User: Ingoolemo
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Me
I am an obsessive wikiphile, in the Junior year of high school. In my spare time, I run Cross-Country, which is basically my life (I was voted Team Captain! along with my best friend Micah! I'm so excited! Can't you tell!). To keep in shape, I do Nordic Skiing (also very fun), and Track (pretty fun, but very serious). Outside of these activities, I am as obsessive a Tolkienophile as I am a wikiphile. Tolkien’s constructed universe captivates me. In fact, this philia is so profound that I have engaged in my own universe construction, writing novels in my spare time (complete with the construction of language and culture).
Wikipedia appeals to me so much because it is a sort of 'information democracy'. Any person can contribute to it, allowing a vast range of information to be included in it. Because of the open-source nature of Wikipedia, it has the potential to be more comprehensive than any other encyclpædia.
An explanation of my username: it comes from an epithet I have given myself in Quenya, Mánandil Mizimon Ingólemo. The first name is meant to mean 'friend of goodness’. The second is a translation of my own first name, Karl. The last is the word for 'wizard, one of deep lore'. In retrospect, this is a rather arrogant name, and Ñolmo ‘man of lore' would be more suitable. But it’s too late to change my username. Anyway, if I ever achieve my dream of being a sysop, Ingoolemo/Ingólemo would be a fitting name.
Contributions
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Availability
Unfortunately, the school season is back upon us, and due to class load I may cease to be available except when I have time.
Miscellany
Some thoughts on proper use of Wikipedia
As noted above, Wikipedia's open-content nature gives it the potential to be a far more informative and thorough source of information than any other reference. Unfortunately, its greatest strength is also its greatest weakness, because any fool can try to pass of the information they have available as true. This means that Wikipedia may not necessarily be as reliable as other sources. Steps can be taken, though, to reduce its liabilities and enhance its strenghts.
One of the most important ways to do this is by promoting responsibility. I feel that Wikipedia should recommend using user accounts even more actively; if it increases logged-in users, it also increases accountability. I always try to edit under my username. This has embarassed me sometimes, but I live through it. The point is, by using usernames, Wikipedians can be more easily kept to an encyclopædia-friendly course of contribution.
A simple thing users can do is include mention of new pages they have made on their userpage (for mine, see my contributions). This will allow others to easily find that page and give it whatever Tender Loving Care it may need. Another way to try to get people involved in editing is by recommeding to every user that they include the {{opentask}} template on their userpage and user talk page.
Most importantly, Wikipedia must have reliable information. The classic mantra of citing sources hold true here, because without sources and references, the information is difficult to confirm. Perhaps a link to Style and How-to Directory should be included in the navigation box on the left.
My use of Æ
The ligature Æ/æ is an Anglo-Saxon letter called ash, used to represent the sound of a in cat. We see it in words such as Ælfwine 'elf-friend', or Æthelred. It is also used to represent the sound of the pronoun I in latin, a combination usually written in modern texts as ae. æ is seen in older books, such as the original printings of H. Rider Haggard novels, in which one sees things like Julius Cæsar, hæroglyph, etc. In the modern world, ae is universally used over æ, except in Danish and Dutch (though the Encyclopaedia Britannica still styles itself the Encylcopædia Britannica, for some reason).
On one occasion, I decided to change the taxonomic family ending from -idae to -idæ. This change was quickly spotted, and it was explained to me why I shouldn't use æ in most cases on Wikipædia. However, I retain it on my userpage, because I'm a loony. →Iñgólemo← (talk) 00:30, 2004 Jun 23 (UTC)
Protection of Userpage
Look, there's no reason why anybody but me should edit it; its my userpage, after all. If you want to contact me, there's no objection I have to you leaving a note here.
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