User:ElAmericano

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\'pur-pəs\
I joined Wikipedia three or so years ago but have not been active for a while. My purpose on Wikipedia is to help maintain and expand articles so that they are of the best possible quality, informative, interesting, and free of bias. I will lend what analysis I can to community discussion and will try to improve Wikipedia's overall design, look, and feel. I'm a student, and my time is limited, but hopefully Wikipedia will be something I can keep up with.


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\'short\
I like to think of myself as a dynamic individual who constantly changes - hopefully for the better. If there is any label you could put on me, it would be skeptical. I won't accept a claim as true until I have a reason to.


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Bots

 * Don't allow redundant "spell checker" bots, as this could be very inefficient. Instead, organize a system of concerted, non-overlapping bots who check spelling in an efficient and non-obtrusive way.

Policy

 * A section called "Conclusion" is inappropriate in a Wikipedia article. Such a subheadings is by nature POV and original research.

Organization
Some of these are probably impossible:
 * Normalize everything under one domain. (For example, en.wikimedia.org, es.wikipedia.wikimedia.org, de.commons.wikimedia.org...)
 * Continue to allow, say, wikipedia.com to redirect to the appropriate page.
 * Under the new domain system, change the user system so that user pages/edits/contributions are all one a single page, if the user desires. (For example: wikimedia.org/User:John.) This would involve some kind of normalization as well. 3NF is your friend.

Aesthetic

 * Align the icons and text on Portal:Browse et al.
 * Forget the useless hierarchy on said pages; go for visual appeal.

Ease-of-use

 * Somehow categorize Wikipedia:How to . . . articles better, possibly all stemming from one category. Highlights could be shown on the Community Portal. (In short, unify Wikipedia.)
 * Don't blindly divide categories by letter, but rather by supercategory.
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Favorites

 * Signpost
 * Unusual articles
 * Wikifun
 * Wikihumor
 * Anti-rules
 * BJAODN
 * Friends of gays

Special

 * Email
 * Subpages
 * Edits
 * Contribs


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\'tə-dūz\
My short to-do list:
 * Monitor my watchlist and recent changes
 * Greet new users
 * Unify the portal system
 * Expand the following:
 * 1) Microbiology
 * 2) Molecular biology
 * 3) Antoni Gaudí
 * 4) Jacques Derrida
 * 5) Media bias in the United States


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\dēp 'kwes-chənz\
Feel free to respond, if you are one of those enlightened people. I want you. Feel free to add your own musings.
 * If it exists and is knowable to us, what is the ultimate (or even penultimate) signified?
 * What binary oppositions (if any) are not subject to deconstruction?
 * Is agonism the least biased way to constitute liberal democracy?
 * How can we define (political) human rights?
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