User:IAmBecomeDeath



==Introduction==

I am the straight, white, radical right male your queer theory professor warned you about. Semper Fidelis.

"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword."

[Matthew 10:34]

IAmBecomeDeath (talk) 07:03, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

== Greetings ==

I am pleased to join in the WikipediA experience. Needless to say, I am surprised that my user name had not already been claimed. I live and work in the San Francisco Bay Area. I serve as a lecturer on the adjunct faculty at a Bay Area university.

IAmBecomeDeath (talk) 04:29, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

== The Bureaucratic Mess That Is Wikipedia: Process Over Substance, Bullies, Unblockables, and the Tyranny of Ideological Cabals ==

I have been on WikipediA now for some months, perusing the culture. Having no inspiration to contribute meaningfully as of yet, I spend my time navigating the awkward interface of the encyclopedia and getting caught up in contemporaneous scandals. What I've found is a culture enamored with rules and process, but only as they apply to other editors. I have become interested in this culture of bureaucracy and started to research it. From my limited interaction, I can see that there is something fundamentally wrong with WikipediA. Process has usurped substance for many of the long time editors. New editors are bullied by experienced editors. The admin/sysop system is problematic. There is almost no practical mechanisms to hold admins/sysops accountable. I am considering doing research into the systems that create this culture of bureaucracy, and analyzing the types of people that thrive in it.

IAmBecomeDeath (talk) 05:39, 18 August 2015 (UTC)