User:Amerique

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Amerique is currently a graduate student in Information at the University of Michigan.

Amerique is interested in how the dispute resolution mechanisms of Wikipedia work to assist negotiating NPOV agreements among contentious parties to content disputes. He is also interested in how other social conventions of Wikipedia work to assist resolving NPOV disputes more coordially. Towards mapping effective mediation strategies among rational actors, Amerique often finds game theory applies. He has been engaged in editing the University of California, Riverside article, but occasionally also edits the UCLA article. He has ideas and some expertise in areas for entirely new articles, particularly pre-WW2 Marxist student movements and topics related to American Indians, but has not gotten around to writing them. He is a member of the WP:AMA.

In waking life, Amerique likes talking about relationships between literature, linguistics, and the revolution. In doing this, he has become an adept semiotician, favoring the semiotic of Charles Saunders Peirce over the semiology of Ferdinand de Saussure. (He finds most Cartesian dualism to be overly simplistic in general.) He has been known to apply semiotic theory towards developing Wikipedian social networks around the pursuit of patiently offensive internet trolls. In this recreational endeavour, he also finds the strategic principles first propounded by Miyamoto Musashi to be especially effective, although he also favors the military theories and approaches of Carl von Clausewitz and Vo Nguyen Giap.

boxbloc This user is part of the Association of Members' Advocates. This user is of American Indian ancestry. † This user survived Catholic school! This user served in the United States Military. UCLA This user attends or attended the University of California, Los Angeles

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While pursuing community development on Wikipedia, Amerique likes listening to music by the Wu Tang Clan. For mainspace editing, he appreciates OK Computer by Radiohead, although anything by Alice Coltrane also puts him in the right mood.

"You dig into yourself and the community to wage psychological warfare... you combat your own fears about beatings, shootings and possible mob violence... you organize, pound by pound, small bands of people ... you create a small striking force." Bob Moses 1963 SNCC organizer.

"There is a sure, one word solution to all the world's current problems: Atheism." Marshall Sahlins

		The Resilient Barnstar
		Amerique you learned from mistakes and bent over backwards to try to fix the issues. Aeon Insane Ward 01:16, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		I've been going through the open AMA cases list, and have noticed how many you've got open, so I though I'd give you this barnstar, for helping so many Martinp23 15:47, 3 November 2006 (UTC)