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I'm a 24 year old philosophy postgraduate at the University of Leeds, married and needing a holiday.
I enjoy copy editing / cleaning up any articles that need it, mainly cause you learn a lot of totally useless information which is kinda fun. Of course being Wikipedia it could all be totally wrong information but I'm not completely sure that means it has any less value (as I get older I get less sure!).
Feel free to talk to me / leave me a message if you're bored.
[edit] Articles I have *some* connection to
- Orbit - Did fairly major revision of this one, adding discography, member list and bio.
- Jaya Suprana - cleanup - this guy turned out to be pretty interesting, but damned hard to get hold of info about him in English. It's all sycophantic invitations to recitals and things, nothing objective.
- Robin LePoidevin - First article I created, he's my personal tutor and a fairly important philosopher of time so I thought he deserved a mention. Will expand it once I get through my exams.
- Peter Simons - Another Leeds philosopher, added some info on his membership of the British Academy.
- XLR8R - Created this one, was a fun learning experience - pity there is not much information on the album out there. Though I guess there is at least one more source of it now...
- Libido Speedway - Created this one.
- Fred Cogswell - Heavily edited and added news of his death - really fantastic poet who I had never heard of, ended up buying a book by him. I'll be buying some more when I can.
- Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Created this one, about the short story collection by Haruki Murakami. Put a fair bit of work in so tell me what you think!
- Underground - Extensive rewrite and referencing, again any comments appreciated. This is the first article which I have extensively edited to receive GA status!
[edit] Contribution landmarks
[edit] Random illustrated info (or, userboxes)
WikiProject Philosophy task list
- German Idealism and almost all the articles related to it need to be either rewritten or expanded, because a wikipedia user called Lestrade has, among other things, taken it upon himself to imbue each page with bias in favour of Schopenhauer, who he attempts to present as having the last say in everything. This is a terrible thing to do, because German Idealism is such an important period in philosophy, whose influence is still strongly felt today.
- Protected Values first section confuses right action and values and needs a copy edit, moving and wikifying
- Ludwig Wittgenstein is having its FA status reviewed due to a couple of concerns. Help save Ludwig! See Wikipedia:Featured article review/Ludwig Wittgenstein for requirements for retaining FA status.
- Quality (philosophy) needs a more clear explanation.
- Socratic dialogues could do with some tidying and clarification. See the talk page for one suggested change.
- Problem of universals: The introductory definition is (perhaps) fixed. But, the article is poor. Check out the German version.
- Teleology: the article is shallow and inconsistent.
- Existentialism: the quality of this article varies wildly and is in desperate need of expert attention.
- Star of Sophia Vote for or nominate someone you think is deserving!
- Analytic_philosophy This is a very major topic, but still has several sections which are stubs, and several topics which are not covered.
- Inverse (logic) This article makes me wish that there were a fail grade on the quality scale. Someone should rewrite it.
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