User:Sfacets

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Sfacets is taking a short wikibreak and will be back on Wikipedia soon.

I am a Multimedia student, and a Linguistics and world-culture fan.

I edit Wikipedia as a way of maintaining my sanity, with varied success ;) (that's a joke, for those editors who have felt it necessary to quote my userpage instead of my edits)

You can commonly find me yakking on Irc @ the #wikipedia channel. (not so much anymore)

I have been blocked twice from editing in 3 years of being on Wikipedia. Once no reason was given (No Cabal, huh?), and the second time because I accidentally transgressed the 3RR.

I was born in Melbourne, Australia, but have since traveled to countries such as:

I am currently back in Melbourne, completing my second year of studies.

I am a citizen of Australia, Italy and Ladonia.

'	This user practices Sahaja Yoga meditation.

Editing policies

Here on Wikipedia, I enjoy taking the side of the smaller party, for this reason I have joined the Countering Systematic Bias Wikiproject, which aims to neutralize bias occasioned by race, religion and other demographical attributes editors may have.

Articles tending to display such tendencies include Execution_of_Saddam_Hussein, Yoga and Meditation, which I keep an eye on, but the bias permeates throughout Wikipedia, in ways which are not always obvious.

I welcome any questions regarding this, and extend my help to anyone who feels that bias is taking place.

Censorship sucks. Auto censorship sucks more. I count warnings in articles as a form of censorship.

List of groups referred to as cults
Islam and anti-Semitism
[[Template:Cult]]
[[Category:Cult]]

These articles are inherently POV and poison the well against the subject/s of said articles.

I follow a meditative practice, Sahaja Yoga, and since I am one of the few editors who has contributed to the article who actually knows something about the subject matter, I edit it as well as related articles (there aren't many).

If you, as an uninterested party perceive any WP:COI occuring, please let me know, however I will not bend to pressure by hypocritical editors who would seek to refrain me from editing the article(s), because as I mentioned, I am knowledgeable of the subject, and the editors who have had issues with my edits so far have COI themselves. As far as I can see, Christians are not banned from editing Christianity.

Focus

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Wiki Projects

This user is a member of WikiProject Spam.

This user is a member of the Novels WikiProject.

This user is a member of the WikiProject India.

This user is a member of WikiProject Macintosh.

Languages

fr-3

Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau avancé de français.

hi-1

यह सदस्य हिन्दी भाषा का प्रारंभिक ज्ञान रखते हैं।

es-2

Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel intermedio de español.

de-1

Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse.

Technical

php-2

This user is an intermediate PHP programmer.

html-3

This user is an advanced HTML user.

js-2

This user is an intermediate JavaScript coder.

css-3

This user is an advanced Cascading Style Sheets user.

Ideology

Warning! This user has Marxist tendencies.

This user is interested in issues related to religious pluralism.

This user believes that Anarchism is possible.

Stuff

		The Editor's Barnstar
		Thank you for helping to monitor POV edits on the Hinduism page! Come back anytime to help out with the Hinduism project, where we have a lot of pages that need quality edits by editors like you. HeBhagawan 03:56, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

“

It is said that if you place a million monkeys in front of a million keyboards, they will eventually produce the works of Shakespeare. This is simply not true. They cannot even produce an encyclopedia.

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Talk?

I am currently working on transcribing the Mahabharata (translation of) to Wikishource - this is a huge undertaking and will be occupying a lot of my time in the immediate future. [1]