User talk:Phil.e.

I am Phil.e.

Speedy deletion of Halopedia
A tag has been placed on Halopedia, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

It doesnt meets the criteria of Notability

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For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Althoug im not any expert or something

There are better ways of letting people know of this types of wikis. the best way is putting a link in the External links section at the relevant articles (there are a lot of Halo related articles)this way youll get better results than doing a page just ment to link to the wiki. Guillo7x 03:38, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Your edits to various Wii related articles
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AfD nomination of Halopedia
Halopedia, an article you created, has been nominated for deletion. We appreciate your contributions. However, an editor does not feel that Halopedia satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Articles for deletion/Halopedia& and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of Halopedia during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Guy (Help!) 17:58, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Important note: Renamed to Articles for deletion/Halopedia (3rd nomination). Milto LOL pia 06:17, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

What can I do?
I have seen your name on the SOPA talk. I am also against SOPA. I also happen to be a citizen of an Eastern European country, Romania, living in Romania. I am using WIkipedia daily - I am an avid Encyclopaedia reader, and sometimes I also edit. I have noticed that you support and encourage WF to punish me, and others like me around the world, basically severely disturbing our lives by having WP blocked entirely, for something that politicians in a foreing country (USA) did and from which corporatocrats there will profit. I have to be frank here. If this thing happens, it will wreck my life pretty seriously and I am rather sure I did nothing at all to deserve having something like this being done to me. Please tell is there something practical that I can do to avoid this terrible thing that is about to happend to me (WF not allowing me to read it's previously "free" articles)? I mean I know about the right to close WP and the right to fork and that WF doesn't owe anyone anything, but I would have hoped us readers amongst ourselves and the WF have become firends and friends don't do this to one another. SOFT blanks I understand, even a 2-day complete block just for the US I understand, but what could I possibly do to avoid this being done to me, on the suggestion of you and others? I am not represented by anyone in the US congress... WP can ban me, do anything they like but I am going to pester you with this question till I get an answer: what did I do to deserve this being done to me and what can I do to stop it (realistically)? Or are people like you just sadistic to defenseles fellow users?Omulurimaru (talk) 23:46, 28 December 2011 (UTC) and this is for my IP 79.112.59.92 (talk) 23:47, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

Still upset
Thanks for responding. Look, I get it. SOPA would have been terrible and it would have affected us all. And, unfortunately, similar legislation meant to curb the citizens' ability to freely interact and inform themselves over the Internet is still pending in a whole lot of countries all over the world.

But this is more than that. It might surprise you to know that while I'm usually quite centrist, when it comes to freedom of information and so-called intellectual "property" I'm a strong libertarian. Despite all that, I'm still upset about how Wikimedia reacted. Wikipedia was supposed to be apolitical. I believed in that. I would think that particular aspect of the project was something almost sacred that shouldn't be tampered with. Well, I used to think that and I still do and it is my very strong feeling that once you open that door, for whatever reason, it's going to stay open.

We shouldn't have messed with the apolitical status of Wikipedia. It took something away from the whole thing. You live within a culture which has dissent and debate at its core. The French live within a culture that has politeness and debate at its core. I live within a culture that has the belief that the government is useless and the historical imperative for survival at its core. But did you stop to think that there are perhaps other people who wouldn't take our wiggling our fingers at our governments as anything but childish and counterproductive and uncivilised? The Japanese come to mind, as do people from Singapore.

Is imposing Western values, whether American, or Western European, or Eastern European any way to bring about a global community of knowledge? I don't think so. And I think this is the crux of the matter: this were supposed to be about knowledge, not politics. Let me tell you something -- from my perspective, your society seems overpoliticised, and overpoliticised to such a high degree that it makes some Europeans uncomfortable. It's possible that, from your perspective, there's a natural connection between Wikipedia's original goals and net freedom activism. From my point of view, this connection is in no way obvious.

It also happens that my academic responsibilities in the real world are now rather more demanding - pure coincidence - which means that my online "footprint" is necessarily smaller, which kind of made it easier for me to... abstain from violating my own boycott. Omulurimaru (talk) 23:31, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

p.s. All Europeans love to show off their multilingualism ;)