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Today's Events October 18, 2026
Birthday 1250metersdeep
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First Edit Day Kudpung, Satdeep Gill, Tbhotch, Skarmory
Holidays Alaska Day
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Feel free to stop by and chat! But be nice, or I'll ask you to go sit at another bench in some other park in some other city

Peace is a state of balance and understanding in yourself and between others, where respect is gained by the acceptance of differences, tolerance persists, conflicts are resolved through dialog, peoples rights are respected and their voices are heard, and everyone is at their highest point of serenity without social tension

The Principle of Least Drama says that given a choice between several ways of dealing with a problem, pick the one that generates the least drama. If the only approach you can think of is laden with drama, sign off for the night. You may think of a new alternative in the morning, or someone else may have implemented a better approach. Wikipedia:Drama#The_Principle_of_Least_Drama

Different viewpoints on Sources

• The first thing to note is that sources must be published, and accessible to at least some members of the public. Therefore things like closed archives, private correspondence, eyewitness accounts, live broadcasts which were not recorded for posterity, etc. are not acceptable sources. Sources should ideally be online, to make them easier to verify, but offline sources are also acceptable as long as they are cited with sufficient bibliographic details to enable them to be reliably identified for verification purposes; see WP:OFFLINE for more on that. There is no need to upload scans, screenshots or other images of any source, in fact that would quite possibly amount to a copyright violation anyway. DoubleGrazing
• Wikipedia is amazing. It’s a dream come true from the perspective of people who want free, accessible knowledge. It’s literally the greatest thing the internet has ever produced. Wikipedia is free, accessible, well-organized, and constantly moderated by an obsessive army of volunteers who make public edits. Articles have citations. Articles link to each other, showing the connection between concepts. We should be ENCOURAGING our students to use Wikipedia. Sure, tell them to cite the sources at the bottom if they are writing a research paper. But in the age of LLMs, we need to dispense with this idea that Wikipedia is generally “unreliable” because humans write it. Wikipedia invariably has the most accurate, comprehensive, and well-organized explanations of historical events online (outside of maybe a really excellent textbook accessible in a pdf or something). Hagne on reddit
• Long-term Capital Gains. Long‑term capital gains apply to assets held for more than one year before being sold. These gains benefit from preferential tax rates, which are typically lower than ordinary income tax rates and are based on your overall taxable income. Reinvesting the proceeds from a sale does not eliminate or defer capital gains taxes in a taxable account. When a capital asset is sold at a profit, the gain is generally taxable in the year of the sale, even if the proceeds are immediately reinvested. Capital gains taxes are triggered by the sale itself, not by how the proceeds are used.

Prince...

...is a Puku I think. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/11037/50189881 ...a crisis of confidence

PCA

• I completly rewrote the guidlines today

The Signpost: 13 October 2026

• News and notes: AELECT returns, Jimbo gives a union update, VisualEditor is now default
  Plus a survey for North Americans, proposed changes to BoT elections, and developments in the Puerto Rican editing community.

• Serendipity: From a rare portrait of a female millionaire in Nancy to a Japanese painter in Lyon
  Images from Leuven Libraries popular on Wiki.

• Obituary: Doug Weller
  Twenty-year editor, long-term admin, dearly missed.

• In the media: A(I)pocalypses afoot
  Cannibals, freeloaders, rogue agents, scams ... the usual.

• WikiConference Report: WikiConference 2026 & the importance of in-person community
  Celebrating 12 years of WikiConference North America.

• By the numbers: Does the country of birth affect the likelihood of having a Wikipedia biography?
  A cross-country and cross-wikipedia comparison of the likelihood of having a biography in Wikipedia.

• News from Diff: OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
  CPO/CTO Selena Deckelmann explains the recent detection of AI agent activities on Wikimedia projects.

• On the bright side: Good people
  Nice comments and real-life rescuers.

• Op-ed: Who are our readers?
  The movement makes progress when we know what our scope is.

• Traffic report: This world is big and wild and half insane
  Criminals, 9/11 25 years later, artists expelled for politics... we lived in troubled times.

• Comix: Fudging the numbers
  Take 'em away, officers!

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