User page as of 18 March 2009 edit



Hello...

SPORT
  This user supports
The Three Lions
 
This user supports
Manchester United
.
  This user loves
FERRARI
.
 
 
India Zindabad!
This user supports the
Indian Cricket team!

I'm currently reading Economics & Management at Pembroke College, Oxford, but live in Kent - The Garden of England. I originate from India, specifically from the coastal town/city of Mangalore. The photo below-left was taken there in December 2003. Please use my awesome navbar at the top of this page to browse around my user pages and see a bit about me and what I do. One thing I will mention, however, is my CD Collection, which consists of around 140 albums and is one of my proudest possessions. Check out its contents here (N.B. it's not complete yet!)


 
Fishing in Mukkah, near Mangalore

At this stage, I'd like to clear up two Wikipedia-related things:

My Basic Wikilosophy edit

I believe that the best way of achieving NPOV is through acceptance of POV. That is to say, if someone openly declares their POV then the reasoning behind their edits becomes more obvious, making it easier to reach consensus. I think The German Solution for userboxes, endorsed by Jimbo, is the way to go, so feel free to use any of the userboxes I have created on the above link. I am proud of my POV and openly declare it, and I think others should be too. However, I strongly oppose POV user categorisation, which can result in the railroading of votes and or edit wars.

Copyrights edit

One of my more infamous quotes on Wikipedia, "damn right I don't respect US copyright law - why would I? Not everyone here is American, so why should we give a rats about US copyright law?" [1], caused a furore of sorts. I am not going to back down from what I said - I openly declare my dislike for US copyright law, and most things American. However, many people missed an important aspect in what I was saying. One of the most important things in life is that you have to accept things you don't like - I spend most of my life doing it. It is annoying, it makes you irate, but it has to be done. However, at no stage does this mean that you have to agree with it. One of the great parts of free society is that you can openly express your disdain for a law without retribution. Disagreeing with the law does not constitute breaking the law.


INDIVIDUAL
 
This user studies at
Pembroke College, Oxford
Oxon.
 
This user comes from
Great Britain
 
This user comes from KENT:
The Garden of England
 This user is proud to be a
Person of Indian Origin.
  This user is a Roman Catholic.
 This user's time zone is GMT.
  This user is a Scorpio.
 
This user has an extensive
CD Collection
.

CONTRIBUTIONS
 
This user is a
British Wikipedian.
 This user is an Indian Wikipedian.
 This user uses Wikipedia as a primary point of reference.
  This user finds copyright paranoia disruptive.
  This user is opposed to online censorship.
 This user has a ton of edits.
8,000+This user has made more than 8,000 contributions to Wikipedia.
IQ This user's Intelligence Quotient is 143.
vn-13 This user's pages have been vandalized 13 times.

London edit

London is, IMHO, the greatest city in the world, and it is for this reason that I created the London Portal. It is now a featured portal, and (at present) is almost entirely run by me. If you love London half as much as me, please join WikiProject London or leave me a message and help maintain the focal point of what is a huge web of articles.

ALSO, please VOTE for next month's featured pages for the London Portal. Vote for either:


Edit History edit

 
Snow in Pembroke College Chapel Quad - 8th February 2007
POLITICS
  This user supports the
independence of England

(from Scotland, Wales and N.I.)
  This user trusts the EU about as far as they can throw it.
  This user supports the ban on smoking in public places.
  This user does not recognize the independence of the thirteen colonies.
  This user tries to pretend George W. Bush does not exist.
  This user supports the independence of Tibet.
  This user supports the independence of Kurdistan.
File:Voting box clipart.gif This user believes it is every citizen's duty to vote.
  This user says NO to the EU.

IDEOLOGY
  This user is a Capitalist.
  This user is a monarchist.
  This user supports recycling.
  This user supports the
use of green energy.
 
 This user is a carnivore.

LANGUAGE
enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.
AmE-0 This user dislikes American 'English' (common grammatical and spelling errors mistaken for dialect).
kn-1ಈ ಬಳಕೆಗಾರನಿಗೆ ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ಕನ್ನಡ ತಿಳಿದಿದೆ
de-2Dieser Benutzer hat fortgeschrittene Deutschkenntnisse.
fr-2Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français.
la-1Hic usor simplici latinitate contribuere potest.
A, B, and C This user prefers the serial comma.

pno-1This user is a novice pianist.

Other things edit

  • I have an intense dislike of the Americanisation in general, and on Wikipedia in articles to do with British things, especially bands and songs and sports teams. This includes, but is not limited to: dates, spelling, commas, the use of the singular instead of the plural for bands/teams, and general grammar.
  • I like new ideas. Evolution occurs through new ideas, and a wiki is the ideal breeding ground for new ideas.





My Travels

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