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[edit] About Me
Real Name: David Alexander Russell
Nationality: Scottish
[edit] GnuPG Key
My (OpenPGP-compliant) GnuPG key is available here. The reason it is offwiki is that obtaining the key from a page which can only be modified by me (unlike a wiki page which can , by definition, be modified by everyone) means you can be fairly certain that the key is authentic. If you don't have an OpenPGP-compatible email client then read this tutorial.
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[edit] Licensing
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[edit] Other pages
I relaunched the Battlefield Series Wiki on Wikia (fka Wikicities) on April 3rd 2006, and I am a sysop and a bureaucrat on that wiki. If you feel like contributing anything related to the Battlefield games, drop by!
[edit] WikiViews
[edit] Notability
I am generally opposed to arbitrary 'notability standards' such as WP:WEB and WP:MUSIC. The criteria involved are inherently POV. For example, what constitutes a 'reliable published work' (one of the criteria of WP:WEB)? There is no WP:NPOV-compliant answer to that question. The test of whether an article should be included on Wikipedia should be the quality of the article, not a POV judgment on how 'worthy' the subject matter is - of course the various 'notability standards' are at least useful as a semi-official stick to hit rubbish articles with.
[edit] Stable Versions
I have no problem with the idea of having a 'stable' version of articles, especially since it would help those who wish to turn Wikipedia into a CD-ROM or dead-tree encyclopedia for the benefit of those without internet access. However in achieving this we cannot abandon our basic goal. The article displayed when someone goes to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whatever should ALWAYS, ALWAYS be the editable version. Page protection should be seen as a 'necessary evil', to prevent the 'greater evil'[1] of high-profile or controversial pages being repeatedly vandalised by morons, it should not be used long-term with the specific purpose of discouraging anyone from editing an article because it's 'really really good'. If we do that, Wikipedia might as well stop. 'Welcome to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.' If we really want to build the sum total of human knowledge, it has to stay that way.
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Insofar as the ability to change text on an inconsequential webpage can be considered 'evil' in a world of war crimes, genocide and other such nastiness.
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