User:Cyclopia/Page sandbox

(sandbox for my user page 2.0)

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This user comes from Italy.

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py-3This user is an advanced Python programmer.

C-1This user is a beginning C programmer.

This user is male.

This user's Major Field is Biotechnology and Genetics .

This user has published peer-reviewed articles in academic journals.

PhDThis user has a Doctor of Philosophy degree.

INTPThis user's MBTI type is INTP.

This user has depression.

God made this user an atheist. Do you question his wisdom?

This user is interested in astronomy.

This user is interested in
Biochemistry.

This user accepts evolution as a biological fact.

This user is an admirer of Borges.

This user acknowledges Fernando Pessoa were geniuses.

You mess with this user, and they'll denature your protein.

This user is a member of the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians. The motto of the AIW is conservata veritate, which translates to "with the preserved truth". This motto reflects the inclusionist desire to change Wikipedia only when no knowledge would be lost as a result.

“ That's not to say that I thought that every article should be fought for. [...] Still, a lot of good work—verifiable, informative, brain-leapingly strange—is being cast out of this paperless, infinitely expandable accordion folder by people who have a narrow, almost grade-schoolish notion of what sort of curiosity an online encyclopedia will be able to satisfy in the years to come. [...] It's harder to improve something that's already written, or to write something altogether new, especially now that so many of the World Book–sanctioned encyclopedic fruits are long plucked. There are some people on Wikipedia now who are just bullies, who take pleasure in wrecking and mocking peoples' work—even to the point of laughing at nonstandard "Engrish." They poke articles full of warnings and citation-needed notes and deletion prods till the topics go away. - ” — Nicholson Baker (User:Wageless), The Charms of Wikipedia, "The New York Review of Books", March 20, 2008

“ [...] Taking a broader view, the ARS and inclusionism is supported by the wider community of contributors and internet users. Externally, Journalists have wrote positively about the ARS and inclusionists, while taking a much dimmer view of deletionists. The squad is also aligned with the Foundation who still wish to foster growth, promote diversity and a friendly collaborative project - values which the ARS reflects. The squad represents the original m:Vision of this project, which is still used in our marketing material Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. So a very credible alternative view is that its those who are overly aggressive in pursuing their contrarian elitist and deletionist vision who are casing needless hostility. [...] ” — FeydHuxtable (talk) 10:31, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Want to help Wikipedia? Remove wrongly put PRODs and save articles from oblivion!

• AfD

who am i
29 y.o. Italian postdoc in Molecular Biology, currently working at the University of Cambridge. Interests: biophysics, open source, politically uncorrectness, freedom of human knowledge. I am aware I am not the best of editors. My nickname comes from this malformation. This may seem morbid. It's because actually, "curiosities" like that are open doors on the deep secrets of nature.

why deletionism is a PR disaster

New York Review of Books: "a lot of good work—verifiable, informative, brain-leapingly strange—is being cast out of this paperless, infinitely expandable accordion folder by people who have a narrow, almost grade-schoolish notion of what sort of curiosity an online encyclopedia will be able to satisfy in the years to come...There are some people on Wikipedia now who are just bullies, who take pleasure in wrecking and mocking peoples' work"[1] The Economist: "The behaviour of Wikipedia's self-appointed deletionist guardians, who excise anything that does not meet their standards, justifying their actions with a blizzard of acronyms, is now known as “wiki-lawyering”.[2] The Guardian: "And then self-promoted leaf-pile guards appeared, doubters and deprecators who would look askance at your proffered handful and shake their heads, saying that your leaves were too crumpled or too slimy or too common, throwing them to the side."[3] The Telegraph "The rise of the deletionists is threatening the hitherto peaceful growth of the world's most popular information source. It's on the discussion pages of articles nominated for deletion that anger creeps in. Policy documents are referred to only by abbreviations...the favourite of the deletionists WP:NOTE (notability)...The notability debate has spread across the discussions like a rash."[4] PC Pro magazine: "For an example of the dark side running out of control, though, check out Wikipedia...It seems Wikipedia has completed the journey by arriving at an online equivalent of the midnight door-knock and the book bonfire" Los Angeles Times"...if even a small number of useful articles are being deleted in the name of keeping Wikipedia clean, isn't that like allowing a few innocent men to hang in favor of a lower crime rate?...Wikipedia's community has become so rushed, so immediatist, that it is not willing to allow embryonic articles even a tiny modicum of time to incubate"[5] The Telegraph:"Wikipedia should delete the deletionists"[6] "Wikipedia: A Quantiative Analysis", PHD: "the Wikipedia community needs to rein in so-called deletionists -- editors who shoot first and ask questions later."[7] [...] Ikip 00:57, 26 January 2010 (UTC) ([8])

about my edits
When I can't edit properly due to time/concentration constraints, I am getting an habit of intervening on WP:AFD to help articles to be rescued from the deletionist wrath :) My edit stats are here or here, depending on which tool you prefer.

todo

Proposals Alas, all of these are perennial proposals -yet I still support them :) 3-AFD rule : A suggestion of User:Serendipodous -after an article has passed AfD 3 times, it shouldn't be AfD'd anymore unless there is a relevant change in policies. Also, draft and discuss. Articles /Wikitable of natural objects orbiting the Sun List of Perl software iMussolini Also in general the Neofascism pages are lacking in info, verifying etc. (it's generally hard to find reliable informations about those movements, but...) Postsocialism is probably a legit article; it got deleted however: should look at sources, see e.g. Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Postsocialism Fluorescence is in abysmal state; add at least a Jablonski diagram. Cristiano Godano, expand Giuliano Ferrara, expand (see it.wiki) Planetar, Rogue planet, Interstellar planetary mass object should be merged. Parchive improve Dark dune spots controversy; we should solve it. Habitability (astrobiology) as a general concept which then includes Planetary habitability Miko Lee should come back! Veronica Lario - expand, find free photo. Ironstone - expand. Angiostatin - expand ; add references and material about mechanism of action Synuclein - as above Massimo Morsello - find a photo under a free license Leon Degrelle - expand, remove pro-Degrelle POV Write Hobbit Camps Induce my roommate to write and/or expand Fivizzano and Cinema Strange Biochemistry stubs

articles i started

Even before I had a WP account, so you're free not to believe me in some cases. Future Dust La Spezia Federico Maria Sardelli Violetta Beauregarde Massimo Morsello (DYK) Jeff Hawke (DYK) Joel Retornaz DJ Gruff (DYK) Franco Freda (DYK) Ross Bolleter Gabriele Adinolfi COROT-Exo-2b Darvaza Novopress 2006 SQ372 Life on Another Planet (DYK) Carlo De Benedetti ...and a bunch of others I don't remember yet :) .

contested PRODs that survived AfD

Many people misuse PROD tags. On obscure articles, PROD tagging can lead to deletion of fine articles without a community discussion. This should not happen. If you have doubts on an article, please bring articles at AfD for proper discussion! Axiom-man Push–pull workout Treaty of Simulambuco Samvel Karapetyan PHA training Ruzwana Bashir The Latter Five Poets of the Southern Garden -zilla (suffix) Mallika-E-Kitchen

disclosure
I have an account on the Wikipedia Review forum. I don't belong to the WR "community", however: I strongly disagree with almost all of their stances on WP, and I feel that WR is a problem not for their opinions but for transparency. I did the account only in the attempt of having a civil discussion with the "other side".

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