User:Textorus - Wikipedia

Old and obsolete, maybe, but still rolling along --

Today is Thursday, October 10, 2024 / Wikipedia now has 6,894,007 articles

My first edit: 30 August 2006.

This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than 15 years (18 years, 1 month, and 10 days).

This user is old enough to remember what a typewriter is, and that's all you need to know.

If an article topic has no reliable, third-party sources, Wikipedia should not have an article on it.

"I can NOT emphasize this enough. There seems to be a terrible bias among some editors that some sort of random speculative 'I heard it somewhere' pseudo information is to be tagged with a 'needs a cite' tag. Wrong. It should be removed, aggressively, unless it can be sourced."

"People have to drop the idea that every little tidbit is precious. Crap is crap. Yank it."

The burden of evidence lies with the editor who adds or restores material. All quotations and any material challenged or likely to be challenged should be attributed to a reliable, published source using an inline citation.

"I think a fair number of people need to be kicked out of the project just for being lousy writers."

"It is an overly optimistic and perhaps naive notion to believe that a body of disorganized editors will produce high quality articles on their own."

The unreliability of Wikipedia will in the end kill it. . . . Wikipedia is not an encyclopaedia, it is a restricted collection of verifiable but at times highly incorrect information.

An encyclopedia where one in ten sentences, fact-checked by at least four editors, is wrong, should not be called an encyclopedia.

Wikipedia is not the sum of human knowledge. It is a severely abridged summary, and sometimes, a very flawed one. Away from high-profile articles that receive diligent scrutiny, it is no better than the last thing said about a topic by a stranger in the pub.

It is easier to get a sincere "thank you" for reverting "you're a faggot" from someone's userpage, than it is for writing a researched, thorough, and referenced encyclopedia article on an encyclopedic topic.

Articles I created (34 so far) or made significant edits to (36):

1. Fairlawne - significant additions, increase of 400%, June 2021
2. Emmett Till Antilynching Act - created 4 June 2020
3. Frances Robinson-Duff - created 26 September 2018.
4. Clive Alderton - created 29 June 2016.
5. Allen Irvin Bernstein - created 27 November 2014.
6. Dixie Flyer (train) - created 15 August 2014.
7. Louis Crompton - significant additions to this stub, increase of 409%, 16 February 2014.
8. James "Wally" Brewster, Jr. - created 29 November 2013 - short article with refs and wikilinks
9. Nationality Act of 1940 - created 1 April 2013 - short article with refs and wikilinks
10. Larry L. King - created 23 December 2012 - stub, with references others can use to expand it
11. Florida School for Boys - major rewriting and expansion, increase of 640%, 15 June 2012
12. Lullingstone Roman Villa - substantial edits, increase of 38%, 15 June 2012
13. Imperial State Crown - significant addition (History section), increase of 45%, 28 May 2012
14. Samuel Butler (novelist) - significant addition (Sexuality section), increase of 34%, 8 May 2012
15. John Hathorn Hall - created 6 February 2012 - stub, not much to find on this guy
16. William Nye (courtier) - created 15 November 2011 - stub, not much to find on this guy
17. Environmental protocol - created 30 October 2011 - a section moved from Protocol (diplomacy)
18. Franklin v. State - created 14 July 2011
19. Forgotten Coast - significant additions, July 2011
20. Florida Panhandle - significant additions, increase of 45%, July 2011
21. In re: Gill - significant edits and additions, increased over 120%, July 2011
22. International Gay Rodeo Association - significant rewriting and additions, increased over 180%, July 2011
23. Kit house - created 28 June 2011
24. Roger Simon (journalist) - created 28 June 2011 (per request found at the Help Desk)
25. Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railway - created 5 April 2011
26. Benjamin Franklin Yoakum - significant additions, 4 April 2011
27. Gulf Coast Lines - created 2 April 2011
28. Texarkana and Fort Smith Railway - significant addition, 1 April 2011
29. C.F. Theodore Steinway - created, but actually a copyedit of article translated from de.wp, 13 Sept. 2010, per help request
30. Florida Panhandle - significant addition and rewriting lede, 8 Sept. 2010
31. Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad - created 31 August 2010
32. Same-sex_marriage in Wyoming - substantial revision
33. Tender (railroad car) - substantial revision
34. Sunbeam (passenger train) - near-total rewriting
35. Sam Houston Zephyr - created 8/16/08
36. Neil McLennan - created 8/16/08
37. Same-sex marriage in New Mexico - near-total rewriting
38. Same-sex marriage in Maryland‎ - significant addition
39. Anglican devotions - significant revision
40. Silver Comet (train) - created 5/23/08
41. Gulf Wind - created 5/23/08
42. Seaboard Air Line Railroad - substantial expansion
43. Fort Worth and Denver Railway - substantial expansion
44. Rex Wockner - created 5/20/08
45. Texas Zephyr - created 2/1/08
46. Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu - substantial additions
47. Civil unions in Colombia - significant addition
48. LGBT rights in Colombia--substantial additions
49. Daddy & Papa--created 7/28/07
50. M. v. H.--significant addition
51. Ontario Family Law Act--created 7/28/07
52. Adult interdependent relationship in Alberta--created 7/28/07
53. Jacques Vallee, Sieur Des Barreaux--substantial addition
54. Domestic partnership in Nova Scotia--created 7/27/07
55. Common-law relationships in Manitoba--created 7/24/07
56. Civil unions in New Jersey--significant addition, July 2007
57. Khnumhotep & Niankhkhnum--substantial addition
58. Domestic partnership--substantial editing
59. Civil union--significant additions
60. Florida Legislative Investigation Committee--created 12/30/06
61. Randy Shilts--extensive rewriting and additions, 12/29/06
62. Elliott Blackstone--created 12/28/06
63. Compton's cafeteria riot--extensive reworking
64. Barbara Gittings--significant additions
65. Executive Order 13087--created 12/23/06
66. Executive Order 11478--created 12/23/06
67. Domestic partnership in District of Columbia--significant additions
68. Domestic partnership in Hawaii--substantial additions
69. Domestic partnership in Tasmania--created 12/18/06
70. Domestic partnership in Maine--created 12/15/06

• This user makes good edits.
• This user creates above-average articles.
• This user writes for Wikipedia as if it were a real encyclopedia.
• This user enjoys the fun of good writing and authoritative sourcing.
• This user likes to think that somebody, somewhere may be helped by some reliable fact this user posts.
• This user admits that this may be a slightly egotistic delusion.
• This user realizes there is more to life than an encyclopedia, even a free one, can ever provide.
• This user believes if more were going on in our lives, there would be fewer Wikipedians.
• This user confesses that despite a certain fond feeling, Wikipedia is no substitute for chocolate, friendship, love, or sex, and is just barely on a par with masturbation.
• This user tries not to be a dick, though sometimes sorely tempted, and sometimes failing.
• This user would like to be a class act, but that would probably mean having to go study Zen or something like that, and who's got the time?
• This user is learning not to be pissed off by rudeness, arrogance, and general ignorance.
• This user accepts that one day the sun will explode and so will the merry anarchy that is Wikipedia.
• While the party lasts, THEREFORE,

In a good way, of course.  :-)

• The world is unfair, blind, and unmerciful. It runs on prejudice and cruelty.
• Any time I edit at more than a correct-the-syntax level, I discover again the wisdom that Wikipedia's original name was "Unemployed Ph.D. Death Match."
• As Freud observed, we are most courageous when we feel most loved. Conversely, the lonely are often the most craven, and their anger is the most vindictive. Wikipedia is filled with the lonely.

Writing for a massively multi-moron encyclopedia is a lot more fun than writing for a very quiet professional one. While I prefer the latter in theory, I prefer the former in practice.

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ADD to History of Homosexuality article: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/823813

See also comment by Helena Schrader: https://www.quora.com/Why-is-homosexuality-with-the-Ancient-Greeks-so-overexaggerated-For-example-Spartans-forbade-physical-pederastic-relationships-while-many-say-they-were-gay-Is-this-historical-revisionism-to-fit-the-current-politics

041324: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Content/One-page_draft