User:Arcayne

Hello. I am but a tiny mote in the Grand Scheme of Things. Currently working in the field of Emergency Management. When the fit hits the shan, I am one of the folk armed with acronyms and shovels. I believe in fighting the good fight, and sometimes that means my hot temper gets the best of me, and lands me in hotter water. My edit count. Beliefs "Vocatus atque non vocatus, deus aderit" "Quisque pro omnibus" It's turtles all the way down". We are all in this together. "Since nothing that we do matters, the most important things are what we do." I'm also a Mergist (with inclusionist tendencies) Rules to live by Friends of gays should not be allowed to edit articles - really, this one's just common sense. Wikipedia is not a mirror - even if copyright violations weren't illegal, they would still do immeasurable damage to Wikipedia's originality and spirit. Wikipedia is not paper - information available should be generous, not restrictive. Wikipedia is not censored for the protection of minors - ditto #3 Be bold - but don't be reckless or a dick! Wikipedia:Assume Good Faith - but don't ignore bad behavior. Boxing and rugby help me quell the urge to throttle the stupid or biased. Current Articles Under Construction Children of Men (general expansion) 300 (film) (expansion, clean-up) Smallville (TV Series) (expansion, clean-up, maintenance) Nancy Reagan, not to be confused with an evil fembot Braveheart (expansion, clean-up)- (guide) (assembly) Googoosh (expansion, clean-up, researching) Awards The Original Barnstar For improving and fighting vandals on 300. WikiNew 15:41, 17 March 2007 (UTC) Helpful Wiki Links 5 Pillars of WP Help Pages Wikipedia:Help desk Reference Desk WikiProject User Page Help Lurnign to, Liek, Edti, OK? Editing a page Manual of Style [Page Statistic History] Synthesis MOS:Conttroversial Articles Editing for King, Country & Cash Killing vandals and Eating Them...not really :) - where to report them silly vandals Don't stuff beans up your nose (Don't give the Knuckle-Draggers ideas) The fine art of not pimp-slapping those who dare to disagree No Personal Attacks and removing them Dispute Resolution :No angry mastodons - explaining the process of the picture to the right Reliable Sources and Verifiability and no Original Research, all soon to become the Wars of Attribution WP:CITET - citation templates (quite useful) HTML Colors Template messages/User talk namespace Template messages/General Help:Table Featured Articles Featured article criteria To-Do List Requests for Page Protection Template:User WikiProject Films Template:User wikipedia/WikiGnome

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Why yes, I am the cabal you've been been told doesn't exist. Muwah hah haa..

Move along, Nothing to see here...

In the Interest of Full Disclosure

• I am a fairly liberal Democrat - social liberal, fiscal conservative (and a big believer in international cooperation).
• I am a heterosexual male, and I am okay with that.
• I believe in Civil union for homosexuals where marriage would be inappropriate under the law.
• I believe in Pro-choice, because I am not a woman, and I have no say in the matter. At all.
• I think that Black sites and Extraordinary rendition is inherently wrong, and against both Constitutional law and International law.
• I am an evil uncle - I feed my nephews chocolate and caffeine and then turn them back over to my siblings and document the results.
• I like French folk, although I prefer German wines (but in a completely appropriate way).
• I am an Apple G5 user (Power Mac G5).
• I am pretty intolerant of stupid people (as opposed to ignorance).
• I am often aware of how little I am aware of.

Things that make me laugh

Penguins swarming to feast on human flesh

• The intro sentence from this version of the Stephen Hawking article
• This question on the Jedi talk page
• The fact that evil gets its own article while good is a disambiguation page. From the disambiguation page, the only article about "good" only deals with it in juxtaposition with evil. The fact that we are unable to discuss goodness on its own merits just might say something about the world.
• Listcruft like this, and the people who voted to keep it
• The extent of the Puritans' devious machinations, as noted here
• The dark side of Gwyneth Paltrow [1]
• This all-too-accurate review of one of the worst films of all time

Interesting Wikipedians

These guys seem to have their shoes tied up nicely, and are pleasant about helping others (learn to) do the same:

• User:Improv- (embodies WP:BITE)
• User:SlimVirgin- (my spirit guide throught he Technocracy)
• User:John_Broughton- (anyone who can deal with the headaches he does daily deserves several rounds of drinks)
• User:Bignole- (I have grown to admire this guy's depth; plus he's rather forgiving)-I currently owe this person copious amounts of liquor
• The Behnam-a intellectual brother of another mother
• User:CanadianCaesar- From whom I unashamedly stole his page format
• User:DavidShankBone - the guy takes pictures for Wikipedia, and is pretty cool.
• User:Ernst_Stavro_Blofeld - this cat has his act together, big-time.

Interesting Wikipedia User Pages

• User:Perceval
• User:Buchanan-Hermit
• User:RexNL
• User:Tariqabjotu
• User:TShilo12
• User:Ryulong - fantastic use of coding

Wikipedia consensus process flowchart.

Books I've Written

• Love Songs and Other Mysteries (1991) - poetry
• Bad Choice (1989) - bad fiction (I will pay you to destroy any copies you find)
• Caught (tentative title, currently being written)
• Through a Guitar, Darkly (currently fermenting)

Favorite Waste of Time.com

• http://www.neave.com/games/
• http://www.miniclip.com/games/en/
• http://www.toonkaboom.com/playgames

Works in Progress

• User:Arcayne/working page I