User:Brothersun/subpage1
ates empathy just to hear the song. Geof wants people to remember the song when they read his artices and essays.
1) This UID/name/title is less subject to spurious, knee-jerk accusation of POV when making edits on humanitarian causes. 2) This UID name retains the friendly tone without being a sitting duck for endless repetitious battles in which people presume that anyone who mentions the classic American song Brother Can You Spare a Dime is out to POV pages on poor people's issues.
3) Keeps all user contributions on simple wikipedia unified.
4) simpler for ESL folks to remember than Brothercanyouspareadime.
Note: I want it to be clear to people who may have difficulty in functioning that the writing is being done by a human being not someone in a Star Chamber - anyway, you get.
There will be NO "socking" ie no deceptive use of different accounts.
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 | This user has an alternative account named and linked to his real name. |
| This user has an alternative account named and fully disclosed to Arbcom. |
| This user has an alternative account named and abstaining from sock edits . |
Notice: I post from a public educational system and my IP may have stuff from students for which posts I disavow all knowledge and responsibility.
WIP:Warming_center - Homelessness - Please sign up for the new Proposed Wikipedia Homelessness Project here!
Welcome Who What and Why of This Account
changeHi! This is a specialized account tied to the "main" wikipedia account. It is primarily for work on topics that are at times controversial, this account is reserved for "anonymous" edits by this user primarily to avoid intermingling of antagonists. According to Wikipedia policy, this user (1) made full prior disclosure to Wikipedia ArbComm (2) above and beyond what is required by Wikipedia Policy, to show good faith and (3) never edits from other accounts on the same topics, which would be "socking".
How and Why of This Account
changeI started this account mainly when I noticed that the homelessness pages were not quite up to standard and many important topics such as warming centers did not exist. My purpose is not to violate NPOV but rather to correct the two main problems with the prior homelessness pages: (1) (a)edits apparently written by people who may have limited-time access to the web, such a public library time in half hour chunks and who (b)may themselves be coping with homelessness and its ancillary problems such as difficulty in finding places to obtain a good night's sleep, nutritional deficits, and, in some cases, perhaps thought disordersassociated with drug, alcohol or psychiatric disorders. And also (2) edits apparently written by people with questionable NPOV due to dystonic personal experiences with persons percieved as homeless such as panhandling. Indeed, the talk pages had many comments where people flamed on and on about "this hobo and that hobo", rather than sticking to information based upon citations. If it is the case that homeless people are terrible lousy nefarious n'er do wells, that would be original research unless cited. The fact that someone has a wikipedia account and got panhandled and were annoyed, offended or frightened by a panhandler is not verifiable.
Notice: The main account is readily traceable to the editor but not in the name of this user. Because the main account is not in the name of the user the privacy exception is stretch and that is why an ArbComm disclosure was necessitated and performed. Thus, this account is compliance under the privacy exception. Good faith is also a necessary but not sufficient factor and the spirit of wiki-proper editing is important. But good faith alone is not enough - it is important to also have the skills and wiki-savy to be sure not to disrupt the group project and its goals. For instance, it is important not to ever utilize alternative accounts to create a false illusion of multiple user support for another viewpoint,or to praise another account which the same user controls. These are sock tactics which I frequently used to encounter as a Yahoo editor and user and they are generally linked to an agenda in which NPOV is thrown out the window.
If You Are New To Wikipedia, Skip To Here!
changeIf you are new to wikipedia, the above discussion probably does not interest you so please start here. I recommend you read the various new user help. But if you are attracted to wikipedia because you are interested in the topic I edit on, or because you were invited to take an interest in wikipedia at a public meeting on homelessness or related topics, my remarks below may be particularly pertinent.
RECAP of above material: It's spirit is to enable NPOV edit of the somewhat disorganized body of pages dealing with homeless related issues - usually written by troubled individuals living in awful conditions, with time limited access to public library computers, or by angry people who hate "bums" and weave subtly oppressive language into the mix. My goal is good NPOV material on these topics.
Simple Wikipedia is not a dictionary for hate speech and mean speech (demagogues)
changeThis wiki is a little different. Some people use this wiki because they are kind computer whizzes and want to help out. Others use it because they have difficulites with ESL or cognitive impairments. They need help in understanding English. They do not need to be traumatized with brutal prejudice laced into the wickepedia entries... One of my issues is that this is not a dictionary and we don't need entries for every form of derogatory word:retard, moron, idiot, bum, troll, vagrant, tramp, hobo, etc. One entry under an NPOV topic will suffice for such terms, this is not a dictionary or thesaurus for mean people.
NPOV
changeThe Yahoo pages operated by this editor are where this editor puts advocacy and original research. This user does not use Wikipedia to promote her or his Yahoo list servs and does not even name them. Wikipedia is where this editor practices NPOV.
But much of wikipedia on these topics is not NPOV. My "agenda" - to create a Wikipedia Project on homeless/houseless issues. If people who are hostile to homeless in their community want to participate, I have no problem with that. Let's all just stick to NPOV and wikipedia policies and procedures. I do have a problem with a lot of the talk page discussion on homeless where people relate personal anecdotes of "bums" who have annoyed them.
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia based on existing published research. If you want to create a new original thesis,I do that on talk,or on Yahoo list serves, but not belong on article main names spaces.
This user has a full disclosure filed with ArbComm relating to the matter of linking to the main account. This is due to the personal privacy exemption and am merely double checking. Note also that "socking" is related to the undisclosed use of alternative accounts to create an illusion of multiple user support for a viewpoint. My primary concerns are to buffer the litigious, opinionated edit warring and threats of wikilitigation which have assailed my main account by a user with high admin privileges and experience but with an obvious, opinionated agenda of excluding vast classes of mainstream opinion from expression on wikipedia. All issues with that individual and his associates are conducted from other username and in no way is this account involved with any of the long process of Arbcom appeals, edit war rebuffs which would obviously be required to get to a true NPOV on the topics which said user seeks to monopolize in favor of the narrow viewpoint represented by said user. A big part of the problem is the long standing affiliation of that minoritarian viewpoint with English language imperial expansion, specifically British foreign policy and US foreign policy. All of that will be taken up by the main account or accounts linked to the main account. This alternate account is in no way involved with editing on [redacted] affairs and thus the hinted-at blocks would not interupt this important work.
Conversely, the topics of homelessness attract a certain class of people such as who post on newspaper message boards about the "bums" and "vagrants" etcetera...It is only fair on the user account which is engaged in academically-based work in other fields not be subject to stalking and ham handed administrative interference by persons grinding an axe based upon edits made pursuit to this account's specialization.
For security reasons this account to prevent vandalism from people who hate the homeless and their advocates. Hash protection: A hash has been created to protect this account utilizing 792a5ff2fd36bcfd60abcca32e2800071de588c2 bigdadstatementuptoandincludingthetwoadmonitions Note that hacking is a felony and not worth the trouble it may cause you. See also ==
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