User:Hinotori

Thinking Inside the Box en This user is a native speaker of English. ja-2 この利用者はある程度の日本語ができます。 BS-N This user is a native speaker of Bullshit. 1337-3 +|-|15 |_|53|2 <4/\/ (0/\/+|2!|3|_|+3 \/\/1+|-| 4/\/ 4|)\/4/\/(3|) 13\/31 0|= 1337. This user is a member of the Counter-Vandalism Unit. This user believes that process is important on Wikipedia and is opposed to its circumvention. This user believes that only articles need reflect a NPOV, and that the display of political, religious, or other beliefs on user pages should not be banned. This user avoids insults for vandalism, moving straight to actual bodily harm This user attends or attended Stanford University. This user contributes via a laptop. This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox. This user uses Google as a primary search engine. P This user drinks Pepsi. cvg-3 This user is an advanced gamer. NG This user's alignment is Neutral Good: the "Benefactor." This user enjoys chess. nj This user is a Ninja, with dominion over everything totally sweet. d'oh! This user thinks The Simpsons is simply...excellent.

Wikipedia

"Wikipedia functions as a soup cooked by an entire community, with everyone contributing something. One person brings a huge kettle, big enough to cook a stew to feed the whole community. The second person brings gallons of fresh water from a pure, sparkling spring. A third person brings crisp celery, huge potatoes and tasty carrots from the garden. A fourth person brings pounds of lean, fresh red meat. The fifth person uses his years of experience as a cook to slowly simmer the stew and add just the right amount of spices. And then these five other guys come along and fill the soup with warm, steaming piles of bullshit." -- Uncyclopedia

Wikistress? Troubling.

Work

When I first got active on Wikipedia in 2005, I threw myself into the project with the typical abandon I experience when interacting with something both fascinating and engaging. Before long, I became involved in a lot of the more behind-the-scenes workings in the project namespace. My highly limited but exhausting experience in these areas brings to mind a famous quote by Otto von Bismarck:

Wikpedia is a lot like a sausage. Sometimes, it's best not to see how it's being made.

That isn't to say I've grown at all disillusioned with the process. It's necessary, even if much of it generates more heat than light. But I did burn out on it, which is why most of my recent activity is restricted to WikiGnomery. Someday, when I have the free time and will, I may once again jump down the rabbit hole.

I often work on articles I come across by complete chance, regardless of interest, which makes my Watchlist look quite peculiar. As a result, I rarely spend a large amount of time on any one article, but I have made some serious contributions every once in a while.

A handful of articles I'm somewhat proud of my work in:

World Combat^*
The Punisher
Danny Green

^*Article was created by me

Archive

• Unfinished Derek Smart RfAr

I really dragged my heels on the RfAr, to my regret. Fortunately, the situation resolved itself. Or more accurately, it got bad enough that it had to be resolved.