User:BRG

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Hi! I've actually been around much longer than my registry would indicate. I first started contributing without registering, and many of my earlier contributions are simply shown as from 64.26.98.90 as a result.

When I first registered in May of 2003, I couldn't think of much to put here, so I just put in a list of some of the articles I've created or substantially edited. Now, in July of 2005, I've had a chance to look at some other people's User pages, so I'm finally getting around to putting something more.

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en This user is a native speaker of English.
de-1 Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse.
fr-1 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français.
Wikipedia Wikipedie
Me skripte kontributiones por li Novial Wikipedie.
I support Novial language Wikipedia with my contributions.
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en-us-n This user is a native speaker of American English.
General description
This user is male.
ISTJ This user's MBTI type is ISTJ.
GOP This user supports the U.S. Republican Party.



This user is Jewish.
Geography
This user was born in New York City.
This user lives in Maryland, but is not a native Marylander.
Flag of Maryland
Musical preferences
This user is a traditional pop music lover.
fan-3 This user loves Doris Day.
fan-3 This user loves Patti Page.
fan-3 This user loves Rosemary Clooney.
fan-2 This user likes Perry Como.
fan-2 This user likes Alma Cogan.
Education
CCNY This user graduated from City College of the City University of New York.
This user has advanced degrees in chemistry.
Other notes
its This user understands the difference between its (of it) and it's (it is).
A, B, and C This user prefers the serial comma.
This user supports public transit.
This user is a baseball fan.

[edit] My philosophy about Wikipedia

I have developed a certain philosophy about Wikipedia. Since the English language Wikipedia has, at the time of my writing these words, nearly two thirds of a million articles, it can, more than any paper encyclopedia, become a storehouse for information that may not have interest for large numbers of people. I think that the strength of Wikipedia is that anything that anyone might want to find out about can be covered, and of course this means both some of the rather obscure things that might tweak my interest and many things that I couldn't care less about, but other people care passionately about.

As a result, if I vote on a VfD question, of course, it will almost certainly be to keep the article; it takes a lot to convince me that something should be deleted. It also means I end up writing a lot of disambiguation pages, because something, or somebody, that I might want to write an article about has the same name as something someone else has written about. And while I'd never propose deleting that article, it means I work pretty hard to disambiguate.

Since I'm probably older than the overwhelming majority of Wikipedians, I actually remember some of the 1950s popular songs and baseball players I've written articles about. And this, of course, colors my feelings about some of the articles. Not only do I write articles about a lot of older topics, but I try to keep coverage of such topics even by others at a high level. And this has led to some disputes with other Wikipedians who don't seem to think a 50-year-old song, or some other such thing, deserves an article. But I'm not threatening to put their articles up for VfD; I just want to see some balance. (This comment written 18:38, July 28, 2005 (UTC))

This user is a member of the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians

The motto of the AIW is Conservata veritate, which translates to, "With the preserved truth" This motto reflects the inclusionist desire to change Wikipedia only when no knowledge would be lost as a result.
Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians


[edit] Other Wikis

You might like to see the Metro Wiki and the Radio-TV Broadcast History Wiki, two Wikis I maintain. I also help maintain the Novial Wikipedia and I have recently begun contributing to the Cheese Wiki.

[edit] Primary interests

Primary interests include

[edit] Science (especially chemistry)

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[edit] Politics

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[edit] Political geography:

  • Disambiguation pages for many city names too numerous to mention
  • Pages on all the counties in Florida, Maryland, and New York

[edit] Baseball

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[edit] Popular music (especially traditional pop music)

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[edit] Songs

(This list is incomplete; I've been adding many other articles on individual songs)

[edit] Language, communication, writing systems