User:CaveatLector

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Contents 1 Basic info 2 Current projects 3 Projects Completed 4 Works currently submitted for publication 5 Works published 6 Currently Editing 7 My Favorite Users 8 A warning to users in discussions and deletion votes 9 Problematic articles and discussions 10 Past problematic articles and discussions

[edit] Basic info

Alexander Perkins, B.A.
University of Pennsylvania, College of Arts and Sciences Class of 2006

[edit] Current projects

• 'The many facets of Wikiality: How the recent segments on the Colbert Report expose the problems with Wikipedia', an essay.

[edit] Projects Completed

• 'Scar, Sympathy, Icon, and Identity: The Power of the Name in the Ancient Imagination' An honors thesis presented to the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania
• 'Turn the Page, Turn Me On': An essay on the eroticism of the written word.

[edit] Works currently submitted for publication

[edit] Works published

• '?': A poem published in Generation Q: Question Everything, the supplement for QPenn 2005 (the University of Pennsylvania's LGBT awareness week).

• 'A Reply': A poem submitted to The Penn Review, The University of Pennsylvania's Literary Magazine (Spring 2006).

[edit] Currently Editing

• Anti-hero (This article still needs major work from someone who is more familiar with the progression of narratology).
• Author (needs major revision)
• Cupid (vandal control)
• Fiction (This article needs a serious overhaul)
• Hero (vandal control, more content needed)
• Homophobia (an article suffering from a bad case of itself?)
• Oscar Wilde (severe vandal control, one of the most frequently vandalized pages, often the victim of homophobic revision.)
• University of Pennsylvania (need to keep my fellow alumni in check)

[edit] My Favorite Users

• Cuivienen
• Xtreambar
• Adam Carr
• Akhilleus
• Yonmei

[edit] A warning to users in discussions and deletion votes

If you in any way refer to being 'pro homosexual' or 'pro homosexuality' as a POV, I will immediately Assume BAD Faith.

[edit] Problematic articles and discussions

• Homophobia needs an enema, mostly to deal with the people who populate its talk page who are obsessed with a contortion of WP:NPOV. Reading a discussion that debates whether or not the term 'gay rights' is NPOV or 'where is the article for those opposed to homosexuality' or 'ok, so we're going to say "To some people Homophobia can mean...to others it can mean..."' makes my head feel like its going to burst, and pretty much exposes some of the more dangerous flaws of the whole NPOV policy.
• The issues at Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Alexander the Great have resurfaced again. Apparently, a category that mentions the word 'homosexuality' to describe same-sex relations is 'POV'. Why do I have to keep using my time (which is quite valuable to me) defending these articles from people with no respect for classical scholarship and no idea how to carry out actual research?

[edit] Past problematic articles and discussions

• Homosexuality in ancient Greece. A certain user (Cretanpride) used sockpuppets to push a homophobic agenda within the article, claiming that 'there was no homosexual practices in ancient Greece! It's a LIE! A LIE!!!' (or something like that) while citing only one outdated source and one highly dubious one by a 'scholar' (politician) whose book claims to prove that 'The Greeks were truly the most glorious civilization'. He saw the idea that the Greeks might have accepted some homosexual practices as 'very offensive' to his country and its history. The very fact that this article made it into AFD (which he started) or that this user was even given the time of day reveals more serious problems with Wikipedia. The fact that a group of people have to STRUGGLE against this ONE nationalistic POV pusher to protect the integrity of this article is absolutely shameful. In a disturbing twist, the editor sent an e-mail to several other Wikipedia editors claiming to have kidnapped a young girl and threatening to kill her if the article was not returned to his satisfaction. The authorities took care of the situation.
• Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Anti-homosexualism. This was a case of 'I don't like a certain way a term is being used, so we are going to create a NEW term and POV fork an article.' I argued that Wikipedia should not be a dogmatic excercize in pushing a particular view of what words MEAN. One user has said that Wikipedia simply cannot avoid this (while standing under the banner of NPOV, which to me seems contridictory). The discussion ended with a delete and redirect vote.