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Training boat for cadets
Candidates who pass the bar exam may become janitors.
Morning assembly
Data stream monitoring unit
Screening for contraband edits
On the lookout for incidents
Historical photo of early janitors, circa 2002
Wikipedians are on watch 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Emergency database change to read-only
Coordination centre
Counter-drone team watching for unauthorised bots
RCMP (Recent Changes Mobile Patrol) officer waiting for a deployment
Those accused of disruptive behaviour may be restricted or banished.
Rangers being alert in Alert
Marching band
Another type of Canadian Ranger
Officer uniforms
Briefing before searching for undisclosed paid editors
Examining a Wikipedia article's history for evidence
Checkusers on a routine investigation
Advanced training in deep learning
Network engineers work with a packet analyzer
Snack delivery for a hackathon
After years of experience, a ranger may take their final form.
Ordinary users may participate in making policy.
The official residence of User:Jimbo Wales
The stately building of the Arbitration Committee
Award given upon an honourable discharge

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Please clearly mark this as attempted-humour in some way at the top. It is currently unclear and thus potentially insulting to actual Canadian Rangers who might not appreciate being compared to Power Rangers, etc. ~2026-20077-04 (talk) 21:02, 31 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
- You really think it's necessary to amplify beyond "Operation Enduring Encyclopedia" in the title? ☆ Bri (talk) 22:47, 31 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
- Thank you for sharing the concern. For what it's worth, I think of this as being complimentary in a humorous way, both for Canadian Rangers and their teammates, and for Wikipedia functionaries. I considered the possibility that someone might take this in a bad way, but I asked a Canadian, admittedly not a Ranger, to look at an earlier version, and that person had no objections and even a compliment. By the the way, the title is derived from the redirect page Wikipedia:Operation Enduring Encyclopedia. Also by the way, I previously posted a different Operation Enduring Encyclopedia gallery in Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2019-09-30/On the bright side. ↠Pine (✉) 03:42, 1 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]
- If a Canadian Ranger were to actually think this is real, I don't think they should be a Canadian Ranger :) I have a lot more faith in their abilities. --Hammersoft (talk) 20:54, 1 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm not concerned about the Rangers' feelings, but I was a little confused to find the usual "Humor" section missing. I think it might've been funnier to know that was the idea going in. Toadspike [Talk] 09:56, 2 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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