User:Takethemud



Generally
Take it sleazy (or, take the mud)

About Me

 * I'm a graduate of the University of Florida College of Law. My userboxes to the right say more.
 * My Wikipedia interests include Law, The Simpsons, Cuba, Politics, Music, and other miscellanea. I like creating sections on articles.
 * I joined Wikipedia on 28 July 2005 after a long stint as a reader.
 * On 21 April 2006 I joined Spanish Wikipedia. Visit my page there. . . click here:
 * My fears include 21 December 2012.
 * I keep a homepage at http://www.takethemud.com
 * I keep (and rarely update) a blog at http://takethemud.blogspot.com
 * Some of the articles and portals I've created are:
 * Fredric G. Levin College of Law, Cuban Legal System, Socialist Legality, Cuban Law, Cuban Legal History, Agriculture of Cuba, UBPC, CPA (Agriculture), National Institute of Agrarian Reform, Agrarian Reform Laws of Cuba, ANAP (Cuba), Healthcare of Cuba, Arturo Fuente (cigar brand), El Diario de la Marina, Hotel Vedado, Joshua White, He Was a Friend of Mine, Arthur McBride, Mrs. McGrath, McCourt, WSKY (Radio), List of Taco Bell items, Lake Alice (Gainesville, Florida), Hyperion (tree), Talpiot Tomb, and Cifra.
 * Portal:Cuba & Portal:Florida
 * I've created other articles which didn't make the grade and were deleted, merged, or redirected.
 * I've spent lots of time working on the Montgomery Burns, Kang and Kodos, and Moe Szyslak articles. Since I've stopped working on the Mr. Burns article, its quality has declined.
 * My edit summary
 * My Contributions


 * I'm a member of three Wikiprojects, WikiProject The Simpsons, WikiProject Cuba, and WikiProject Florida

The Problem of Hierarchy and Wikipedia
Mr Aaron Swartz notes |here:
 * If Wikipedia is written by occasional contributors, then growing it requires making it easier and more rewarding to contribute occasionally. Instead of trying to squeeze more work out of those who spend their life on Wikipedia, we need to broaden the base of those who contribute just a little bit. Unfortunately, precisely because such people are only occasional contributors, their opinions aren't heard by the current Wikipedia process. They don't get involved in policy debates, they don't go to meetups, and they don't hang out with Jimbo Wales. And so things that might help them get pushed on the backburner, assuming they're even proposed. Out of sight is out of mind, so it's a short hop to thinking these invisible people aren't particularly important. Thus Wales's belief that 500 people wrote half an encyclopedia. Thus his assumption that outsiders contribute mostly vandalism and nonsense. And thus the comments you sometimes hear that making it hard to edit the site might be a good thing. "I'm not a wiki person who happened to go into encyclopedias," Wales told the crowd at Oxford. "I'm an encyclopedia person who happened to use a wiki." So perhaps his belief that Wikipedia was written in the traditional way isn't surprising. Unfortunately, it is dangerous. If Wikipedia continues down this path of focusing on the encyclopedia at the expense of the wiki, it might end up not being much of either."

I tend to agree with Mr Swartz. Some others who have written about it can be found here :|here.

My Sandbox

 * User:Takethemud/Sandbox --> My own personal sandbox which I use to redo large parts of articles