User:Redthoreau
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 | This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than ten years. |
 | This user has reviewer rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) |
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 | This user participates in WikiProject Countering systemic bias. |
 | Unified login: Redthoreau is the unique unified login of this user for all public Wikimedia projects. |
 | This user is a WikiBear. |
Wiki Philosophy
 | This user thinks that registration should be required to edit articles. |
| <ref> | This user recognizes the importance of citing sources. |
 | This user feels that an article's talk page contributes to its success and should be treated accordingly. |
 | This user believes that articles are useless without images. |
 | This user doesn't believe in the ownership of culture and knowledge. |
 | This user knows that replacing one bias with another is not cleanup. |
 | This user fights in open resistance against the forces of the Vandals. |
 | Everyone has points of view with inherent cultural biases - recognition is the first step to achieving NPOV. |
 | This user believes in civility and assuming good faith. |
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This user applies tit for tat strategy. |
| What did you do? | This user includes edit summaries in their contributions and thinks that everyone else should use them too. |
 | This user boldly assumes consensus when editing Wikipedia until told otherwise. |
Wiki Observations
| Okrent's Law | This user believes that the pursuit of balance can create imbalance because sometimes something is true. |
| Benford's Law | This user believes that passion is often inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.† |
| Sayre's Law | This user feels that in any dispute, the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the stakes. |
| Cole's Axiom | This user believes that the sum of intelligence on the planet is a constant; yet the population is growing. |
| Katz's Law | This user knows that men and women will act rationally when all other possibilities have been exhausted. |
| Grossman Misquote | This user is aware that complex problems have simple, easy to understand wrong answers. |
| Hanlon's Razor | This user never attributes to malice that which is best explained by stupidity. † |
 | This user doesn't invoke conspiracy as explanation, when ignorance and incompetence will suffice. |
.jpg){kind=small} | This user regrets that every local idiot can post a comment on the Internet. |
 | This user is one of an infinite number of "monkeys" editing Wikipedia right now. |
 | This user recommends Redthoreau's Nuggets of Wiki Wisdom |
Academics
| PhD | This user has a Doctor of Philosophy degree. |
| MSc | This user has a Master of Science degree. |
| BA | This user has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics. |
| BA | This user has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. |
Joys
 | This user is autodidactic. |
 | This user enjoys classical music (especially with Violin). |
 | This user enjoys philosophy. |
 | This user enjoys reading poetry. |
 | This user enjoys photography. |
 | This user is interested in painting. |
| HIS | This user's favourite subject is History. |
 | This user is a Bibliophile. |
 | This user enjoys chess. |
 | This user is addicted to travel. |
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This user sees the answers blowin’ in the wind. |
.jpg){kind=small} | This user knows that we can't stop here – this is bat country. |
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