User:Fred Gandt

  Hiya!

I love understanding and loathe ignorance, and feel strongly that knowledge should be free and accessible.

I see clear evidence that the wisdom of the crowd exists and is flourishing on the web and actively support open source and community projects including Wikipedia.

I do what I can to help but will perhaps never be as prolific or as accurate an editor as ClueBot, but then what human could be?

There are currently articles on the English Wikipedia, curated by  registered and a whole bunch of unregistered Wikipedians!

See Featured articles for the cream of the crop.

This font is Gabriola and the background photo is Mount Sharp on Mars, taken by Curiosity.

I am committed
My first username on Wikipedia was "EddyFragment" (redirected here). When I changed my name, I didn't think to change my name, so now have accidentally got two names!

My timezone
As a UK resident, my time zone is UTC+01:00 during BST, and GMT the rest of the time. I am however naturally nocturnal so my active times would be typically more inline with a diurnal person living in, say, Caracas. Hope that helps 😜

Selected articles to which I've done a lot
But not necessarily recently For some technical stuff I've done; see (below)
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My sandbox
Welcome to my laboratory, where safety is number one priority – NOT – Mwahahaha!

Find links to stuff I've made or am working on, including user scripts. Transcluded from my sandbox.

Some good stuff I like

 * Turquoise (color): as if that wasn't obvious
 * Desiderata: words of wisdom by Max Ehrmann
 * Words of wisdom from the poem My Monument (August, 1836) by Alexander Pushkin: "Fear not insult, ask not crown: Praise and blame take with indifference And dispute not with the fool!"; discovered via Ad Orientem's user page
 * If—: a poem full of wisdom by Rudyard Kipling
 * Is that so?: an anecdote about a man with his priorities in good order
 * On Bullshit: an essay by Harry Frankfurt
 * Ceci n'est pas une pipe (English: This is not a pipe): a painting by René Magritte
 * Concorde: a supersonic sleek beauty
 * Scheherazade: a symphonic suite composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
 * Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X: a painting by Francis Bacon