User:BozMo

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Bozmo is somebody called Andrew Cates.

I am old for a Wikipedian, have three kids am a PhD Mathmo (DAMTP, Cambridge 1989. My life is slowly appearing through the mist as google scholar works backwards into history... I have done an eclectic collection of research e.g.: A major accident investigation, Nonlinear diffraction and caustic formation in Proc Roy Soc, Equation theory in Physics Letters, Gas Explosion Guidelines, Ocean Acoustics in Physica D). I could even claim to be a rocket scientist with a publication in Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics, have given the keynote speech at Singapore International Marine Bunkering Conference (SIBCON) [text been on Singapore Business breakfast TV, CNN, a joint MD of a Dutch Energy company but downshifted in 2004 from a serious career in oil to help AIDS Orphans. I currently work (part time) for the charity SOS Children, where I have been for nearly three years. I also work for the UK DTI (Department of Trade and Industry) as an independent director ("Innovation and business advisory board").

Confession/ declarations of interest: Although I certainly do not ignore all rules I have sometimes edited/updated articles relating to SOS Children or our "competitors" in the broad sense (i.e. other NGOs) even though this is a bit marginal under the conflict of interest guideline. For example I wrote some of the article 2006 Wikipedia CD Selection and moved it from Wikipedia space to namespace (after some advice/ discussion with others) ... I am very aware of the need to be neutral and if not trivial I generally post ahead on talk pages but:

1) I openly declare my "interest" here (as on DMOZ, where I also edit a bit).

2) On minor pages (many NGO pages are a bit dull) you could wait for months for anyone to notice a request for update. At least 50% of children charity's pages are stubs (see Category:Children's_charities), including the one I work for and I probably ought to spend more time and effort improving them rather than less.

3) Most competitors in the NGO world are also partners in one context or another

4) I try to be really careful and AFAIK no one has yet said they felt any of those edits were "POV", or reverted any edit on these topics.

5) Such edits only make up a couple of percent of my contributions to WP.

Please do say if you think I have failed to be neutral, if it is anywhere near where I am conflicted I will jump out of my skin. I am a bit more ascertive in edits on pages where I have no interest but generally listen well and like discussion.

I was recently famed or infamed for getting bored waiting for Wikipedia 1.0 and starting to produce the 2006 Wikipedia CD Selection. I have lots of opinions on things but am generally laid back when people disagree with me. I find Google's nofollow thing rather odd for example. Google is going to a lot of trouble to try to crack obscure Javascript redirects in websites which do not want to give away google points but is now apparently encouraging people to use a script whose only purpose seems to be to give a search engine a different impression than the one given to human surfers. Isn't that the opposite of what is required to get the web to work? If everyone got selfish and used it (why not?) google would collapse.

I like WikiPedia but it is at its weakest on "common misconceptions" which keep getting put back to wrong by new arrivals in a given discussion.

In Myers Briggs terms I am ENTP.

I am also at Meatball:AndrewCates