User:Vmv

This is the modest cottage of Vmv, a wikipedia contributor. You used to see the word vlad_mv on the mat below the door. As of March 24, 2005, I replaced it with the more fashionable Vlad M V.

Jukebox
Check out what I'm listening to while working at Wikipedia. You can also see the archives.

Turned Off. Last time I was hear, I was listening to Come's Don't Ask, Don't Tell & Garbage's Version 2.0, then Astor Piazzolla (The Rough Dancer and the Cyclical Night) & Massive Attack (Mezzanine).

Oven
My wikistress level rarely goes up: most of the time, it keeps green.

Wikipedia is addictive - I drink and smoke, so I should know. I usually keep my contributions at a level where they won't interfere too much with the rest of my life. As far as I know, I was never deliberately hostile towards any fellow contributor. If you think differently, leave me a note at my talk page. Please keep in mind I'm not a native English speaker, maybe I never intended to sound rude.

Refrigerator door
My next contributions will probably address one of these issues:

Contributions
So far, I have contributed mainly to the following areas in Wikipedia:

Ideas & Concerns

 * Inclusionists & Deletionists: Even though Wikipedia is not paper, it is not a general knowledge base either. The fact that something can be verified to exist does not make it encyclopedic. Failure to understand this has flooded VfD with vanity articles, "the street I live in"-articles, "the kiosk I buy my newspaper in"-articles, "the grocery store where I go shopping"-articles, and so on. Of course, issues get much more complicated when people disagree whether a whole class of things is inherently notable. Disagreement of this nature has brought about the school issue on VfD: Wikipedians have so far failed to reach a consensus whether the fact the an object belongs to the class of "schools" (like one would easily say, for instance, of an object that belongs to the class of "nation presidents") makes it inhenrently notable, hence worthy of an individual article. Lately, this has been the core of the deletionist X inclusionist controvery in Wikipedia.
 * My position: I do not believe all schools are inherently notable, but I do not believe this make me a deletionist either. I'll refrain from nominating schools for VfD as long as there is no clearly established policy stating which schools should be considered notable, and which not. Nevertheless, I will continue to use my own commonsense to vote.


 * Stubs: I prefer to write few but long articles, rather than posting a large number of stubs. This is my way of doing things, and not a policy I use to judge other people's work.

Bathroom Thoughts

 * Thou shalt be judged by thy favourite books, records & films. See me contributions and my jukebox to judge me.
 * Drink it up, wine is wine. Do you really believe a glass does good to your health, but the whole bottle harms it?
 * Never Microsoft - but if it should be Microsoft, never XP.
 * Never McDonald's - but if it should be McDonald's, starve.

Phonebook

 * Dead-end pages
 * Images for deletion
 * Queer Wikipedians
 * Orphaned pages
 * Template messages
 * Utilities
 * VfD
 * Village pump

Door bell
You can ring my bell! Leave a note at my talk page or send me an email.