User:Netsnipe

In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.

About Me
Hi there,

My name is Andrew Lau and I'm based in Sydney, Australia. I've been on Wikipedia since October 2003, but I didn't start becoming a Wikipedian until 2006. My nickname comes from having played as a sniper in QuakeWorld Team Fortress many, many years ago.

But it's got the public playing the encyclopedia game. To extend the analogy, it's also like playing a game in the sense that playing it has no consequences.

Wikipedia often does feel like a game of no consequence from time to time with the endless hours of bias, edit-warring, fancruft, lies, spam, vanity and vandalism to deal with, but I'm still here helping out behind the scenes. Why? Because deep down I believe that information wants to be free and I feel that it's my duty to make sure that this place doesn't fall apart while this great project tries to document everything notable known to humanity.

I just hope I don't forget to bring my towel…

--  Netsnipe  ►

WikiFame
Everyone should have at least one inane claim to WikiFame! For example, I came up with the increasingly popular single_purpose_account tag. I think I still have 14 minutes of fame WP:VAIN left to use around here...
 * — Possible single purpose account: Netsnipe (talk • contribs) has made little or no other contributions outside this topic.

My other claim (slightly less inane), is that I was the 1001st Wikipedian to be promoted to Administrator on 3 September, 2006. .