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Dchmelik|
| Country | The United Kingdom |
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| Current location | The United States of America |
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| Languages | British English, American English, some French, smattering of Greek |
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| Ethnicity | European |
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| Race | Caucasoid |
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| Sexuality | straight |
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| IQ | high, multiple intelligences, spiritual quotient |
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| Personality type | polymath/Renaissance |
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| Marital status | single |
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| Occupation | mathematician/scientist (& FLOSS volunteer), artist |
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| Hobbies | music |
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| Religion | spiritual but irreligious |
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| Politics | Platonic Republic |
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| Movies | Agora, Hidden Figures, The Man Who Knew Infinity, Socrates, Stand And Deliver, 300 |
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| Shows | BBC, Constantine, Discovery, The Librarians, Lucifer, Nova |
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| Books | The 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)) |
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| Music | traditional music (European folk music, Classical music, music of India) |
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| IRC | dchmelik rarely on Libera #wikipedia |
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| Joined | 2007-1-3 |
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| First edit | '0s |
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| Autoconfirmed | ✓ |
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| Extended confirmed | ✓ |
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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.
Below, related ones I didn't create are in parentheses, and I didn't create ones describing sections.
- noeta (now disambiguation)
archived/work-in-progress data/articles