User:Blaxthos

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Spins

This is likely the best DJ set I've ever heard.

15 minutes

Apparently newsbusters has quoted me extensively, although they use strawman arguments to bypass or misrepresent my points.

Research Initiative (inactive)

Do you need help doing some research? I have access to excellent databases of reliable sources (EBSCOhost, JSTOR, Lexis Nexis, etc.) -- take a look at my research requests user project. Comments welcome!

Personal Wikipiphany

I think I have come upon a wiki-enlightenment or wikipiphany:

...it occured to me that in order to preserve the value and absolute functionality of the wiki system, somebody has to stop those who would abuse the project for those editors who make good faith efforts to improve it.

— blaxthos

Wikitruth

If you tell Wikipedians to trim some fingernails, the nature of the Wikipedia environment is that someone will start chopping off hands. And after you go "Hey, slow down, Tex, that's gone too far", they'll switch to just chopping off fingers and everyone's happy at the compromise.

— Wikitruth

Humor

There were the Scots
Who kept the Sabbath
And everything else they could lay their hands on.
Then there were the Welsh
Who prayed on their knees and their neighbors.
Thirdly there were the Irish
Who never knew what they wanted
But were willing to fight for it anyway.
Lastly there were the English
Who considered themselves a self-made nation
Thus relieving the Almighty of a dreadful responsibility.

— /usr/local/bin/fortune

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I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

— Robert McCloskey

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Quick links

• Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/#current_requests
• USER:Blaxthos/Sandbox
• WP:PS
• User:John_Broughton/Editor's_Index_to_Wikipedia

Stuff I've done

Articles I've Worked On (very noninclusive list)

Article	Author	Rewrite	GA / FA Nom	Copyedit	Cite Fmt	NPOV	OR / RS	Featured
Angler:TCVP	X
Ask Foy	X			X	X		X
Atari 8-bit family				X	X		X
Chappaquiddick incident				X	X	X	X
Curry		X		X	X
dBase					X
Domus Transitoria	X
Fox Business Network				X	X	X	X
Fox News Channel				X	X	X	X
Fox News Channel controversies				X	X	X	X
Fox News Channel programming	X				X	X	X
IBM		X		X	X	X	X
IBM OS/2				X	X		X
Mr. President (TV series)	X						X
Mark Foley					X
Natalee Holloway				X
NAVGC 1983				X			X
NTSC				X
Squirrel Systems	X				X		X	DYK 5 April 2007
syslog				X	X
Trade Wars 2002							X
Ted Kennedy		X	X	X	X	X	X
What Happened	X				X		X

Other miscellany

• Policy shopping Wikipedia essay
• Okay Userspace essay