User:Frymaster

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!T2 This user thinks debate over CSD T2 is more "divisive and inflammatory" than any userbox.
This user supports the Simple userbox solution. '
This user is a member of the
Counter-Vandalism Unit.
This user has a ton of edits.
online
This user contributes using Mozilla
Linux This user contributes using Linux.
This user contributes using Vim.
php-5 This user is a professional PHP programmer.
awk-4 This user is an expert AWK programmer.
Perl-3 This user is an advanced Perl programmer.
pgp This user's pgp key is available[1]
offline
V This user is Vegan.



CG This user's alignment is Chaotic Good: the "Rebel."
According to the Political Compass this user is:
Economic Left (-5.75) and
Social Libertarian (-8.87)
ath This user is interested in atheism.
pov award
most creative pov push
McDonald's has tried to improve its environmental image.
McDonald's has tried to improve its environmental image.

Contents

[edit] adopted pages

pages i've created
Bubble Puppy Red Guitars
pages i've rewritten
Consensus decision-making
pages i've adopted
Affinity group Holden Caulfield
Veganism Ultra-Humanite
English language    Fixed-gear bicycle

[edit] watchlists

this is where the vandalism and pov wars happen:

[edit] tools

vandalism  
blanking  
spam  
deletes  
other  
cite template  
WP:AFD WP:FOOT Template:Cite_web
WP:CITET {{unreferenced|date=July 2007|comment}}

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[edit] what i wiki

my most common wiki activities are:

  • counter vandalism: vandalism damages not only the usefulness of wikipedia, but its credibility as well. i believe that, accustomed as we are to a world of hierarchy, authority and control, vandalism is the invetible byproduct of presenting people with freedom to edit any article. what wikipedian has not, upon explaining the principle of open collaboration to a friend, not had that friend reply "then what's to stop me replacing content with garbage?" in a world full of rules and their enforcers, people have a hard time distinguishing freedom from license. wikipedia becomes the outlet for acts of petty rebellion in an increasingly regimented world. to help preserve wikipedia as the glorious free-for-all that it is, and to prevent it from turning to an authoritarian 'solution' to the problem of defacement, i invest a lot of effort in counter-vandalism work. i focus primarily on recent change patrolling of anonymous ip edits because i value aononymity as the cornerstone of a free society, and hold the belief that counter-vandalism is best served with the attitude of a janitor, not a cop.
  • citation hunting: un-referenced material, anecdotal "evidence", original research and "common sense" run rampant through wikipedia. this material decreases the usefulness of wikipedia and has done significant damage to the project's credibility. wikipedia is an encyclopedia and, as such, exists as a summation of established and documented fact -- statements must, in short, be sourced. i devote a significant amount of my wiki time to hunting down credible references for unsourced material. i never insert a {{fact}} tag without first making a reasonable effort to find a source and think wikipedia would be a better encyclopedia if others did likewise.
  • new material: although wikipedia has been around long enough that all the topics deserving of an article should already have one, i do occasionally find a glaring omission. in those cases, i try my hand at some writing (although i admit i find it hard to remember the capital letters!) i have also done a few rewrites of some articles that i feel have deserved a more dilligent hand.

[edit] why i wiki

call me an idealist (to which i'll respond: if you're not an idealist, you're an underachiever), but i believe firmly in the ability of people to work together co-operatively and to self-govern in an environment of nearly unfettered freedom. wikipedia is perhaps the largest single example of this sort of self-organization. so here i am.

[edit] anonymous ip vandalism

there is a popular theory that the vast majority of vandalism could be avoided if anonymous editing were disallowed. the counter to this is the assertion that anonymity is a key component of wikipedia and that positive contributions from anonymous users far outweigh vandalism. in light of this debate, i kept an informal tally of anonymous contributions i come across in my daily vandal-cleaning efforts from june 12 to august 15 2006. the tally was:

vandalism

116
non-vandalism

505

please do not mistake this for statistically-significant or otherwise meaningful data.

[edit] t2 is divisive and inflammatory

  • "Well obviously 'this user is an atheist' is divisive... All templates expressing religious beliefs can be deleted under either T1 or T2." —Tony Sidaway
  • "if I had my way, all userboxes would be gone, so I'm probably not a good person to ask." —Cyde Weys 06:10, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
  • "The userbox speedy-deletes have been a disaster politically, if one may speak of Wiki-politics, and have fanned the flames of the userbox wars and created the impression of bad faith and bad feeling all around." —Ashley Y 06:38, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
  • "We'd obviously delete a template that said "I think orange juice tastes good" for its sheer fatuousness. --Tony Sidaway 14:10, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

the t2 userbox is available at: {{User:Frymaster/t2box}}

[edit] edit counts

since i do a lot of cvu and rc patrol, my edit count is artificially high[2].

[edit] drafts

this is where i store drafts of larger things i'm working on:

[edit] link storage

this is where i temporarily store links for citations and research