User:Seraphimblade

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Why am I here? Why do I volunteer my time on this project?

This is a good answer to that. Wikipedia will never, ever, ever be perfect. But it is good, even great, and it is free as in freedom. That's good enough for me.

That's me.
That's me.
Bear in mind that those who are finer and nobler are always alone — and necessarily so — and that because of this they can enjoy the purity of their own atmosphere. Albert Einstein
Bear in mind that those who are finer and nobler are always alone — and necessarily so — and that because of this they can enjoy the purity of their own atmosphere. Albert Einstein


























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[edit] User page: Seraphimblade

This user page has been vandalized 34 times. If you feel the need to vandalize, do it here.


Seraphimblade
This user is an administrator on the English Wikipedia. (verify)
Vandalism information
Level 2
High level of vandalism.
About 20 vandalistic edits per minute. WP:AIV is backlogged also. RyRy5 (talk) 10:09, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
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ads		 This user is against advertisements on Wikipedia.
EA This editor helps out with the editor assistance program.
This user was a part of the now closed
Association of Members' Advocates.
This user values third opinions and occasionally provides one.
en This user is a native speaker of English.
es-3 Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel avanzado de español.
This user is a member of Wikipedians against censorship.
Ub This user contributes using Ubuntu.
Firefox This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox.
This user is a newpage patroller.
This user reserves the right to completely screw up his or her edits.
This user tries to do the right thing. If they make a mistake, please let him or her know.
del This user is a Wikipedia deletionist.
INTJ This user has an INTJ personality
per the Myers-Briggs typing system.
C This user can program in C.
C++ This user can program in C++.


Perl This user is a Perl hacker.

[edit] Administrator

As of March 12, 2007, my request for adminship was successful with a final total of (91/2/1), and I am an administrator. I am very grateful for the community's trust, and will make every effort to live up to it.

[edit] General information about me

  • Name: Todd
  • Current occupation: Student, full-time for now
  • Working on: My degrees of various types
  • Interests: History, physical sciences (especially chemistry and physics), computer science, politics.
  • Originally from Denver, Colorado.

[edit] Licensing notes

All images and text which are my original work and which have been contributed to Wikipedia are released to the public domain, or if for any reason this is not possible, I irrevocably and perpetually relinquish all rights to control the content granted under the copyright law, and grant license to anyone to use, copy, modify, distribute, and otherwise utilize the content in any way and for any purpose whatsoever.

[edit] Miscellaneous

Temporary space for stuff in process.
Second temp sandbox

Desk

[edit] Deletionist

Yes, I'm a deletionist. That's landed me in more than one conflict with other editors. Some of them, granted, are out to place nothing more then a silly vanity page or a spamvertisement, and while I'm very willing to help them to contribute better content, I'm not at all sorry they didn't get to contribute that type of thing. On the other hand, some other editors are well-reasoned, thought-out people, and have disagreed. A recent discussion I had with one such user caused me to consider this position-and ultimately, to decide to continue it, though his arguments were well-reasoned and I believe his intentions are the very best.

WP:V and WP:OR are core policies. For Wikipedia to continue to have any credibility whatsoever, these policies must be enforced and enforced strictly. The very reason we don't want a vanity bio or article from a band (with no more "sources" than a self-created page) are that no assertions about the subject can be verified. The reader has no way to check out if what they're reading is true, or if the writer of the article (who frequently, for such non-notable subjects, is the person the article is about or a member of the band) has inflated or distorted things.

Without deletion of unverifiable content, there is really no need for administrators whatsoever. We might as well call it Myspace II and be done with it. Of course, any intelligent reader knows that anything they read on Myspace may be inflated or totally fabricated-it has no credibility. To fail to remove unverified facts here would place Wikipedia in that same situation.

I believe, as the user I discussed this with, that Wikipedia should be the sum of all human knowledge. What I disagree with is what that entails. The name of my dog is not "human knowledge"-it's not verifiable to anyone here and no one cares anyway. For that matter, my own biography doesn't fit that criterion, for the same reason. Technically, someone "knows" what I had for dinner (namely me) but no one can verify that and no one cares.

The theory of relativity. World War II. The Roman Empire. Hell, even Britney Spears. These things are human knowledge in that they are important (or at least notable) to humanity as a whole, or at least to a significantly large fraction thereof. The things I mentioned above are not, they are personal knowledge-and such things don't belong here, paper or not aside.

[edit] Barnstar!