BootsED

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This user has been on Wikipedia for 3 years, 3 months and 10 days.

This user has a pro-Wikipedia bias.

This user believes that anyone who thinks Wikipedia is an unreliable source should continue their quest to find a better website.

Non nobis solum

→ In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas.

This user believes science, practiced through the scientific method, is the
most reliable way of determining the
nature of reality.

This user is a citizen of the United States of America.

This user supports United States's membership in NATO

This user supports the
European Union

This user is a centrist.

This user is an advocate of democracy.

This user supports the
Constitution
of the United States.

An ancestor of this user fought for the United States in a foreign conflict.

This user supports a free, independent, undivided,
and fully restored Ukraine.

----This user knows that---- BLUE LIVES MATTER

This user supports the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

This user is against communism.

This user doesn’t like tankies, especially when they push historical revisionism on Wikipedia.

In Memoriam: 9/11
Lest we forget…

1/6/21 never forget

This user greatly admires
Abraham Lincoln.

This user is very distressed by the increasing polarization in the United States.

This user is interested in democratic backsliding.

This user is interested in the
Politics of the United States.

This user is interested in 20th-century history.

This user is interested in contemporary history.

This user is interested in
historical research.

This user is interested in the Roman Republic.

This user is a child of the Enlightenment.

KILROY WAS HERE!

WTF?

This user ALWAYS leaves
an edit summary.

Wikipedia is not to be used to un-brainwash the masses. We inform the masses about...attempts to brainwash them.[1]

Hello! I am BootsED. I am a human being and like to edit Wikipedia.

I do my best to follow Wikipedia best practices, properly cite sources, and assume good faith in discussions with other editors. Owing to the differing opinions many editors have with the real-world topics we document, I know it can be a hard job to keep calm! If I have offended you in any way, please know it is nothing personal! I admit I am not perfect.

If you disagree with my edits, please let me know on my talk page, or better yet, on the talk page on the page you disagree with my edits on (so other editors can see and chime in on the discussion).

Thank you for taking the time to read this and have a wonderful day!

Quotes that describe my philosophy on Wikipedia edit

On NPOV edit

"At Wikipedia, 'neutral' does not mean what you think it means. It really doesn't. It is not a middle position. It is not a position without bias. At Wikipedia, 'neutral' means alignment with RS, including their biases.
'Neutral' in NPOV does not mean 'neutral' in the common sense of the word. It does not mean without bias from sources, only without bias from editors. NPOV does not require that sources or content be without bias or be neutral.
Per NPOV, editors should be neutral by not removing the bias found in RS. We should document it and not whitewash it. That means the article will then read like biased content, and that's as it should be, as long as the bias is from sources and not from editors. The article about a person who is dishonest will give the impression that the person is dishonest because the weight of RS say so, and that is a very proper bias. Anything else [would] be dishonest. Wikipedia does not support dishonesty or whitewash it.
Editors are 'neutral' when they are centered right under the point where most RS congregate, regardless of whether that is to the left or right of center. We do not 'move' or 'balance' content to the center to keep an article 'neutral'. That would be editorial, non-neutral, interference in what RS say. Maybe you should read my essay about this: NPOV means neutral editing, not neutral content."

—Valjean (talk), in response to claims that certain Wikipedia pages are written with a biased point of view. (March 5, 2024)