User:Politis

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'Politis' is a pseudonym. I chose it because it comes from 'πολίτης' (citizen) and is semantically linked to 'polis' (city) and 'politics' (in its Aristotelian sense of, the philosophy of human affairs).

Double-check what you find in Wikipedia
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 * Regarding bias, try 'The real bias in Wikipedia'
 * From one of its founders, try this December 2004 article,

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Introduced the terms:
Greek East - Greeks in Great Britain - Macedonian cuisine

Started up articles
Arabic coffee, Christos Lambrakis, Lambrakis Press Group, Janko Konstantinov

Editing tools

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 * Templates nominated for deletion
 * Articles nominated for deletion
 * Criteria for speedy deletion
 * Template:AfD footer: describes how to list for deletion articles and their associated talk pages
 * Sock puppetry
 * Navigational templates
 * WikiProject Military history/Assessment
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 * Link rot, Links that are no longer live

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 * Manual of Style
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 * Verifiability
 * How to write a great article
 * Lead section: how to write an introduction
 * Peer review
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 * Administrators
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 * WP:NCGN Naming conventions (geographic names)
 * Naming conventions (Macedonia)
 * Naming:WikiProject Rivers
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 * What is a troll (No offending)
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 * Interwiki_bot: this is about bots and it looks pretty complicated.
 * Protected pages list, not accessible to non-admin,
 * Database reports/Most-watched pages
 * Database reports

Various
Requests for arbitration/Macedonia 2 (including 20 June 2011 desoping)

Templates

 * Delete: delete •   • db-nonsense • db-empty db-attack • db-bio • db-test • db-notenglish • db-repost db-band • db-club •    • db-vand db-redirtypo • db-redirnone • db-blanked • db-talk • DLog


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 * Miscellany: Reichstag • Page History


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 * Map sources/GeoHack:

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