User:SE7

Christ is with us until the world’s end. Let his little flock be bold therefore. For if God be on our side, what matter maketh it who be against us, be they bishops, cardinals, popes, or whatsoever names they will? — William Tyndale

5,000+This user has made more than 5,000 contributions to Wikipedia. This user has been on Wikipedia for 17 years, 2 months and 13 days. UKThis user uses British English. Things This user is an adherent of Anglican Christianity. This user is proud to be British. This user is friends with DMJohnston. Template:UBX/Favorite Number This user contributes using Google Chrome. This user has depression. Interests & Beliefs This user is interested in the history of the lands comprising the United Kingdom.   This user is interested in the British Empire. This user is interested in the Middle Ages. This user is interested in the Napoleonic Wars. This user is interested in the History of the Levant This user is interested in Irish history This user is interested in the Victorian period. This user is fortunate to live in a green and pleasant land. This user is so monarchist, he wears a black armband in republican occupied countries. User:Mender/Userboxes/BritishImperialist This user is opposed to communism in both theory and practice. This user supports sustainable living. This user supports renewable energy. This user prefers that the death penalty be used far more often. User:S.Örvarr.S/Template:EU This user supports the Zionist movement. This user is interested in Gothic literature. This user enjoys the works of Charles Dickens. This user enjoys the works of Rudyard Kipling. This user enjoys the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. This user realises that Peter Hitchens is basically right about almost everything. This user supports Charlton Athletic. This user supports the English cricket team. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot This user supports ENGLAND RUGBY "Ireland, Ireland!" This user supports IRISH RUGBY

Hello and welcome. History, religion, monarchy, politics, geography, philosophy, economics, law, sport, art and music are all areas of interest to me, but I mainly edit articles on, or associated with, American and British politics and sport.

Username

For anyone wondering "why 'SE7'?", it comes from the London postcode for the football team I support, Charlton Athletic. It was a good idea at the time.

Faults of Wikipedia

I occasionally become deeply depressed by the way Wikipedia works. The main cause of this is what happens when I try to correct a blatant error regarding somebody's nationality. Let's take an example. Oscar Wilde was born in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, an entity which lasted from 1801 until after the First World War. Yet, take a look at Wilde's page, and you will see that his birth, in Dublin, in 1854, was not in fact, in the then-UK, but in Ireland. His nationality was/is not British, as it would have been throughout his life, but "Irish", despite no such nationality existing for many years before or after his birth. The people who are to blame for this lie are Irish Wikipedians and American (mostly Irish-American) Wikipedians, who do not like the fact almost all famous historical Irishmen were born and raised under the flag of Britain. The response by the Wikipedia community to them ought to be "too bad", but instead, they mass-edit and get their way, and will continue to. People defend this perverse trend as being due to a person's right to self-determination, and so on, but is that really good enough? If I was famous and had my own Wikipedia article, I wouldn't expect to be listed as Peruvian, just because I "feel" Peruvian, I would expect to be listed as British, because that's what I legally am. In fact it's all I legally am, the same as British was all Oscar Wilde was. And, to the people who ritually smear me and my comrades in nationality-correcting, as "English imperialist(s)" etc, it doesn't work. I'm half Irish, and much of my family live in the United States of America (not to mention the fact that the "English Empire", to all intents and purposes, didn't exist, and the Scots, Welsh and Irish were equally as imperialist within the British Empire, if not more, than the English, as any educated person with a vague interest in reality would know). Another argument seems to be that "nationality" is actually "ethnicity". That's fine, but then go and insist on the same standards for all British people. Go and correct every biography to "English", "Welsh" or "Scottish".