User:Tetsumonchi

Colin McMenemy is a Scottish political commentator and forum administrator. He is a passionate supporter of Scottish Independence and an advocate for republicanism in Scotland. In addition, he has a keen interest in international affairs, all of which he regularly discusses on his Twitter account. Colin is also a voluntary staff member within the Miniclip online gaming community where he has served variously as a forum moderator and administrator for over 16 years. He is the owner of the Miniclip Fan Forum, the present home of the Miniclip forum community.

Scotland, nationalism and immigration
Colin McMenemy supports the idea of an independent Scottish Republic, with an elected head of state. As a right-winger, he believes the new state would be best run according to conservative models and values. As a proponent of ethnic nationalism, Colin regards himself as an ethnic Scot, views Scotland as the homeland of the Scottish people and considers the question of Scottish Independence to be a matter for ethnic Scots alone. He believes that Scottish Independence should be about returning Scotland to the Scottish people following centuries of English domination. He is against membership of the EU, claiming that this is merely substituting London for Brussels in many respects.

Wikipedia
Tetsumonchi considers himself more of a reader than a writer, and as such he generally avoids participating in the writing and editing of articles. However, he has been known to edit and even re-write entire articles about people, places and things that interest him which he believes are incorrect or poorly written. To date, Tetsumonchi has made over 200 contributions to Wikipedia and this figure is slowly growing. Tetsumonchi has no aspirations to become an administrator and isn't interested in participating in the Wikipedia community as he is "already moderating two very large web forums and hasn't the time".

According to Tetsumonchi, in his spare time he often sits for an hour or more browsing through Wikipedia. "Its like Youtube", he says, "one page just leads to another, you never know what you will stumble across next. That is why I love Wikipedia so much. All these things I didn't know, and things I didn't know that I didn't know".

Tetsumonchi does have his reservations about Wikipedia, though. According to him, it is "ridiculously difficult" to upload new images to the site as they are "deleted within a few hours" for legal and copyright reasons. He accepts that it is necessary to monitor what is uploaded to the site but feels there should be more flexible rules regarding the uploading of images to make it easier for users to contribute.