User:Leflyman

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Leflyman is trying to take a short wikibreak and will be back on Wikipedia eventually. Most likely, however, Leflyman won't be able to keep away from Wikipedia for that long, and will probably be back a lot earlier while making some small edits every once in a while anyway.

A short page about Wikipedian Leflyman

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Hiya. I've been registered since January 2004, although I made a number of anonymous edits going back to months earlier. I've been at this over three years, but have a mere 4500-odd edits to my name. Any day now (ADN) my User page will be improved. I am not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV.

[edit] Wiki-philosophy

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This user has been a Wikipedian since October 2003

This user runs Mac OS X.

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4 500

This user has over 4 500 edits on the English Wikipedia.

en	This user is a native speaker of English.

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Этот участник свободно владеет русским языком.

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משתמש זה מסוגל לתרום ברמה בסיסית של עברית.

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Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse.

What I believe...

I believe the task of a general encyclopedia is to be useful to the widest range of people, not merely technical specialists or detail-oriented fans. While I previously described myself as a subscriber to the Wikipedia philosophy of "Deletionism", I would term myself an adherent to "Significantism"-- which I consider to be a more accurate reflection of "notability", and a preferable term to "importance". My belief is that articles should demonstrate the significance of their subject matter. In regards to articles and additions of extremely limited significance, only by weeding can Wikipedia flourish into a true garden of knowledge (to extend a clichéd metaphor.) That's not to say that obscure topics do not deserve a place here, so long as their contents are neutral, verifiable and free of original research.

[edit] Major contributions

I've contributed to a wide range of articles-- from science and religion, to culture, history and entertainment-- although I prefer to keep watch over a few specific ones of interest, to ensure their quality remains stable, and to reverse Wiki-entropy. In particular, I have been a long-time editor of the constellation of Lost (TV series) articles, including (re)writing nearly every section of the main article, as well as many of the ancillary pages. I walked it through two peer reviews, and was responsible for seeing Lost receive Today's Featured Article for October 3.

Some other pages I've had a major hand in developing/revising (but didn't start):

Ben Stiller - Earliest edits from October 2003, later complete rewrites
Robot - First article edited after registration, and hacked apart
Pseudoreligion - Rewrite saved from deletion
Characters of Lost - Plus the various character bios
List of snowclones - Reorganised, redacted and established dates of origin
List of people from Tulsa, Oklahoma - Categorised, alphabetised
Lost: The Journey - Rewrote non-encyclopedic episode article into a verifiable, sourced one
PC Load Letter - Reorganised into encyclopedic article with sources
Jewish Life Network - Rewrite saved from deletion
Daniel Mendelsohn - Re-write to eliminate copyvioed text

[edit] Articles initiated

And some of the random articles I started, mostly dealing with entertainment or music:

Cluetrain - first stab at an article (8 February, 2004), merged into The Cluetrain Manifesto
Fran Rubel Kuzui -- Producer of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (10 Jan 2006)
Rollergirls -- Short-lived Bravo series (13 Jan 2006)
The Spot -- Early Web fiction series (16 Jan 2006)
Golden Driller -- Tulsa oil man sculpture (17 Jan 2006)
David Fury -- TV writer (19 Jan 2006)
Geronimo Black -- Rock band (24 Jan 2006)
Ars Mathematica -- Arts non-profit (31 Jan 2006)
Flying Blind -- Short-lived 90s Fox series(10 Feb 2006)
Jay Gorney -- Tin-pan Alley song writer (1 Mar 2006)
Alec Newman -- English Actor (1 Mar 2006)
Joe Ely -- Honkey tonk musician (1 Mar 2006)
Camden Toy -- Buffyverse Character actor (11 Mar 2006)
DHARMA Initiative stations -- Spin off from DHARMA Initiative (4 May 2006)
Annenberg Foundation -- Surprisingly missing (12 May 2006)
United States Chief of Protocol -- 2000th edit! (13 May 2006)
Philip Stark -- TV/screenwriter (23 June 2006)
List of crossovers on Lost -- crufty, but necessary (15 July 2006)
List of references to Lost in popular culture -- same deal (27 July 2006)
Amazon (TV series) -- Single-season syndicated series (30 September 2006)
Lost (1956 film) and Lost (2004 film) - additional films with Lost titles (4 December 2006)
Chris William Martin -- Canadian actor (17 December 2006)
The Lost (book) -- Another in my series of "Lost" titles (29 December 2006)
~~Gaither Ben Thompson -- (13 February 2007)~~ (deletionism strikes again)
Hamsin -- Oppressive dust storm of the Middle East (20 February 2007)

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