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For those of you who can't make heads for tails out of the alphabet soup, needless jargon, and other near-unidentifiable terms that I blatantly use in clear violation of WP:EIEIO, I've decided to clear things up a bit and throw them all into a group of half-baked three-header wikitables.
Enjoy.
[edit] General
| What I say |
Where they're found |
What I mean |
| Gah! |
Edit summaries |
I did something stupid. |
| Gyarrrrgh(, fix)! |
Edit summaries |
I screwed something and need to fix it. Used by itself or with an appropriate term, it can also mean frustration. |
| ce |
Edit summaries |
Copyedit |
| Bibendum--er, addendum |
Edit summaries (Talk, User talk spaces only) |
I added something I forgot. |
| flinging beef |
Anywhere |
Expressing your thoughts, whether in an essay or an IRC discussion. |
[edit] Vandalism
| rv(v)(agf) |
Edit summaries |
Reverted (vandalism) (assumed good faith) |
| Yar! |
Anywhere |
I'm going to fight vandals / I am excited. |
| Huh? |
Edit summaries only |
I doubt this edit makes any sense; I have reverted it and assumed good faith. |
| Salutations to thee! |
IRC |
(What do you think it means? "Beef päste?") |
| <anything related to finding a cantaloupe> |
IRC |
A personal running gag originating from a completely random story I wrote and plan to publish. Used in WP's IRC, it means I have to go. |
| I stuck <user> with <WP:UTM template> |
IRC |
I warned <user> with a WP:UTM-standard template, such as {{uw-v1}} |
| WTFBBQ? |
IRC |
WTF? |
| <term> = ? |
IRC |
I do not understand the term; please explain. |
| <term> ?= <other term> |
IRC |
Is <term> the same as <other term>? |
| <...> beefed |
IRC only |
<...> is not working. |
| Heh? |
IRC |
What? What do you want? |
