User:Amerique

Amerique is currently a graduate student in Information at the University of Michigan.

Amerique in a cafe in Half Moon Bay, California.

While Amerique is male, he is not at all offended by references to him using the feminine pronoun. Generally, this user employs masculine pronouns in reference to others whose gender he is unaware of or does not care to inquire about. Although he supports feminism generally, he uses these pronouns to be concise rather than to be "politically incorrect."

Amerique is interested in how, if at all, the dispute resolution mechanisms of Wikipedia work to assist negociating NPOV agreements among contentious parties to content disputes. He is also interested in how other social conventions of Wikipedia work to assist resolving NPOV disputes more coordially. He is currently engaged in editing the University of California, Riverside article, but occasionally also edits the UCLA article. He has ideas and some expertise in areas for entirely new articles, particularly pre-WW2 Marxist student movements and topics related to American Indians, but has not gotten around to writing them.

In waking life, Amerique likes talking about relationships between literature, linguistics, and the revolution. In doing this, he has become an adept semiotician, favoring the semiotic of Charles Saunders Peirce over the semiology of Ferdinand de Saussure. He has been known to apply semiotic theory towards developing Wikipedian social networks around the pursuit of anti-social internet trolls. In this recreational endeavour, he also finds the strategic principles first developed and propounded in The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi to be especially effective, although he also favors the military theories and approaches of Carl von Clausewitz and Vo Nguyen Giap.

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		Amerique you learned from mistakes and betn over backwards to try to fix the issues. Aeon Insane Ward 01:16, 16 July 2006 (UTC)