User:Shaggorama/sandbox

This is my sandbox. It is for me to play in. If you found it, please feel free to poke around, but I'd appreciate it if you left my projects alone. If you want to make a comment on any content you find here, please do so at the top of this page instead of on my talk page.

Resources

 * WP:GD guide to deletion
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete deletion log]
 * Notability criteria category]
 * WP:AWW weasel words
 * WP:TM templates
 * User:Shaggorama/blog

Contributions
So, I don't do a very good job of acting as my own historian. Instead of writing this as I write articles, most of these selections have been taken out of my contributions history, so it has been a slow process developing this list. Bear with me.

Articles I started

 * OLGA - Online guitar tab resource
 * Screensaver Lifesaver - a distributed computing project that is trying to cure cancer
 * Rescue Squad - like a fire department, but staffing technical rescue units (and/or ambulances) instead of fire suppression.
 * Cris Kirkwood
 * Amos Ori
 * The United States Fire Administration
 * Mt. Baldy Ski Lifts - the closest ski-resort to LA, where I happen to work. The first article I started (I think).

Significant contributions
These are articles that I either made significant edits too, have made many contributions too over time or have otherwise seen a significant amount of my attention (excluding articles I started). Hardly a complete list.


 * Tao
 * Zang Fu theory
 * Virgin
 * Kavka's toxin puzzle
 * Mount San Antonio
 * Heavy rescue vehicle
 * Snowboarding
 * Dead on arrival
 * Oxygen first aid
 * Borat
 * Kazakhstan
 * Jaws of life
 * Depression (mood)
 * Pharmacratic Inquisition - Allright, time for a confession. This article began kind of as a joke/dare between my roommate and I. The topic is a crank "theory" about the relation between psychedelic mushrooms and christianity developed by two individuals who took way too many drugs. My roommate and I came upon a lecture of theirs accidentally, and it has been a running joke between us ever since. We wrote the article largely as a challenge to ourselves to try to write about these nuts academically, maintaining NPOV all the while. The project has been largely abandoned and I don't have the heart to put out an AfD on it. If we ever get back to work on it, I can only hope it can match the quality of the timecube article.

My edit count
NB: I really started contributing to the wikipedia in September of 2005, but I didn't register a username until December, so I can't really say exactly how many edits I've made.

Philosophy
Article should be about philsophy as an area of study. r/o history What article needs:
 * 1) defintion--inc. goals of philosophy?
 * 2) branches/fields
 * 3) what philsophy is not
 * 4) difference between phil and religion--role of philosophy in religion
 * 5) diff betwen phil and natural science--role of philosophy in science
 * 6) literature

Intro from 19:34, 29 December 2005 Dbuckner
The word Philosophy has a variety of meanings. Its etymology is from the ancient Greek word "&#934;&#953;&#955;&#959;&#963;&#959;&#966;&#943;&#945;" (philo-sophia), which means "love of wisdom." It can mean a system of belief, values or tenets as in Buddhist philosophy, or the Tao; a body of philosophical literature that created over the centuries by a culture or civilization, as in 'Hindu philosophy'; a personal outlook or viewpoint, as in 'my philosophy of life'; truth found in mystical experience, or even alchemy and astrology, such as the philosopher's stone.

This article, however, concerns what is sometimes called 'academic philosophy'. This discipline involves the rational and systematic investigation of the nature of universe and our place in it. It is different from science in that its results do not depend on observation or experiment (except for so-called thought experiment), and from religion or mysticism, in that its method of inquiry is entirely rational, and assigns no place to faith, mystical insight or revelation.

It can also involve the critical investigation of the basic principles and concepts of intellectual disciplines (e.g. philosophy of mathematics). While its scope is wide (e.g. philosophy of sex), its core subjects are generally agreed to consist of


 * The discipline that was once called logic, but which is now known as philosophical logic, formal logic now being regarded as part of mathematics. Philosophical logic is concerned with the relation between formal logic and ordinary language (or whether any such relation exists).
 * metaphysics, or the systematic and rational investigation of the nature of reality, particularly the question of what sorts of things can be said to have real existence.
 * epistemology – the theory of knowledge, its limits and its connection with belief.
 * ethics or the nature, meaning and logic of moral judgment.

Note that philosophy once had a wider scope. Early scientists, regardless of their field of study, called themselves 'Natural philosophers' (this is why people who have never studied philosophy are still awarded a 'PhD' or 'Doctor of Philosophy'). However, it is now generally agreed that what distinguishes philosophy form the natural sciences is its "second order" nature: it thinks about rather than employs the concepts that we employ to think about reality. Philosophy is "thinking about thinking".

From Talk

 * Definition of philosophy
 * User:Dbuckner/philosophy