User:Seraphimblade

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Bear in mind that those who are finer and nobler are always alone — and necessarily so — and that because of this they can enjoy the purity of their own atmosphere. Albert Einstein

[edit] User page: Seraphimblade

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Seraphimblade This user [1] an administrator on the English Wikipedia. no ads This user is against advertisements on Wikipedia. This user is part of the Association of Members' Advocates. This user values third opinions and occasionally provides one. en This user is a native speaker of English. es-3 Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel avanzado de español. This user is a member of Wikipedians against censorship. This user is a proposed deletion patroller. Ub This user contributes using Ubuntu. This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox. This user is a newpage patroller. This user reserves the right to completely screw up his or her edits. This user tries to do the right thing. If they make a mistake, please let him or her know. del This user is a Wikipedia deletionist. INTJ This user has an INTJ personality per the Myers-Briggs typing system. C This user can program in C. C++ This user can program in C++. Perl This user is a Perl hacker. WikiDefcon WikiDefcon 3: Significantly elevated levels of vandalism from shared IPs and experimenting users. [[edit]] Vandalism levels are still above normal... CSD is severely backlogged. -- Hdt83 Chat 01:53, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Administrator

As of March 12, 2007, my request for adminship was successful with a final total of (91/4/1), and I am an administrator. I am very grateful for the community's trust, and will make every effort to live up to it.

[edit] General information about me

• Name: Todd
• Current occupation: Student, full-time for now
• Working on: My degrees of various types
• Interests: History, physical sciences (especially chemistry and physics), computer science, politics.
• Originally from Denver, Colorado, currently living near Seattle, Washington.

[edit] Licensing notes

All images and text which are my original work and which have been contributed to Wikipedia are released to the public domain, or if for any reason this is not possible, I irrevocably and perpetually relinquish all rights to control the content granted under the copyright law, and grant license to anyone to use, copy, modify, distribute, and otherwise utilize the content in any way and for any purpose whatsoever.

[edit] Miscellaneous

Temporary space for stuff in process.
Second temp sandbox

Desk

[edit] Deletionist

Yes, I'm a deletionist. That's landed me in more than one conflict with other editors. Some of them, granted, are out to place nothing more then a silly vanity page or a spamvertisement, and while I'm very willing to help them to contribute better content, I'm not at all sorry they didn't get to contribute that type of thing. On the other hand, some other editors are well-reasoned, thought-out people, and have disagreed. A recent discussion I had with one such user caused me to consider this position-and ultimately, to decide to continue it, though his arguments were well-reasoned and I believe his intentions are the very best.

WP:V and WP:OR are core policies. For Wikipedia to continue to have any credibility whatsoever, these policies must be enforced and enforced strictly. The very reason we don't want a vanity bio or article from a band (with no more "sources" than a self-created page) are that no assertions about the subject can be verified. The reader has no way to check out if what they're reading is true, or if the writer of the article (who frequently, for such non-notable subjects, is the person the article is about or a member of the band) has inflated or distorted things.

Without deletion of unverifiable content, there is really no need for administrators whatsoever. We might as well call it Myspace II and be done with it. Of course, any intelligent reader knows that anything they read on Myspace may be inflated or totally fabricated-it has no credibility. To fail to remove unverified facts here would place Wikipedia in that same situation.

I believe, as the user I discussed this with, that Wikipedia should be the sum of all human knowledge. What I disagree with is what that entails. The name of my dog is not "human knowledge"-it's not verifiable to anyone here and no one cares anyway. For that matter, my own biography doesn't fit that criterion, for the same reason. Technically, someone "knows" what I had for dinner (namely me) but no one can verify that and no one cares.

The theory of relativity. World War II. The Roman Empire. Hell, even Britney Spears. These things are human knowledge in that they are important (or at least notable) to humanity as a whole, or at least to a significantly large fraction thereof. The things I mentioned above are not, they are personal knowledge-and such things don't belong here, paper or not aside.

[edit] Barnstar!

		The Editor's Barnstar
		I've been tracking with Seraphimblade for a while now, and though we differ in our wikiphilosophies I wanted to recognize his strong contributions to Wikipedia. Notably he has spend a good deal of time prodding and speedying articles that don't fit Wikipedia, to the tune of around 500 articles in the past two months. He has a keen eye for non-notable, commercial, and vanity submissions, and has been a strong force in pushing other editors (myself included) to make their new article submissions better, sooner rather than later. Through his pace, his judgement, and his firm but cordial dialog with other editors he does a great service toward keeping Wikipedia relevant and clean of bad stubs. Keep up the good work!  Erielhonan  07:07, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		I hereby give you the original barnstar for the time and effort you took in the Anton Balasingham page to mediate as a third party opinion that resolved a major edit war. Thanks RaveenS 16:35, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

The Original Barnstar
For your civility in the Mediation Committe case, WP:RfM/Jews for Jesus, and for helping to solve an important dispute efficiently and sucessfully - and making my Mediation easier :) - I, Anthony, award Seraphimblade the Original Barnstar. Well done!
Kind regards,
Anthonycfc ^{[T • C]}

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		I, ANNAfoxlover, award you this barnstar for your works against vandalism on Wikipedia. You have done a wonderful job as a Wikipedian. Keep up the good work! A•N•N•Afoxlover PLEASE SIGN, ANYONE!!! 18:00, 6 March 2007 (UTC)