Encyclopedia Of Stupid:Style

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Hi, and welcome to our humble encyclopedia. We have written this page as a guideline for you to use to help you to write good articles. Please read the guidelines below and even more importantly, look around the encyclopedia a bit. Reading other articles, especially the good ones can help you a lot!

Contents 1 What NOT to do 1.1 Thank You, We Know About the Other Funny Wikis 1.2 Don't Write About Things That Aren't Stupid 1.3 Don't Get Offended 1.4 Don't Post Low/No Content 2 What TO do 2.1 Be FUNNY 2.2 POV 2.3 FORMAT PROPERLY 2.4 PLEASE READ THE FORMAT PROPERLY SECTION AGAIN 2.5 These Are Not What You Might Call GUIDELINES, Per Se 3 Consequences of Not Heeding This Document 3.1 Bans 3.2 Humiliation 3.3 Your Article Will Be Humiliated

What NOT to do

Thank You, We Know About the Other Funny Wikis

Please don't register an account here to tell us there are Other Funny Wikis on the Internet. We already know. We don't find the other wikis as funny as we find ourselves. Please do not link to, start fights with, mention or create articles about Other Funny Wikis. Also, please don't rip them off, we are looking for 100% original content only at EOS.

Don't Write About Things That Aren't Stupid

This is the Encyclopedia of Stupid, not the Encyclopedia of AWESOME. If you can't find something truly stupid about what you are writing about, then your subject is probably not appropriate for EOS.

Don't Get Offended

This wiki is purposefully caustic and irreverent. If you feel tempted to write an article to express your outrage, please don't. Instead, leave, because you will just be wasting your time otherwise.

Don't Post Low/No Content

We don't find your fixation on your buddy's alleged homosexuality to be very funny. LOL <insert name here> LOVES THE COCK LOL posts (and similar low/no content posts) are considered junk and are deleted. Also, please don't upload images that you don't plan to put in an article.

What TO do

Be FUNNY

Read some other articles and try to conform to the style of the other posters - especially the ones that make you laugh.

POV

EOS is hardly NPOV in the Wikipedia sense of the word. However, EOS has its own brand of NPOV, in that it does not matter whether what you write is wrong, irritating or bizarre - as long as it is amusing to anyone who might read it regardless of their POV. Anyone can write an article about George W. Bush being stupid, but what sort of effort does it take to make that article funny to both Democrats and Republicans? Now granted, there are going to be some people who have sticks up their asses no matter what, and they need to be quickly shown the door, but EOS' humor should strive to be NPOV - in that everyone can laugh at the entries, not just one side or the other. This is neither a liberal wiki nor a conservative one. It is and should be a place for both. Think Conan O'Brien and The Daily Show.

FORMAT PROPERLY

Always begin a new EOS entry with the following text, formatted in exactly the following way:

The Subject You Are Writing About is stupid.

Notice the italicized subject. Notice how it is followed by two line breaks. If this doesn't make sense to you, just read a couple of EOS entries and what we are talking about should become very clear.

Now then. Write something funny. For many of you, this may be enough. But the following are some style recommendations that have developed here so far at EOS:

PLEASE READ THE FORMAT PROPERLY SECTION AGAIN

These Are Not What You Might Call GUIDELINES, Per Se

• Use the "Show Preview" button - Don't waste the server's resources by constantly saving.
• Work safe imagery only, please.
• NEWBIES: You MUST have been here for a minimum of three months before you can edit any articles which appear on the front page.
• Please don't leech images from other websites. Upload them to EOS.
• Post discussion in descending order - When entering content on discussion pages or talk pages please post the latest conversation at the TOP of the page, not at the bottom, so that users don't have to scroll through months of old posts to get to the latest change.
• Only hotlink a word in an article once.
• Link to the singular version of a word only - Even if you are using the plural version in a sentence.
• All entry subjects should be singular - Eg.: Furry *not* Furries
• Linking to an article with the word "The" at the beginning is fine if it makes sense, but it should always redirect to an article without the leading "The." IE: The New York Times should redirect to New York Times.
• Only italicize the subject of the entry in the "<whatever> is stupid" line
• Write an encyclopedic article - One that sounds like it belongs in an encyclopedia. If you're not sure what EOS encyclopedic entries look like, go read some.
• Be funny - this encyclopedia is intended to make people laugh and possibly get a little irritated.
• If you are angry, leave - Caustic, sarcastic, irreverent is what we are shooting for here.
• Being purposefully not-quite-correct goes a long way - Yes, we know that it's pronounced Mac "oh-ess-TEN". Really. We do.
• Don't annoy the mods
• Learn how to properly use a wiki - Don't look like a noob.
• Categorize your entries - If your entry defies categorization, make a new one, but try to limit this, please. Browse the categories to see if one is already there that you could use.
• Don't link to nonexistent categories - The category does not work until you at least stub it with "Category is stupid." So if you link to a category and it is red, look for a category that exists already, or create a new one.
• USE PICTURES! - Find a funny picture that goes along with your article, they make them more interesting. Google Image Search can help.
• User:Talk pages are immune to all of these rules, you may do and say whatever you like on them. However, the moderators have wide latitude dealing with users, so be careful.
• Grammar Run your articles through a spelling and grammar checker if you're not sure that your English skills are top-notch. Word is good. Also, Firefox 2.0 has a spellchecker built-in.
• <plural> are stupid As long as the article is singular, having the "stupid" line as plural is acceptable and is in fact correct. Furries are stupid. Not People who dress up as furry characters are stupid.

Consequences of Not Heeding This Document

Bans

Start at 24 hours and end somewhere around 100,000 hours for those to whom 24 hours is not enough to drive home the point.

Humiliation

You will be tagged with the CantFuckingRead template or something similarly heinous on your User:Nick page and subject to humiliation in the hopes that you will leave.

Your Article Will Be Humiliated

If your article sucks balls, it will be tagged with Shit and/or possibly deleted.