This user is interested in political science. This user is interested in international relations. This user is interested in the American Presidency. This user is interested in outer space. This user is a member of WikiProject Military history. This user is interested in aviation. This editor is a WikiGnome. This user believes that a user's edit count does not necessarily reflect on the value of their contributions to Wikipedia. This user supports instant-runoff voting. This user does not trust electronic voting machines. IQ This user's Intelligence Quotient is smaart. This user recently discovered how to use userboxes.

My Interests on Wikipedia

I generally enjoy focusing on articles dealing with political science, international relations, nuclear strategy, and current events. I also, on occasion, rescue orphans—understanding that links and traffic are key to the improvement of an article. I have created one article: Volunteer military.

My Wikipedian Philosophy

I am fascinated with Wikipedia and its free and open nature. I see it as profoundly revolutionary.

I am a moderate inclusionist, and so I see excessive exclusionism and deletionism as a problem. I see the value in both eventualism and immediatism. However, I do not believe that immediatists should unilaterally delete articles or exclude information—they should immediately improve them. From what I have seen so far, exclusionists and deletionists hold the upper hand here at Wikipedia because it is easier to remove information or delete articles than it is to invest time and effort in improving them.

One problem I have noticed regarding mergism is that as the information under a subtopic grows, there is a tendency to trim that information down because it overshadows the rest of the article. The problem then is not that the subtopic is too long, but that the main article is too short—not voluminous enough to balance out the particular subtopic. To counteract this editorial trimming, in some cases I would advocate the creation of a new article, in which such editorial trimming is unnecessary and new information can be added without hesitation.

I find some of these essays interesting and useful, as well as Raul's list of laws. — templates
I'm also working on User:Rollo44/Don't just stand there. Feel free to contribute to it.

I will try to compile a list over time of articles which I deem acceptable, but which others regard as borderline. I may not personally find some articles interesting or of value, but I respect the curiosity of others and their faith that Wikipedia can inform them.

• Mel Gibson DUI incident — Rosie O'Donnell and Donald Trump Controversy (deleted)
• Hip hop rivalries — Jerry Klein’s 2006 Islamophobia Radio Experiment

Users I have come across or whose work I have come across:

Jayzel68 — Czj — WilsonjrWikipedia — John Reaves — Swid — Ericg

users with excellent user page ideas: Anthony cfc — Essjay — Daniel.Bryant — Tone

Picture of the day

Nelly Martyl (1 April 1884 – 9 November 1953) was a French opera singer based in Paris who participated in several world premieres. After making her professional debut in 1907 in Gluck's Armide, she joined the Opéra-Comique, where she appeared as Micaela in Bizet's Carmen, Sophie in Massenet's Werther, Mimi in Puccini's La bohème and in the title role of Massenet's Manon, among others. During World War I and the 1918 flu epidemic, she worked as a nurse and received the Croix de Guerre for her service. After the war, she created a charitable medical foundation with automobile racer Magdeleine Goüin. This photograph of Martyl was taken by the French photographer Jean Reutlinger, probably between 1907 and 1912.Photograph credit: Jean Reutlinger; restored by Adam Cuerden

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