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MLA is a pseudonym for MadLordAnarchy, a member of the AD and PN communities.

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[edit] Background

MLA can be found frequenting a variety of fora around t'internet primarily during office hours, anyone who has access to those should drop in and say hi. Any members of the AD community will be very familiar with MLA's body of work.

The key areas of interest for MLA are this, this, and this.

[edit] Beliefs

MLA's beliefs are based more on the output than the process. He does not believe that adherence to a set of rules is more important than the spirit of those rules. He does believe that it is important to be able to build a structure that insitutionalises the beliefs that underpin the spirit of the rules.

MLA also believes in the importance of policing a freely accessible project and that if there are not sufficient people available to protect the project against those who would harm it through vandalism, spam or POV then the genuine users of the project will suffer.

One belief that contradicts the wikipedia experience is that MLA believes firmly in providing crisp, clean information and not simply creating for creation's sake. Wikipedia encourages the proliferation of add-ons to pages and does not have a function for simplifying as it is far easier to create in this case than it is to delete. The spamming of links is a particular area of contention.

[edit] Future Direction

Having settled in at wikipedia, MLA now spends much of what should nominally be work time browsing through random articles on the lookout for those to be improved or deleted. This does mean a lack of articles created and too many articles redrafted to list.

It is likely that an increasing amount of time will be spent at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion as that's the place that requires the most active involvement. MLA previously considered himself a deletionist but is finding that he is not a deletionist by recent standards where notable articles fall foul of verifiability by virtue of the turnover of available information on the internet. The drive to make Wikipedia an encyclopedia of all of the information from the internet age is less appealing than the original concept that MLA bought into.

[edit] Wikipedia landmarks

[edit] Articles Created

Interiot's Tool is a good thing even if it doesn't appear to update the count particularly quickly. Fortunately MLA does not have enough edits to suffer from Editcountitis. It's also a useful way of hiding the drafting edits from the janitorial ones.

[edit] External links

Places where you may run into MLA include:

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