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| 58Y | This Wikipedian was born on 08 January 1966 and is 58 years, 11 months, and 4 days old. |
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For years in doing online searches, I would run across Wikipedia articles that I found helpful. I eventually noticed the "edit this page" on top, and soon saw that "anyone could edit". I made my very first edit, 18:04, 9 May 2005 under IP address 64.12.116.138 (America Online) by adding a large paragraph of information on Filmation, a cartoon studio popular when I grew up, but whose productions are rarely shown today. Next, I added some facts to M Train, my local subway line, and then Scooby Doo, my favorite cartoon series. Wondering "Gee, what prevents anyone from just coming and messing up articles?", I soon found that the IP was periodically locked out due to such vandalism, and then propmptly registered. On 02:01, 12 May 2005 I made my first new article from scratch, Hangly-Man, a bootleg Pac-Man clone game that was very popular at one time, but not remembered much. I also uploaded my first file, a screenshot of the game. Soon afterward, I added a point on the Christian doctrine of the Trinity. I also added the information about the a counseling tool called the Arno Profile System and its newly discovered temperament of supine to the four humors (four temperament) article. It was a bit long for that page, so I had to create a new article called "Supine (Temperament)". I then also decided to add a new article on the Five Temperaments, explaining the history of this new theory. My wife is an aspiring psychological counselor and through her I have learned of temperament theory. I also expanded the article on Pseudosphere, a geometrical opposite of a sphere. I also had learned more about a four dimensional object called a duocylinder, and added the bulk of that article. More recently; I added a bunch of info to the article on the legendary hip hop rivalry, the Bridge Wars, and from there created the related article on the Roxanne Wars, added some "expert info" and images on Penrose diagrams, and also expanded the stub article on Drake's with much info. This was my favorite snack cake, but it is very hard to find outside the U.S._Northeast. I also contributed to Disco, and more recently spun off the Interaction Styles article from Five temperaments; and did work on the related psychometrics articles on instruments such as Social Styles, Thomas Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument, and MBTI, expanded the article on FIRO-B, from which the five temperament system is derived, and fixed the conflict between the four temperaments, and humorism articles, which others were consedering merging. I also created an article on Flowers Bakeries, a large southern bakery whose products are sold under different names.
It is obvious that I have a wide range of interests, as well as more serious ministry pursuits. Wikipedia is the perfect place to use all the information, I have on different subjects, in their relevant articles!
I spend a lot of time online working on my various pages, or debating in various issues, mostly Christian on the Baptist Board, or just on my interest boards, in the areas of NYC transit, (SubChat and Bus Talk) LED's (Candlepower Forums), Detroit Diesel (Yahoo), a couple of boards on my favorite musician, Stevie Wonder, and sometimes cartoons (Toon Zone; Earth To Edd), and occasionally the fourth dimension (Tetraspace), and Decimal Time (decimaltime.hynes.net).
"Eric B" is also the well known name of Eric Barrier, the DJ for the famous rap group Eric B & Rakim, who arose in the 1980's. My mother had coined it as an affectionate term for me a decade earlier during my childhood.
Personal Wikipedian Philosophy
[edit]To spread information, and be as truthful as possible. I like to add a lot of notable information that may have been missed or overlooked, and to correct factual info. I am not into deleting and stuff like that, but would rather try to fix things up that are badly written or erroneous or lacking info. I always liked the idea of trivia sections, but since I see that is frowned upon here, I would try to avoid them and if the section is already there, to blend the info into the article if I have time. My recent instance if this was Star Trek: The Animated Series. I was passing by, looking for the name of an episode to watch on YouTube, and said "Oh, those trivia points would be easy to fit into the paragraphs, and took [forgot how much time, but it was on a day off], and blended them in.
After some recent disputes, (Over LL Cool J - Kool Moe Dee battle and several Dexter's Laboratory episodes) I and some others do get the sense that some are trying to become "Wiki stars", to gain notoriety or "brownie points" through runaway tagging of articles for deletion or other actions (including by the use of "bots" and stuff like that); which acts are technically correct, but can be getting away from the true idea of this community after awhile. We have "stub", "sources needed", "fact", "cleanup" and numerous others to illustrate that an article is, basically, not complete. One of the great things about Wikipedia is, that it is a "work in progress". The site encourages anyone to add info they may have, thus basically admitting that any given article may not be "complete". Since when must an article be "perfected" in one sitting, as some seem to be demanding. So it is good to tag individual statements that you think are in question, rather than suggest it should be deleted, and that often based on some technicality. I like to find articles that need cleanup and if I have time clean them up. Thus, there was no need for any deletion or even tagging. So I just ask that if anyone disputes any article, info or source I put up, they will be fair and reasoanable, and give it a chance.
