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User:Redthoreau

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Wiki Credentials

This editor is a Senior Editor and is entitled to display this Rhodium Editor Star.
This editor is a Labutnum and is entitled to display this Book of Knowledge with Coffee Cup Stain, Cigarette Burn, Chewed Broken Pencil, and Sticky Note.
This user has been on Wikipedia for 16 years, 11 months and 27 days.
This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than ten years.
This user has reviewer rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify)
This user has extended confirmed rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify)
24,000+This user has made more than 24,000 contributions to Wikipedia.
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 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.
This user applies tit for tat strategy.
What did you do?This user includes edit summaries in their contributions and thinks that everybody should use them as well.
This user boldly assumes consensus when editing Wikipedia until told otherwise.




Wiki Observations

Okrent's LawThis user believes that the pursuit of balance can create imbalance because sometimes something is true.
Benford's LawThis user believes that passion is often inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.
Sayre's LawThis user feels that in any dispute, the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the stakes.
Cole's AxiomThis user believes that the sum of intelligence on the planet is a constant; yet the population is growing.
Katz's LawThis user knows that men and women will act rationally when all other possibilities have been exhausted.
Grossman MisquoteThis user is aware that complex problems have simple, easy to understand wrong answers.
Hanlon's RazorThis 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.
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.





Academics

PhDThis user has a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
MScThis user has a Master of Science degree.
BAThis user has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics.
BAThis 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.
HISThis user's favourite subject is History.
This user is a Bibliophile.
This user enjoys chess.
This user is addicted to travel.
This user sees the answers blowin’ in the wind.





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"Until lions have their own historians ...

tales of the hunt will always glorify the hunter."