent me!
- …
I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I would like to look up into your lifeless eyes and wave like this. (He wiggles his fingers like a small child.) Can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?
Space: Above and Beyond
Priest: Colonel! Colonel McQueen! Do you need to make peace with your maker?
Lt. Col. "T. C." McQueen: My maker was some geek in a lab coat with an eyedropper and a petri dish. What do I need to make peace with him for?
Priest: In times of war we must all make peace with our maker.
Lt. Col. "T. C." McQueen: Well, I don't think our maker wants to hear from me right now, because He knows I'm going to go out in this plane, and I'm going to remove one of His creations from His universe. And when I get back, I'm going to drink a bottle of scotch as if it was Chiggy Von Richtofen's blood and celebrate his death.
Priest: (visibly shaken) Amen.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
There is a theory that states that if anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizzare and inexplicable.
There is another which states that this has already happened.
Miscellaneous
Outside the box is where I live, sir!
Fear leads to anger ... anger leads to hate ... hate leads to suffering.
— Yoda
If they take the ship, they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skin into their clothes … and if we're very, very lucky, they'll do it in that order.
I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass. And I am all out of bubble gum.
— John Nada , They Live
It is a good day to die!
— Worf
Humans are so backward that they still call their home planet, "Dirt."
— (I still have to research this one)
from Apocalypse Now (1979)
[Kilgore calls for his personal surfboard to be dropped at the LZ]
Signalman: What about Charlie?
Kilgore: Charlie don't surf!
- …
Kilgore: Smell that? You smell that?
Lance: What?
Kilgore: Napalm, son. Nothing in the world smells like that.
[kneels]
Kilgore: I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end...
[Kilgore unhappily walks off]
from The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)
Mitch Henessey: What I'm saying is, back when we first met, you were all like "Oh phooey, I burned the darn muffins." Now, you go into a bar, ten minutes later, sailors come runnin' out. What up with that?
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Mitch: The last time I got blown, candy bars cost a nickel.
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Nathan: Alice, please. Your dog, Alice. It and my appetite are mutually exclusive.
Alice: Well, what's wrong with the dog?
Nathan: Simple. He's been licking his asshole for the last three straight hours. I submit to you that there is nothing there worth more than an hour's attention. I should think that whatever he is attempting to dislodge is either gone for good, or there to stay. Wouldn't you agree?
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Mitch: How did you find us?
Nathan: There may be many reasons not to kill you, but among them is not that you'll be missed by NASA. I found the address in your coat. Here. Between the address of a topless bar, and the picture of what looks like a man's penis.
Mitch: That's a duck, not a dick.
The Five Stages of Acquisition
The only value of a collectible is what you can get somebody else to pay for it.
— 101st Rule of Acquisition
In addition to the 285 Rules, Ferengi recognize five Stages of Acquisition:
- Infatuation : An unreasoning love or attraction. — "I want it."
- Justification : Moral excuse used to explain. — "I must have it!"
- Appropriation : To take to one's self in exclusion of others. — "IT'S MINE AT LAST!"
- Obsession : A compulsive or irrational preoccupation. — "Precious!"
- Resale : The action of selling something previously bought. — "Make me an offer for it."
This teaches us that all Good Things must inevitably come to an end … no matter how much you want something, or what it costs you to posses it, there will come a day that you are willing to part with it … for a profit, of course … so, enjoy the Fourth Stage while it lasts. ;-)
Your goals should be to make your Obsession (ownership) stage last longer than the first three stages combined, or to get at least twice what you paid for it … and always remember:NRFB! : Never Remove From Box!
Happy Editing! — 72.75.110.142 (talk) 00:59, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
How to: History Merge
To merge the edit history of two or more pages or to split up the edit history of single page into two or more separate pages you will need to use the Delete and Undelete tools.
Edit histories should generally be merged if pages in the main namespace copy contents from pages in the main namespace of a sister Wikimedia project in order to comply with the GFDL license. For similar reasons if a page in the main namespace is split into several pages such as from becoming big or due to reorginization it is generally a good idea to split the edit history among the new pages.
Merging
Merging the edit histories of two or more pages is easy. Follow these simply instructions to do it.
- open the page you wish to merge the edit histories into and click the edit link.
- open a window for each page whose edit history you plan to merge with step 1.
- click on the move link of each page you opened in step 2.
- enter into the "To new title" field box for each page, the page name from step 1 and confirm deletion of the existing page.
- close all windows open in step 2 and in a open a copy of the page in step 1 in a new window.
- click on the history link and then the view or restore link.
- confirm you wish to restore edit histories.
- go back to the page and click the edit link.
- copy and paste the contents of the edit box in step 1 into the edit box in previous step.
- enter "restored current version" into the summary box and click save page to restore back the current version.