Good faith Here s yesterday s favourite recipe for a good natured and collaborative collegiate environment Ingredients and method d un seul coup Dare to improve an article that has been a Featured Article and A Good Article nominee since April 2008 Notice that an anon ip has added unsourced material in the wrong place Try to correct that mistake but also try to introduce additional material from an associated article When this is reverted by another editor as unsupported open a discussion thread and then ask questions about what the current article actually means fatal mistake Try to add something else from the associated article but get told by that editor it s uncited and irrelevant and be given a suggestion to go and improve the other article Suggest that errors which seem obvious to that editor could be corrected by that editor himself Get told Go fix the fucking article yourself don t try telling me what I ought to do you clearly have no idea how to write a decent encyclopedia article Go to the editor s Talk Page to leave a comment but then see that the article with a helpful link to the above sequence has been obsessively improved by those too ignorant and lazy to have done the work themselves or to improve any of the supporting articles First dowse in turgid duck pond water for 30 40 hours Then toast liberally upon a very warm bonfire suggest a big heap of facts Random Readers of the article if there are any may liberally add their own seasoning to produce a lovely appetising dish commonly called in Barley and neighbouring Pendle villages meaning Yes so much for Good Faith But apparently I m now a true believer How much more comfortable not be a recusant Bon appen tit as they say in deepest darkest Lancashire Just add water makes it s own sauce Jimmy Wales