User:Angela/What Wikipedia is not

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Policy is not set in stone. Policy pages such as "What Wikipedia is not" are, for the most part, the opinions of just a few important people. Tim Starling

Wikipedia is not...[edit]
... a mental health treatment facility. Vicki Rosenzweig

... a creche. Tarquin

... a online store. Waylon111

... a pulpit. Kingturtle

... Usenet. Jimbo Wales

... a database. Tarquin

... a free for all. Alex756

... a swimming pool. Martin

... a place for jokes. Angela

... a place to stick random notes or whatnot. Danny

... a phone book. Mav

... a collection place for trivia. Andre Engels

... a repository for all human knowledge. Tim Starling

... just another Britannica. BL

... a place to post your point of view or argue about it. Ed Poor

... Google. Anon

... the only wiki. Mav

... Your personal playpen. Plato

... your mother. Koyaanis Qatsi

... your father. Ritz

... in the business of book promotion. Electicology

... meant to be a group experience. Eloquence

... a derivative work of itself. The Cunctator

... an educational textbook. Rotem Dan

... here to set trends. Hephaestos

... a landscape for honorary pages. Kingturtle

... a word. Alex756

... the place for preaching. Morwen

... a place to post lectures. Mav

... the only Wikimedia project. Eloquence

... a programming guide. Taku

... a place to list editors' favorite websites. Tim Starling

... a repository of predictions of what will happen in years to come. Tarquin

... an almanac. Danny

... an American project. Secretlondon

... a place for crusades. BL

... a place to decide which side is right and wrong. Taku

... like a traditional encyclopedia. Eloquence

... suitable for hosting executable program downloads! Brion

... for aiding translations. Angela

... a Spellchecker. Tarquin

... CNN. Mav

... deteriorating. AxelBoldt

... a strategy guide. Martin

... a one stop source for any information about anything. Robertoalencar

... our employer. Matthew Woodcraft

... a household name yet. Erik Zachte

... a place for indepth analysis. Kingturtle

... a place to evangelize your beliefs. Stephen Gilbert

... a place for slogans. Jerzy

... a development playground. Eloquence

... about finding absolute truth. Chuck Smith

... an author. Toby Bartels

... the only project that runs MediaWiki. Mav

... for-profit. Martin

... a tool to maintain willful suspension of disbelief. Eloquence

... a chat room. RickK

... supposed to voice a POV. Koyaanis Qatsi

... Wiki. Stephen Gilbert

... the easiest place to navigate. Jack Lynch

... Project Gutenberg. Bryan Derksen

... a legal advice service. Alex756

... a place to put your own opinions. Enchanter

... a place to be making advocacy for one position or the other. Mic

... everything 2. Damian Yerrick

... a jokebook. Martin

... only the English Wikipedia. Kpjas

... about copyright activism. Jimbo

... a social club. 142

... a book. Fagan

... a tabla rasa anymore. Alex756

... a catholic encyclopedia. Karl Eichwalder

... Nupedia. Eloquence

... the only GFDL-using open content project. Wouter Vanden Hove

... just about the US. Jtdirl

... only about science. Anthère

... about winning kudos and stroking egos. Larry Sanger

... an adversarial endeavor, nor a marketplace. Jimbo

... paying me enough to put up with constant abuse. Stan Shebs

... for financial gain. Alex756

... a game. Jamesday

... a list of citations. Anthère

... Meatball. Angela

... IRC. Silsor

... for personal interpretations of what wikipedia is. BL

... a dumpster. Viajero

... entirely populated by sane people. DJ Clayworth

... the Yellow Pages. silsor

... a competitive sport. pakaran

... a fish. Alex S

... a place for mindless flamewars. Eloquence

... a help site. Dysprosia

... Slashdot. Dpbsmith

... the back of an envelope. Denni

... an island. Neutrality

... Disneyland. Oska

... a long, ordered sequence of carefully categorized articles. Wikipedia:Establish context

... guaranteed to be accurate. Wikipedia:Legal advice

... a safe sex guide. Wikipedia:Safe sex

... a substitute for seeking the help of a professional. Wikipedia:Content disclaimer

... uniformly peer reviewed. Wikipedia:General disclaimer

... a web directory. Wikipedia:Google Test

... a democracy. Wikipedia:Survey guidelines

... a link repository. Matt

... a primary-source repository. Wikipedia:Guide for Indymedia authors

... an online newspaper. Wikipedia:In the news section on the Main Page

... a chat room. Wikipedia:Refactoring

... a list repository. Wikipedia:Embedded list

... a repository for all manner of nonsense. Wikipedia:Deletion guidelines for administrators

... a fortune teller. Niteowlneils

... a can of Pepsi. Wikiman

... a vast left-wing conspiracy to discredit Fox News. NoPetrol

... a vast right-wing conspiracy to ensure that Tom Brokaw's retirement is not a pleasant one. NoPetrol

... a urinal. Silsor

... anyone's fan site for their favorites. LegolasGreenleaf

... a set of blogs. Ergoship

... a place for debates. Ergoship

... a place to plug various media for monitary gain. Quoxplor

... infested by a censorious admin cabal. Nickptar

... the giraffe. Giraffe giraffe giraffe abunghug. Lulltheconqueror

... finished yet. So get back to work, people.

... a dating service. User:Zeerus

... a work of fiction. ~ TokyoJunkie

... your father's encyclopedia. Fant

... a user of only British or American spelling. Meelar

... you. Me =P

... properly punctuated. Sam Korn

... read, only written. HighHopes

... a theological discourse. (from an edit summary at Jesus)

... cynical. (from a Cfd)

... not for employee-of-the-month. Bucketsofg

... the Library of Congress Card Catalog.[1] Ummit

...a babysitter for molly-coddled readers/viewers; let them jump up and down, fingers in ears, and screaming 'nah nah nah I didn't hear that' somewhere else. Pvazz

...Gamefaqs Randall Brackett

...a MySpace for canine fiction. User:Zoe

...a place to tell the truth about Nintendo. Bonelayer12864

...a place to chat with friends. Eat me, I'm a red bean

The "Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not" guidelines are just that: guidelines, subordinate to the goal of creating a good, complete, and consistent encyclopedia. The Cunctator