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Just some 22 year old that works on Wikipedia in his spare time...
- Sherurcij in the Media (I make this sound a lot more impressive than it actually is!)
A while ago I was in a discussion with one of "those" people who rants about the United States being some fascist Nazi power...when I asked, he was unable to define what Fascism even meant...and with my curiosity piqued, I was left to wonder how many Nazis he could've been able to name if I'd asked.
I made a point of asking several people who I considered a little more intelligent how many Nazis they could name, given that it was the most notorious group of people in the past hundred years. They all got
Hitler, a couple got
Himmler or
Goebbels, and a single person got
Hess - nobody got more than four.
When asked to name some of the 9/11 hijackers, a few people were able to name Mohamed Atta...but nobody could name a single other one.
This is a serious problem in the world, society and the media throw us a handful of information and say "Hate these people!" or "Atrocity!" and we never bother to actually investigate who these people were. How can some angst-ridden citizen claim that George W. Bush is a Nazi, when they have no idea who the Nazis actually were? How can we be informed about the world when we know so little of our (recent and past) history? Less than a year before I wrote this rant, the world was traumatized by the unfolding tragedy at Beslan - today I ask people if they know what the words Beslan, Ossetia, Shamil Basayev or Ingushetia mean to them and get blank stares...a year ago we could have spoken with minimal authority on each of them, today we are overwriting that information with the media hype about Karla Homolka or the The withdrawl from Gaza. A year from now, few will remember details about either, nor have a firm grasp of why they were noteworthy at the time.
Shortly afterwards, I pledged to go write Wikipedia articles on people that will otherwise be nameless persons - reduced to "That guy who hijacked a plane in the 70s" (Patrick Arguello) or "One of those monks who lit themselves on fire or something" (Thich Quang Duc) or "Some Nazi guy" (Georg Konrad Morgen) or "Weren't there some guys who stopped the My Lai massacre?" (Glenn Andreotta, Lawrence Colburn and Hugh Thompson, Jr.)
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Nazis
Other WWII articles
Medieval topics of stuff and stuff
Military operations from the past few wars
Canadian people/things
Ships, boats and stuff
Iraqi people
Politicians
Criminals, lawyers and stuff
Geographic locations, and a few establishments
Saved from Deletion when they were young
Weird people who don't fit elsewhere
Random articles
Stubs
Vietnam War figures
Terrorists
Israelis/Palestinians
Activists, naked and otherwise
Torture methods
Weapons
Singers, actors and bears! Oh my!
US Military articles
Categories I've created
Templates I've created
Images I've contributed
- I joined on October 20th 2004, and my very first article was Dunyayi Kurtaran Adam
- According to Kate's Tool, I have worked on 3,503 different/distinct articles in total
- In my first month I made 9 edits. Last month I made 347 edits. My record was 1,704 edits in January 2006.
- At midnight on New Years 2007, I was manually transcribing Mary Shelley's unpublished work Maurice, or The Fisher's Cot, at midnight on New Years 2006, I was creating the Anna Yegorova article.
- The most recent images I've uploaded are viewed here
- Yes, these facts are for my interest, not yours. Go away!
[edit] Current Projects
The Goebbels Children
The 9/11 Hijackers had to drive something...
List of phonecalls made from hijacked planes on 9/11
Where did each of the hijackers spend their last nights? Why isn't this a marketing scheme yet?
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