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MLA is a pseudonym for MadLordAnarchy, a member of the AD and PN communities.

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[edit] Background

MLA can be found frequenting a variety of fora around t'internet primarily during office hours, anyone who has access to those should drop in and say hi. Any members of the AD community will be very familiar with MLA's body of work.

The key areas of interest for MLA are this, this, and this.

[edit] Wikipedia

MLA's beliefs are based more on the output than the process. He does not believe that adherence to a set of rules is more important than the spirit of those rules. He does believe that it is important to be able to build a structure that insitutionalises the beliefs that underpin the spirit of the rules.

MLA also believes in the importance of policing a freely accessible project and that if there are not sufficient people available to protect the project against those who would harm it through vandalism, spam or POV then the genuine users of the project will suffer.

One belief that contradicts the wikipedia experience is that MLA believes firmly in providing crisp, clean information and not simply creating for creation's sake. Wikipedia encourages the proliferation of add-ons to pages and does not have a function for simplifying as it is far easier to create in this case than it is to delete. The spamming of links is a particular area of contention.

The result of the discussion at Wikipedia:Notability (news) is disappointing and reflects Wikipedia's desire to reflect present trivia as does the notion that something involving a notable person is therefore itself notable (see WP:Music.

Other than the over-reliance on trivia, MLA's other main issue is with Wikipedia focussing insufficiently heavily on predominating academic or scientific understanding. The use of wikipedia as an ideological battleground that prevents articles such as List of dictators from existing yet keeps the Black Death focussed on a discredited theory is another area of annoyance

On a point of formatting, the consensus against the very useful See Also sections due at the Manual of Style is absurd in favouring editing contributors over readers.

[edit] 2007 London Marathon

MLA will be running (or rather hobbling round) the London Marathon in April 2007. MLA is running for leprosy on behalf of the charity Lepra and would more than welcome your support.

[edit] Wikipedia landmarks

[edit] Articles Created

Wannabe Kate's Tool is a good thing. Fortunately MLA does not have enough edits to suffer from Editcountitis.

[edit] External links

Places where you may run into MLA include:

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