User:Satori

Satori was born on June 11,1975 in Willoughby, Ohio. He currently resides in Winchester, Nevada in the Las Vegas Valley. His handle, which he has used on the Internet since 1992, originally was a reference to a song by Bauhaus. Although he briefly studied Zen Buddhism in 2001 and 2002, he has never achieved Satori. Despite the existence of this page, Satori is, in fact, non-notable.

Vocations and Avocations

 * Computer Programmer
 * C++ and C#
 * PHP
 * Clipper
 * FoxPro
 * Disc Jockey, mostly in the genres of Gothic Rock and Industrial music
 * Musician, especially synthesizers
 * Political activist in progressive electoral politics

Interests

 * Music
 * Gothic
 * Progressive Rock
 * Baroque and Early music
 * World Music
 * Wine
 * History
 * Political science
 * Open Source
 * Linux
 * FreeBSD
 * MySQL
 * Agile software development
 * Astronomy
 * Games
 * Chess
 * Poker

Contributions


I tend to be a bit of a WikiGnome, spending a lot of time patrolling New Pages: adding stubs, wikifying, tagging obvious speedies. I've also worked with projects such as User:Sietse Snel/Fix common mistakes and Disambiguation pages with links.

I have made some significant edits as well, including contributions to Biodiesel, various Las Vegas, Nevada related articles, and others. I created the article for the Sisters of Mercy album Floodland. One day I fixed a red link by creating Diane Warren - which has grown to quite a large list of songs by that prolific writer of adult contemporary songs that I hated when I was a radio DJ in that format :).

I also enjoy contributing to the WP project through Votes for deletion, and will make occasional votes on Requests for adminship and Featured article candidates. I believe strongly in Consensus decision-making, and try to facilitate Consensus.

I also contributed the Celestial bodies capitalization section to Manual of Style, and there was a flurry of minor edits in late 2004 as I began to standardize articles accordingly.

Wikipedia philosophy
I consider myself a pragmatic inclusionist. Wikipedia is not paper, and I don't support deletion of an article for reasons of the type, "We can't have an article on every one of [class], can we?". In general, I feel that an article should pass three primary tests: verifiability, no original research, and Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Of course, it's also important to remember that Wikipedia is not infinite. In the case of projects such as WP:MUSIC that have notability guidelines worked out by consensus, I try to follow those guidelines.

I also love the ability of the Wikipedia community to write articles about subjects that would never be found in a paper encyclopedia. Heavy metal umlaut was probably the article most responsible for my interest in this project.

In general, to the question "what's more important, the product or the process" (i.e., quality articles vs. consensus and the WP community), my answer is "Yes!". But maybe that's because I'm a Gemini.

New pages patrol: a pleasant distraction
As editing Wikipedia requires being at a computer, and I rarely am at a computer when I don't have something else I should be doing (programming, writing a paper, etc.), I often use the New Pages page as a pleasant distraction, almost a game. The game is simple. Go to New Pages, and click on the top link. If there are no grammar, style, or wikification problems, and it doesn't meet a critereon for speedy deletion, go back to New Pages and click on the next link. Repeat this process until you find an article that needs an edit, then return to working until your mind again gets restless. What a nice way to break up long tasks at the computer, while making small improvements to the newest additions to the Wiki.