User:JohnAlbertRigali

- I hope that you've figured out my name by now.
 * my main page
 * about me
 * my contributions
 * my projects and plans
 * my template reference
 * other users' harrassment of me

The reversal of right and wrong
It appears that wrongdoing and wickedness in the politics, business and social doings in America have been more rampant since the first inauguration of Barack Obama than ever before. It seems to mirror the wrongdoing and wickedness that was rampant in the Kingdom of Judah in Isaiah's lifetime. In response to the wrongdoers and the wicked, I quote the following from Isaiah 5:20: "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil, who change darkness into light, and light into darkness,  who change bitter into sweet, and sweet into bitter!"

"Feelin'" from Van Halen's Balance album captures a bit of my frustration:

"Now black is white and white is black Got politicians smokin' crack  And John Paul's all bulletproofed  And it puts me through the roof"

The recent political ascendancies of Donald Trump, Viktor Orbán, Marion Maréchal-Le Pen and various others seem to portend a return to what is true and good...but it remains to be seen.

Media bias, post-truth politics and fake news
It is my conclusion from my own observations since the early 1990s that most mainstream American entities that define and identify media bias and post-truth politics are entities that either actually purvey those things or support such entities. As a result, I regard those entities as purveyors of fake news.


 * Bernard Goldberg has validated my observations about American media bias in his book Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News and in numerous comments as a commentator on Fox News.
 * I think that Donald Trump revealed a conclusion identical or similar to mine when he commented on the American traditional news media.


 * It seems to me that Steve Tesich, who apparently coined the term post-truth, was a (perhaps unwitting) supporter of entities that practice post-truth politics.

It is my humble opinion that a WP:VERIFY crisis of as-yet indeterminable but significant magnitude for Wikipedia has been created by:


 * an apparent general embrace of the aforementioned purveyors of fake news by the Wikipedia community as a whole (thereby inverting WP:RS)


 * various actions of various Wikipedians (including various administrators) within the encyclopedia for which I can discern no purpose other than to hide facts the publishing on Wikipedia of which could result in negative repercussions for the ideologies to which they adhere - actions such as [A] reversion of various edits that didn't violate Wikipedia policies (including one or two of my own), [B] what were reported there, [C] what were reported there, and [D] the categorization of various truth-telling persons and entities as purveyors of conspiracy theories (increasingly evidenced at Category:American_conspiracy_theorists)

But hey, I'm just one eccentric middle-aged Wikipedian. What do I know?

Violations of user page standards
I am aware that I am violating some of the generally accepted standards of conduct that govern Wikipedia user pages. I intend to eventually make this space compliant.

Shout-outs to other Wikipedia contributors

 * DonaNobisPacem: for being a Wikipedian through which the Lamb of God grants us peace. (a little Catholic humor there)
 * Lionelt: for being the founder of WikiProject Conservatism and a member of WikiProject Catholicism

genealogy

 * Genealogy
 * Category:Family trees
 * List of family trees
 * Category:Surnames

peoples, rulers, dynasties, countries and empires

 * Category:Ethnic groups in Europe
 * Dynasty
 * Royal family
 * Royal house
 * Category:Royal families
 * Template:Royal houses of Europe
 * Template:Royal Houses of Wales
 * Category:Countries
 * Category:Former countries
 * List of countries by system of government
 * Category:Former monarchies
 * Category:Empires
 * Style (manner of address)
 * List of state leaders by year

United Kingdom

 * Template:Administrative geography of the United Kingdom
 * List of lost settlements in the United Kingdom
 * NUTS of the United Kingdom
 * Template:High Shrievalties
 * Shires of Scotland

United States of America

 * List of counties in California
 * List of counties in Connecticut
 * List of counties in Illinois
 * List of counties in Indiana
 * List of counties in Iowa
 * List of counties in Kansas
 * List of counties in Kentucky
 * List of counties in Maine
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 * List of counties in North Carolina
 * List of counties in Ohio
 * List of counties in Oregon
 * List of counties in Pennsylvania
 * List of counties in Rhode Island
 * List of counties in South Carolina
 * List of counties in Tennessee
 * List of counties in Utah
 * List of counties in Vermont
 * List of counties in Virginia
 * List of counties in Wisconsin

language

 * List of language families

religion

 * Category:Roman Catholic Church
 * WikiProject Catholicism
 * Style (manner of address)
 * Category:Ecclesiastical titles
 * Philosophy of religion
 * God of the gaps
 * Intelligent design

Wikipedia

 * Category:Wikipedia policies and guidelines
 * Userboxes
 * Template messages
 * User:Latebird
 * Linkrot
 * User:TheDJ/Qui
 * Help:Moving a page
 * Manual of Style
 * External links
 * WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types
 * Notability
 * User:GermanJoe/Tools

miscellany

 * Category:Dragon Ball
 * Category:Narratology
 * Template:Stock characters
 * Help:Magic words
 * Get to Philosophy
 * Dash
 * Economic ideology
 * Graphical timeline from Big Bang to Heat Death
 * Template:Solar System
 * List of paradoxes
 * Old Style and New Style dates
 * Subregion
 * Template:RF connectors
 * Template:AVconn
 * Template:Audio and video interfaces and connectors

Welcomeg template (for those who are not yet expert at Wikipedia usage)

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