[edit] Introduction
Wait! What's he doing here on Wikipedia? Isn't he supposed to be on Uncyclopedia?
—Oscar Wilde, Oscar Wilde
My name is Ethan "Insineratehymn" Mittel. I am a representative of Metal Storm. I come from Kansas, the most boring state in the union. I was once a vandal here on Wikipedia, but I have repented and changed my ways. I now patrol the recent changes page in search of those who vandalize articles.
[edit] Fact About Me
I am a metalhead who is learning to become a computer programmer. If I was to pursue a career, I would just want a duty of programming code for mediocre software. Some of my favorite things include computers, programming, metal, video games, and philosophy. As you can see further down my userpage, I love to use userboxes... perhaps a bit too much. One might say I have too many userboxes, and believe I should remove some. I say I have too few.
So like I said, I love the musical genre of metal. I listen to bands from every subgenre, but if I had to choose which subgenres were my favorites, I would choose thrash metal, death metal, black metal, and grindcore. In my part time, I study philosophy; some of the philosophical works I read include those by Plato, Confucius, and Friedrich Nietzsche.
As you can also see by the Oscar Wilde quote, I am a frequent contributor to Uncyclopedia. It's easier for me to be funny than serious, but by making contributions to Wikipedia, I can hopefully be serious about editing as well.
[edit] A Word About Vandalism
Back in the ancient days of the internet, vandals would often blank Wikipedia's
Rome article.
Here we have the original copy of a very rare document from ancient Rome, untouched by vandal ha- *sigh* Not again.
Being a former vandal, I understand the motives behind why someone might commit vandalism. There are several different reasons behind vandalism, each case unique, but the reason why I used to commit vandalism is "vengeance". The vengeance in question was spawned from something which offended me.
Some years ago, I performed a search for information regarding death metal musician Chuck Schuldiner. One of the first results that appeared on Google was the Wikipedia article over him. Just below that result was a result for an article on anus.com, which slandered his name. I was offended by this article, and when I later discovered that anus.com had a Wikipedia article, I planned to perform massive vandalism upon the article. I could not do it all the time as my IP address, as I would end up being banned indefinitely from Wikipedia. To avoid this, I created sockpuppets that were used solely for vandalism on that one Wikipedia article. Of the many vandalism techniques, I used false information, childish insults toward the topic, reverting to vandalized versions of the article, blanking the article and leaving a message, and several others.
This lasted for about 3 months until I realized that vandalizing that article just to prove a point was fruitless and futile, and I soon came to recognize the errors of my ways. I felt remorse for the actions I had done, and I apologized to those who told me on many an occasion that what I was doing was wrong. I have now changed and hope to prove to those who reside here that I may be an important asset to this community.
By repenting my mistakes of the past, I have shown that vandals are still human, and therefore have empathy. Many people often make the mistake that vandals are and will always remain cold, heartless barbarians, but this is not true. Vandals have feelings just like any other man, woman, or child, and as such can be changed for the better. If we show the vandals that we wish only to become friends and give them words of knowledge and not those of hate, then they will become positive contributing Wikipedians.
[edit] Articles
Here is the list of articles I have created (and articles to which I have contributed much).
[edit] Awards
If there are any awards that you wish to give me, feel free to place them below, or give them to me on my talk page so that I may place them on my userpage later. It will be much appreciated.
[edit] Current Activities
I am currently a member of the following Wikipedia projects.
[edit] Userboxes
