About Me
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Current Projects
- Spend less time on Wikipedia! Other than that, promise eventually to:
- Expand upon Epistles (Plato) and related pages.
- Improve pages related to Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and his works.
- Improve Ancient Greek philosophy.
- Improve pages related to Habeas corpus in the United States.
- Transclude lists of major legislation by each Congress.
Useful Essays
- Content: Wikipedia is not for things made up one day ♦ Complete bollocks ♦ Beware of the tigers ♦ Vanispamcruftisement ♦ Fact laundering ♦ Handling trivia ♦ You Are Probably Not a Lexicologist or a Lexicographer ♦ I think you got lost on the way to MySpace ♦ No reliable sources, no verifiability, no article
- Discussions: Don't overuse shortcuts to policy and guidelines to win your argument ♦ Exceptions should leave the rule intact ♦ What "Ignore all rules" means ♦ Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions ♦ Avoid thread mode ♦ Avoid Repeated Arguments ♦ Don't enlist the masses ♦ Process is important ♦ Policy shopping ♦ Sarcasm is really helpful
- Policies: Don't stuff beans up your nose ♦ No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man
- Normal Editors: Competence is required ♦ Credentials matter ♦ Expert editors ♦ Drop the stick and back slowly away from the horse carcass ♦ No angry mastodons ♦ Tar pit ♦ Don't be a fanatic
- Some Editors: Tendentious editing ♦ Call a spade a spade ♦ How many legs does a horse have? ♦ BOLD, revert, revert, revert ♦ Shunning ♦ Mark of Cain ♦ You can't squeeze blood from a turnip ♦ You spat in my soup!
Template and Policy Reminders
- Category:Coherency templates
- Category:Wikipedia utility templates
- WP:ENGVAR on American and British spelling; see also WP:RETAIN
- WP:ERA on not changing between AD/BC and CD/BCE