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About JK

I am a philosophy student studying for a MA at Sheffield University (though I have just lurned that I have f**ked up my first essay) and a political actvist (member of the Marxist SWP(UK))

I am new(ish) and still getting the hang of wikipedia. Even though I have strong views on (almost all) things I belive that I can help build non-POV articles. I belive that wikipedia should not intentionaly be used as a POV warzone but that some times it is enevitable that it will be. If participent abide by the rules and a just peace can be brokered then these wars can be made to have a possitive outcome. Some times articles should advocate a POV for example a science article should be written as if it is a fact that oxygen exists (surely?). No statment can ever really be a nuetral presentation of the facts. prehaps the best we can do some times is give seperate presentations of the facts. blaa blaa work in progress

My spelling is v. bad. Personaly I think that it is best to be radically non-precriptive when it comes to spelling, i.e. if people can understand it why is it wroung? However I appreciate that most people (inc' the people who mark my essays and fellow wikipedians) disagree and will thus endervour to keep my spell cheaker open or at least not mind when my abesmal spelling is corrected.

JK's Current interests:

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

  • Optimism should have a separate page that focuses on the philosophical idea of optimism and distinguishes the philosophical view from "positive thinking" and other everyday uses of the word.
  • Philosophy of social science, has some okay points but requires elaboration on Wittgenstein and Winch, perhaps other linguistic critiques, whether logical positivist or postmodernist.
  • Exchange value needs to be redone, it shouldn't be under 'Marxist theory'- although it's an important component of Marxist theory it's also vital for all economics. That said the article's weight on Marx is also absurd.
  • German Idealism and the articles related to it may need to be rewritten or expanded to avoid undue weight on Arthur Schopenhauer.
  • Protected values first section confuses right action and values and needs a copy edit, moving and wikifying
  • Quality (philosophy) needs a more clear explanation.
  • Socratic dialogues could do with some tidying and clarification. See the talk page for one suggested change.
  • Problem of universals: The introductory definition is (perhaps) fixed. But, the article is poor. Check out the German version.
  • Teleology: the article is shallow and inconsistent.
  • Existentialism: the quality of this article varies wildly and is in desperate need of expert attention.
  • Analytic philosophy This is a very major topic, but still has several sections which are stubs, and several topics which are not covered.
  • Lifeworld A philosophical concept that seems to have fallen exclusively into the hands of the sociologists. Could use some attention; it's a major and complex issue in phenomenology.
  • Perception Needs the attention of philosophically minded Wikipedians. This is only the start of an overhaul of perception and related articles.

Graffiti
Left-wing politics
Philosophy, social epistemology

Pages I have created

Ciro Conference Keep Britain Tidy Globalise Resistance

JK's Anti-war Mission

I am attempting asses the state of all the anti-war pages. Thinking of starting an Anti-war wikiproject (See wikiproject) if anyone else thinks its a good idea. The aim of the project would not be to promote anti-war ideas (i.e. POV Propaganda), rather it would be to try to bring the articles as a group up to wikipedia 1.0 standard through having a stategic overview of them all from were repeted material, redundent pages and missing info'/gaps in coverage can be spoted.

As a start I am looking to locate all the diff' anti-war pages, I have found these pages so far, feel free to add stuff:

Anti-war:
Anti-war, Post-September 11 anti-war movement, Peace movement, Global protests against war on Iraq, Popular opposition to war on Iraq, Criticisms of War on Terrorism, Peace camp, World peace, Human shield action to Iraq
Peace groups (Some of these groups may not be exclusivly anti-war.
Other anti-war'ish
Second Superpower, anti-imperialism
Anti-war Films
Fahrenheit 9/11
Anti-war catagories
Category:Anti-Vietnam War groups, Category:Anti-Iraq War groups
About the war(s) being oposed: (For refenece, project wouldn't aim to work on these pages as such)
File:French anti-war sticker.jpg
this was on the graffiti page but alas it was rejected. So I keep it here for now





JK's consinment to one of three 'Dustbins' of history

File:JK consined to a 'dustbin of history'.JPG
Me, Bush, and Putin in bins

I have been offically dumped into a dustbin of history along with George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin by the pompous professour Fred Halliday writing in The Observer from his academic Ivory tower. I am in the dustbin on the left, yes it realy is me it must have been taken on an anti-war demo. Though I would like to think that I am considered as important a world player as Bush and Putin (though I would hate to be put in there moral catagory), my picture merly represents the peace movement as a whole, thus I should blame the picture editor really. You can read the article here [1]. This sort of snearing better-then-the-masses Libral bulls**t pisses me right off, firstly his arguments against American agression no more complex then thouse of the anti-war movement, secondly this asumption of the uniformity of the positions taken by its members are factualy inactuarate. RANT, RANT, RANT -- few glad I got that off my chest.

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