User:SCZenz

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is a Wikipedia user page. This is not an encyclopedia article. If you find this page on any site other than Wikipedia, you are viewing a mirror site. Be aware that the page may be outdated and that the user to whom this page belongs may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia itself. The original page is located at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SCZenz.

I am an administrator here on English Wikipedia. That means I work for you! If there's anything at all I can help with, please leave a message on my talk page. (I'll reply on yours, unless you request otherwise.)

You can also email me; I generally prefer to communicate on-wiki, so only do this for matters where on-wiki communication would be undesirable for some reason.

If you need administrator help very quickly, please see:

• Wikipedia:Requests for administrator attention for general info on where to make requests
• Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RR to report three-revert rule violations
• Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism to report repeated, warned vandalism

To see what I've done as an admin, please see:

• My blocks
• My page protections
• My deletions

Other accounts:

• Commons

[edit] About me

en This user is a native speaker of English.

fr-2 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français.

es-1 Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel básico de español.

This user's LHC apparatuS is toroidal.

This user attends or attended the University of Chicago.

UCB This user attends or attended the University of California, Berkeley

I'm a graduate student in experimental particle physics at the University of California, Berkeley; I sometimes work in Berkeley and sometimes at CERN in Switzerland. I originally intended to write only about stuff I have direct personal experience with or know a lot about, for example the ATLAS experiment, of which I am a member. I have now defined myself to know at least enough about many areas of particle physics that don't need highly-quantitative explanations. Plus I edit other stuff, when I feel like it, although I always keep track of my own limitations and respect experts on a subject.

I've sometimes muddled a bit the process of Wikipedia policymaking. It's usually a big mess, with contentious arguments whose usual result is defaulting to the status quo, but I think it's worth doing anyway. For example, there are some schools I don't think are notable, but I will never nominate one for deletion because I know that there's no consensus to do so; at the same time, I may vote to delete a particular school someone else nominated, if that's what I genuinely believe is appropriate. Not creating arguments is one thing, but arguments that others have started in good faith should be dealt with in good faith as well.

From time to time I try to focus primarily on adding content. It's too easy to let administrative details take up all my time, but that's ultimately not what Wikipedia's about. Lately I have not been editing so much anyway, but in the future, who knows...?