User: Ruy Lopez
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Hi, Im Ruy Lopez.
I like to play chess. I am interested in history and politics.
I feel the bioinformatics pages could be better, as well as related pages (having to do with biochemistry, the Evolutionary tree and so forth). I will be working to improve this.
"Decades later, with the start of the Cold War, historians would begin reinvestigating Goebbels' claims and, surprisingly, most investigators found them to be true." -- Sentence from Collectivisation in the USSR[1] (before I removed it).
As has been mentioned on Wikipedia before, the majority of English Wikipedia users are obviously part of the "English speaking peoples" as Churchill once called them. Thus these are people who are parts of the British empire or American empire, and have been taught in school, church, television and so forth that this empire is a good thing. Beyond that, Internet usage statistics show that editors would predominately be drawn from the white collar minority of these countries (as opposed to the blue collar majority). Thus Wikipedia would tend to come from the point of view of an upper class of the two largest imperial nations, one rising at the others expense.
I feel this imposes a POV throughout Wikipedia. I am trying to counter this by writing in a style that is from the POV of people outside of this group.
My thoughts on Wikipedia procedure/policy etc.:
- I think moderation policy and technology needs to ramp up. Another user engaged me in edit wars on multiple articles by going through my edit history and reverting everything I'd done. The case is in arbitration, and while it looks like they will be getting punished much more severely than me, it looks like I might possibly be banned for a week for not discussing things with this other person enough, at least, in the period a month after this started when I gave up on the hope that this could be settled amicably without deus ex machina intervention. If this user had been disciplined earlier for breaking the three revert rule and so forth, I would not be facing the possibility of a week's ban. Thus a slowdown in arbitration results in not just a backlog, but more arbitration to deal with. A stitch in time saves nine.
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names) allows for one of the most heinous POV abuses of all - a POV name. For example, "pro-life" people see partial-birth abortion while "pro-choice" people see late-term abortion. Are the islands Malvinas or the Falkland Islands? Danzig or Gdansk? The six counties or Northern Ireland? Oxymorons like communist state can be created. This is an ingenious way to insert POV, make people use your phrase and you're already winning. The rule as it stands is horrible, sticking POV into URL's, article titles and article names.
