User:DGiovanni

I hope to be able to contribute to Wikipedia in small ways when I am able. A few of my goals are:


 * to eliminate patent nonsense and extreme POV when I encounter it;


 * to add relevant but passed-over information to articles that interest me;


 * to try to provide some balance and mediation on Talk pages where conflicts have gotten out of hand or seem to be leading to the lack of a reasoned perspective;


 * to upload images taken by myself or those in my personal network in order to provide public-domain, non-copyrighted images that help fill a need on pages where it is hard to obtain such images, e.g. articles on various aspects of sexuality or the body (for example, I have done this with the Breasts article -- fortunately other editors there finally realized my good intentions and genuineness). Unfortunately this is a situation where I need to protect the identity of the people represented in the images, which leads to hassles on about their authenticity, which of course I can't document, and am hoping that other editors will realize that in such cases the benefit of the doubt should be given to those willing to donate such images who, in my view, are being rather generous and helpful to Wikipedia.  If anyone looks at the actual images, it should be pretty obvious that they're not pornographic or commercial.


 * to see if there's some polite way to get those editors who operate out of some kind of dogmatic, fundamentalist, orthodox, or true-believer stance to see at least a little bit around the edges of their dogmatism, orthodoxy, etc. I am repeatedly shocked by those who seem not to be able to differentiate between propaganda and description. DGiovanni 15:10, 12 December 2005 (UTC)