User:GreatGatsby

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Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel intermedio de español.

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This user is an advanced pianist.

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This user is an intermediate guitarist.

This user is a member of the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians.

This user contributes on Opera.

This user is from Massachusetts.

This user believes it is every citizen's duty to vote.

This user is a skeptic.

This user is drug-free.

This user is an originalist.

This user opposes a world government.

This user supports the state of Israel.

This user is an amateur historian of World War II.

This user is an expert on the machinations, rise, and fall of the Third Reich.

This user is an amateur historian of Ancient Rome.

This user is aware of the Cabal.

This user supports the use of nuclear power.

I would say I'm a cynic but I bet you just wouldn't believe me.

This user is interested in the Brights movement.

This user enjoys reading anything.

This user enjoys writing.

SK	This user enjoys the works of Stephen King.

DT	This user is a Dark Tower Junkie.

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Magneto was right.

This user wonders who is watching the Watchmen

I eventually teach John Titor everything he knows.

This user plays Risk.

This user prefers to play games on a PC.

Nintendo

This user supports Nintendo.

This user plays the Sonic the Hedgehog series.

T	This user prefers to side with the Terrans.

This user plays Warcraft III.

This user plays World of Warcraft.

This user is interested in politics.

J!	This user phrases responses in the form of a question.

Law & Order

This user is a fan of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

SVU

d'oh!

This user thinks The Simpsons is simply...excellent.

"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." - Stephen Hawking

1 Personal
2 My take
3 Objectivity
4 Skepticism
5 Politics
6 Favorites

[edit] Personal

I'm a twenty-one year old from outside of Boston. I'm the receiving manager at a Barnes and Noble, but hope to someday make a living at writing. I am an autodidact, and formerly attended Emerson College for a degree in creative writing.

[edit] My take

Wikipedia, as a whole, suffers many biases, and has many problems because of this and other criticisms. Though the articles dealing with varied political subjects purport to be NPOV, they are not. Editing certain articles, even in a NPOV manner, causes those users of a certain bias to cry out POV. The objective nature of the encyclopedia is nearly a joke in respect to those users (which aren't a minority) who consider anything that doesn't conform to their ideology or worldview as NPOV.

Because of this underlying POV, a lot of articles suffer from concensus beliefs rather than objective truth. This is a major problem when dealing with an encyclopedia.

No original research hurts the encyclopedia, and I'd rather be able to include my own personal research in articles I edit.

I have restricted myself to copy-editing whilst reading articles, but I hope to improve or rewite many articles. I am wary of this, because of the fear some ignoramus will come along an hour later and ruin my changes.

[edit] Objectivity

Objective, for the record, does not mean politically correct. Ridiculous ideas can be derided whilst being objective. I see a big problem with this confusion, especially in articles dealing with Scientology.

[edit] Skepticism

I am very skeptical by nature. Occam's Razor is one of the most important principles in dealing with anything.

My skepticism is especially obvious in my dealings with conspiracy theories, especially the ones dealing with a certain 35th president of the United States. (For the record there is zero concrete evidence for any shooters but Lee Harvey Oswald). Those who buy into illogical conspiracy theories with little or no concrete evidence bug the hell out of me. Actually, this annoyance and frustration carries over to any ideas lacking concrete evidence.