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Hi. I live in Eugene. I graduated from OSU in 2006 (sociology), and the University of Oregon in 2009 (cultural anthropology), and am currently learning chinuk wawa at Lane Community College. I have been with Wikipedia since September 2003, and a janitor since 6 February 2004. I later had this status reaffirmed on 8 January 2006, being the first administrator to go through such a procedure (which has since evolved into Wikipedia:Administrators open to recall).
My "WikiPhilosophy" tends to be more subversive than the norm here. For instance, I dispute the common assumption that "neutral point of view" means "least controversial point of view". Neutrality is not a synonym for "moderate". Taking a neutral point of view means taking the most evenhanded view even if nine out of ten Wikipedians find that view distasteful or offensive. There are clear biases on Wikipedia. Among members, there is a bias in sex, a bias in class, a bias in ethnicity, a bias in culture, a bias in politics, a bias in age, a bias in attitudes towards science and technology. So too there are biases in what information we present: biases linked in culture, in nationality, in language, in who controls the "respectable" media. We can't hope to overcome these biases by ignoring their existence, and defaulting to the "moderate" point of view. Much of my work here involves combatting these pervasive biases. I'm also the founder of the Association of Splittist Wikipedians and the Sociology WikiProject, as well as a member of the Oregon and Indigenous peoples of North America WikiProjects.
Please feel free to address personal attacks and any other criticisms of my person to my talk page. Attempting to illustrate these concerns through this page may prove less successful. Statistical fluff concerning my contributions to the English language Wikipedia can be located here.
