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Athelwulf (IPA: [ˈæ.ðəl.ˌwulf]), Wikipedian since March 2006.
[edit] My username
"Athelwulf" has been my username for almost everything since the summer of 2004. It is a rough transliteration of two words from a conlang of mine: äþel "noble", and wulf "wolf". At the time I made my name, it was Âðelwulf in my conlang, and sometimes I wrote it like this. Since then, my conlang's orthography changed, and my name would now be rendered Äþelwulf.
[edit] Editing philosophy
I follow several key writing and editing guidelines. George Orwell, my experience with academic writing, and other experiences have influenced these guidelines. Here are a few:
- To be concise, precise, and simple is good.
- Native words, especially Germanic words, should dominate writing when they are just as concise and just as good as other words because native words are usually more concrete.
- Parentheses can often be discarded with no unacceptable change in meaning. To use them is bad when this is the case — and sometimes even when this isn't.
- A, an, and the do not catch a reader's attention. To start a paragraph, especially a lead paragraph, with them is generally bad.
- Serial commas are never wrong and sometimes useful to disambiguate a sentence. To use them is good.
[edit] Politics
I like to read Wikipedia to learn more about different political ideas, as well as political landscapes and histories of various parts of the world. Particular topics that interest me include civil rights theories and movements, China, the nuances of the left-right political spectrum, liberalism, libertarianism, communism, variations on socialism, political parties in foreign countries, and the political history of the US.
[edit] Favorite pictures
Here is a gallery of pictures on Wikipedia I like a lot. They may have historical or political significance, or they may exhibit good composition.
