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This user believes in the right of every human being to have access to Misplaced Pages.
About me? I was promoted to join in at Wikiville and work to address the systemic bias and even abuse of Wiki through Advocacy Editing (Editing which either deliberately or unwittingly promotes a term over the concept and skews reality).
I have seen too many examples of content which is skewed by editors to specific agendas and which ignore the realities of millions and even billions of other people - simply because there is a bias to English and the translation of term and concept from one language to another is ignored and dismissed. This allows skewing of reality and also promotes cultural bias and worse. Far, Far Worse.
I've also learned just how disinterested many are in anything other than pushing their own agendas, supporting their own biases and using the 5 Pillars as bent tent poles to keep their sheltered reality covered at the expense of everyone else on this planet. I keep finding so many examples of Systemic Bias across Misplaced Pages it is beyond disturbing. I keep finding so many pages that need desperate attention, and such battles as to be comical. When you have 39 people arguing over where the full stop goes, it's not editing or consensus it's lunacy warfare.
I am still getting to grips with the Netiquette, technology and rambling referencing as to how it all works. The help files are just about the most unhlepful thing there is, and frankly you have a better chance of stumbling upon a vagrant Diplodocus than the right answer or useful pages. In many ways, Wikiville has descended into a very poor Technocracy with too many Nurse Ratcheds.
There is a gross Bias of Term Vs Concept where the technology of googling overrides rational common sense. Beware The ""'Googlearchy'".
This not only causes systemic bias and inconsistency across wikipedia, it promotes it in wider culture.
Oh - and I saw this on a talk page as a response to some ... well.... not necessarily nice Wikidenizens - It's so Pratchetesque, and when supposed mature self impotent wikizens decide to do the elder routine ... It is a Tonic (No Gin Required) :
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I have been inexorably marching along the passages of Misplaced Pages, scraping my knees on its abrasive asininity and carefully circumambulating the muddling morasses that befoul the paths of many. I have sloughed off my callow skin in the oppressive heat and those nascent days of neophyte tenderness have long since faded away from the memory of a mind battered and subdued from editing travails. And though I still find myself trundling along the dust-filled corridors of this catacomb of contention, bedizened with begrimed tapestries of bygone POV tags, and stepping over the crumbling masonry of abandoned constructions that mock the gleaming facade and vaunting pillars of policy that greet the inquisitive and the unwary, I still do not consider myself a Misplaced Pages veteran: someone engorged with multitudinous minutiae, incorrigibly inured to inimical interaction, a denizen relentlessly leery and swift to rejoice in solecistic stumblings. So yes, I may no longer be of 'tender age' but I still consider my outlook 'relatively new';
You rock :) I'm so happy you joined us at the Teahouse!! Sarah (talk) 23:08, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
Thanks for examining the article: "Paul Arthur Messier." The duplicated articles came from my realization that there was already an article named "Paul Messier." I couldn't figure out a way to rename it some went with submitting the dupe "Paul Arthur Messier." The latter article has already been rejected (as a dupe), and so the article "Paul Messier" remains awaiting review. I am concerned this article will be rejected since the title already exists and will deal with that when and if it happens. I am certainly still learning the ropes and any ideas you might have to avoid this problem would be appreciated. Fotofile (talk) 13:01, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
The Human Rights Barnstar
Thanks for your contributions on Amnesty International media award winners-- keep up the good work! -- Khazar2 (talk) 22:52, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
“It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness” Amnesty International
