User:Falcon Kirtaran

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This user is a novice pianist.

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This user is a novice clarinetist.

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This user is an advanced vocalist.

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This user is an intermediate C programmer.

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This user can program in C++.

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This user is a Visual Basic programmer.

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This user is an intermediate programmer.

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This user uses Wikipedia as a primary point of reference.

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This user contributes with the KDE desktop environment.

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This user reads broadsheet newspapers.

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This user enjoys classical music.

This user enjoys jazz music.

This user fancies Celtic music.

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Chemistry.

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This user is a teenager, not a stereotype.

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This user comes from Canada.

This user's Canada includes Québec.

This user comes from Alberta.

This user comes from Calgary.

This user's time zone is MST.

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

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two

This user thinks that too many people have no idea how to use words that they should have learned in grade two.

which & that

This user knows how to use which and that correctly.

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there
they're

This user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they're worse than their own children at spelling!

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you're

This user thinks that if your grammar is incorrect, then you're in need of help.

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This user is a punctuation stickler.

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This user puts two spaces after a period.

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This user fixes comma-splices; they are annoying.

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This user prefers the serial comma.

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This user understands the difference between its (of it) and it's (it is or it has).

’s

Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice.

"…"

This user favours typewriter style quotation marks over typographic ones.

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Canadian English spelling.

AIM-Able

This user understands AIM talk perfectly well, but does not seriously use it. Ever.

The intent of this userpage is to introduce myself and provide explanations for and the motives behind my various actions.

About me

I am 16 years old and an Albertan. I have an interest in modern mythology, religion, politics, education, music, chemistry, and computing. I was an assistant system admin at my school at one point in time, and I am currently the de facto system administrator in my house (which has two linux servers and a number of WinXP boxes, linux laptops and a stodgy old WinME). Some friends of mine and I are currently running a large VPN (deliberately making it as complex as possible). I am a gifted student, with an IQ of above 140 and a focus on verbal-linguistic (see Multiple Intelligence). I am also a debater, and went to the ADSA provincials in 2006, competing in the semifinal round, in addition to the IDEA ITOC in that same year. Additionally, I fill the positions of head editor, de facto web editor, and front page editor of the Carroll Voice (newspaper of Bishop Carroll High School) and president (or director internal) of the Bishop Carroll High School Debate Federation.

My Editing Pattern

My editing pattern is such that it is very heavy during the latter part of June and the whole of July and August, though it becomes lighter for the remainder of the year due to the burdensome demands of my school workload and various extracurricular activities such as debate and the school paper.

Often, as has been seen in the past, I can reach several hundred edits a day during the peak period, which is obviously rarely sustainable. This is because the vast majority of my edits are syntactical or semantic, or deal with a system of classification spanning many pages.

Verification of Suspicions

For those wondering a certain thing about my username (or possibly editing pattern, or search results related to "Falcon Kirtaran") that is ordinarily a sensitive and hidden topic, you were right unless contraticted elsewhere. You may of course verify your suspicions, if so desired, provided you can read Japanese or know where to look. Caw.

Adminship

I am not currently requesting adminship. I intend to do so again someday in the distant future when I have more time and have resumed my summer editing practices, which most likely means sometime between June 9th, 2006, and July 21st, 2006. Woof.

My Contributions

I regularily look through random articles (and crawl wikilinks) to check for stubs, and tag and try to expand those which are, in addition to other various chores. I edit wherever I see fit. I also consider it very important to be involved in debates and PoV disputes in a civil manner, and I abhor those who make the debates into uncivil arguments.

If I see an act of vandalism, I will generally take a look at the editor's summary, registered or no. I do not believe that this is an action against the user in particular, as I do not treat those edits with any prejudice - I'm simply looking for other edits in the same bad faith.

My former major project was adding all necessary pages in the Dewey Decimal System categorisation at one point, however this has been abandoned for three reasons. Firstly, I believe that the nature of Wikipedia is not similar enough to that of a Library for that system to apply; for it to be useful, it would also need to include materials from Wikisource and a quantity of repositories of other data, and articles would need to be much more akin to books. Secondly, there is a contentious copyright dispute which will potentially render the category system unusable. Thirdly, the system is not extensible in the way a wiki should be, as it is governed by the OCLC and we can only use those parts which are in the public domain. Developing it would either create conflicts (thus making it something other than Dewey Decimal) or violate copyright. For those reasons, I have started a new classification system (the WIS). That latter system is GDFL-licensed, and designed specifically for Wikipedia.

In light of my seething hate of incorrect punctuation breaking up sentence structure, and for love of a decent semicolon, I am involved in WikiProject Punctuation when I have a great surplus of time.

What I Am Not

A deletionist. I believe that if a page is a borderline case, it should be voted on, and that stubs and small topics should be included. After all, wikipedia is not limited in space anywhere near as much as a book, even as it is not a repository of useless information.
A troll. Sometimes I look at other edits a person has made if they have done something I strongly disagree with, but only to ensure I have not missed a smelly mess
At all tolerant of POV-driven editing and decision-making, particularly the aggrivating sort which come from thoughtless media parroting and the like
A friend of people who want to list pages on VfD that have already been voted as kept, or constantly revert useful work, or insidiously attempt to discredit pages with unwarranted tags

Opinions

This is a collection of paragraphs which state and justify opinions I hold.

Wikipedia Is Not an Indiscriminate Repository of Information

In my viewpoint, the statement that Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate repository of information is a particularly contentious and loosely-defined one. Naturally, it cannot simply include all possible information; if it were to, we might as well type up the telephone book and a table of seismic data, and place both of them in here. However, I am firmly of the opinion that topics should not need to be widely recognised or scholarly to be included. Of course things like vanity pages should be disallowed, but that is because they are an attempt to create credibility rather than provide information. Information on specific modern beliefs, however, clearly does not fall into this category. We should include information such as that because it is valid, not exclude it because it is not necessarily scholarly.

NPOV should not apply to userspace

Of course, as is evident from my userpage, I am strongly of the opinion that NPOV policy should not be applied to userspace. This is for a great deal of reasons. The first of these relates directly to the justification for NPOV itself: that Wikipedia should not be a repository of biased information. This is significant because Wikipedia is essentially an unbiased work (or collection of works) which is created by intrinsically biased people. Nobody can honestly state that they have absolutely no bias or viewpoint, because we are perspective-oriented beings with unique paradigms. As we can clearly see, then, it is not necessary to pretend to be a community of people without a viewpoint in order to create an unbiased work: there are enough users to balance this out, and we are all called to be mature enough to write in the most unbiased, NPOV form possible. The second reason is related to the point of a userpage - to introduce oneself and what one does. This is a valuable tool, because it allows for much greater understanding within the community (thereby potentially quieting some heated fights) and a greater sense of community among editors. If we did not profile our perspective, Wikipedia would be quite a soulless place indeed. Also, it might allow people to avoid conflicts with those who obviously (from the userpage) have a very different viewpoint, and it can put a person's actions in perspective. As the expression of ideas is in userspace, it does not in and of itself bias article space.

The only justification for not allowing personal expression in userspace, then, is the idea that it might lead to bands of like-minded people using aggressive editing tactics. However, I firmly believe that if that should become a problem, it can be solved in other ways through existing structures (RfC, etc.). To advocate censorship in the interest of preventing immature activity places Wikipedians in general on the same level as kindergarten students - it is insulting to the community, and brings Wikipedia down to the lowest common denominator. Such an action might even be called a cousin to protecting all significant pages, or banning the community at large as though they were vandals.

Censorship of any sort, in my opinion, goes directly against the values which Wikipedia espouses and destroys the community, sense of belonging, and possibility of teamwork. Therefore, such a ban must not be implemented.

Falcon Kirtaran's Criteria

This is a list of criteria that I am developing.

Current Projects

Wikipedia:Dewey Decimal System

Has been left off at category 5.
My self-appointed task was to create all the 1st- and 2nd-level category pages
Is no longer in progress due to a copyright dispute
Was about 50% complete!
Patrol (since July 12th 2005):
- 1 link missing alternate text
- 1 deleted article
I am currently nominating all the incorrectly-named or obsoleted pages for speedy deletion.