Draft:Wikipedia:Wiki-Dwarf

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WikiDwarves are a hard-working but rarely seen Wikipedian sub-species of homo sapien, who are at their most active off-wiki, where they delight in mining valuable information from reliable sources. They prefer to WP:Boldly create rather than debate, and to WP:Bold-refine rather than waste time.

Known for WP:Candor rather than WP:Civility, they value competence above all when choosing colleagues and companions, and believe that it WP:Competence is acquired.

It is their habit to WP:Verify or falsify propositions, rather than removing plausible but unverified material, and to collaborate and do the research of finding citations themselves.

Since they like to read WP:Primary sources, young dwarfs must be taught to conduct their original research off-wiki, and that NO analysis, evaluation, interpretation, or synthesis is allowed when make WP:Citations to primary sources. WP:Secondary sources must be found for this.

They shun and abhor WP:Personal attacks, which are a informal fallacy of the ad hominem type, and as such show a basic incompetence, independently of their incivility.

They WP:Don't bite the newcomers, but welcome them all, knowing that a non-native speaker or totally inexperienced editor might far surpass a Grand Tutnum of the Encyclopedia, at least comes to subject matter competence. For this reason, they tend to WP:Ignore all rules until informed by way of clever acronyms in edit summaries, directed at them by adverse parties in WP:Content dispute. Thus Dwarves are often disliked and mistrusted, and there is a de facto status of prejudice and mutual aversion between the minority culture of Dwarvenkind and the WP:WikiElf ruling class, who are fond of spouting their opinions and writing crufty essays to try support them. (Elves primary competency is in the so-called WP:Policies and Guidelines and many are fond of misquoting it and WP:Pettifogging underlying content questions tedious discourses on Elven "civilization")

It could be reasonably argued that Dwarves sometime fail to WP:Assume good faith on the part of senior "managing editors" who preside over grossly inadequate articles, but only after these demonstrate stubborn laziness by impulsively reverting content that should be WP:Preserved, and wasting time on WP:Reversion wars, instead of on Private Research off-wiki and WP:BRDR.

However it is well known that no WP:WikiKnight in the realm is a match for an experienced WikiDwarf well-armed with logic and evidence. Though they seldom admit it, Even the Elves know this. For this reason, the Knights often gang up and attack.

Individual dwarves suffered many persecutions and expulsions, some deserved, many not deserved. Some may have gone underground as IP editors, others appear to have turned to the dark side in exasperation or despair, becoming sockpuppets of their former selves. The wiser among them have gone into exile on foreign wikis, and through enduring trials and tribulations, cultivated the virtues of meekness and modesty. Many have gone to and fro, knowledge has increased, and this will continue.

As a class protected by current policy, they are tolerated. Although suffering some WP:Systemic bias, they have learned to make do. Some have become notable encyclopedic virtuousos, even returning to their home-wiki-land to make radical changes in policy and key consensus documents, always believing that the future can be better than the past.

A WikiDwarf usually works well with WP:WikiGnomes and WP:WikiFairys. They do not fear WP:WikiDragons, but will war courageously at some times, and will ally and assist at others. Indeed, the two species are often mistaken for eachother by Elves and Knights who fear and distrust them both.

They will often clean up the mess of a WikiGoblin and give him or her some tips on how to succeed.

If one comes across, or is, one of these reclusive mountain-dwelling WikiFauna, proper identification may be made by adding the following code:

Code	Result
{{User:UBX/WikiDwarf}}	This user is a WikiDwarf.	Usage

• Dwarf (folklore)
• Dwarf (Middle-earth)