User:Nick2253

I, Nick2253, born Nick, am a Wikipedian who enjoys using Wikipedia as a means of procrastinating on work. I believe that Wikipedia will be the primary portal mankind will use to access information within the next half-century. As such, it is very important to me that Wikipedia takes this responsibility seriously, and produces high quality, non-biased articles on everything.

My Wikipedia Philosophy
As alluded to above, my primary desire is to see Wikipedia become the reference source for the entire sum of human knowledge. I honestly believe that this will happen, whether we like it or not, in the next half-century. Already, students from elementary school to graduate school rely on Wikipedia as a quick, first-reference source for research, and I cannot see that becoming less common. However, this means that Wikipedia must be completely NPOV, and should strive to include as much information on as many topics as possible. In order to accurately convey this information, all article must have pictures and/or diagrams. Truly, a picture is worth a thousand words.

Editing Styles
Though English spacing doesn't really matter on Wikipedia given its markup engine, the other points do, and influence my contributions to topics. As an American, I contribute, intentionally or not, using the American vernacular, which includes the use of the singular they. In a similar vein, I do not care for the politically correct he/she paradigm, and in general I find that irritating and distracting while reading. Unless otherwise specified, "he" will be used as the grammatically correct neutral pronoun, and "they" will be used as the grammatically incorrect one.

Current Projects

 * Statewide opinion polling for the United States presidential election, 2012 - I created and will be maintaining the maps for this page.
 * Detailed California Zephyr route map: User:Nick2253/Template:California_Zephyr

About Me
The following sub-sections explain who I am through the use of userboxes. Gotta collect 'em all!