User:Confusionball

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Langauges en This user is a native speaker of English. Location This user lives in the United States of America. This user lives in Maine. Wikipedia DGAF This user can't be arsed, and hopes some day you will join us. This user values third opinions and occasionally provides one. incl This editor is an inclusionist. This editor is not an administrator and does not wish to be one. This user is a member of the Novels WikiProject. This user is a member of WikiProject LGBT studies. This user watches over Wikipedia with the help of Twinkle! This user welcomes new users with Friendly! On Writing they This user considers singular they standard English usage. to¦go This user chooses to sometimes use split infinitives. …in. Ending a sentence with a preposition is something that this user is okay with. to / too / two This user thinks that too many people have no idea how to use words that they should have learned in grade two. which & that This user knows how to use which and that correctly. than / then This user understands the difference between using "than" and "then." their / there / they’re This user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they’re worse than their own children at spelling! your/ you’re This user thinks that if your grammar is incorrect, then you’re in need of help. “,;:’ This user is a punctuation stickler. . The This user does not put two spaces after a full stop. A, B, and C This user prefers the serial comma. its/it’s It’s really not that hard to use each word in its proper manner. ’s Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice. “…”! US vs. UK This user uses "logical quotation marks". Internal punctuation leads to factual errors. It's not a style issue! Interests This user is a member of the LGBT community. This user identifies as gay. Dr. Who This user has been a Doctor Who fan since the Fifth Doctor. 5th This user enjoys Geocaching. This user is a railfan. This user plays the bass guitar. This user is owned by one or more cats. This user wears black on the outside because black is how this user feels on the inside. R.E.M. This user knows It's The End of The World As We Know It, and Feels Fine. This user runs Mac OS X. OSrc This user contributes to Open Source projects. This user contributes using Ubuntu. This user contributes using Vim. py This user can program in Python. js This user can program in JavaScript. This user plays German-style board games. This user is interested in retrocomputing. This user is an Anglophile This user is a Canadaphile This user supports public transit. This user is interested in Evolution. yyyy- mm-dd This user uses ISO-8601 to express dates. Travel This user has visited 11 of the 50 States and the District of Columbia. 11 2 This user has set foot in 2 countries of the world. This user has visited Canada.

Confusionball (born 1981 in Maine, United States of America) is an editor of the English language Wikipedia. His name is a reference to the song "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)," specifically the 1985 Love and Rockets single, a fact which no one has yet seen fit to care about. He was both born as and identifies as male. He only refers to himself in the third person in lead sections.

Contents 1 Want to Talk? 2 Editing philosophy 3 Contributions 3.1 In Progress 3.2 Articles started 3.3 Images uploaded

[edit] Want to Talk?

If you would like to talk to me, please click here to leave a comment on my talk page.

[edit] Editing philosophy

These are adapted from the Zen of Python:

• Explicit is better than implicit. Say what you mean. Don't rely on ambiguous implications; that's often a sign of including one's own POV.
• Readability counts. No one's specific use of words are so special that they can't be made more clear by someone else. (Especially mine!)
• Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules. Your special case probably isn't actually that special. We have The Rules for a reason: to answer the common questions. They've been answered, and, unless the consensus has changed, that's it.
• Although practicality beats purity. We have Ignore All Rules for a reason: for those times that the rules really aren't appropriate. Slavish devotion to our rules doesn't get us anywhere. We're supposed to be making a better encyclopedia, not playing wikilawyer.

Some others, in the same spirit:

• Why delete what we can fix? That's throwing the baby out with the bathwater. If an article is notable, and can have verified references, but it has NPOV or OR problems, don't just !vote to delete it, help fix the problems.
• All articles can be improved. No article is perfect.

[edit] Contributions

Thus far, I have mainly focused on gnomish edits, especially copyediting, tagging statements needing citations, finding some of those citations, fixing broken references, avoiding words, moving pages, fixing double redirects, completing infoboxes, verifying sources for WP:LGBT, uploading book covers, tagging pages with WikiProject banners, and, of course, reverting vandalism. Always with the vandalism.

[edit] In Progress

• /Sandbox
• /Sandbox2
• /BookInfoboxes

[edit] Articles started

• The Hundred Secret Senses, a novel by Amy Tan

[edit] Images uploaded

• Image:AmyTan_TheHundredSecretSenses.jpg
• Image:AlexSanchez_RainbowRoad.jpg
• Image:AlexSanchez_RainbowHigh.jpg
• Image:AlexSanchez_RainbowBoys.jpg
• Image:BUTT23_Cover.jpg

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