I'm a freshman at University of the Pacific majoring in Economics. My main interests are math, economics, philosophy, computer science, politics, and history. I'm still a little timid about making real edits to articles (like adding new information). So I haven't done that yet. I think I have a pretty decent understanding of the basic inner workings of Wikipedia. My proof of this is that I made a collection of weird facets of the way Wikipedia works. Right now I'm watching pages for vandalism and new users to welcome and discussions that I might be interested. I've also joined several WikiProjects in the hopes that they might help me get started adding knowledge to Wikipedia. I discovered Wikipedia in the spring of 2004 when a friend recommended it as a good starting point for research for a report I was doing on Richard Wagner. I'm sorry to say my first edit was vandalism: I added a link to Dark Side of The Moon to the "see also" section of the Moon. After that I didn't make edit because I didn't think I had anything to offer. My interest in contributing to Wikipedia was renewed this year when I started reading about the various policies and guidelines. After my first real edit (reverting vandalism), I got more involved.
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In which the National Socialist Movement tries to promote its presidential candidate without providing any source. (I would have done this had it been any candidate so this is in fact NPOV. It qualifies for BJAODN because it's the national socialists...) [4] My response: {{mos0}} [5]
Jimbo's first edit in the current mediawiki setup [6]
Sandyvandy (first really stressful experience on Wikipedia for me. I'm terrified that every time someone disagrees with something I do it will lead to RFAr....)
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The motto of the AWWDMBJAWGCAWAIFDSPBATDMTD is Est omnino difficile iudicare inclusionis meritum cuiusdam rei in encyclopædia cum ratio sciendi quid populi referat incerta sit, sed nihilominus aliquid encyclopædiam dedecet, which translates to, "it is generally difficult to judge the worthiness of a particular topic for inclusion in an encyclopedia considering that there is no certain way to know what interests people, but some topics nevertheless are not fit for an encyclopedia." This motto reflects the desire of these Wikipedians to be reluctant, but not entirely unwilling, to remove articles from Wikipedia.
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