User:Stephen Bain/Wikiphilosophy

I have a Wikipedia-related blog now, so many of my thoughts will be recorded there, though I may occasionally add little things here.

Of assumptions
It's not helpful to be a WikiLawyer, that is, to approach policies and guidelines as if they were statutes, but it can be helpful to incorporate some ideas and concepts of legal reasoning into your everyday thought processes. Example: Assume good faith is a good example of a rebuttable presumption. It is always to be assumed that a person is acting in good faith, unless there is sufficient evidence to the contrary; where there is such evidence however, there is no need to assume that a person is acting in good faith.

Of boxen
Boxen thoughts (in soothing green)

This user believes that it is helpful to the project for people to acknowledge any biases they might have when editing WP. It is useful for people to have some idea about the subjects a fellow editor is passionate about so as to more productively interact with that user.

However, putting mass-produced boxen on your userpage is not self-expression. Nor is it acknowledging your biases, rather it is celebrating someone else's.

It is vastly more useful to the project for you to personally express your views. If you choose to acknowledge your biases, I encourage you to do it in an individual way. Describe what areas you are interested in, and perhaps give some reasons about why you feel certain ways about certain issues.