User:Philwelch

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I am Philip L. Welch, senior at Washington State University double-majoring in Philosophy and Management Information Systems and planning to graduate in December of 2006. My first logged-in edit still on record was on February 2, 2004.

Gratuitous pirate joke:

Q: What happened when sea pirates started editing Wikipedia?

A: We sent them to WP:RfArrrrrrrr.

Contents 1 Philwelch's Observation 2 Constructive edit warring 3 Inspiration 4 Accomplishments 4.1 Rewritten/Expanded 4.2 Created 4.3 Edited With Great Relish 4.4 Images Uploaded 5 #wikipedia bash 6 Licensing

Philwelch's Observation

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All other factors held equal, the greater the notability and encyclopedic merit of a given subject on Wikipedia, the higher quality the related article.

Constructive edit warring

As opposed to simply reverting back and forth, I like to review any two edits and devise a third, better edit that uses the best aspects of both while improving. This is better than simple reversion, and I, for one, would like to see any "edit war" using these techniques escalate beyond control. Here's a prototypical example. This diff shows a distinctly poor edit that made the article less readable. My successive edit was a selective improvement on both versions. Occasionally, an edit will be made that's all bad. In those cases, yeah, I'll revert, or just leave it for awhile until I can do a copyedit on the whole article (as to not single out certain edits and thus certain editors).

Inspiration

"I was recently in Brazil. I was recently in India. There are people there without electricity, without computers, without internet, without healthcare. Those people could give a shit about whether we have a link on a toolspage to a tool that might bring in some revenue, and whether some people consider this an affront to their aesthetics. But they need books. They need educational materials. They need freely licensed work they can modify, adapt, redistribute, copy freely, so they can learn what they need to know to have power in their own lives. Wikipedia is for them. Not for us. So, we need to be very very very careful about commercialism, and we need to be very very thoughtful about how we can use money to change the world, and that's why I do everything that I do. I hope that explanation is helpful." --Jimbo Wales in #wikipedia, October 23, 2005.

Accomplishments

• I am the coiner of keletion, a term referring to a practice in which a page is blanked or deleted to remove unsalvagably atrocious text and rewritten because the subject is still a good candidate for an article. I hope it catches on.
• Began Wikipedia:Merge lists to categories, a proposed project to merge otherwise redundant information.
  • As a test case, merged list from article Gay icon into the Gay Icons category--a project that required over 500 edits. Reactions to the test case will hopefully determine if the project moves forward, and if so, what we will do the same and what we will do differently. If you have an opinion, please post it at Wikipedia talk:Merge lists to categories
  • Project is on hold.

Rewritten/Expanded

• Objectivist philosophy (subsequently rewritten and forked into separate articles).
• Firearm
• 2112 (album)
• Alleged inconsistencies in Star Wars
  • I removed a lot of original research from the article, which led to the following honor (in the form of a non-sequitur added to the article itself): "The Great Independent Research Purge of Philwelch eliminated most of these inconsistencies by shooting them in the back (See: Order 66)."

Created

• Randian hero (in effect, also in progress)
• Color metaphors for race (in effect)
• Ice Bowl
• Notable lines in the Star Wars series
• William Shatner's musical career
• Template:Matrix
• Supreme Court templates
  • Template:Jaycourt
  • Template:Rutledge-court
  • Template:Ellsworth-court
  • Template:Marshall-court
  • Template:Taney-court
  • Template:Chase-court
  • Template:Waite-court
  • Template:Fuller-court
  • Template:White-court
  • Template:Taft-court
  • Template:Hughes-court
  • Template:Stone-court
  • Template:Vinson-court
  • Template:Warren-court
  • Template:Burger-court
  • Template:Rehnquist-court

Edited With Great Relish

• Darth Vader
• Garfield—added "production and criticism" section to an otherwise over-congratulatory article.

Images Uploaded

#wikipedia bash

BabaJobu: Vague, the only respectable way for a girl to rebel is to have lots of sex with lots of different people.
Philwelch: BabaJobu: And only if those people include myself.
Vague_Pant: Concur with Baba and Phil.
BabaJobu: Phil, actually the rule refers to me, not you.
Philwelch: BabaJobu: If she's fucking lots of different people she'll get to both of us eventually.
Vague_Pant: So will venereal disease.

Licensing

My multi-licensing terms are described below:

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Licensing rights granted to Wikimedia Foundation I grant non-exclusive permission for the Wikimedia Foundation Inc. to relicense my text and media contributions, including any images, audio clips, or video clips, under any copyleft license that it chooses, provided it maintains the free and open spirit of the GFDL. This permission acknowledges that future licensing needs of the Wikimedia projects may need adapting in unforeseen fashions to facilitate other uses, formats, and locations. It is given for as long as this banner remains.