User:Badlydrawnjeff

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Pick of destiny, or something.

Throughout the whole of his "Observations," Mr. Hamilton endeavours to impress the public with an idea of his own purity, and of the rancorous emnity of his opposers. He has drawn a hideous portrait; and, with one hand, he points at it as theirs, while, with the other, over the magnitude of his own crimes, he artfully throws a veil. It is out duty, then, to drag him from his covert, and to shew him to the world in a proper point of view, shrouded in his own crimes. To accomplish this, let us examine what proof he offers of the "uprightness of his principles." He tells us he was not guilty of speculation, but acknowledges himself an adulterer. Does this then prove him upright?

"Justice", in the National Gazette, concerning the actions of Alexander Hamilton in the 1790s.

Hello! I'm Jeff Raymond, a 25 year old from Central Massachusetts. I have a college degree in political science and history. My goal is to, at some point in my life, become a children's librarian.

1 Personal Interests
- 1.1 Current Projects
2 Wikipedia issues
3 Toolbox
4 Media Whoredom!
5 Personal reference area/Brag board

[edit] Personal Interests

My main areas of interest are music and political articles. NPOV is essential to political articles, and it's extremely hard to fight off edit warring when you have people who are hellbent on inserting POV into articles. To me, it involves not only including notable and useful information and links in articles that you may disagree with on a personal level, or may not fit your ideology, but unincluding information that, even if it meshes with your worldview, may not be competently verifiable. I'm personally an Anti-Bush paleoconservative, so I spend time in both conservative and liberal subjects, but try hard to keep NPOV in mind during my editing and upkeep.

My main interest, however, in music articles. I own nearly 2000 CDs, I go to many concerts, I read a lot of music blogs, I consider myself well-versed. I fight to keep notable bands from being deleted, add new independent acts and albums when I come across them, and otherwise cause mischief that way.

I mainly create stubs, but would eventually want to expand more things myself. A small article is better than none at all.

[edit] Current Projects

The Elephant Six Collective - bands, albums, members.
Expand Poor Rich Ones, William Hut, Maximilian Hecker, St. Thomas
Major expansion of Millbury, Massachusetts, as well as Worcester, Massachusetts-area information.
Kids books, including anything by Lane Smith.
Projects local to Worcester County.
Carson Ellis.
Articles pertaining to Kroger Babb.
Bringing the following articles to featured status:

[edit] Wikipedia issues

An artist's rendition. Self-explanatory, I think.

* Elaragirl twitches, glares at the Vile Dark Lord of Inclusion.
<badlydrawnjeff> Can I quote that?

From #wikipedia on Freenode, about lil' ol' me.

I used to be a proponent of Administrator Recall. I'm not anymore.

WP:MUSIC has a number of failings as a guideline, as it encompasses too many otherwise notable subjects (for instance, see the AfDs for The 7th Floor Crew, KOMPRESSOR, Team 9, and Asgard Legionnaires). Furthermore, the internet somewhat ruins the concept of straight notability judged by record sales and magazine coverage, and WP:MUSIC should theoretically find a useful way to keep that in mind. This problem exists in WP:WEB as well, and, to a certain extent, WP:CORP. People rush to fit groups and people into these WPs without thinking a little too often.

WP:SNOW may be the worst thing to happen to Wikipedia. It tosses process for a crystal ball, ignoring any chance of uncovering information that may change a situation for the purpose of quick finishes. It's rude, divisive, and inflammatory, but has unfortunate desire to be kept around. Furthermore, if I notice something being closed or referenced via WP:SNOW, I will challenge you on it, up to and including taking it to another review venue. If I catch it, I will do it, period.

This idea of stable articles is troublesome. It makes us into something less than what we're capable of.

WP:PROD needs to be expanded.

Speedy keep needs to be expanded. While it needs to be expanded, please don't violate the speedy keep guidelines in the meantime.

We're mature enough as a community where we shouldn't have to ignore the rules if they bother us. Need to rely on IAR too much? Says a lot about you.

Any projects I may be working on indefinitely can be found at User:Badlydrawnjeff/Projects. Feel free to pitch in!

[edit] Toolbox

[edit] Media Whoredom!

I was featured in a 2004 article regarding LiveJournal culture. [1]
I was featured in a 2004 article about the Vote for Change tour that was internationally syndicated, mostly due to a usenet flamewar. [2]
I was featured in an article about Wikipedia that was published in the Boston Globe! [3]

I think I might actually meet WP:BIO.

[edit] Personal reference area/Brag board

This exists for two reasons:

It's easy for me and others to refer to.
It helps me keep track of possible deletions.

I don't create bad articles, although I create small ones. The current climate is such that small often equals bad, so...

Featured Articles
Kroger Babb
Good Articles
The Reputation \| Mom and Dad
Articles I've Authored or Initiated
Petra Haden Sings: The Who Sell Out \| Secret Square \| Chocolate USA \| Clem Snide \| M Coast \| Template:E6 \| Barricades & Brickwalls \| Laura Youngblood \| South Coast League \| Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers DVD releases \| Wikipedia:Jamaican Bobsled Team clause \| Anne McCue \| Mildred Horn
Articles I Rewrote Enough to Take Credit For
Debbie Schlussel \| Your Fly is Open \| The Legend of Zelda: The Triforce Saga \| The Like \| The Long Goodbye \| Forty Six & 2 \| Jeremy Barnes \| 7th Floor Crew \| Fiona Sit \| Michael Graham \| DCU Center \| Mark Eitzel \| Tarkio \| Glen Phillips \| Toad the Wet Sprocket \| Fuck \| Elf Power \| Turin Brakes \| Of Montreal \| The Minus 5 \| Daniel Handler \| Lane Smith \| Jon Scieszka \| Mom and Dad
Stubs I've Created or Rewritten
Laura Carter \| Essex Green \| Frosted Ambassador \| Nadagate \| Maximilian Hecker \| St. Thomas \| Carson Ellis \| Vainly Clutching at Phantom Limbs \| Come On \| The Winter Hawk EP \| Creatures \| Walking With the Beggar Boys \| Nothing's Going to Happen \| A Dream in Sound \| The Winter is Coming \| Aldhils Arboretum \| The Long Goodbye \| Pipes You See, Pipes You Don't \| Bablicon \| Fablefactory \| Great Lakes \| Icy Demons \| The Ladybug Transistor \| The Late B.P. Helium \| Ride the Lightning \| Redneck Nation: How the South Really Won the War \| David Weinstein \| Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking? \| Eveningland \| I'm Talking With My Mouth \| Birds, Beasts, & Flowers \| No Word From Tom \| The Autumn Defense \| Marbles \| Black Swan Network \| The Minders \| You Say Party! We Say Die! \| Suburban Field Recordings: Volume One \| End of Love \| A Beautiful EP \| Soft Spot \| Moment in the Sun EP \| The Ghost of Fashion \| Your Favorite Music \| You Were a Diamond \| Colin Meloy Sings Shirley Collins \| Crooked Fingers \| Musicforthemorningafter \| Live at the Roxy \| Meridian Green \| Colony 5 \| The Best Party Ever \| Tuatara \| Breaking the Ethers \| Trading With the Enemy \| Cinemathique \| The Loading Program \| The Reputation_(album) \| To Force a Fate \| Edward Lazear \| Kushiel's Scion \| Songs of Love \| 60 Watt Silver Lining \| Words and Music \| West \| Caught in a Trap and I Can't Back Out 'Cause I Love You Too Much, Baby \| The Invisible Man \| Music for Courage and Confidence \| The Ugly American \| Candy Ass \| The Barbarians are Coming \| Live at Largo \| Mr. Lemons \| Unlucky 7 \| Abulum \| Welcome Home: Live At The Arlington Theatre, Santa Barbara 1992 \| Five Live \| The Early Four Track Recordings \| A Pollinaire Rave \| The Bird Who Ate the Rabbit's Flower \| Back to the Web \| David Barnes \| Fuck \| Pretty...Slow \| Baby Loves a Funny Bunny \| Pardon My French \| Conduct \| Gold Bricks \| Cupid's Cactus \| Those Are Not My Bongos \| David Barnes \| David Barnes \| David Barnes \| Cannibal Sea \| The State of Things \| The Door \| Fight or Flight \| Live at the Palladium \| 5 Mile (These Are the Days) \| NapsterLive \| The Red Moon EP \| mcluskyism \| My Pain and Sadness is More Sad and Painful Than Yours \| Ganging Up on the Sun \| Deflated Chime, Foals Slightly Flower Sibylline Responses \| Decadence \| Popaganda!!! \| Andrew Keogh \| Naked party \| And I Don't Want to Live This Life \| Duncan Sheik \| Humming \| Phantom Moon \| Daylight \| White Limousine \| The Luxury of Time \| Mine and Yours \| Indiana \| Wherever You Are \| Open Season \| Amok \| Kumquat Mae \| Laurie Keller \| The Avalanche \| Private Radio \| The Edge of the World \| Hobo \| The Scrambled States of America \| Open Wide: Tooth School Inside \| Arnie the Doughnut \| Grandpa Gazillion's Number Yard \| The Moldy Peaches \| Moldy Peaches 2000: Unreleased Cutz and Live Jamz 1994-2002 \| County Fair/Rainbows \| Infinite Love Songs \| Rose \| Lady Sleep \| TPC at The Woodlands \| The Minus 5 \| At the Organ \| Down With Wilco \| In Rock \| I Don't Know Who I Am (Let the War Against Music Begin Vol. 2) \| Let the War Against Music Begin \| My Chartreuse Opinion \| The Lonesome Death of Buck McCoy \| Old Liquidator \| The Emperor of the Bathroom \| Hello EP \| The Fabulous Sounds of the Pacific Northwest \| Topsy Turvy \| The Men Who Loved Music \| Totally Lost \| Beans and Tolerance \| This One's For the Ladies \| Electric Bird Digest \| It's Low Beat Time \| Temptation on a Saturday \| Because We Hate You \| Hogging \| Deviant Behavior \| Charcoal \| The Glass Intact \| Distant \| Ukelele Songs From the North Devon Coast \| Table for One \| Cortinaland \| Caravan Songs \| The Late Music \| All Jets Are Gonna Fall Today \| Smoke Machine \| Girlie men \| Treasures From the Trash Heap \| War Chords EP \| All I Ever Wanted Was Tonight \| The Good Times Are Killing Me \| Instant Live \| Live at The Paradise: Boston, MA \| Eef Barzelay \| Bitter Honey \| A Lady Writing a Letter \| Headphones \| These Girls \| The True Story of the Three Little Pigs \| The Happy Hocky Family \| The Happy Hocky Family Moves to the Country \| Save Me \| Hating America: The New World Sport \| Someday Angeline \| Havana \| Curves \| Macon Music \| Under the Covers, Vol. 1 \| Fitton Field \| Glenn Ordway \| Cleveland steamer \| The Side Effects \| The Thorns \| Lose Big \| Invalid Litter Dept. \| Inside \| Earth \| Altered Beast \| Son of Altered Beast \| 100% Fun \| In Reverse \| Time Capsule: Best of 90/00 \| Blue Sky on Mars \| To Understand: The Early Recordings of Matthew Sweet \| Kimi Ga Suki \| Living Things \| Bob Nanna/Elizabeth Elmore EP \| Gloryline \| Rough Night in Jericho \| Father's House \| Nocturnal Omissions \| Ed Riley \| The Samples \| Help! I'm Trapped... \| On the Way Down From the Moon Palace \| Happiness \| Geek the Girl \| Excerpts From a Love Circus \| Slide \| Lullaby for Liquid Pig \| In the Maybe World \| Everything I'm Cracked Up to Be \| Cockamamie \| Gun Shy, Trigger Happy \| Loveless \| Gift to the World \| The Fidelity Wars \| Boxing Hefner \| Half a Life \| We Love the City \| Kick, Snare, Hats, Ride \| Dead Media \| Catfight \| The Best of Hefner \| The Devotion Chamber \| The Hefner Heart \| The Hefner Soul \| Orphan Songs \| The Hefner Brain \| Revelations \| Lee Remick \| A Better Friend \| Pull Yourself Together \| Love Will Destroy Us in the End \| The Sweetness Lies Within \| The Hymn for the Alcohol \| The Hymn for the Cigarettes \| I Took Her Love for Granted \| Christian Girls \| Good Fruit \| The Greedy Ugly People \| Alan Bean \| Trouble Kid \| Putting the Days to Bed \| Hello Operator \| Cox and Underwood \| Fade Out/In \| Heroes and Villains \| Paloalto \| Headlights \| Kill Them With Kindness \| Kill Them With Kindness \| The Enemies EP \| The Most Serene Republic/Headlights \| Art Contest \| "Looked Up" Plus Four \| S.T. Monroe/The Like Young \| The Timid EP \| National Gazette \| Roll \| Koala Motel \| Live: Ballad of an Outlaw Woman \| Amazing Ordinary Things \| Uglies \| Pretties \| Specials \| Toxic Girl \| Messenger Records \| Hygienic Productions \| Pressbook \| Lees Creek, Ohio \| Bernard Henry Kroger \| Eric Schaefer \| BoxOffice \| Miller-Consolidated Pictures \| John Miller \| Walk the Walk \| Edward G. Winter \| Monument to the Masses \| Little T Learns to Share \| Dynamic Images \| I'll Be A Virgin, I'll Be A Mountain \| Kitty-Yo \| Modern Film Distributors \| Axe Murder Boyz \| Bleu \| A Bing Bang Holidang \| Headroom \| Workaday Day EP \| Redhead \| L.E.O. \| Alpacas Orgling \| Sylvie Lewis \| Tangos and Tantrums \| Subtítulo \| Bedroom Classics, Vol. 2 \| Nashville \| The Smooth Sounds of Josh Rouse \| 1972 \| Under Cold Blue Stars \| Bedroom Classics, Vol. 1 \| Home \| Chester \| Dressed Up Like Nebraska \| Awful Mess Mystery \| Where's Wolfie? \| Wolfie and the Coat and Hat \| Tall Dark Hill \| Card Mondor \| Josh Rouse \| Scooter (talking baseball) \| Five Minutes to Love \| Walk the Angry Beach \| The Best is Yet to Come \| Studio 10,001 Inc. \| Shell Shock \| John Hayes \| Ern Westmore \| Naomi Striemer \| Real Live Roadrunning \| Tina Rosenberg \| The Alarmist \| Julie Kenner \| Shaken and Stirred: The David Arnold James Bond Project \| Newmarket Press \| "She Shoulda Said 'No!'" \| Beautiful Insane \| In Here We Fall \| Best Friend's Girl \| Morning Afterglow \| Lost in Space \| Karamoja \| Kwaheri \| One Too Many \| Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type \| Giggle, Giggle, Quack \| Dooby Dooby Moo \| Duck for President \| John Wilkes Booth conspiracy theories \| Square-up \| Have a Good Night: Live Recordings 1999-2005 \| Doreen Cronin \| Christmas Singles \| Stuck in the Chimney (More Christmas Singles) \| King Johan
Articles to Expand/Write/Rewrite That Don't Fit Above
A. A. Allen \| A Riddle of Roses \| S. S. Millard \| The Adventures of Lucky Pierre \| Everything/Nothing \| Hungry Bird \| Garland Press \| Hollywood Gazette \| Los Angeles Examiner \| Asa Waters \| Michael Zengel \| The Ern Westmore Show \| Kipling's Women \| Secrets of Beauty \| Halfway to Hell \| Delinquent Angels \| Father Bingo \| The Idea Factory \| The Lawton Story/The Prince of Peace \| Glasses (Who Needs 'Em?) \| The Big Pets \| Flying Jake \| Pinnochio: The Boy \| The Happy Hocky Family Moves to the Country! \| John, Paul, George, and Ben \| Baloney, Henry P. \| Math Curse \| Science Verse \| Seen Art? \| Squids Will Be Squids \| The Grass Eater \| The Farmer's Other Daughter \| Fandango (1969 film) \| The Cut-Throats \| Sweet Trash \| Dream No Evil \| Convicts' Women \| All the Lovin' Kinfolk \| The Hang Ups \| Heterosexuals (film) \| Grave of the Vampire \| Garden of the Dead \| Mama's Dirty Girls \| End of the World (film) \| Jailbait Babysitter \| Up Yours - A Rockin' Comedy
Possible FA/GA Rewrites
David F. Friedman \| R.E.M. \| The Turk \| William_Beaudine \| Catonsville Nine \| "She Shoulda Said 'No!'" \| Harry Stephen Keeler \| Robert Benchley