Wikipedia talk:Squirrel!

So true![edit]

This. Is. So. True! Auldhouse (talk) 17:08, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

What would you think about adding something like this - just to expand on the theme a little?[edit]

Some Wikipedians set themselves a task or project to work on, and cannot be deflected from that task by anything less than the house catching on fire. What distinguishes squirrel-chasing Wikipedians is their distractability: they may have a task in mind that they intend to do, but the thing that suddenly becomes all-important to them is not something they deliberately choose. Rather, they stumble across some article content that is less than ideal, and they cannot bear to leave it in its imperfect condition - regardless of what else they leave undone while repairing it.

P.S. There was something I intended to do tonight, but I saw the link to SQUIRREL! at your talk page and clicked it and ... well, you know how it goes. 0;-D --MelanieN (talk) 04:49, 21 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

So true! Whenever I find something that distracts me, I add it to a list so I can go back to it at a later date. I find it helps me stay focused on a few priority projects. Right now, though, my "list" has over a thousand entries. Examples, "clean up Collier's encyclopedia entry," "go through the book Amazon the Everything Store about the history of the kindle," "go visit UW library," "look up sources Alec Ross used in Industries of the Future." It's like I'm a squirrel saving up nuts for later. Auldhouse (talk) 15:40, 21 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I see! You are a squirrel, shouting "NUT!" and saving it for later. Whereas Ritchie and I are dogs who see a SQUIRREL! and go absolutely crazy; everything else goes out of our head and nothing else matters while we chase that squirrel. (Unlike dogs chasing squirrels, we DO know what to do with the squirrel when we catch it.) --MelanieN (talk) 00:56, 22 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. I'm going to add the "squirrel saving nuts" analogy to the above before I add it to the essay. --MelanieN (talk) 00:56, 22 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It takes all kinds to build Wikipedia, and with that, I move over to the Squirrel Editor section before I am again distracted.Auldhouse (talk) 16:16, 22 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If you mean you want to expand the essay, just be bold and do it! It's in project space, not my userspace, so go for it. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 16:37, 21 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relations to Wikipedia:WikiOgre ?[edit]

It seems to have some similar pattern with WikiOgres. Is it possible that WikiOgres are affected by periodical Squirrelite ? Is this a spectrum ? Are there any available researches on that possibility ? Yug (talk) 🐲 18:51, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]