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Dr. Seuss's Guide to Wikipedia

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By Levivich, Atsme, EEng, and GeneralNotability
One hundred years ago, Theodor Seuss Geisel (better known as "Dr. Seuss") arguably began his writing career by authoring a book review of a railroad timetable and contributing to the Dartmouth College humor magazine Jack-O-Lantern. Since then millions of children – young and old – have delighted in the wit and wisdom of his iconic books with their hallucinatory illustrations. In celebration of this centennial, The Signpost has blatantly hijacked some of Seuss's most familiar works (and a few less familiar ones) in service of the perhaps questionable goal of indoctrinating a new generation of editors in the wacky ways of Wikipedia.
"Editors are just obsolete children, and the hell with them." – Dr. Seuss
"It's a pretty good zoo",
said young Gerald McGrew,
"And the fellow who runs it
seems proud of it, too."
– Dr. Seuss, If I Ran the Zoo

A Little Dab'll Do Ya!
Too Many Dabs

Too Many Debs


Aides-mémoire

Thanks Doc, we couldn't have done it without you!
Bonus audio
Ön Beyond Zebra!
     "I'm telling you this
           'cause you're one of my friends.
     My alphabet starts
           where your alphabet ends! ...
     So, on beyond Z!
           It's high time you were shown
     That you really don't know
           All there is to be known."
— Dr. Seuss, On Beyond Zebra!
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Beautifully putt
Everything clear now. -DePiep (talk) 18:16, 1 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I intend to show this article to some kids who (are taught English as forein language, and) are bored to aversion to that subject by curicula their teachers of English feed them.
I estimate they'll stop being bored, get interested about how the rhytm and melody materialize when text is read correctrly, get interested how to try to create their own poetry, and to get interested about what all the references (links) the humour is about. Boredom should vanish, and their teachers shall have a whole new universe of problems trying to answer the questions from every field possible (and some unpossibles), instead of their previous sole one - uninterested and unmotivated pupils.
That should also remove (too many) unmotivated and bored teachers' boredom also, and I hope they survive the experience. But if they do survive, most should remember (or even (re)learn) joy of teaching, and joy of seeing pupils flashing forward growing (in mind), instead of being laborously towed to memorize next datum listed in the curriculum.
Thanks for this article. I suppose you enjojed creating it about as much as I am reading it, and naughtily thinking to whom and at what correct moment to submit it to read.--Marjan Tomki SI (talk) 10:06, 21 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Unfortunately you're one of only about ten people who actually read it. Never have so many done so much to give laughs to so few. EEng 17:55, 21 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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