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       Love · Empathy · Peace · Acceptance · Understanding
   

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

The best of humanity is in our exercise of empathy and compassion. It's when we challenge ourselves to walk in the shoes of someone whose pain or plight might seem so different than yours that it's almost incomprehensible.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.


General Information

Me
♂This user is male.
enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.
  NThis user attends or attended Northeastern University.
BAThis user has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science.

I am Rob M Frawley 2nd (robfrawley), a Wikipedian from Middletown, Connecticut, USA. I attended Westbrook High School in Westbrook, Connecticut before perusing a degree in Computer Science and Information Technology at Northeastern Univeristy in Boston, Massachusets. After college I spent time in different regions of the United States, first living in Dania Beach, Florida, and later in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ultimately I moved back to Middletown, Connecticut, where I currently reside.

There is unlikely any additional information about me of interest to the general public. I am a relatively normal, inconsequential, but spirited and unique individual, with strong opinions, feeling, and morals, living as one among the rest of you. Feel free to email me for any pressing correspondence; otherwise, post on my talk page to communicate about Wikipedia-related discussions.

Contact Information & Resources

Email wikipedia@robfrawley.com
Personal Web
Professional Web


Contributions & Opinions

What I Do
Public domainContent contributed by this user is released into the public domain.
This user uses for Internet search.
HTML-5This user is a professional HTML user.
svg-2This user is an intermediate SVG user.
js-3This user is an advanced JavaScript programmer.
theyThis user considers singular they standard English usage.
mankindThis user supports the use of gender-neutral language.
"...,"For quotation marks, this user would rather use "American punctuation."
A, B, and CThis user prefers the serial comma.
. TheThis user puts one space after a full stop.

I am a relatively infrequent contributor to Wikipedia (list of contributions), but aside from Google and GitHub, Wikipedia is my most-often referenced source for knowledge; I regularly find myself obtaining an initial, cursory understanding of subjects by reading their respective Wikipedia articles. I believe Wikipedia is one of the most important creations in the last century and that it represents a beacon of knowledge and exemplification of a community-driven project unlike any before. When my time allows, and my knowledge intersects, I make edits to articles, but I am most active in discussions on talk pages about when changes should and should not occur. My goal is always to better this amazing resource and leave it in a finer state for those who follow.

The most important principals I try to uphold when contributing are truth and objectivity, but like most individuals with the cursegift of opinion and independent though, the latter principal is often the most difficult to attain. I do my best, and generally find others in the Wikipedia community do so as well. Infrequently I find individuals whom obviously have a personal or professional bias, or those whom argue for the sake of confrontation, but they are the minority, and can be easily silenced by simply ignoring them.

Grammatic Preferences

My English preferences are generally modern. I strive to apply proper American grammar when editing articles and participating in discussions. If you notice inconsistencies in my English usage please inform me so I can work to correct it in the immediate and better my usage moving forward.

As listed in my userboxes, I am opinionated about certain grammatical choices authors may make. For example, despite the long history of double-spaced sentence concatenation, I find no readability benefit, and therefore prefer single-spacing between sentences. I strongly support singular they and gender neutral pronouns, as I believe their use serves to promote inclusion and further our collective commonalities as a single race of humans, instead of alienating those whom identify differently and classifying subjects based on precedent established during historically biased, bigoted, and segregated times.

When it comes to dates and time, my computer science and programming backgrounds caused me to naturally express them from their largest to their smallest period of time. The common American date representation of MM-DD-YY is illogical to me, so I instead format dates as YYYY-MM-DD. Further, every single clock I own is set to use 24-hour time, and as such I format times as HH:MM[:SS.MS]. I support the International Organization for Standardization, regularly using their specifications throughout my professional and personal work, and write dates and times using the ISO 8601 standard.

Experience, Focuses, & Weaknesses

Having worked as the Systems Architect for a successful publishing company specializing in well-formed, XML-based publishing, I am proficient in copy-editing, document structuring, and many times of formatting and markup. I am proficient in a number of styling, document, and general markup languages, including LaTeX, CSS3, HTML5, and others. Likewise, I have experience with many different lightweight markup languages, including Markdown, GitHub Flavored Markdown, MediaWiki, ReStructuredText, and others.

I believe my weakest area is remaining truly objective and unbiased as it applies to politics and politically-leaning or controversial living persons. As such, I have consciously decided to only work within talk pages in such contexts to avoid immediate reversal of direct edits, as well as debates and critique after the fact.


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