Utilisateur:Hephestos
Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre.
Discovered Wikipedia Saturday, August 24, 2002 at approximately 03:30 UTC.
Email is john(price-per-unit)freeq(end-of-sentence)com
Copyediting random Wikipedia articles has lately joined coffee and cigarettes in my morning ritual to get my brain in gear. Evenings, I sometimes work on new articles, expanding stubs, or "translation."
Copyediting's my main thing (my mom was an English teacher, and it shows). Currently I'm sporadically working on the "1990's" thing, and intend to work my way back through the years. (For what it's worth on "1990's," we'll leave this one, because it's correct, and also this one, because if the 'venerable' New York Times can't even get it right, they deserve to be publicly pilloried.)
If that's ever finished, I'll probably return to correcting people's spelling.
Sometime in the interim, I also intend to write more articles on each of the various Macintosh computer models. If you happen to work on one of these, by all means make any improvements to the format that it may need; it's fairly rudimentary at the moment.
I also have a LiveJournal [1], which eats up some additional time, where I mostly post about the current state of U.S. government. Although I try hard to stay with the NPOV, if I stray, my journal will probably give you some insight into where it came from. ;) (For those curious about such mundane details as DOB, I also have a standard personal vanity website [2].)
Woo-hoo! Hashmarks approaching 300. :)
Here's the bragsheet.
- "But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
- "Oh you can't help that," said the Cat, "We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
- "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
- "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."
I award you this barnstar for all the work you do here, especially for the amount of time you spend protecting Wikipedia from vandals, and for lending us your user page as Michael bait. :) Angela. 18:20, Feb 23, 2004 (UTC)
I award you another barnstar for your bravery against vandals, trolls, banned users, and those that defend them. Guanaco 04:42, 11 Jun 2004 (UTC)
You now have a trifecta of barnstars, the reasons are blindingly obvious! Cimon
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[modifier] April 2005
I am done with this.
I took a break for a while to see if things would get better. They did not.
After my break it wasn't half an hour before someone showed up with the handle "Dick Withem".
I looked at this user's history, and it was nothing but a spew of vandalism and personal attacks.
Finally the user was blocked for a mere 24 hours. With an invitation to come back and do it all over again.
I am not going to be associated with an "encyclopedia" that is quite obviously run by a bunch of god damned idiots. What is the point of that?
