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I have left Wikipedia. I do not see it as acceptable to have advertisements, whether they be for brand identity or for a product, on Wikipedia. It appears that this line has [1]been breached, and those involved, including several on the foundation board and employees, many of whom I respect, see things differently. I understand their position, but cannot accept it as the future of a project that I will continue to contribute my time to. It's been an interesting adventure, folks. Email me if you want to keep in touch.

Policy Ideas and Essays

/Namespace Policy
/Wikipedia_is_Paper (this is a joke!)
/Rules of Thumb to be a good wikipedian, and other clever things..
/Communication is Hard online
/GUS_considered_harmful

Timeline

1 Jan 2007 - retired from Wikipedia/WMF projects
Sept 2006 - Join OTRS team
Sept 2006 - Ran for the Wikimedia Board, did not get the seat (13th of 17 candidates)
Aug 2006 - Wikimania 2006
Jan 2006 - Ran for a seat on the Arbitration Committee. Came in 13th place with about 70% approval, did not get the seat.
May 2005 - Wikipedia Meetup in DC
Feb 2005 - Made Administrator on the English Wikipedia
Jan 2005 - Elected to Mediation Committee (presently inactive).
Dec 2004 - Ran for a seat on the Arbitration Committee. Didn't make it on.
Oct 2004 - Made present account as User:Improv
Dec 2002 - Made my earlier account on Wikipedia as User:Pgunn (had a few earlier edits, anonymously)

Other Wikipedians I trust

There are some Wikipedians who I think have particularly good judgement and vision for our project, and whose judgement and arguments I give special weight to. I don't always agree with them, but I think they have shown themselves to be worth paying serious attention to (in a good way) in their stances.

Contact Info

On AIM, I'm dachte000
On ICQ, 97563550
On YIM, pgunn01
My email address is pgunn@dachte.org
My webpage is http://www.dachte.org
My BLOG is here

Misc

Subpages

User:Improv/Quotes - Amusing quotes and ideas I've seen on Wikipedia
User:Improv/biases
User:Improv/Deletion
Old draft of an attempt to smooth over a loud terminology debate in Dec 2004.

Pictures I've taken

Abby Wambach
Wexner Centre
Brecksville Parks
Flagstaff Hill
I may have taken more, but it's been a long time...

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 I have left Wikipedia. I do not see it as acceptable to have advertisements, whether they be for brand identity or for a product, on Wikipedia. It appears that this line has [http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-December/012848.html]been breached, and those involved, including several on the foundation board and employees, many of whom I respect, see things differently. I understand their position, but cannot accept it as the future of a project that I will continue to contribute my time to. It's been an interesting adventure, folks. Email me if you want to keep in touch.
-===Policy Ideas and Essays===
+==Policy Ideas and Essays==
 *[[/Namespace Policy]]
 *[[/Wikipedia_is_Paper]] (this is a joke!)