Back by popular demand: this little ditty, taken from Wikipedia:Songs about Wikipedia/The RfA Candidate's Song, was recorded with considerable panache and musicianship back in 2006 – which means there's probably a whole new generation of editors who've never heard it. Enjoy! Lyrics below.
RfA: A self-nomination (parody)
(sung to the tune of the
Major-General's Song)
- I am the very model of a modern Wikipedian:
- I've knowledge of Greek drama, both comedic and tragedian;
- I know historic battlefields from Ancient Rome to World War Two,
- and neutral is the mode in which I always keep my point of view!
- I'm very well acquainted, too, with Polynese ethnology.
- I understand Samoan lore and Mā-ori mythology.
- From mountain peaks of Suriname to passes of the Great Divide,
- I see to it that everything is quite correctly wikified!
- He sees to it that everything is quite correctly wikified!
- He sees to it that everything is quite correctly wikified!
- He sees to it that everything is quite correctly wiki-wikified!
- Some people think my entries are little more than trivia —
- that episode of Barney or that woodwind of Bolivia —
- and yet, in matters great and small, high and low and median,
- I am the very model of a modern Wikipedian.
- In short, in matters great and small, high and low and median,
- He is the very model of a modern Wikipedian!
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