User:TParis

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This user is an administrator on the English Wikipedia. (verify · RfA) This administrator is open for recall (verify). This editor is a Veteran Editor and is entitled to display this Iron Editor Star. This user helped promote Admiral Clarey Bridge to good article status. According to The Political Compass this user is: Economic Right (2.75) and Social Libertarian (−2.51) This user is a recent changes patroller. This user contributes using Internet Explorer. asp-3This user is an advanced ASP programmer. CF-1This user is a beginning ColdFusion programmer. PHP-3This user is an advanced PHP programmer. js-3This user is an advanced JavaScript programmer. vb-3This user is an advanced Visual Basic programmer. SQL-4This user is an expert SQL programmer. HTML-4This user is an expert HTML user. XML-1This user is a beginning XML coder. This user is interested in Christianity. This user is married to Lauraprl, a fellow Wikipedian. DadThis user is a father and proud of it! This user is part of the Welcoming Committee. This user is dedicated to raising awareness of the dangers of DiHydrogen Monoxide. STAR TREKTParis is a fan of Star Trek: Voyager.VOY trekThis user is mildly embarrassed to have a Star Trek userbox, but really, who are they kidding? This user was a member of WikiProject Administrator, a group of editors who sought to address the role of administrators and their interaction with other editors. This user is a participant in WikiProject Computing.

About me

Hello,

I'm a Wikipedia Administrator and I edit in my spare time. I like to read, write code, and play video games. I am working on my bachelor's in computer science and I am an active duty programmer in the Air Force.

I'm pro- just about everything related to a person's freedoms. I strongly believe in Liberty. I don't really fall behind a party line. Most of all, I am pro- opposing viewpoints and public debate. I think understanding and respecting your opponent in any controversial topic is the first step toward resolution. However, I am strongly against the dishonest, deceitful, disrespectful and righteous attitudes of advocacy groups. I will stand up for honesty in the face of POV-pushing, even if I agree with the POV. I generally ignore the righteous causes of others who believe so firmly in themselves that they are void of reason and discussion and will resort to the name calling, labeling, and abusive behaviors they accuse others of.

The problem with the world, as I see it, is that everyone views it as a battleground. Advocates are the warriors in that battleground. I like a little more sensibility and respect for opponents. That isn't to say I have exhaustive patience, only that I prefer to see disputes progress toward resolution through collaboration. And I absolutely hate arrogance to the level that no respect is shown for an opponent's ideas because of a self-righteous belief in being the only correct point of view.

I am known as TParis00ap on Meta and other language wikipedias. I also have an alternate account called User:TParis-alt.

I also recently found out that Java and Javascript are the same thing wiktionary:Java. We need to update Wikipedia's article on Java immediately.

Thanks for reading!

v/r, TP

Further reading...

• McCartney, Kathleen (September 4, 2014). "Is free speech at risk at our universities?". CNN. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
• Chait, Jonathan (27 January 2015). "Not a Very P.C. Thing to Say: How the language police are perverting liberalism". New York Magazine. Retrieved 30 January 2015.

Disclaimer

I do not edit on behalf of the United States Government or the United States Air Force. In my spare time, I may edit from a government computer per regulations on social media websites. If that is the case, HTTP logs may show I am editing from a government or USAF IP Address. If I am ever approached to edit on behalf of the US Government or USAF, I will create a separate account and identify its purpose and conflict of interest as such.

I do not speak on behalf of the US Government, the US Department of Defense, nor the US Air Force. Any opinion I give is my own personal opinion and does not reflect my professional opinion, the views of my fellow service members, or chain of command.

I'm not a "paid editor"

Several users have accused me of being a paid editor:

• have you at any time disclosed in this discussion...that you yourself have been a paid advocacy editor"
• "you keep changing your story and coming up with new excuses for the things you do. First you said there was no paid editing. Now that's inoperative."
• "Reminder...It's at the top of this page, but I think that editors need to be reminded of this. The COI guideline says "Any editor who discusses proposed changes to WP:COI or to any conflict of interest policy or guideline, should disclose in that discussion if he or she has been paid to edit on Wikipedia."
• "I also think that your own record, as a person who has done what you have described as a "form of paid editing," is such that you really are conflicted"
• "Your position seems to be "he doesn't have to respect this guideline because it's not a policy."
• "How does it "improve the project" for any editor, but especially an administrator, to ignore a guideline?"
• "there is no way to force anybody to declare that obvious conflict of interest, but I think people should be aware of it"
• "unless I've missed something, it looks like this part of WP:COI is not being followed. More specifically, an editor who declared elsewhere on Wikipedia that he was a paid editor is currently editing here."
• "Yeah, I have a suggestion, which is that you read what I posted on your talk page about the disclosure required by this guideline."
• "I know at least one administrator who firmly rejects the Terms of Use in its new provision requiring disclosure of paid editing."

Let me be clear I am not now nor have I ever been a paid editor. Not a single edit of mine received financial or otherwise any form of compensation. These editors have never demonstrated any proof of paid editing, I reject the term. 0 out of my 25,000+ edits were paid. It is pure and simple retaliation because I disagree with extremist anti-COI viewpoints based in naive idealism. I believe that the attitudes of certain editors will drive COI editing underground and make it more difficult, rather than easier, to maintain a NPOV encyclopedia. These ad hominem attacks against me are untrue. These are a shallow attempt to discredit me rather than addressing my central point. I am not a paid editor.

Guiding principle

Matthew 22:36-40: “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

Articles I created or substantially updated

• Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor
• Admiral Clarey Bridge
• Ford Island
• The Faerie Path - (dont judge me, this was my first article)
• Tops In Blue - major revision, best article of mine imo
• Olympic Cool-Cap System - wrote from scratch
• Progressive realism - new article stub
• Troy Yocum - created
• Edmund Ser - substantially edited for NPOV and DYK
• Medical Education and Training Campus - revamped
• Surgical positions - revamped
• The Map of Time
• Tsunami barrier
• 1972 Harlem Mosque incident

Current project

WP:Featured topic candidate

• Ford Island →  Done
• USS Arizona (BB-39) → already  Done
• USS Arizona Memorial →
• USS Missouri (BB-63) → already  Done
• USS Utah (BB-31) → already  Done
• Admiral Clarey Bridge →  Done
• USS Oklahoma (BB-37) →
• Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor →  Done
• Naval Auxiliary Landing Field Ford Island →
• Seth Porter Ford →
• Battleship Row →
• Fort Kamehameha →  In progress

Request for Adminship nominations by TParis

Candidate	Type	Result	Date of close	Tally
				S	O	N
Cyberpower678	RfA	Withdrawn by candidate	10 Jul 2015	110	39	4	74
Sarahj2107	RfA	Successful	5 Dec 2014	102	0	0	100
Czar	RfA	Successful	29 Nov 2014	97	3	2	97
I JethroBT	RfA	Successful	16 Nov 2014	156	0	3	100
Go Phightins!	RfA	Successful	29 May 2014	138	0	2	100
SuperMarioMan	RfA	Successful	2 Mar 2014	78	0	0	100
TLSuda	RfA	Successful	1 Mar 2014	79	2	1	98
Jasper Deng	RfA	Withdrawn by candidate	9 Mar 2013	30	28	9	52
Salvidrim!	RfA	Successful	13 Jan 2013	107	33	6	76
TParis 2	RfA	Successful	16 Jun 2011	48	4	4	92
Ttonyb1	RfA	Withdrawn by candidate	6 Jun 2011	15	5	9	75
TParis00ap	RfA	Unsuccessful	28 Oct 2009	47	35	13	57

Articles I saved from CSD or AFD

• Operation_FREE
• Crimeface
• Save_the_tatas
• Mercer_Pottery_Company
• Amulet_(graphic_novel_series) (Wasn't exactly CSD'd, but it would have been shortly it it's state)
• Ruth_Amos - (Also wasn't CSD'd, but was certainly vulnerable)

Future projects

• Child Protection Essay
• Wikify Henry_McKinnell
• User:TParis00ap/Ronald_Corp
• List_of_awards_received_by_Reba_McEntire
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_history/Unreferenced_BLPs
• Viktoriya_Yermolyeva
• Channing Moss
• 1972 New York Mosque Incident, Peter Cardillo
• Sigbritt Löthberg
• Military adventurism
• Phil Mote, director of Climate Change Institute
• The Accursed Kings
• Holly Jacobs

Alternate accounts

• User:TParis00ap
• User:TParis-alt
• User:TPBot

Media mentions

• I was mentioned, not by name, in this article about Wikipedia SOPA blackout.
• And another trivial mention, again not by name, in this article about declining Wikipedia administrators.

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