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{{Notice |image=Stop hand nuvola.svg |heading=Scam warning |If you are visiting this page because someone claiming to be me contacted you asking for any payment of any type, '''it is not me and you are being scammed.''' If they are threatening to delete or take other adverse action against some article, they can't actually do that and you should not under any circumstances pay them any money or further engage with them.}} |
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I was under the impression that Wikimedia was a free content project. I have recently been rudely disabused of that notion, including even by the sitting arbitrator {{u|SilkTork}}. I am reconsidering my volunteer time here. ] <small><sup>]</sup></small> 18:10, 14 February 2019 (UTC) |
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is a good answer to that. Misplaced Pages 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. |
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If that's not quite enough for you, consider this. In a little over a decade, a group of self-selected volunteers have constructed what is the greatest educational work ever developed by mankind. Millions have contributed and billions have learned and benefited. Please contribute here in good faith and to further that mission of education and learning. |
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This user page has been vandalized many times, and reverted an equal number. If you would like to make test edits, you are welcome to use ] or my userspace sandbox ]. |
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===Administrator and arbitrator=== |
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As of March 12, 2007, my ] 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. |
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In December 2013, I was elected to the ], and served a two year term (lasting into early 2016 to finish up carryover business). I did not seek reelection due to upcoming events in my own life that I knew would not allow me the time to continue serving, but may run again some day in the future if that's not the case any more. I'm glad to have had the experience of working with some truly exceptional people on the Committee. |
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===General information about me=== |
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I'm a ] who currently resides in ]. I am male, but it seems my username is rather androgynous, so I won't be upset with you if you got that wrong. I have been editing Misplaced Pages for approximately twelve years as of 2017, starting out as an anonymous editor doing small fixes, and eventually deciding I would like to participate more fully. My activity, of course, waxes and wanes, as inevitably real-life commitments do arise. |
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You're welcome to refer to me as "Seraphimblade", "Seraphim", "Blade", "Todd" (though please don't do that in widespread discussions, it may confuse others), or for that matter "Hey you" if it's clear who you're talking to. |
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I use the ] ] to edit from potentially insecure public machines or networks, to avoid any risk of compromise of my admin account. Unless I explicitly note otherwise from this account (i.e., if that account is compromised), edits from that account are mine and I take full responsibility for them. |
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===Personal views and information=== |
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I believe that it is important for editors to give a general overview of personal viewpoints, so that others can call out if the editor is exhibiting unconscious bias toward those viewpoints while editing articles. This does ''not'' mean that I will recuse entirely from editing articles regarding these subjects, but rather will listen carefully to any assertion that my edits may not be neutral. |
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*I am ] but a strong supporter of ]. |
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*I am from and reside in the ]. |
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*I am an ] and ]. |
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*I am ] but a strong supporter of ]. |
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*I am politically ] in most cases, but tend to make up my own mind issue by issue. |
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*I do not belong to any organized ]. |
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*I am ] but a strong supporter of ], including the right to ]. |
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*I support the ] movement. (I volunteer here, after all.) I also support ] software. |
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All images and text which are my original work and which have been contributed to Misplaced Pages 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. |
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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 than 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. |
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] and ] are core policies. For Misplaced Pages 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. |
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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 Misplaced Pages in that same situation. |
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I believe, as the user I discussed this with, that Misplaced Pages 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. |
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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. |
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | I've been tracking with Seraphimblade for a while now, and though we differ in our wikiphilosophies I wanted to recognize his strong contributions to Misplaced Pages. Notably he has spend a good deal of time prodding and speedying articles that don't fit Misplaced Pages, to the tune of around 500 articles in the past two months. He has a keen eye for non-notable, commercial, and vanity submissions, and has been a strong force in pushing other editors (myself included) to make their new article submissions better, sooner rather than later. Through his pace, his judgement, and his firm but cordial dialog with other editors he does a great service toward keeping Misplaced Pages relevant and clean of bad stubs. Keep up the good work! <!--***ERIELHONAN Start Sig***-->]]]]<!--***End Sig ERIELHONAN***--> 07:07, 13 November 2006 (UTC) |
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{{The Original Barnstar|I hereby give you the original barnstar for the time and effort you took in the ] page to mediate as a third party opinion that resolved a major edit war. Thanks ] 16:35, 16 February 2007 (UTC)}} |
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<div style="text-align:center;"><div style="font-family:Garamond,Georgia,Serif;">]<big>'''The Original Barnstar'''</big><br>For your ] in the ] case, ], and for helping to solve an important dispute efficiently and sucessfully - and making my Mediation easier {{mono|:)}} - I, ], award ''']''' the Original ]. Well done!<br> |
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | To Seraphimblade, for hard work in getting the ] project off the ground. <span style="font-family: Verdana">]] <small><sup>]</sup></small></span> 15:39, 4 April 2007 (UTC) |
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | I '''Aeon''' award you '''Seraphimblade''' the '''da Vinci Barnstar''' for being bold in starting a new project aimed at helping Wikipedian's in need. Love the direction you and the others are taking. ] ] <span style="color: green"><sub>]</sub></span> 04:49, 11 April 2007 (UTC) |
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]I, ], award ] the Sherlock Holmes Deductive Reasoning Award for an investigation that uncovered and ended a long-term vote stacking campaign by a Misplaced Pages administrator who has now been desysopped. Thank you for your excellent work keeping the site honest and preserving the integrity of the administrator community. ]<sup>'']''</sup> 20:01, 1 June 2007 (UTC) |
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For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian,<br> |
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enjoy being the Star of the day, dear Seraphim! |
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<small>A record of your Day will always be kept ].</small> |
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Thank you for fighting for the credibility of the project, "free as in freedom", for {{diff|Bad Religion|497823693||cleanup, tighten, consolidate}}, - repeating: you are an ] (8 December 2009, ]: "I dreamt a dream! ... Guarded by a mighty Seraphim")! |
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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Would like to offer for continuous efforts in keeping Misplaced Pages advert free. ''']''' {] • ]} 16:58, 22 July 2014 (UTC) |
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If that's not quite enough for you, consider this. In a little over a decade, a group of self-selected volunteers have constructed what is the greatest educational work ever developed by mankind. Millions have contributed and billions have learned and benefited. Please contribute here in good faith and to further that mission of education and learning.
This user page has been vandalized many times, and reverted an equal number. If you would like to make test edits, you are welcome to use the sandbox or my userspace sandbox here.
You're welcome to refer to me as "Seraphimblade", "Seraphim", "Blade", "Todd" (though please don't do that in widespread discussions, it may confuse others), or for that matter "Hey you" if it's clear who you're talking to.
I believe that it is important for editors to give a general overview of personal viewpoints, so that others can call out if the editor is exhibiting unconscious bias toward those viewpoints while editing articles. This does not mean that I will recuse entirely from editing articles regarding these subjects, but rather will listen carefully to any assertion that my edits may not be neutral.
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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 than 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.
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 Misplaced Pages in that same situation.
I believe, as the user I discussed this with, that Misplaced Pages 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.
