User:Ekem

Selected photos

Musings

• If the accumulated wealth of inventions and generational improvements is considered a human heritage and treated as such, perhaps every person on this earth could have decent housing, food, and basic health care.

Wikipedia is a part of this human heritage.

So is sci-hub.

• There are human rights and human debts. We do not hear much about the latter: They have been called the primordial debts.
• A patent (copyright?) is "a device that enables one man to claim special financial rewards for being the last link in the complicated social process that produced the invention".^[1] Lewis Mumford
• "Corporations are people" - Mitt Romney^[2]: - No, they are not. Andrew Jackson already knew this. According to the historian Harry Watson, "The problem with corporations as far as Jackson was concerned was they had no body to be kicked or soul to be damned."
• "Claimed research findings may often simply be accurate measures of the prevailing bias" - John P. A. Ioannidis.^[3]
• "Justice? – You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law." - A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis, or in a paraphrase by Eric Schmidt: The laws are written by lobbyists.^[4]
• "The politician has to convince the people that all problems are "social" problems to be able to enslave them." Escolios a un texto implicito: Seleccion by Nicolás Gómez Dávila
• "Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians." - Thomas Sowell
• "Never argue with stupid People, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience." - Mark Twain
• "Sagen, was ist" (to say what is) - Rudolf Augstein

• Regarding my entries
  • Apologies to the longsuffering correctors of my typos and misspellings.
  • I can be wrong.
  • Never underestimate the intelligence of the reader.
  • Removal of information is censorship.

References

Expanded articles

Major expansion or removal of stub status

Initiated

Translated from German/ Dutch/ French/ Italian/ Spanish

DYK

25, 50, & 100 DYK

		The 25 DYK Medal for Ekem
		Congratulations! Here's a medal for you in appreciation of your hardwork in creating, expanding and nominating 25+ articles for DYK. Keep up the good work, Ekem! Need to be quick as you are half way to fifty --Victuallers (talk) 17:23, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

		The 50 DYK Medal
		Over 50 articles! Chemicals, translations and the arts.... is there such a thing as a wikimath? Anyway thanks from me and the wiki. Oh and can I tell you that the 100 medal is really nice colour of gold ... Victuallers (talk) 15:27, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

		The 100 DYK Creation and Expansion Medal
		Congratulations for reaching the 100 DYK mark! Here's to 100 more. — KV5 • Talk • 00:33, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Notes

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• Wikipedia Library

• Encyclopedias

• Link to my Commons site:

• Activity, again

• WP:MED

• Bundesarchiv

• Traffic

• Move to Commons

• Readability tool

• (Archived at WebCite)

• What is a primary or secondary source and what is a third-party source?

• {BLP unsourced|date=} template

• WP:DATESNO date styles

• {{cite journal|doi=10.xxxx/....}} or similar ({{cite journal|pmid=...}}), and use User:Citation bot (mostly copied from here)

Citations

• New York Times article → citation
• URL, ISBN, PMID → citation
• Google Books url → citation
• DOI → citation
• PMID - cite journal|pmid=...

Images

• Starting in 2007 I have been placing pictures to the Commons.
• user:ekem/images
• user:ekem/images05
• user:ekem/images06
• user:ekem/images07
• user:ekem/images08
• user:ekem/images/art