User talk:Ret.Prof
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Ray's Rules
- You and your problems are not the most important thing in the world.
- Choose your battles. Yield when it doesn't matter, and stand your ground when it does.
- Keep a thick skin. Don't let criticism discourage you. Instead, let it teach you.
- You learn more from listening than from talking. "A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something." (Wilson Mizner)
- Don’t waste your time arguing with an idiot.
- Give other people the same respect that you would want from them. (Matthew 7:12)
- The surest way to drive yourself crazy is to compare yourself to other people.
- Take the high road, no matter what the other person does. It will benefit you in the long run. (Romans 12:20)
- Don’t take yourself too seriously: "We share 99% of our genes with mice, and we even have the genes that could make a tail." (Dr. Jane Rogers, Human Sequencing and Mapping Project Manager, Sanger Institute); "The graveyards are full of indispensable men." (Charles de Gaulle)
- The most important thing is to be able to look yourself in the mirror. “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it's right.” (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
I EDITED WIKIPEDIA
BEFORE CREATING A USER ACCOUNT,
SO I HAVE BEEN HERE LONGER THAN
IT LOOKS.
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- Stay calm and maintain a professional demeanor. Be patient and remain courteous and civil.
- Avoid conflict, even when you know you are right. Give other editors the benefit of the doubt.
- Assume good faith toward your collaborating editors, if not their edits. Assuming good faith is not intended to be self-destructive, but to avoid conflict.
- Ignore attacks. Not easily done, but a real timesaver. Attacks and counter-attacks are hazardous to your mental health. The best and most frequently offered administrative advice is to move on, and, if absolutely necessary, return the next day.
- Don't take it personally. Editors make honest mistakes. Communicating our thoughts is not easily done on the Internet.
- Don't isolate your interpretation. There are many interpretations other than yours. What you read might NOT be what was meant.
- Don't think of editing as a competition. WE are cohorts, collaborating to improve our thing.
- Don't edit when angry or upset. Stay off the article and talk page in question. Never let your anger or frustration be the deciding factor in your behavior.
- Don't forget the human dimension of Wikipedia editing. Keep things in perspective. There is a real, living and breathing, sensitive human on the other side of the discussion.