User:Openman

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[edit] Hi Everyone

Hopefully I'll have a long career on Wikipedia. I'm really excited because the ban on all IPs from my shared host has been at least temporarily lifted, thus giving me this window to register a new userid.

Openman...actually it's a multi-meaning thing, man as in I'm male, but mostly I'm interested in Open source manufacturing.

I really feel annoyed with many articles I read on Wikipedia, mostly because so many of them contain useless garbage, bad writing, and strange errors. Yet I love the idea of rapidly sorting through vast fields of knowledge, all in the same inoffensive format.

[edit] Pages to work on:

User:Openman/Hegasias of Alexandria deserves an entry

servomechanism could use some attention, possibly merge with RC_Servo and servo drive as they are three incomplete articles. Who calls a servo a servomechanism anyway? stepper motor for comparision is a much better article.

First Strike Ration could use writing. first strike rations link and futurefood at about are good fodder, potential links...

User:Openman/Pulsed Electric Field Processing should exist. Am I really the first one to think of writing a PEF food processing article?

[edit] Nevermind I will not bother to edit anything

I would delete my draft subpages but I think some bot would revert them and ban me. Wikipedia has serious problems. It seems that adding bad information is allowed, but taking it away is considered vandalism. No wonder that wikipedia is such a bloated mess of garbage information.

Ironically if I were actually a vandal I would go to the trouble of using multiple IP addresses. Actually if someone really wanted to disrupt wikipedia they could write scripts to defeat the bots, age accounts, hijack computers and so on. The administrators of wikipedia seem like a filter that allows little bits of garbage in, and when someone would remove it or alter it they suddenly become good defenders of garbage. My brief experiment with editing has turned me from having contempt for vandals to having contempt for the administration of wikipedia such that I don't think vandals are so bad. Writing absolute nonsense seems at least undeceptively honest.

Anyway I've found that there are actually far better wikis, and far better online encyclopedias and I'll be spending my time there.

Openman