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Why do I release my contributions into the public domain? First of all, I don't want to cause trouble to people who want to re-use it, for whatever reason – the JPL Image Policy is an example of even a benign license that can cause much trouble. Secondly I think that we humans could have only achieved what we have today through the re-use of the ideas and resources created by other humans – my contributions may be humble, but even the Solar System was formed from dust particles. (If you want to use this banner yourself, go see Wikipedia:Userboxes/Large/Licensing for details.)

This user may start things on Wikipedia, but will sometimes simply walk away from them – without giving an explanation.

The reasons for this are in small part inherent to Wikpedia; but in large part the reasons lie outside of Wikipedia. This user may consequently not respond to talk page messages or e-mails in a timely manner, or at all – your understanding would be greatly appreciated.

If you like something this user started, and if want this user to continue it, you are kindly invited to drop a short line on the user's talk page and remind the user. The user may however not be able to honor your request.

Furthermore this user must report that the user is sadly not interested in "social networking" (here or elsewhere), and that while the user will gladly exchange a few words with you, usually the user will stay away from major interactions with other users – so don't take it personally if this user leaves you alone. The user is just here to edit, if the user finds something to improve; which is too often the case… Alas, my cup, overflowth it does…

Thank you for your consideration.

I consider my userpage to be in part information about me, in part site-specific installation art – don't take it too serious. CAUTION: May Contain Irony.

The present future perfect past tense

How do I feel about editing Wikipedia?

By this time tomorrow I will have had to have been to be going to be finished.

(Taken from The Uncanny Valley of Alien Technology)

Clear

Robert Ritter: No more sending messages. He wants them to get the message whether the phone rings or not.

James Cutter: Those are his words?

Robert Ritter: Do they sound like his words?

James Cutter: He can’t be clear when clarity is exactly what he wants to avoid.

Space


	Sometimes… … sometimes I get the feeling that there is not much space left to explore for me.

At the end of the page

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The red wedge is gone – everything is black and white now.^{[note 1]}

Notes

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Relevant Userboxes

This user invites you to leave a message on the user's talk page...

ROWN

This user would kindly ask to revert only when necessary, e.g. in cases of obvious vandalism or to quickly remove glaring errors.

Furthermore being reverted without knowing why is quite annoying; this user would therefore ask that a (short) explanation is given for all reverts – this will help to avoid edit wars.

I make all my edits in good faith, and if you revert my edits without giving a reason, then I have trouble assuming good faith at your end, and I will re-revert without hesitation.

20+1

As of 2004, this user has set foot in 20 countries, nations, states, republics, other such entities or islands, and the user furthermore travelled through 1 such entity without setting foot in it.

(Flags and coats of arms on the right.)

Mix

This user has been influenced by too many dialects of English to use one orthography, vocabulary and grammar consistently.

en
de

This user has some faculties in the English and German languages that might be somewhat better than "basic" – but the user does not really consider those faculties to be "intermediate" nor "good".

simple
1

This user tries really hard to use Simple English.

en-1

This user can contribute with a basic level of English.

de-1

Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse.

ru
cs
fr
es

This user has some very rudimentary faculties in the Russian, Czech, French and Spanish languages – however the user would rate them below "basic".

ru-0

Этот участник не понимает русский язык.

cs-0

Tento uživatel nerozumí česky. Mějte to, prosím, na paměti při zanechávání vzkazů.

fr-0

Cet utilisateur ne comprend pas le français ou seulement avec des difficultés notables.

es-0

Este usuario no entiende español (o lo entiende muy difícilmente).

~~a lot~~ alot

This user recognizes that linguistic change is a natural and desirable aspect of human language.

Somewhat Less Relevant Userboxes

This user is a member of WikiProject Color.

This user likes color.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Medicine.

This user is a member of
WikiProject Spaceflight.

This user is a proponent of both uncrewed and crewed spaceflight.

It is a sad fact that the last time humans did leave Earth behind was before the user's birth.

This user has looked at the best "evidence" for the supposed "Moon hoax"
(to the point that the user now finds "Moon hoaxers" intellectually incredibly boring), and the user came to the conclusion that the Apollo Moon-landings did in fact happen as reported.

This user thinks Hubble's data from the Universe is amazing.

This user thinks Dawn's data from the protoplanet 4 Vesta is amazing.

This user looks forward to Dawn's data from the dwarf planet Ceres.

This user looks forward to New Horizons' data from the dwarf planet Pluto.

This user looks forward to New Horizons' data from Charon, Pluto's largest satellite.

This user looks forward to JWST's data from the Universe.

This user supports
hemisphere-neutral language.

This user has a nationality, but it is not relevant in this context.

This user has a ethnicity, but it is not relevant in this context.

This user has a gender, but it is not relevant in this context.

~~mankind~~

This user supports the use of gender-neutral language.

person,
humanity

This editor writes carefully to avoid gender neutrality issues completely.

fire~~man~~fighter
mankind

This user supports the use of gender-neutral language when it reasonably exists as an alternative to a common gendered word.

-
vs.
–
vs.
—

This user would like to follow MOS:DASH.

However the user has a hard time remembering the difference between a dash, a hyphen, a minus sign, an "en dash":

–
–
{{spaced ndash}}

and an "em dash":

—
—

(and where all these darned things are on the user's keyboard).

,

This user fixes comma-splices; they are annoying.

. The

This user does not put two spaces after a full stop.

A, B, and C

This user prefers the serial comma.

"…"

This user favours typewriter style quotation marks over typographic ones.

"…"?

This user thinks "British punctuation is best for quotation marks". Do you?

…

This user is addicted to ellipses and has been known to use them indiscriminately...

This user does not need rewards – helping people find on Wikipedia what they look for is all the reward this user needs.

incl

This user is an inclusionist.

Tony Mach likes to turn Wikipedia Green.

Not Quite So Relevant Userboxes

UBX

This user is not a userbox.

bureaucrat-0

This user strongly dislikes Lickspittle Bureaucrats.

humour-1

This user is able to contribute with a basic level of Humour.

irony-1

This user hasn't mastered the fine art of Irony yet.

sarc-3

This user will use scathing Sarcasm unexpectedly.

-ism-4

This user is an strong adherent of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Wales.

This user thinks casually comparing today's politics to Fascism is a clear sign of the Dunning–Kruger effect.

This user agrees with Dan Dennett that there is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly.

This user thinks imperialism might not be the best thing humans have done so far.

This user thinks the NSA&Co would do us all a favor if they spied only on Washington, London and Berlin.

This user thinks it would be swell to move Washington, D.C. to Guantanamo Bay.

This user is at the receiving end of the class conflict.

This user knows that the class conflict started before 2011.

This user knows that the class conflict started before 1917.

This user knows that the class conflict started before 1848.

This user knows that the class conflict started before 1789.

This user knows that the class conflict is as old as civilization.

This user thinks money should be spend on science and education
– not on war.

This user thinks having sodium in a reactor is a positively stupid idea, and an invitation for a bad day.

This user is a materialist and a naturalist, with the knowledge that everything that exists is matter, energy, space and time, governed by the laws of the natural world, and that nothing exists outside of that.

This user is a secular humanist.

This user is not a dog while on the internet (at least not to everybody's knowledge).

ABS
GOO

This user is a reader of the Abstruse Goose webcomic.

xkcd

This user is a reader of the xkcd webcomic.

OOTS

This user is a reader of the The Order of the Stick webcomic.

FREE
FALL

This user is a reader of the Freefall webcomic.

This user has always been the caretaker.

This user knows it's just an page – it doesn't mean what you think.

This user has been out of the world for a spell…

…would like to walk it a while.

This user thinks that any user should decide freely for themselves how many pieces of flair they want to display.

This user thinks that the copyright law has become a scourge of our societies, heavily favoring the large distributors over the individual creators and over society.

And while this user furthermore thinks that copyright law should be urgently reformed, this user fears that until then we should respect the law.

Do not press the button, ever – it will take you to strange places.

This user would prefer to be an enigma. Alas, I have written too much already…

This user eschews userboxes.

Leaving Earth?

Film Theory

I think the user's true colors are showing…

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v t e Film theory
Film theory	Apparatus theory Auteur theory Feminist film theory Formalist film theory Genre studies Marxist film theory Philosophy of language film analysis Psychoanalytical film theory Screen theory Structuralist film theory
Motion picture terminology	180-degree rule
Film grammar	Frame = letter Shot = word Scene = sentence Film punctuation Sequence = paragraph Narrative Screen direction