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Hello, welcome to my page! I love Wikipedia and am a huge believer in its mission to provide free information to everyone. It requires humility and working with people you don't always agree with to make an article as NPOV as possible. Learning these conflict resolution techniques, assuming good faith, working towards a goal has made me better as a human, and I try to take these techniques with me in my daily life.

Working on articles is like being in a rock tumbler. Wikipedia has helped smooth rough edges which I'm grateful for. You will read my edit history and there are moments and comments I'm not proud of. I have made comments in anger. I have bitten the newcomer. I am sorry. I look forward to chipping off more rough edges!

Wikipedia Commitments

  • I am committed to assuming good faith.
  • I am committed to being approachable, particularly to new editors. I want to help if you are confused by something!
  • I am committed to seeking solutions that both sides agree are fair.
  • I am committed to accurately representing reliable secondary sources, even when I disagree with them.

Please don't hesitate to call me out on my talk page if you feel I'm falling short of these commitments.

I'm a big believer in resolving disputes amicably. If you feel I'm not refuting the central point, please call me out! I want to be better.

Favorite Article

My favorite article to write was Fukui cave. It was fascinating to learn about, and gratifying to plug a huge gap in human knowledge on Wikipedia.

Cool things

Gripe about AI

It really bothers me that Wikipedia is the backbone of Artificial Intelligence companies who are valued at billions and billions of dollars, and yet don't kick back anything. source We still have annual fund drives to keep Wikipedia afloat. I have donated countless hours to making Wikipedia a better place, to provide free information to everyone. It bothers me that AI companies create paywalls to information.

I am very concerned that as people use these AI tools, that fewer people will go to the source (Wikipedia). As fewer people actually visit Wikipedia, the fewer editors, the quality of content will go down and we will all be worse off because of it. AI is cannibalizing created content, killing the goose that lays the golden egg.

Favorite Quotes

  • "You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something." - George Bernard Shaw
  • "The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything." - Walter Bagehot
  • "If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you." - Oscar Wilde
  • "Knowledge is Power" -Francis Bacon
  • "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt
  • "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss (probably falsely attributed)
  • "Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen." - Michael Jordan
  • "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt" - NOT Abraham Lincoln or Mark Twain
  • "Prejudice against innovation is a typical characteristic of an Officer Corps which has grown up in a well-tried and proven system." —Field Marshal Erwin Romme
  • "I went to sea in Destroyers as a young man and it was fun . . . then we got radios." -Admiral Arleigh Burke
  • "[...] it is beneath the dignity of excellent men to waste their time in calculation when any peasant could do the work just as accurately with the aid of a machine." —Gottfried Leibniz
  • "It's good to be uncomfortable." - Bruce Kittle to Kirk Cousins. From Quarterback_(TV_series) episode 8, time 18:50
  • "People don't change behavior because they see the light, they change behavior because they feel the heat." Michele Mosca
  • "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair

To Do List

Cryptography related articles

LDS related articles

- Update ownership timeline chart
- Remove pastings from JSP IV
- Create a diagram showing where the lacunae was filled in from on Facsimile #2
  • Do an article on Latter Day Saint iconoclasm
  • Do an article on Latter Day Saint Women and the Priesthood
  • Do an article on Latter Day Saint Movement and Pacifism
  • Rueben Miller
  • Finish List of references to seer stones in the Latter Day Saint movement history
  • Possibly create a page about the dating of the first vision
  • Finish Cunning folk traditions and the Latter Day Saint movement
  • Create better diagrams for Urim and Thummim
  • Kirtland Safety Society - Expand
  • 7 day week as a Book of Mormon Anachronism? Gold in classic maya time period before 700AD?
  • Flesh out Kinderhook Plates article
  • Add section on getting the Book of Mormon copyright in Kingston to Hiram Page
  • Naples Mound, http://www.ancientamerican.com/index.html
  • Education of Joseph Smith
  • Fix Plan of Salvation in Mormonism
  • List of Translations in the Latter Day Saint Movement - perhaps make a series
  • Missions to the Lamanites (1830s, 1880s, John Taylor 1882 revelation)
  • Do article on Stephen Burnett
  • Do article on Symonds Rider
  • Do article on Hilda Erickson
  • Fix Michael D. Rhodes if possible, or delete if nothing else.
  • Fix Zelph
  • Update article on Joseph F. Smith with latest biographical information recently published. See [4], [5], [6], [7]
  • Update M Russell Ballard
  • Update Steven Lund
  • Fix Origin of the Book of Mormon
  • Edit blood atonement
  • Joseph Smith and the criminal justice system
  • Lot Smith Cavalry Company - flesh it out.
  • Wilson Law
  • Joseph Smith and animals - There is a surprising amount of information about this.
  • Fix Porter Rockwell
  • Add pictures to Utah Native American articles from this reference.
  • Joseph Smith's move to manchester: Neighbor Orsamus Turner said it was the winter of 1819-1820
  • edit LDS stuff on Stephen A. Douglas
  • Add to Dispensationalism - Spirit of Masonry, Method Infinite which show that it preceded the 1840s
  • Nauvoo Legion
    • Did the wards align with the divisions?
    • Fill out court martial section.
  • Article on glossolalia and mormonism
  • Make series on "Revelations and Translations of Joseph Smith"
  • Do article on Jonathan Dunham.
  • Article on William Hodges and that whole wild affair
  • Article or expansion of article on Adamic Language.
  • Update Freeemasonry and Mormonism.
  • Find Special Order Number 3 (General Order #3, February 18, 1850) for battle at Fort Utah. Purportedly it is here

Misc

Disclosed Conflicts of Interest

User:MomosPenny is my daughter. She is not a sock puppet. Trying to teach my kids about service and sharing knowledge to the world.

User:Tambe is my wife. She is not a sock puppet. Just a great human being I somehow got lucky enough to be married to.

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