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CountryThe United Kingdom
Current locationThe United States of America
LanguagesBritish English, American English, some French, smattering of Greek
EthnicityEuropean
RaceCaucasoid
Sexualitystraight
IQhigh, multiple intelligences, spiritual quotient
Personality typepolymath/Renaissance
Family and friends
Marital statussingle
Education and employment
Occupationmathematician/scientist (& FLOSS volunteer), artist
Education
University
Hobbies, interests, and beliefs
Hobbiesmusic
Religionspiritual but irreligious
PoliticsPlatonic Republic
MoviesAgora, Hidden Figures, The Man Who Knew Infinity, Socrates, Stand And Deliver, 300
ShowsBBC, Constantine, Discovery, The Librarians, Lucifer, Nova
BooksThe Compleye Pythagoras (Pythagoras: Sourcebook And Library). Plato's dialogues. Organon, The Metaphysics. Descartes'. Mike Hockney's The God Series vol #1 to vol #6 (The God Equation), #7, #8, #24 (Leibniz's Monadology:The Science of Monads (commentary))
Musictraditional music (European folk music, Classical music, music of India)
Interests
Contact info
IRCdchmelik rarely on Libera #wikipedia
Account statistics
Joined2007-1-3
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     I've been involved in science/mathematics/computing & art since before Eternal September (1993); I edited Wikipedia in early years, joined by 2007-1-3. I was very knowledgeable of policies and guidelines, help areas (such as IRC and for dispute resolution) some Wiki tools and voting on Wikimedia projects, but because past Wikipedia:mediation groups wouldn't mediate for some, I felt discouraged so am a rare/inactive editor. The menu at top leads to basic information on these and academic writing resources.

     Wikipedia is not a reliable source definitely in the case that its articles can't reference its other articles, but also now generally in the academic world. British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) mentioned a study describing Wikipedia tends to be equally as accurate as, or more accurate than, top encylopaedias... but Wikipedia also has articles altered by vandalism/blanking, people pushing non-neutral viewpoints (or being deluded they are neutral, or some version of ‘neutral’ seen more out-of-date) and a large degree of conformity/groupthink/bureaucracy, and an overall Wikipedia viewpoint, because of editor majority demographics, administrators' popular sociopolitics, deletionism/etc. (and on the other hand, creation of too many irrelevant popular culture articles, often named historical terms until fixed, changed back, explained, fixed), scandals & the cabal, and because 2/3 to 95% of humans are irrational, mostly sophists (many trolls). Wikipedia used to seem helpful for writing various papers but now has been seen as a poor (usually banned) source for any level academic papers on subjects such as humanities & social science, and probably all science (though may be okay place to find sources cited, and check, but not as good a library, best with a professional reference librarian of higher academic degree).
     The wiki concept & Mediawiki software seem to be Wikipedia's best things, rather than some of the material, which you may find better elsewhere like other literature including books and from experts/schools, special topic wikis.

my arts/science/philosophy documents

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Below, related ones I didn't create are in parentheses, and I didn't create ones describing sections.

general education

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science & engineering

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philosophy
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philosophy/sacred arts/sciences

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(meta)physics (nonsense except mathematics)

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  • noeta (now disambiguation)

general userboxes

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archived/work-in-progress data/articles

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my articles people deleted

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occultist Bosivio, Santiago; actress, Jefferson, Paris; Hellenismos portal (Hellenismos culture/philosophy/religion), mental projection, triple manifestation

about me: userboxes

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