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The intent of this userpage is to introduce myself and provide explanations for and the motives behind my various actions.
[edit] About me
I am 17 years old and a proud Albertan. I have an interest in modern mythology, religion, politics, law, education, music, chemistry, and computing. I was an assistant system admin at my school at one point in time, and I am currently the de facto system administrator in my house (which has two linux servers and a number of WinXP boxes, linux laptops and a stodgy old WinME). Some friends of mine and I are currently creating a linux distribution. I am a gifted student, with an IQ of above 140. I am also a debater, and went to the ADSA provincials in 2006, competing in the semifinal round, in addition to the IDEA ITOC in that same year, and the North American Debating Championship in 2006. Additionally, I fill the positions of head editor of the Carroll Voice (newspaper of Bishop Carroll High School) and president (or director internal) of the Bishop Carroll High School Debate Federation, in addition to being the C instructor in the Bishop Carroll Computer Club.
[edit] My Editing Pattern
My editing pattern is such that it is very heavy during the latter part of June and the whole of July and August, though it becomes lighter for the remainder of the year due to the burdensome demands of my school workload and various extracurricular activities such as debate and the school paper.
Often, as has been seen in the past, I can reach several hundred edits a day during the peak period, which is obviously rarely sustainable. This is because the vast majority of my edits are syntactical or semantic, or deal with a system of classification spanning many pages.
[edit] Verification of Suspicions
For those wondering a certain thing about my username (or possibly editing pattern, or search results related to "Falcon Kirtaran") that is ordinarily a sensitive and hidden topic, you were right unless contraticted elsewhere. You may of course verify your suspicions, if so desired, provided you can read Japanese or know where to look. Caw.
[edit] Adminship
I am not currently requesting adminship. I intend to do so again someday in the distant future when I have more time and have resumed my summer editing practices, which most likely means sometime between June 8th, 2007, and July 21st, 2007. Squawk.
[edit] My Contributions
I regularly look through random articles (and crawl wikilinks) to check for stubs, and tag and try to expand those which are, in addition to other various chores. I edit wherever I see fit. I also consider it very important to be involved in debates and PoV disputes in a civil manner, and I abhor those who make the debates into uncivil arguments.
If I see an act of vandalism, I will generally take a look at the editor's summary, registered or no. I do not believe that this is an action against the user in particular, as I do not treat those edits with any prejudice - I'm simply looking for other edits in the same bad faith.
My former major project was adding all necessary pages in the Dewey Decimal System categorisation. However, this has been abandoned for three reasons. Firstly, I believe that the nature of Wikipedia is not similar enough to that of a library for that system to apply; for it to be useful, it would also need to include materials from Wikisource and a quantity of repositories of other data, and articles would need to be much more akin to books, which they simply are not. Secondly, there is a contentious copyright dispute which renders the category system all but unusable. Thirdly, the system is not extensible in the way a wiki should be, as it is governed by the OCLC and we can only use those parts which are in the public domain. Developing it further would either create conflicts (thus making it something other than Dewey Decimal) or violate copyright. For those reasons, I have started a new classification system (the WIS). That latter system is GDFL-licensed, and designed specifically for Wikipedia. I intend that, when I have time, the system will be grown to a point that it will attract some other developers.
In light of my seething hate of incorrect punctuation breaking up sentence structure, and for love of a decent semicolon, I am involved in WikiProject Punctuation when I have a great surplus of time.
I also make a number of contributions to the various pages on Therianthropy and the like, in addition to the discussions thereof.
[edit] What I Am Not
- A deletionist. I believe that if a page is a borderline case, it should be voted on, and that stubs and small topics should be included. After all, wikipedia is not limited in space anywhere near as much as a book, even as it is not a repository of useless information.
- A troll. Sometimes I look at other edits a person has made if they have done something I strongly disagree with, but only to ensure I have not missed a smelly mess
- At all tolerant of POV-driven editing and decision-making, particularly the aggrivating sort which come from thoughtless media parroting and the like
- A friend of people who want to list pages on VfD that have already been voted as kept, or constantly revert useful work, or insidiously attempt to discredit pages with unwarranted tags
[edit] Opinions
This is a collection of paragraphs which state and justify opinions I hold.
[edit] Wikipedia Is Not an Indiscriminate Repository of Information
In my viewpoint, the statement that Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate repository of information is a particularly contentious and loosely-defined one. Naturally, it cannot simply include all possible information; if it were to, we might as well type up the telephone book and a table of seismic data, and place both of them in here. However, I am firmly of the opinion that topics should not need to be widely recognised or scholarly to be included. Of course things like vanity pages should be disallowed, but that is because they are an attempt to create credibility rather than provide information. Information on specific modern beliefs, however, clearly does not fall into this category. We should include information such as that because it is valid, not exclude it because it is not necessarily scholarly.
[edit] NPOV should not apply to userspace
Of course, as is evident from my userpage, I am strongly of the opinion that NPOV policy should not be applied to userspace. This is for a great deal of reasons. The first of these relates directly to the justification for NPOV itself: that Wikipedia should not be a repository of biased information. This is significant because Wikipedia is essentially an unbiased work (or collection of works) which is created by intrinsically biased people. Nobody can honestly state that they have absolutely no bias or viewpoint, because we are perspective-oriented beings with unique paradigms. As we can clearly see, then, it is not necessary to pretend to be a community of people without a viewpoint in order to create an unbiased work: there are enough users to balance this out, and we are all called to be mature enough to write in the most unbiased, NPOV form possible. The second reason is related to the point of a userpage - to introduce oneself and what one does. This is a valuable tool, because it allows for much greater understanding within the community (thereby potentially quieting some heated fights) and a greater sense of community among editors. If we did not profile our perspective, Wikipedia would be quite a soulless place indeed. Also, it might allow people to avoid conflicts with those who obviously (from the userpage) have a very different viewpoint, and it can put a person's actions in perspective. As the expression of ideas is in userspace, it does not in and of itself bias article space.
The only justification for not allowing personal expression in userspace, then, is the idea that it might lead to bands of like-minded people using aggressive editing tactics. However, I firmly believe that if that should become a problem, it can be solved in other ways through existing structures (RfC, etc.). To advocate censorship in the interest of preventing immature activity places Wikipedians in general on the same level as kindergarten students - it is insulting to the community, and brings Wikipedia down to the lowest common denominator. Such an action might even be called a cousin to protecting all significant pages, or banning the community at large as though they were vandals.
Censorship of any sort, in my opinion, goes directly against the values which Wikipedia espouses and destroys the community, sense of belonging, and possibility of teamwork. Therefore, such a ban must not be implemented.
This essay regards a method of dealing with the reality that there are ample cultural phenomena which are relatively new (circa 1990) and have little academic material published on them, and what precisely Wikipedia ought in my opinion to do about it in order to improve its scope.
[edit] Falcon Kirtaran's Criteria
This is a list of criteria that I am developing.
[edit] Current Projects
[edit] Wikipedia:Dewey Decimal System
- Seems to have been deleted in my most recent absence
- Is an evolving structure
- Still requires the broad topic pages to be created for C and D
- Other broad topics are probably necessary
- Has been marked as inactive in my absence and will be resumed when I have time
[edit] Random & crawling page patrol
Since I started counting on June 28th, 2005, I have caught approximately the following amounts of unflagged things (not necessarily one per article):
- 89 stubs
- 16 articles with bias (or advertisments, sermons, etc.)
- 12 articles needing cleanup
- 10 articles needing wikification
- 3 candidates for merging
- 2 unreasonable tags
- 2 instances of excessive red links
- 2 articles in need of deletion
- 1 unverifiable article
- 1 article needing to be transwikied
- 1 article in need of a spoiler tag
- 1 uncited wild claim
- 1 self-contradictory passage
- 1 article with jargon
- 1 article with insufficient context
- Since June 4th, 2006:
- 1 page wikified
- 4 dead end pages fixed
- General contribution.
- Dump files processed: 5
ぼくはひらがなとろまじをよみます、でもかたかなとかんじをよみません。ぼくにひらがなでかいてください。ありがとう。
ぼくのたましうはたかです。(いいえ、ぼくはばかじゃないです）。
日本語のWikipediaにかきません。
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