User:MishMich

People tend to call me Mish, online and in the 'real' world.

I have not edited for some time, due to poor health & needing to avoid stress. Happy to undertake small edits upon requests, provided they are not contentious.

Stating my position
I have no COI when it comes to LGBTI articles, but I have some knowledge of the issues on some of these pages as a result of my academic work in that area, so I will contribute to those pages if possible, and try to maintain and enforce NPOV as far as I am able. I also have other interests in religion, such as Anglicanism and Christianity, and many other topics, so will also contribute to those pages when the occasion arises. I put a similar comment along similar lines here before, but was criticised for doing so as it was seen as claiming some kind of superior knowledge. I state this here now simply to be open and transparent, not to claim any special expertise. Mish (just an editor) (talk) 02:25, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Things that make me mad

 * Historical revisionism.
 * Personality attack posing as BLP.
 * If you could fart in an LGBT article, some asshole would want a verifiable source for it.
 * Stupidity
 * Some bizarre logic that places a Hungarian in Austria.
 * That some people have to be wrestled into seeing sense.
 * Belief that this is about what is 'true' (or worse, 'right'). Nothing is true or false, only reliable sources count.

about me
My girlfriend describes me as a "cyberpath" - an online psychopath. I think it sounds rather cute myself. Kind of like the Texas cat-5 Massacre.

I am a fundaphobe - having a strong and deep seated rational fear of and aversion to fundamentalists. I am also a recovering Christian, but not yet ready to commit to the ex-God movement. I don't think I am a fundamentalist in denial, but the childhood exposure to Baptist and Presbyterian churches probably left some deep scars that affected my religious development into adulthood. My being groomed to go to church is the main reason I became a Christian. Matthew 7:21-23

"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?' Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!'"

Conversion therapy

 * More on Edmund Bergler in the USA
 * Add to Hans Eysenck and UK
 * subsection on religion and conversion therapy

List of LGBT rights activists
Put some lesbians in - Debbie Epstein, Tamsin Wilton, Julie Bindel, Barbara Stoker, Jackie Forster, Lisa Power, Sue Sanders,

draft sanbox pages
/GWR list of locomotive names

/Gay sexual practices

/Julie Bindel

/LGBT violence

/Damilola Taylor

/GLF 1971 action

/Glory home (naval)

/Sea queens

/CV history

/LGBT parents

/template

/Sandbox

[templates]

articles created or rewritten, or sections created or rewritten

 * Brazilian Resolution
 * Julie Bindel
 * Sea queens
 * Tamsin Wilton
 * Yogyakarta Principles
 * Violence against LGBT people
 * UK Gay Liberation Front 1971 Festival of Light action

others

 * Template:LGBT and Christianity

articles contributed to (includes via talk pages)

 * Alfred Kinsey
 * Anti-Christian sentiment
 * Anton Bruckner
 * Biology and sexual orientation
 * Campaign for Homosexual Equality
 * Caroline Cossey
 * Ceawlin Thynn, Viscount Weymouth
 * Christian Voice (UK)
 * Christianity and homosexuality
 * Classification of transsexuals
 * Conversion therapy
 * Dawn Langley Simmons
 * Disorders of sex development
 * Edmund Bergler
 * Episcopal Church (United States)
 * Eunuch
 * Gay Liberation Front
 * Genderqueer
 * Gene Robinson
 * Hall-Carpenter Archives
 * Hermaphrodite
 * Hijra (South Asia)
 * History of Christianity and homosexuality
 * Holy Catholic Church
 * Homophobia
 * Homophobic violence
 * Homosexual Equality Rally in London 1974
 * Homosexuality
 * Homosexual transsexual
 * Ian Campbell Dunn
 * Intersexuality
 * Isidor Isaak Sadger
 * Jan Morris
 * LGBT health
 * LGBT issues and Christianity
 * LGBT issues in medicine
 * LGBT parenting
 * LGBT rights opposition
 * Lauren Harries
 * List of LGBT rights activists
 * List of unlawfully killed transgender people
 * Long John Baldry
 * Magnus Hirschfeld
 * Martin Luther King Jr.
 * Mary Whitehouse
 * Meister Eckhart
 * Molly house
 * Murder of Lawrence King
 * Nationwide Festival of Light
 * Ordination of LGBT Christian clergy
 * Organisation Intersex International
 * Pederasty
 * Queer theory
 * Religion and homosexuality
 * Religious views on transgender people
 * Roberta Cowell
 * Sexology
 * Sheila Jeffreys
 * Sir Ewan Forbes, 11th Baronet
 * Stephen Whittle
 * Terminology of homosexuality
 * The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
 * Transgender health
 * Transgenderism and religion
 * Transphobia
 * Transphobic violence
 * Transsexualism
 * UN declaration on sexual orientation and gender identity
 * Wendy Carlos

others

 * WP:WikiProject LGBT studies
 * Template:LGBT
 * Template:Religion and LGBT issues

Observation of a paradox
The Elvis Presley phenomenon has a whole section devoted to the issue of whether he is still alive and Elvis sightings. The 'facts' cannot be established, but as he is dead such speculation passes the BLP test. Or does it? The claims are that he is still alive. So, if we are to be neutral, then BLP would apply (rather than a non-neutral position that he is alive or dead). If we are to restrict coverage of speculation about living persons from the media, and not allow a neutral summary of such information and the response, then the speculation about Elvis still being alive should not be in the article - it would violate BLP policy. if this were followed, the section would be excluded, BLP would no longer apply, as the assertion that he lives is gone. If BLP does not apply, then there would be no problem in the speculation about Elvis being alive being covered - but as soon as it is, it would need to be removed. This can not be easily resolved if you seek to apply a restriction upon this encyclopedia that is unnecessary: restricting coverage of discussion about living individuals that is in the public domain, noteworthy, and covered by the press, within the constraints of a duty to respect privacy. Mish (talk) 23:49, 26 February 2010 (UTC)