User:Hyphen5

About me[edit]

my boxes

1,000+

This user has made more than 1,000 contributions to Wikipedia.

ESU

54% for major edits and 37% for minor edits. – Last update: 17:18, 1 April 2006 (UTC).

CTB

This user has contributed to the following pages.

it-2

Questo utente può contribuire con un livello intermedio di italiano.

la-0

Hic usor linguam latinam non intellegit aut eam intellegit aegre.

<html>

This user can write HTML.

This user attends or attended
the University of Pennsylvania

HIS

This user's favourite subject is History.

mer

This editor is a mergist.

imm

This editor is an immediatist.

~~del~~

This editor is a deletionist.

This user believes that userboxes do not divide the Wikipedia community, but rather emphasise its diversity.

This user believes that only articles need reflect a NPOV, and that displaying political, religious, or other beliefs using userboxes and user categories should not be banned.

This user is an EMT-Basic.

This user enjoys philosophy.

This user is interested in religion as a metaphysical or theological phenomenon.

This user is a Roman Catholic.

This user is a member of
WikiProject Catholicism.

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This user recommends the
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition of the Holy Bible.

This user is interested in law.

This user is interested in the Supreme Court of the United States.

pno-2

This user is an intermediate pianist.

This user is a bibliophile.

This user enjoys heavy reading, such as Shakespeare and other dead guys.

LE-1

This user's been known to screw up the occasional sentence and make the occasional typo, but is otherwise pretty accurate with regards to English.

man-
kind

Regarding gender, this user prefers the vernacular, not what is politically correct.

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This user is a punctuation stickler.

I have left Wikipedia in favor of Citizendium. I hope it will avoid many of Wikipedia's accuracy and POV problems.

You can find links to my contributions, edit count, etc., in the userboxes on the right. I am a member of Wikipedia:WikiProject US Supreme Court Cases and Wikipedia:WikiProject Catholicism.

My major interests[edit]

Catholicism (I'm not linking to it -- the article is abysmal)
Philosophy, especially
- Ancient philosophy and
- Medieval philosophy
History, especially
- The history of Western civilization and
- Church history
Classics
Law, especially
- Legal theory and
- Constitutional law
American politics, more of a guilty obsession, not really an "interest". I have a love-hate relationship with politics. Politics is all about the present. Uninformed by the wisdom of the ages (as it almost invariably is), it is an exercise in futility.

My Approach to Wikipedia[edit]

The point of an encylcopedia is to consolidate information insofar as possible and reasonable. Redundant articles fly in the face of this idea. It's ultimately about ease of use and accessibility.

In terms of NPOV, each editor obviously has his own POV about any number of topics. But I don't think that an editorial NPOV is dependent upon opinionless editors. I once worked for my campus newspaper, and I believe (from my own experience) that an editorial NPOV is achievable even if an editor has strong opinions about what he or she is covering.

I also think it's a constant temptation for editors here to get wrapped up in hopelessly subjective/POV debates about an article's subject. Substantive debates have their place, but that place is not Wikipedia.