User:Jeffq
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I am in an extended period of very low activity while I deal with some stubborn real-world matters. My participation in wiki activities will be irregular for the immediate future.
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Hi. I'm a mostly useless member of society. While awaiting discorporation, I decided I could at least contribute some information to this worthy project.
During my current period of relative inactivity, I am focusing on three types of editing:
- Answering questions. I believe I can put my years of history with this project to good use by helping others, especially new editors. But be prepared to get a more comprehensive answer than you expect — I do tend to be verbose.
- Sourcing. I am a fanatic about adding robust, properly cited, reliable sources to articles. When I use Wikipedia for looking up information for an activity, I have a habit of stopping whatever I was doing and cleaning up the article's sources instead.
- "Drive-by" editing. I like to work on general article improvement and maintenance issues while I'm doing other things that don't occupy my full attention.
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[edit] Articles I created or unstubbed
- Films: The Eye Creatures - Looney Tunes: Back in Action - The Power (now split into The Power (novel) and The Power (film))
- TV shows:
- Firefly episodes: The Train Job - Bushwhacked - Shindig - Safe - Our Mrs. Reynolds - Jaynestown - Out of Gas - Ariel - War Stories - Trash - The Message - Heart of Gold - Objects in Space
- Firefly characters: Inara Serra - Saffron (now at List of minor characters in Firefly#Saffron)
- TV-related: Castle Forrester
- People: Pattie Boyd - Bonnie Bramlett - Jonathan Edwards (music) - Cathy Ladman - Milesians (Greek) - The Roches - Jamie Sanders
- Music: Makin' Whoopee
- Song lists: all gone now — c'est la vie
- General: Container Security Initiative - Organic salt
- Miscellany: User:Jeffq/Images (my image "gallery")
[edit] Articles I frequent
- TV shows:
- Buffy and all of its characters, topics, and episodes
- Firefly and all of its characters, topics, and episodes
- Mystery Science Theater 3000 and all of its characters, topics, and episode films
- Random fact-checking and cleanup work on any topic
I've done work on many other topics, but these are my current foci.
[edit] To-dos
- Crusade for establishing reliable sources for film and TV-show articles
- My sandbox: stuff I'm playing with at the moment
- Near-term to-dos
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[edit] Kudos
WikiThanks for the wikiquote tv shows split and the custom TOC, all in one edit. — Jeandré, 2005-01-09t09:24z
[edit] Interesting ideas
- The perils of cherry picking and ideological myopia
- 0 + 0 = 0
- 0 - 0 = 0
- 0 × 0 = 0
- 0 / 0 is meaningless
- Therefore, addition, subtraction, and multiplication are identical, and division doesn't exist.
- Anyone can be fooled by a magician
- It doesn't matter whether the magician call him/herself a professional magician, a scientist, a motivational speaker, a doctor, a psychic, or a prophet.
- It doesn't matter whether the victim is a believer, a skeptic, a scientist, or even another magician!
- See if you can figure out Dr. Richard Wiseman's "Colour Changing Card Trick" before he reveals the secret. (I'll even tell you that it's all about misdirection, and you'll still miss it.)
- I've seen a lot of policy discussion across Wikimedia projects where people focus on their narrow perspectives of broad-reaching initiatives, thinking the answers are easy because they only see the bikeshed and not the entire construction project. (I've been known to become obsessed about painting some bikesheds myself.)
[edit] Personal quotes
Although I'm mostly bored with my own supposed cleverness these days, every so often I write something that I'd like to recall for later use.
- While the courts take years to thrash out the legal issues, Google and YouTube will pull a Microsoft on the marketplace and rake in ad money. By the time they're called to court on it, they'll be able to afford the best defense our 1-lawyer-per-268-citizens legal system can buy.
- On how video hosting sites routinely avoid responsibility for users' massive copyright violations
- Post to Talk:Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, 11:09, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Quotes by non-famous folks
- Overheard at a primate skeleton exhibit in the Smithsonian Natural History Museum, mid-August 2005:
- Parent: How weird, they look almost like us…
- Child: Geez, that's kinda the idea, Dad!
- Swift, 26 August 2005, "Another Smart Kid", reported by reader David Craig
[edit] Quotes by famous folks
- Those who want information to be free as a matter of principle should create some information and make it free. ~ Nicholas Petreley, InfoWorld
- The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. ~ George Orwell
- Caesar: Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature. ~ George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra
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