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Julian Grybowski is the name of a contributor to Wikipedia. Namely, er, me, the writer of this article.
I am a 23-year-old college graduate, who majored in Cultural Anthropology with a minor in Japanese. I also devote a fair bit of time and energy to the fields (some more academic than others) of Psychology, science fiction, British comedy, and (especially) Japanese comics and animation. I currently reside in Japan, where I am focused on improving my Japanese fluency, attempting to remedy singlehandedly the entire system of English education in the country, and generally trying to do something interesting before I settle down into such mundane avenues as "graduate school", "career", "family" and such.
My initial contributions to Wikipedia are to articles relating to the manga and anime series One Piece and Dragon Ball, though my interests have gradually fanned out into such disparate areas as evolutionary biology, men's formalwear, and Japanese rail transportation (though I make no claim at being an expert into these last three). My most extensive contributions to Wikipedia include:
- Dragon Ball AF, a persistent rumor among the more credulous fans of Dragon Ball that has dogged those "in the know" for over half a decade;
- the Navy that appears in the series One Piece;
- the biography of Tony Tony Chopper, one of the main characters in One Piece;
- A description of the Going Merry, the ship used by the Straw Hat Pirates (again, in One Piece) until it was finally consigned to the sea; and
- The Tozai Line of the Kyoto Municipal Subway (much of the page I translated personally from the Japanese version at the time, with only a few confusing or seemingly-opinionated bits left out). I had a personal investment in the article, since I rode the line every day for about 3 and a half months in 2006. I hope to do more Japanese translations in the future, if only to clean up the bizarre syntax on some articles whose editors appear to have resorted to Babelfish for the sake of having something for an English version.
While I tend to let a lot of minor edits slide, I jump into action when I see serious factual errors or vandalism in articles I am knowledgeable about. I try and keep people honest with themselves about their own biases, though I admit there are times where I'm willing to let certain things stand if I don't disagree.
Mainly, though, I'd really just like to get through to certain people that established science is non-negotiable unless you're willing to put in the time and effort to disprove established theory through repeatable experiment. My study of Anthropology has taught me that humans will be humans, which is quite admirable in its way. But I am also highly conscious of the fact that Nature doesn't care what humans think, and those who wish to impose their own belief systems on reality are going to be worse off in the long run. So I try to keep an open mind about things.
