User:Fences and windows

 Despite all attempts at privatization, it turns out that there are some things that don't want to be owned. Music, water, seeds, electricity, ideas--they keep bursting out of the confines erected around them. They have a natural resistance to enclosure, a tendency to escape, to cross-pollinate, to flow through  fences ,  and  flee out open  windows . Naomi Klein, Fences and Windows

Some thoughts

 * "Wikipedia guidelines are like scripture: somewhere in the labyrinthine network of rules, you can find support for any position." S Marshall
 * Inclusionism and Deletionism: "A plague o' both your houses! They have made worms' meat of me." Mercutio
 * "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
 * "The best is the enemy of the good." Voltaire, La Bégueule (1772).
 * "We are blessed to be living in an age when we have a global communications network in which idiots, assholes, and total and complete wastes of fucking human life alike can come together to give instant feedback in an unfettered and unmonitored online environment." The Onion.
 * Adler's Laws of Wikipedia
 * "I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." Ripley.
 * "Our social policies are not a suicide pact." Jimmy Wales, March 2005.
 * "I find your lack of [good] faith disturbing.". The Wordsmith.
 * "'Notability purges' are being executed throughout Wikipedia by empire-building, wannabe tin-pot dictators masquerading as humble editors."
 * "[There are] significant differences between Wikipedia members and non-Wikipedia members in agreeableness, openness, and conscientiousness, which were lower for the Wikipedia members."
 * "A small fraction of editors —Wikipedians— do most of the work and produce most of the value."
 * "I don't think banishing users when their block log reaches a magic number teaches anybody anything except that it pays to keep cycling identities if you ever do get a block." MickMacNee
 * "[T]he consensus of the [Wikipedia] community is that WP should be a storage place for all published information in case there is a nuclear war, gigantic solar flare, or alien invasion and all the rest of the Internet and all libraries are destroyed leaving WP alone to preserve human civilisation." Steve Dufour
 * "Many Wikipedia contributors are out of their element. The foundation of the project is academic publishing, but very few people who are actively involved (or addicted, if you will) have the qualifications to be part of such an environment." A Horse With No Name, Wikipedia Review.
 * "Let's make a wiki. No, this is not an indecent proposal. It's an idea to add a little feature to Nupedia. Jimmy Wales thinks that many people might find the idea objectionable, but I think not. "Wiki," pronounced \wee'-kee\, derives from a Polynesian word, "wikiwiki," but what it means is a VERY open, VERY publicly-editable series of web pages." lsanger@nupedia.com Wed, 10 Jan 2001 12:50:32
 * "Wikipedia is up! Humor me. Go there and add a little article.  It will take all of five or ten minutes. --Larry" lsanger@nupedia.com Wed, 17 Jan 2001 15:16:25
 * "None of this is to say that the Nupedia wiki will replace the main encyclopedia; of course it won't. But  will be an interesting ancillary endeavor!" --LarrySanger, 17 Jan 2001
 * "As Wikipedia has grown, it has become increasingly clear that it functions as a necessary layer in the Internet knowledge system, a layer that was not needed in the analog age." Casper Grathwohol, OUP, Jan 2011
 * "Others ... thought the first thing to do was eliminate all worthless books. They would ... leaf disgustedly through a volume, and condemn entire walls of books. It is to their hygenic, asetic rage that we lay the senseless loss of millions of volumes." Borges on the "Purifiers" in The Library of Babel, 1941.
 * "So why are you so soft now Fences? Why are you so soft now. You used to be stronger." An anonymous admirer.
 * "Wikipedia could use a "Find a gnome" service. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 2:05 pm, 7 November 2023, (UTC+0)
 * A Gnoticeboard, if you will. -- asilvering (talk) 9:30 pm, 7 November 2023, (UTC+0)"

My editing

 * Here's a summary of my Wikipedia editing, and here's my top 10 edited articles. I passed 40,000 edits in June 2015, 20,000 article edits in February 2015, and 30,000 edits and 15,000 article edits sometime in August 2010. My RfA passed on 23 November 2009 and thankfully was not too much like this RfA.
 * I've uploaded 300+ images to Wikimedia Commons and added even more to Wikipedia, mainly courtesy of Flickr, Geograph and FIST.
 * I have a declared alternate account, User:Fences&Windows Alternateaccount. This is used for an alternate watchlist and may be used for editing from public computers to avoid compromising this main account.

Significant edits

 * Bold: I wrote all or the bulk of the article
 * Italics: Deprodded
 * [[Image:Life_Preserver.svg|18px]]: Was at AfD or had been deleted

Politics
2009 G-20 London summit protests · Ali Miraj · Ali Qanso · Altaf Hussain · Andrew Landeryou · Animals Count · A.S.P Liyanage · The Blah! Party · Bosnia and Herzegovina – Romania relations · Boston Bypass Independents · Template:British political parties · British war crimes · Campaign for a New Workers' Party · Carlos Flores Dueñas · Charles A. Hurley · Church of the Militant Elvis Party · The Common Good (political party) · Community Action Party · Community Group · The Community Group (London Borough of Hounslow) · Dave Cooke · David Noakes · Death of Ian Tomlinson · Democratic Labour Party (UK) · Democratic Left (UK) · Democratic Party (UK, 1998) · Dominic Cummings · Dominic Delaney · Donald J. Trump Presidential Library · Dyab Abou Jahjah · Edward A. McCabe · Equal Parenting Alliance · For Darwen · Francoist Catalonia · George Leeman · George Tremlett · Hands Off the People of Iran · Henry Galgacus Redhead Yorke · Independent Working Class Association · John George Smyth (1815–1869)· John Henry Smyth · Kosovo je Srbija · Leila Deen · Len McCluskey · Lincolnshire Independents · List of political parties in the United Kingdom · List of protests in the United Kingdom · Llais Gwynedd · Lung Ying-tai · Make Politicians History · Malaysia–Venezuela relations · Michael Foster (agent) · Mike Granatt · Morecambe Bay Independents · Nancy Agag · National Health Action Party · The New Party (United Kingdom) · New Politics Network · Nina Temple · Norman Scarth · Northern Party · Paul N. Cyr · Peace Party (UK) · Pensioners Party (England) · Peter Craine · Political make-up of local councils in the United Kingdom · Pro-Euro Conservative Party · Publican Party · Reina Lawrence · Robin Tilbrook · Sang Nguyen · Senior Citizens Party · Sheila Hollins · Teresa Sayward.

Arts and media
9/11 humor · Alisar Ailabouni · Alisha Klass · Amber D · And Thereby Hangs a Tale · Andy Muirhead · Andy Riley · Ann Dusenberry · The Arcadian Kicks · Asef Ala Al Izaag · Asma lmnawar · Caitlin Rose · Charlotte Green · Charlotte Spencer (actress) · Corinne Luchaire · Cyrine Abdelnour · David Yelland (journalist) · The Dolly Rockers · Dominic Frisby · Donogh Rees · Down in the Willow GardenDYK) · Elgaland-Vargaland · Ellie Levenson · Freddy McConnell · Frederik Lauesen · Jack of Diamonds (song) · Jacky Rowland · James Lansdale Hodson · Jarunee Suksawat · Je t'aime... moi non plus · Jenny Slate · Jeremy Theobald · Joana and the Wolf · Jodi Martin · John Mulholland (journalist) · Joseph Greco · Josh Caterer · Julie Estelle · Katharine Ross · Katie Aselton · Kevin Colson · Kids Love Lies · Leïla Karam · Len Pennie · Liu Xiaoqing · Marcel McCalla · Meena Durairaj · Mija (DJ) · Mumzy Stranger · NewsTilt · Nick Ede · Nil Lara · Nudity in music videos · Patrick Ensor · Pooky Quesnel · The Quiet · Ramdane Touhami · Randall Winston · The Ropes · The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer · She Keeps Bees · The Siege of Trencher's Farm · Simon Merrells · Sixteen Reasons · Slow cinema · Small Wonder (essays) · Sophie Madeleine · Sophie Merry · Stephen Benatar · The Story of Marie and Julien · Susie Boniface · Syang · Tim Dowling · Tootsie Guevara · Unsimulated sex in film · Valarie Pettiford · Villa des Roses · Vlatko Ilievski · Warm-up comedian · Whitney Cummings · Zafar Nozim · Zizi Adel.

Academia
-omics · Annals of Science · Black Student Movement · Bharat Aggarwal · Charles Vacanti · Cloyd H. Marvin · Co-training · Dietary Inflammatory Index (split from Inflammation) · Dry needling · Emad Alnemri · Ethan Siegel · Evolution of nervous systems · Evolutionary neuroscience · Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997 · Gonçalo Abecasis · Human evolution · Iomazenil · Jeff D. Leach · Jesse Bullowa · Joan Ruderman · Journal of Internal Medicine · Kohlschütter-Tönz syndrome · Lloyd Hartman Elliott · Mask of la Roche-Cotard · Melanie Lee · Nick Hillman · The Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials · Open access publishing · Open peer review · Peer review · Robert Atkins (nutritionist) · Robert Tuttle Morris · Rudolf Amann · S. Blair Hedges · Sapienic acid · Sara Dolnicar · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 variants · Sense About Science · Sex after pregnancy · Sodium phenylbutyrate · Stigler's law of eponymy · Surgical scissors · Thomas H. Carroll · Thomas McKeown (physician) · Tom Rapoport · VDM Publishing · Viral culture · Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics · William Leap · William Mather Lewis · Wound licking.

Crime
Chris Paciello · Disappearance of Maura Murray · Gerald Friend · Internet homicide · John Cannan · John Childs (murderer) · John Worboys · Jury tampering · Lawyers in Singapore · M25 cat killer · Mickey Featherstone · Murder of Jeffrey Howe · Peter Righton · Richard Belmar · Tyler poison gas plot · William Jacques · Yoshinori Watanabe.

Places
Cape Verde–Guinea Bissau relations · Church End, Brent · Cricklewood · Doueir · Hickory Ground · Jharia · Liahavichy Castle · Marimallappa High School · Niland Geyser · Oldmeldrum · The Old Zoo · Railway town · Sitomagus · Tourism in the Palestinian territories · Wanlip.

Sports and games
1967 South Vietnam Independence Cup · Benik Afobe · Brian Anderson (skateboarder) · Deidre Anderson · Draughts · European Speedrunner Assembly · The Game (mind game) · Horacio Esteves · John Evans (GAA manager) · José González (wrestler) · Links 386 Pro · Marathon · Marco Polo (game) · Oliver Ford · Séamus Murphy · Shane Flanagan · Smith Memorial Playground & Playhouse · Spud (game) · Tag (game) · Thumb war · Timmy O'Neill · Travis Lee (wrestler) · Wally Kirika · Willie Williams (athlete) · Word chain.

Business
American Research Group · David Abell (businessman) · Dermott Rowan · Eating your own dog food · First-e Group · Gem Spa · Hodge Jones & Allen · Hugh "Skip" McGee III · Inside Airbnb · Jennifer Arcuri · Light Reading · Loida Nicolas-Lewis · Lori Fena · Minipreço · Online vetting · Pierre Lamond · R. Donahue Peebles · RealtyTrac · Robert L. Fornaro · Sarma Melngailis · Starbucks · Stephen Hinchliffe · Theranos · Vestergaard Frandsen · W H Grindley · Yong Wook Jun.

Other people
Alev Croutier · Alistair MacDonald · Andrew Haldane · Ann Jordan · Ann Jungman · Antonina Liedtke · Bow Sim Mark · Christopher Haase · Cynthia Heimel · Cyrus K. Bettis · Diane Kunz · Edward T. Barry · Eunice Newton Foote · Greg Landau · Hervé Biausser · J Hutton Pulitzer · James A. Brander · James D. Robinson III · Jack Beatson · Janjua Rajput · Jeremy Cooke · Jon Entine · Lesley Gill · Lou D'Angeli · Lloyd Pye  · Marianne Maderna · Mike Guzovsky · Patrick Reynolds (actor) · Peggy Noland · Richard Bausch · Sayed Hassan Amin · Tom Anderson · Wlodzimierz Ksiazek.

Categories
Category:Animal migration · Category:Astrobiologists · Category:Australian Labor Party · Category:Cystic fibrosis · Category:Espionage in China · Category:Fictional diaries · Category:Herding · Category:Leaves · Category:Fiction about medicine and health · Category:Peer learning · Category:Peer-to-peer · Category:Political parties in the United Kingdom · Category:Raw foodism · Category:Fiction about outer space · Category:Water guns · Category:Water toys.

Miscellany
1973 Paris Air Show crash · Abdomenizer · Alcohol and spaceflight · Anthrax hoaxes · Egg and chipsDYK · Cello scrotum · Daesun Jinrihoe · Dearne Advanced Learning Centre · Google Fast Flip · Google Sidewiki · Ham sandwich · Hamlin's Wizard Oil · Herman cake · Honda CR250M · Irene (ketch) · Kilroy was here · Like (Facebook) · List of people executed for homosexuality in Europe · Miscarriage · Moll Dyer · Nutcracker · Oi (interjection) · Sex toy party · Star people (New Age belief) · Storify · Taejonggyo · Tongue rolling · Torture garden (fetish club) · Tough love · Triplophysa longipectoralis · Underwater basket weaving · War Before Civilization  · WeixinismDYK).

Wikipedia space
Five essays, Articles for Deletion is not a war zone, Signatures of living persons, Our social policies are not a suicide pact, Potentially unreliable sources, and Reactions to... articles; a guideline, Notability (events); and an information page, Main Page history. Added several entries to List of hoaxes on Wikipedia. Template:Relevance and scope.

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