User:Friendly Neighbour

What my Wikipedia account is for
At present, I keep my Wikipedia editing to a moderate level. I concentrate mostly on editing several articles on science. My choice is rather broad (fundamental and applied physics, climatology and even history) but that is simply because I have diverse scientific interests. Generally Wikipedia editing is a lot of fun, unless one meets an ineducable editor with strong but unsubstantiated opinions. Finding verifiable sources for obvious facts which are then nitpicked as "not good enough" by someone who has no scholarly sources at all to support his opinions is even more tedious than writing grant proposals ;-)

Some useful Wikipedia links

 * List of policies
 * Policies and guidelines
 * Avoiding common mistakes
 * Etiquette
 * Manual of Style
 * What Wikipedia is not
 * Be bold in updating pages
 * Ownership of articles
 * Talk page guidelines
 * How to archive a talk page
 * Staying cool when the editing gets hot
 * Don't disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point
 * Disruptive editing
 * Requests for administrator attention
 * Resolving disputes
 * Administrators' noticeboard
 * Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents
 * Requests for arbitration
 * Requests for CheckUser
 * Requests for investigation
 * Blocking policy
 * Appealing a block
 * Banning policy
 * No legal threats
 * No personal attacks
 * Harassment
 * Assume good faith
 * Three-revert rule
 * Administrators' noticeboard/3RR
 * Vandalism
 * Vandalism in progress
 * Administrator intervention against vandalism
 * Template messages/User talk namespace


 * Deletion policy
 * Proposed deletion
 * Speedy deletions
 * Criteria for speedy deletion
 * Protection policy
 * Requests for page protection
 * Copyright problems
 * Requested copyright examinations
 * Neutral point of view
 * NPOV tutorial
 * Ownership of articles
 * Words to avoid
 * Disambiguation
 * Citing sources
 * Reliable sources
 * No original research
 * Biographies of living persons
 * User page
 * Verifiability
 * Footnotes
 * WikiProject Userboxes
 * Userboxes

Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 19.
'' Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. ''

Bill of Rights, Amendment I
'' Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. ''

The European Convention on Human Rights, Article 10
'' 1. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. this right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises. ''

'' 2. The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or the rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary. ''