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<div style="font-size:175%;">Welcome to '''Valjean's''' user page</div>
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'''My history here'''<br>
"Yes, I've been around a long, long time.<br>
Yes, I've really, really paid my dues."[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOnzDKvn7YI&ab_channel=GravityLimited] — [[B.B. King]]
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I started here as an '''IP editor in 2003''', [[Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia|before we had reached the 200,000 articles milestone]] on February 2, 2004,[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_milestones]
<br>
and finally '''registered an account on December 18, 2005''', {{Age in years and days|2005|12|18}} ago.
<br>
Valjean is my third username.<br>
My fingerprints are still in our most important and fundamental policies and guidelines,<br>
so I must have done something right. {{;)}}
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'''Transparency: [[User:Valjean/My media diet|My media diet]]'''
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'''[[User:Valjean/Essay/WikiPurpose|Our purpose here]] is to give free access to'''<br>
'''"the sum of all human knowledge"'''<br>
'''that is mentioned in [[WP:RS|reliable sources]].'''
<br>
"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given<br>
free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing."<br>
— [[Jimmy Wales]][https://www.ted.com/talks/jimmy_wales_on_the_birth_of_wikipedia/transcript]<br>
"A free encyclopedia encompassing the whole of human knowledge,<br>
written almost entirely by unpaid volunteers: Can you believe ''that'' was the one that worked?"<br>
— Richard Cooke[https://www.wired.com/story/wikipedia-online-encyclopedia-best-place-internet/]<br>
"If I go looking for info, and Wikipedia doesn't have it, then Wikipedia has failed."<br>
— [[User:Baseball Bugs|Baseball Bugs]][https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_Jeopardy!_contestants_(2nd_nomination)&diff=1037146565&oldid=1037132792&diffmode=source]
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'''That literally means ALL information, not just facts.'''<br>
That includes opinions, beliefs, lies, conspiracy theories, pseudoscientific nonsense, etc.<br>
We document the existence of it all.<br><br>
'''We are [[Deletionism and inclusionism in Wikipedia|inclusionist]] by nature.'''<br>
If it has been said or written in a RS, it becomes ''potential'' content here.<br>
That doesn't mean we will include it, just that we should consider its suitability for inclusion.<br>
It might be suitable for one spot, but not another.<br>
Although we don't treat different types of "human knowledge" in the same way,<br>
we still document its existence.<br>
If a topic is never mentioned in any RS,<br>
then it's not notable enough for an article or mention.
<br><br>
Read ''[https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/How_Wikipedia_Works How Wikipedia Works]''
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'''Truth versus Verifiability'''<br>
Many think that Wikipedia only publishes what is true,<br>
or that it publishes all truth. No, not all things that are<br>
true are easily verifiable, and we also document things that are not true.<br>
We must avoid any [[WP:OR|original research]] when trying to write what is true<br>
as we need to '''maintain the distinction between [[WP:TRUTH|TRUTH]] and [[WP:V|VERIFIABILITY]]'''.<br>
We are mostly concerned with the latter as documenting what is true is not always easy,<br>
and people's ideas of what is true are often subjective and conflicting.<br>
Fortunately we can usually verify what is true.<br>
If an important idea is not verifiable, then it is likely not objectively true.
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'''Verifiability is truth *'''<br>
"It is commonly cited that the minimum<br>
condition for inclusion is [[Wikipedia:Verifiability, not truth|verifiability, not truth]].<br>
However, for Wikipedia's purposes, verifiability <em>is</em> truth.<br>
We can't call something true without evidence,<br>
and our standard of evidence is [[Wikipedia:Verifiability|verifiability from reliable, published sources]]."<br>
(Copied from [[User:Maddy from Celeste#Verifiability is truth|Maddy from Celeste]])<br>
(* It's actually not that simple. [[Wikipedia_talk:Verifiability/Archive_51#Has_Verifiability_become_the_new_Truth?|Here is an interesting discussion.]])
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'''"Neutrality is not the average between bollocks and reality.'''<br>
In science, any compromise between a correct statement and an incorrect statement is an incorrect statement."<br> [[User:JzG|JZG]] 21:25, 14 November 2019
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'''Belief Without Evidence is Wrong'''<br>
"It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."<br>
— [[William Kingdon Clifford]]<br>
"A habit of basing convictions upon evidence,<br>
and of giving to them only that degree of certainty which the evidence warrants,<br>
would, if it became general, cure most of the ills from which this world is suffering."<br>
— [[Bertrand Russell]]
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'''About Lunatic Charlatans'''<br>
"What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans<br>
is the equivalent of 'true scientific discourse.' It isn't."<br>
— [[User:Jimbo Wales|Jimbo Wales]][http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/03/wikipedia-founder-calls-alt-medicine-practitioners-lunatic-charlatans/]
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'''Jimmy Wales's opinion of the former president'''<br>
"If President Trump tweets something that is nonsense,<br> we don't accept him as a source in Wikipedia for random things he says on Twitter.<br>
We have a group of admins who are very strict and firm on what can be entered....<br>
The president's power does not extend to shutting down or threatening social media platforms.<br>
That's illegal. It's not something he can do. We do have the First Amendment in the US....<br>
The worst-case scenario is that they don't have the courage to tell him to go away,<br>
that they begin to adapt their policies to his whims because he's a lunatic."<br>
— [[Jimmy Wales]], May 28, 2020[https://www.timesnownews.com/videos/et-now/exclusive/donald-trump-is-a-lunatic-wikipedia-co-founder-jimmy-wales-exclusive/62348]
<br><br>
'''[[Trey Gowdy]] on "Republican kamikazes" and election deniers'''<br>
In spite of all the shenanigans Gowdy has pulled,<br>
he does have a brilliant legal mind. Here's an example of great reasoning:<br>
"So much for elections having consequences or respecting the will of the people<br>
or whatever platitudes uttered but only when convenient,"<br>
Gowdy continued. "This small band of Republican kamikazes are<br>
convinced Donald Trump won the presidency in 2020 with 47% of the vote<br>
yet somehow Kevin McCarthy lost the speaker's race with 85% of the vote."[https://www.msn.com/en-US/news/politics/fox-news-host-trey-gowdy-scorches-republicans-for-not-respecting-results-of-yet-another-vote/ar-AA15bjL8]
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'''Just follow our rules'''<br>
As long as you [[Wikipedia:Simplified ruleset|follow the rules]] here, you'll be okay, but if not, you're [[WP:BAN|screwed!]]'''''
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<big>'''When you find one of my mistakes'''</big>
<br>
I shot an error in the air,<br>
It fell to earth I knew not where,<br>
Until some people wrote to tell<br>
Me where on earth my error fell.<br>
<br>
A few of them in rage profound<br>
Berated me on my home ground.<br>
While others of a kinder bent<br>
Politely questioned my intent.<br>
<br>
But most were fans who wrote to say<br>
They loved my books, though by the way,<br>
That whizzing error split their clout<br>
And I'd be wise to cut it out.<br>
<br>
Dr. Ellen Mandell / [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Outlandish_Companion/wPi9RTbWu1YC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22I+shot+an+error+in+the+air%22+%22It+fell+to+earth+I+knew+not+where%22++%22Ellen+Mandell%22&pg=PT574&printsec=frontcover Gabaldon]<br>
(with apologies to [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]][https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems_That_Every_Child_Should_Know/The_Arrow_and_the_Song])
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<big>'''Proper communication'''</big>
<br>
The importance of proper communication and response to queries for explanations is important.<br>
Refusal to respond and explain can only lead to problems.<br>
In the context of what seemed to be a BLP violation, which requires immediate removal,<br>
I removed text that seemed to violate the BLP policy. The editor who made the content objected,<br>
berated and abused me, accused me of all sorts of evil<br>
but refused to explain what they really meant, to which I<br>
(after long and frustrating attempts to get clarity about the matter) responded:<br>
'''"Let me get this right. You assert I'm guilty'''<br>
'''of an "incorrect interpretation of what" [you] "write"'''<br>
'''but won't explain how I have misinterpreted you,'''<br>
'''and that this refusal by you is somehow my fault.'''<br>
'''Is that right?"'''[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Valjean&diff=1121137809&oldid=1121128802]<br>
The point? If you write something, you have the burden of proof to defend it. Silence and stonewalling are not legitimate options.
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<big>'''Wisdom from [[User:ScottishFinnishRadish|ScottishFinnishRadish]]'''</big>
<br>
"At the very least you should try to back off long engagements<br>
with editors that you're not going to convince to your point of view.
<br>The chance of attracting uninvolved input<br>
decreases with every level of indentation in the discussion."[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Springee&diff=prev&oldid=1180330238]
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