User:Anachronist

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My userbox whimsies Hi, I'm Axl Matulić, A.K.A. Anachronist. My old username User:Amatulic redirects here. My Wiktionary account Wiktionary:User:Anachronist offers an explanation of the username.

I am an administrator here on the English Wikipedia and a member of the Volunteer Response Team (VRT). I'm also a bureaucrat and administrator with the same username on the Minecraft Wiki.

Background
I used to be a scientist working as an engineer in the military field of stealth technology and more recently as a program manager for Silicon Valley tech companies. Now I'm retired and doing occasional freelance 3D design work.

I enjoy anime, role-playing games, educational topics, and especially travel. I'm first-generation American, my mother is German, my father is Croatian, my spouse is Singaporean. I have traveled all over Europe and Eastern Europe, also Canada and Mexico, as well as Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and Southeast Asia (particularly Singapore as well as Malaysia and Thailand). I must say Croatia is one of the more beautiful countries I have ever seen, and Stockholm and Dubrovnik are the most beautiful cities I have visited. Unfortunately I have never set foot south of the equator (Singapore is the closest I've come), and hope to do that someday.

I enjoy good wine. Read my profile on the Wikipedia wine project.

Also, I maintain a mathematics-related blog, NABLU (Numerical Analysis Better Left Unsaid), which I update sporadically every few months, mostly for educational purposes and for my own amusement.

Articles I started
• Naugahide &mdash; my first-ever experimental edit that got merged into Naugahyde

• Sirrah (disambiguation)

• Plavac Mali

• Kastel (disambiguation)

• Advanced Enclosed Mast/Sensor

• Steviol glycoside

• Guy Montag Doe v. San Francisco Housing Authority

• Average directional movement index

• Wine list

• Glider (furniture)

• Notability (wine topics)

• Crock (disambiguation)

• Enrober

• Funding bias

• Sayyid Baraka

• Up-island spider

• Faux Faulkner contest

• True strength index

• Too Tough to Care

• Wilhelm Busch (disambiguation)

• Red Deer Cave people

• Just This Once

• Bitmessage

• Lycopus lucidus

• Verrückt (disambiguation)

• Clarence N. Hickman

• The Train Is Coming

• Nobel Prize effect

• ATM: Er Rak Error

• Zona (streaming video software)

• Selected anniversaries/today

• Betwixt (disambiguation)

• Historical rankings of heads of government

• Surfactant leaching

• Stride (software)

• Gayla Industries

• Monotrophic diet

• Opulence (disambiguation)

• Manuel Pizarro (disambiguation)

• Solid (web decentralization project)

• Template:SealifePhotos

• Chickapig

• Tinkercad

• Paul Trappen

• Blue Aquarius

• Fair Warning (Connelly novel)

• Perineum sunning

• Ellen Baker (disambiguation)

• Assembly theory

• The Brothers O'Toole

• Gameknight999 (after writing all those before it, this was my first article submission via WP:AFC)

• Magnesium torch

• Balls to the wall (disambiguation)

• Sugar Shot to Space

• User:Anachronist/Reliable sources (university presses) (essay)

• Offler (disambiguation)

• Three sheets to the wind (disambiguation)

DYKs
Articles I wrote that appeared on the "Did you know" section of the Wikipedia home page:

Gatoclass (talk) 00:02, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

On Wikipedia

 * Non-free images
 * File:CupNoodle.jpg used in Cup Noodles
 * File:Glide floss brands.jpg used in Oral-B Glide
 * File:Draken_front.jpg used in Draken International
 * File:Shithole_countries_cnn.jpg used in seven dirty words
 * File:Gayla_Industries_logo.png used in Gayla Industries
 * File:Magnesium_torch_Cousteau.png used in magnesium torch
 * Free images

Third opinions
I enjoy offering third opinions in disputes between two editors who have reached an impasse. There's something satisfying about coming to an article I have no opinion about, studying the edit history and talk page discussion, and offering a neutral disinterested viewpoint in an attempt to resolve the dispute. I think the Third opinion page is a great vehicle for dispute resolution, and more people should use it and participate. My third opinions:


 * 2006
 * 2006-10-26 Talk:Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen
 * 2006-10-29 Talk:Augustus John
 * 2006-10-30 Talk:Black Entertainment Television/Archive 1
 * 2006-11-03 Talk:Barbara Pierce Bush and Talk:Jenna Bush/Archive1
 * 2006-11-07 Talk:ZDaemon
 * 2006-11-08 Talk:Prophet (disambiguation)
 * 2006-11-09 Wikipedia talk:Notability (web)/Archive 7
 * 2006-11-09 Talk:Tadeusz Kantor
 * 2006-11-10 Talk:Singapore passport/Archive 1
 * 2006-11-10 User talk:Fivetrees
 * 2006-11-13 Talk:Fork in the road
 * 2006-11-15 Talk:Mike Mendoza
 * 2006-11-16 Talk:Seven Bridges of Königsberg
 * 2006-11-16 Talk:Muhammad al-Durrah/Archive 1 - responding to solicited help on lead and talk page discussion
 * 2006-12-01 Talk:John Adams/Archive 1
 * 2006-12-01 Talk:The Wedge (Australian TV series)
 * 2006-12-19 Talk:List of programs broadcast by Adult Swim/Archive_1
 * 2006-12-19 Talk:Herbert W. Armstrong/Archive 1 - exhaustingly detailed opinion
 * 2006-12-20 Talk:Benjamin Cohen
 * 2006-12-22 User talk:Golich17 and User talk:Mlaroche opinion about capitalization guidelines in Manual of style.
 * 2006-12-27 Talk:Indian Institute of Planning and Management/Archive_9


 * 2007
 * 2007-01-10 Talk:List of Avatar: The Last Airbender characters/Archive 1
 * 2007-02-07 Talk:Joe Scarborough/Archive_2
 * 2007-04-23 Talk:Shadow person/Archive 1
 * 2007-04-23 Talk:William M. Gray/Archive 1
 * 2007-04-23 Talk:Video journalism
 * 2007-04-25 User talk:Awiseman opinion (wrong, in hindsight) on removing anonymous IP talk page comments
 * 2007-04-26 Talk:Jenna Haze/Archive 1
 * 2007-05-03 Talk:Teslascope (article deleted in Articles for deletion/Teslascope)
 * 2007-05-14 Talk:Street light interference/Archive 1
 * 2007-05-22 Talk:PSI Seminars
 * 2007-05-22 Talk:Census of Quirinius/Archive 1
 * 2007-05-22 Talk:Elvira Arellano/Archive 2
 * 2007-05-22 User talk:Reddi discussion on vague third opinion request
 * 2007-05-30 Talk:Egyptians/Archive 2
 * 2007-05-30 Talk:Alice Bailey/Archive 1
 * 2007-05-30 Talk:Subtlety
 * 2007-06-05 Talk:Pedophile movement/Archive 14
 * 2007-06-06 Talk:The Ocean Hunter
 * 2007-07-16 Talk:American Biographical Institute/Archive_1
 * 2007-08-02 Talk:Male pregnancy/Archive 1
 * 2007-08-02 Talk:Sicko/Archive 2
 * 2007-08-14 Talk:Microformat/Archive 1
 * 2007-08-14 Talk:Monteverde
 * 2007-11-08 Talk:Toontown Online/Archive 1
 * 2007-11-08 Talk:1984 New York City Subway shooting/Archive_1
 * 2007-11-08 Talk:Fernando Collor de Mello/Archive 3
 * 2007-11-08 Talk:Nur Ali Elahi/Archive 1


 * 2008
 * 2008-02-12 Talk:Evolutionary approaches to depression
 * 2008-02-14 Talk:Rennie Davis (quickest resolution ever)
 * 2008-02-20 Talk:Second Amendment to the United States Constitution/Archive 7
 * 2008-02-21 Talk:American Leadership Project
 * 2008-02-21 Talk:Ukrainians/Archive 1
 * 2008-02-26 Talk:Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign/Archive 1
 * 2008-02-26 Talk:Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign/Archive 1
 * 2008-02-26 Talk:Mpemba effect/Archives/ 1
 * 2008-03-24 Talk:WebCT
 * 2008-03-24 Talk:Mpemba effect/Archives/ 1
 * 2008-03-28 Talk:Empire of Iuz
 * 2008-05-20 Talk:Albert Einstein/Archive 14
 * 2008-05-20 Talk:Jawaharlal Nehru/Archive 3
 * 2008-05-21 Talk:Rangers Strike
 * 2008-05-23 Talk:William Gaillard
 * 2008-05-23 Talk:Ted Kennedy/Archive 8
 * 2008-05-30 Talk:List of Tokyo Mew Mew characters/Archive 1
 * 2008-05-30 Talk:Webby Award/Archive 1
 * 2008-05-30 Talk:List of twelve-step groups/Archive 1
 * 2008-06-24 User talk:Jetstream Rider opinion concerning Talk:List of common misconceptions/Archive 4
 * 2008-07-04 Talk:Tautology (rhetoric)/Archive_2006
 * 2008-07-25 Talk:Mousesports
 * 2008-07-31 Talk:tmpfile
 * 2008-08-11 Talk:Noise music/Archive 1
 * 2008-08-11 Talk:Taser/Archive 1
 * 2008-09-23 Talk:Kilgour–Matas report/Archive 3
 * 2008-09-25 Talk:Peter Hallward
 * 2008-12-28 Talk:Walt_Disney_World_Monorail_System


 * 2009
 * 2009-01-07 Talk:Somalia/Archive 2
 * 2009-01-10 Talk:Human rights in the United States/Archive 8
 * 2009-01-10 Talk:Evgenia Diordiychuk (I recommended deletion; article deleted; see Articles for deletion/Evgenia Diordiychuk)
 * 2009-01-30 Talk:One Foot in the Grave
 * 2009-05-20 Talk:Brooklyn Law School
 * 2009-06-10 Talk:United States presidential election in California, 2008
 * 2009-06-10 Talk:New England School of Law
 * 2009-06-10 Talk:West Herzegovina Canton
 * 2009-06-10 Talk:IPhone/Archive 15
 * 2009-06-17 Wikipedia_talk:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes
 * 2009-06-26 Talk:Audrey Tautou
 * 2009-06-26 Talk:App Store


 * 2010
 * 2010-02-12 Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (tables)/Archive 1
 * 2010-03-10 Talk:Chesterfield,_Idaho
 * 2010-03-22 User talk:Walklooker regarding disputed edits on Trusted Computing
 * 2010-04-23 Talk:Vitreous enamel
 * 2010-06-11 Talk:Sharron_Angle/Archive 1
 * 2010-06-17 User_talk:Ivan_Štambuk/Archive 4
 * 2010-06-17 Talk:Second Amendment to the United States_Constitution/Archive 28 &mdash; My opinion here marks the first time I am accused of being part of a 'cabal'. Now, where is this 'cabal' and how do I join?
 * 2010-07-01 Talk:Declaration of Breda &mdash; Tough one.
 * 2010-07-10 Talk:Michaëlle_Jean
 * 2010-07-14 Talk:Non-directional beacon
 * 2010-07-20 Talk:List of Masonic Grand Lodges/Archive 1
 * 2010-08-10 Talk:Telepresence
 * 2010-08-11 Talk:United States Senate/Archive 2
 * 2010-09-09 Talk:Dove World Outreach Center/Archive 1
 * 2010-09-15 Talk:Ain't and amn't

Since becoming an admin in 2010, I noticed the dynamic of a third opinion discussion seems a bit different if you're an admin giving one, and I don't like to seem like I'm any more authoritative than anyone else due to that status, so I stopped participating. Once in a while I'll jump in, though.
 * Post-2010
 * 2011-02-03 Talk:Agha Petros‎
 * 2011-03-04 Talk:Infantilism
 * 2015-10-26 Talk:Olu_Dara
 * 2016-06-04 Talk:Debtors Anonymous
 * 2016-06-09 Talk:Protests against Donald Trump/Archive 1
 * 2016-06-10 Talk:Loong Kin Sang (this mess was deleted in Articles for deletion/Lung Kim Sang and recreated afresh as Loong Kim Sang)
 * 2016-12-02 Talk:List_of_computer_magazines
 * 2017-01-10 Talk:List of accolades received by Carol (film)
 * 2017-08-05 Talk:Redskin (slang)/Archive_2
 * 2018-06-27 Talk:Alt-right/Archive 16
 * 2022-03-21 Talk:Honda NSX (second generation)
 * 2022-07-26 Talk:Jamillah_Ross
 * 2022-09-17 Talk:Reactions to the death of Elizabeth II

Appearances in off-Wiki media

 * Washington Monthly mentioned me in an article about Wikipedia's efforts to provide reliable information on controversial events:
 * Journal of Documentation published an analysis of a talk page disagreement I had with another editor. This was brought to my attention at Talk:Gynostemma pentaphyllum. I can't say I agree with their characterization, but there it is: