User:D-Day/You know you've been editing for too long on Wikipedia if...

YOU KNOW YOU'VE BEEN EDITING ON WIKIPEDIA FOR TOO LONG IF...

  1. You put double square brackets around the most important words of a sentence.
  2. You refer to your mailbox as your "talk page."
  3. Your mom tells you to get off the computer, and she's been dead for 20 years.
  4. You run out of ideas for new articles, so you write one about your dog.
  5. Suddenly, your MySpace account just seems so childish.
  6. You draw userboxes when people ask you to describe your personality.
  7. You call your boss "Jimbo."
  8. You try to be NPOV about EVERYTHING.
  9. You put "wiki-" in front of common words.
  10. When you see graffiti on a wall, you immediately look for a "revert" button.
  11. Whenever you try to throw something out, you bring it up for deletion with your family.
  12. You call your enemies "Willy on Wheels."
  13. Whenever someone says a corny pun, you respond "That was a really bad joke and other deleted nonsense."
  14. Everything you know about HTML you learned from here.
  15. You don't know what your score is on the Are You a Wikipediholic? test because the computer can't count that high.
  16. You don't believe in God because you believe in Wikipedia.
  17. While bored in school, you draw an "edit this page" tab on a random page in your textbook.
  18. You attempt to edit your school textbook.
  19. You actually succeed.
  20. Instead of starting conversations with people, you create "talk pages."
  21. You are shocked to find that whales are actually a breed of large aquatic mammals.
  22. You dream in edit summaries.
  23. You start a subpage letting people know when they've been editing for too long.

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