User:Textorus

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This editor is an Apprentice Editor, and is entitled to display this Service Badge. First edit: August, 2006.
This editor is an Apprentice Editor, and is entitled to display this Service Badge. First edit: August, 2006.
en-5 This user is able to contribute with a professional level of English.
fr-2 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français.
This user lives in Texas.
This user says

Save a horse, ride a cowboy!
1,200+ This user has made over 1,200 contributions to Wikipedia.
This user is a member of WikiProject LGBT studies.

This user admires Canada for supporting Gay Rights and Equal Marriage
This user is interested in LGBT History
This user is a member of the Trains WikiProject
This user is old enough to remember what a typewriter is, and that's all you need to know.

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[edit] My philosophy

If an article topic has no reliable, third-party sources, Wikipedia should not have an article on it.

"I can NOT emphasize this enough. There seems to be a terrible bias among some editors that some sort of random speculative 'I heard it somewhere' pseudo information is to be tagged with a 'needs a cite' tag. Wrong. It should be removed, aggressively, unless it can be sourced."

"People have to drop the idea that every little tidbit is precious. Crap is crap. Yank it."

The burden of evidence lies with the editor who adds or restores material. All quotations and any material challenged or likely to be challenged should be attributed to a reliable, published source using an inline citation.

"I think a fair number of people need to be kicked out of the project just for being lousy writers."


"It is an overly optimistic and perhaps naive notion to believe that a body of disorganized editors will produce high quality articles on their own."

[edit] Sandboxes

[edit] Stuff to Remember

If using a ref more than once, you can go . . . Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_LGBT_studies#The_problem_with_references_._._.

  • Unreferenced|date=July 2007 (use double brackets); or use refimprove
  • Unreferencedsection
  • Not verified|date=July 2007
  • LGBT-footer|rights=yes|culture=yes|history=yes
  • citation needed: use "cn" (double brackets)
  • TrainsWikiProject - in double brackets, to go on talk pages

User FAw|2 User FL|2 User GAw|2 User DYK|2 - swiped from Blnguyen

[edit] Trophy Room

The LGBT Barnstar
I, User:Chuchunezumi award this barnstar to User:Textorus for incredible contributions to the area of LGBT scholarship Chuchunezumi 08:29, 21 December 2006 (UTC)


Updated DYK query On 31 May 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Seaboard Air Line Railroad, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
Updated DYK query On August 6, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article LGBT rights in Colombia, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
Updated DYK query On August 2, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Adult interdependent relationship in Alberta, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
Updated DYK query On 6 January 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Florida Legislative Investigation Committee, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.
Updated DYK query On January 3, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Randy Shilts, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

[edit] Vanitas vanitatem, omnia vanitas

Articles I created or made significant edits to:

  1. Anglican devotions - significant revision
  2. Silver Comet (train) - created 5/23/08
  3. Gulf Wind - created 5/23/08
  4. Seaboard Air Line Railroad - substantial expansion
  5. Fort Worth and Denver Railway - substantial expansion
  6. Rex Wockner - created 5/20/08
  7. Texas Zephyr - created 2/1/08
  8. Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu - substantial additions
  9. Civil unions in Colombia - significant addition
  10. LGBT rights in Colombia--substantial additions
  11. Daddy & Papa--created 7/28/07
  12. M. v. H.--significant addition
  13. Ontario Family Law Act--created 7/28/07
  14. Adult interdependent relationship in Alberta--created 7/28/07
  15. Jacques Vallee, Sieur Des Barreaux--substantial addition
  16. Domestic partnership in Nova Scotia--created 7/27/07
  17. Common-law relationships in Manitoba--created 7/24/07
  18. Khnumhotep & Niankhkhnum--substantial addition
  19. Domestic partnership--substantial editing
  20. Civil union--significant additions
  21. Florida Legislative Investigation Committee--created 12/30/06
  22. Randy Shilts--extensive rewriting and additions, 12/29/06
  23. Elliott Blackstone--created 12/28/06
  24. Compton's cafeteria riot--extensive reworking
  25. Barbara Gittings--significant additions
  26. Executive Order 13087--created 12/23/06
  27. Executive Order 11478--created 12/23/06
  28. Domestic partnership in District of Columbia--significant additions
  29. Domestic partnership in Hawaii--substantial additions
  30. Domestic partnership in Maine--created 12/15/06

[edit] The secret of Wikihappiness

  • This user makes good edits.
  • This user creates above-average articles.
  • This user writes for Wikipedia as if it were a real encyclopedia.
  • This user enjoys the fun of good writing and authoritative sourcing.
  • This user likes to think that somebody, somewhere may be helped by some reliable fact this user posts.
  • This user admits that this may be a slightly egotistic delusion.
  • This user realizes there is more to life than an encyclopedia, even a free one, can ever provide.
  • This user believes if more were going on in our lives, there would be fewer Wikipedians.
  • This user confesses that despite a certain fond feeling, Wikipedia is no substitute for chocolate, friendship, love, or sex, and is just barely on a par with masturbation.
  • This user tries not to be a dick, though sometimes sorely tempted, and sometimes failing.
  • This user would like to be a class act, but that would probably mean having to go study Zen or something like that, and who's got the time?
  • This user is learning not to be pissed off by rudeness, arrogance, and general ignorance.
  • This user accepts that one day the sun will explode and so will the merry anarchy that is Wikipedia.
  • While the party lasts, THEREFORE,
DGAF This user does not give a fuck.

In a good way, of course.  :-)