User:Hyphen5

About me
I have left Wikipedia in favor of Citizendium. I hope it will avoid many of Wikipedia's accuracy and POV problems.

You can find links to my contributions, edit count, etc., in the userboxes on the right. I am a member of WikiProject US Supreme Court Cases and WikiProject Catholicism.

My major interests

 * Catholicism (I'm not linking to it -- the article is abysmal)
 * Philosophy, especially
 * Ancient philosophy and
 * Medieval philosophy
 * History, especially
 * The history of Western civilization and
 * Church history
 * Classics
 * Law, especially
 * Legal theory and
 * Constitutional law
 * American politics, more of a guilty obsession, not really an "interest". I have a love-hate relationship with politics. Politics is all about the present. Uninformed by the wisdom of the ages (as it almost invariably is), it is an exercise in futility.

My Approach to Wikipedia
The point of an encylcopedia is to consolidate information insofar as possible and reasonable. Redundant articles fly in the face of this idea. It's ultimately about ease of use and accessibility.

In terms of NPOV, each editor obviously has his own POV about any number of topics. But I don't think that an editorial NPOV is dependent upon opinionless editors. I once worked for my campus newspaper, and I believe (from my own experience) that an editorial NPOV is achievable even if an editor has strong opinions about what he or she is covering.

I also think it's a constant temptation for editors here to get wrapped up in hopelessly subjective/POV debates about an article's subject. Substantive debates have their place, but that place is not Wikipedia.

Quick Reference

 * WP:UBX
 * List of userboxes
 * CatScan
 * Maintenance
 * Collaborations
 * How to archive a talk page
 * User page
 * Join in
 * Stub
 * Pages needing attention
 * Templates for Deletion
 * Articles for Deletion
 * New articles
 * WP:MfD
 * WP:RM
 * Proposed mergers
 * Wikiproject/List of proposed projects
 * Right to vanish

Planned edits

 * Userboxes/Personality -- create four userboxes based on the four temperaments?
 * The Newt Gingrich article is kind of messy
 * Launch a massive personal campaign to better the quality of all Connecticut-related articles.
 * U.S. presidential election, 2000, in Connecticut
 * Ave Maria University
 * U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton
 * First Friday devotion
 * Full communion
 * apostolic exhortation / ecclesiastical letter
 * Gibbons v. Ogden - add infobox
 * Rapanos v. United States
 * Randall v. Sorrell
 * House v. Bell - too much on background, too little on decision
 * Rasul v. Bush - no info or summary of decision and opinions
 * Connecticut Supreme Court

Pages to Read (Eventually)

 * All the articles linked in the infobox at History of Western Philosophy
 * Austrian school
 * Communitarianism
 * Piracy
 * Knights of Columbus
 * Unsolved problems in mathematics
 * Chapter 58
 * Video game journalism
 * Scandinavian welfare model
 * Insurance
 * Swedish welfare
 * Parliament of the United Kingdom
 * Slavery and History of slavery
 * Standard deviation
 * G. E. M. Anscombe
 * Acting President of the United States
 * Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution
 * United States Vice Presidents' tie-breaking votes
 * Conservatism
 * American liberalism
 * Roman Senate
 * Dominican Rite
 * Constitution of the United Kingdom
 * Andrew Johnson
 * Confederate States of America
 * Category:Doctors of the Church
 * Communitarianism
 * History of the world
 * Stock option
 * 0.999...
 * Oriental Orthodox Church
 * Thomas Aquinas
 * Cyprus
 * Courtly love
 * List of philosophical topics
 * Encyclopedia
 * Immaculate Heart of Mary
 * Sacred Heart of Jesus
 * Judaism and Jew
 * Sikhism
 * Dominican order
 * Jesuit order
 * Demography
 * Reformation
 * Counter-Reformation
 * Peter Canisius
 * John Rawls
 * India
 * Suttee
 * Imperialism
 * Colonisation, Colony
 * Goa
 * Computer science
 * History of science
 * Muhammad
 * Poverty line
 * Political science
 * Social science
 * Anselm of Canterbury
 * Liberation theology
 * Music theory
 * Criticism of Wikipedia
 * Portal:History
 * Portal:History of Science
 * Portal:Philosophy
 * Article Improvement Drive
 * Good Article Collaboration of the week
 * Science collaboration of the week
 * WikiProject Philosophy
 * WikiProject History of Science
 * WikiProject Christianity
 * WikiProject Good articles
 * WikiProject Middle Ages
 * WikiProject History
 * WikiProject Userboxes
 * WikiProject Echo

Pages I Created (yay)

 * Catholic Collaboration
 * Richard C. Casey, a federal District Judge in New York
 * Redirects: Richard Conway Casey, Richard Casey (disambiguation), Judge Richard Casey, Judge Richard C. Casey


 * List of U.S. state laws on same-sex unions
 * Redirects: List of state laws on same-sex unions


 * United States v. Gonzalez-Lopez
 * Redirects: U.S. v. Gonzalez-Lopez