Rrfayette

Welcome! Chat, Relax, and have some Tea!

Invitation: You are granted permission to edit this user page as you wish only if the changes enhances the already incredible presentation arranged and illustrated below. HaHa, "incredible!" Yea right!

As a note: I sign as SolelyFacts

Objectives

Current Focus

Tagging Articles w/o sources

For Later

WikiProject_Computer_science

Persistent Actions

• To be a check on Jimbo[1] so he doesn't become a dictator
• To make sure Wikipedia remains a free, open, and self-governing project
• To defend the essential policy that Wikipedia is NOT a bureaucracy

"Follow the spirit, not the letter, of any rules, policies and guidelines. Disagreements should be resolved through consensual discussion, rather than through tightly sticking to rules and procedures."

Future Projects

In no particular order:

• WP:TPG
• WP:MOS
• Articles I have linked to from my user and talk pages.
• Six projects I am a member of
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Consumer_organizations

The Past

Things of the past. The past is dead. I forget those things.

• Wikipedia:Notability_(web)
• Tagging Articles that are not notable.
• Talking too much with other users

Rules will Never Bind us

“ Rules and regulations... cannot be endowed with the fixity of rock-ribbed law. They are meant for the average case, and must be applied with a certain degree of elasticity. ”

Rules can be broken and ought be broken but there are certain principles that should never be without justifiable reasons:

NPOV Write with a neutral, unbiased, objective point of view Verifiability & WP:OR Verify information by citing reliable sources; content must have been published prior to being on Wikipedia Summary: Verifiable... means that any reader should be able to check that material added to Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source. The burden of evidence lies with the editor who adds or restores material. Any material that is challenged... needs a reliable source... If an article topic has no reliable, third-party sources, Wikipedia should not have an article on it. Any edit lacking a source may be removed... Jimmy Wales has said of this: "I can NOT emphasize this enough. There seems to be a terrible bias among some editors that some sort of random speculative 'I heard it somewhere' pseudo information is to be tagged with a 'needs a cite' tag. Wrong. It should be removed, aggressively, unless it can be sourced. This is true of all information...

Editors should try to familiarize themselves with all three.

Useful Tools

{{Fact}} to request citation for a statement {{Unsourced}}{{Verify}} to indicate that some information has not been verified and may not be reliable to request sources for an article or section {{NPOV}}{{Bias}} to warn of non-neutral bias to nominated an article to be checked for its neutrality {{Notability}} to express concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy notability guidelines {{Expand}} to request expansion of an article {{Prod}} to propose an article for deletion. Use Subst:Prod|Insignificant Topic and/or Notability {{Db}} to propose an article for speedy deletion.

Selected Featured Articles

· Albert Einstein · Chess · Cryptography · Data Encryption Standard · Diamond · Evolution · Free will · Game theory · Gold standard · HTTP cookie · Libertarianism · Philosophy of mind · Poetry · Speed of light · Supply and demand · Theodore Roosevelt · United States Bill of Rights

Projects

This user is a participant in WikiProject Computing.

CSThis user is a participant in WikiProject Computer science.

This user is a member of the Business WikiProject.

This user participates in
WikiProject Cryptography.

This user is a member of WikiProject Color.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Law.