User:Ashley Y

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[edit] Wikipedia

PWD

This user supports Pure wiki deletion.

This user prefers the Bold, Revert, Discuss cycle.

3	This user has over three edits on the English Wikipedia.

[edit] History

This user is from England.

This user is a Cantabrigian.

BA	This user has a Bachelor of Arts degree.

This user lives in the state of Washington.

[edit] Language

en-gb-N

This user is a native speaker of British English.

UK	This user uses British English.

they

This user considers singular they standard English usage.

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This user is an intermediate speaker of blazon.

fgn-0

This user doesn't speak any dialect of foreign, and will talk to foreigners in English believing they will understand if one is just loud enough.

[edit] Software

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This user sees the world around them in Haskell.

This user can program in Scheme.

c#-4

This user is an expert C# programmer.

Java

This user can program in Java.

c++-4

This user is an expert C++ programmer.

c-4

This user is an expert C programmer.

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This user can write HTML.

λ	This user is fluent in Lambda calculus.

[edit] Politics

lib

This user is a liberal.

This user is a monarchist.

This user approves of approval voting.

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This user supports the independence of Cascadia.

This user supports the United Nations.

This user supports the European Union.

This user is in favour of EU enlargement in a westerly direction.

This user believes in a binational solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.

[edit] Food

This user eats sushi.

This user eats cheese.

This user eats strawberries.

This user drinks.

This user drinks wine.

This user drinks water.

This user drinks orange juice.

[edit] Other

This user is pagan.

This user enjoys going to the sauna.

This user's favourite colour is purple.

This user loathes, but is forced to observe, Daylight Saving Time.

This user knows by heart the first three digits in the decimal representation of pi.

I'm mostly interested in English folklore and traditions, and contemporary paganism in England and the United States.

I'm more of a fiddler and corrector than an originator. I also like to categorise. I organised Category:Religion into subcats and occasionally maintain it.

Pages into which I have legitimately introduced obscenities: James II of England, Earl, River Kennet, Euphemism.

[edit] Opinions

I believe that neutrality is better served by editors proclaiming their opinions up-front rather than pretending that they become "neutral" the moment they start editing.

My intention is not to bias articles by misrepresenting the evidence, rather, these are ideas that seem true to me to varying degrees of certainty given the evidence available, but for some reason are not always widely held among the editing community. My concern is only for the truth.

(in no particular order)

Israeli-Palestinian conflict: I support a binational solution as the only just solution. I am inspired by Martin Buber in this regard. An ethnically-constituted state cannot be defended on liberal grounds, either Israel or the old South Africa. Actually I'm not against a two-state solution, but both states should be secular and non-ethnically constituted, even as they are created for the different nations. My position is close to that of Jewish Voice for Peace.[1]

Genital integrity: I support this. Infant genital mutilation is a bizarre cultural practice that just happens to be a (hopefully fading) norm for boys in the United States.

History of modern paganism: I'm most convinced by Ronald Hutton.

Diet: I suspect the Palaeolithic diet is the healthiest, at least if part of a Palaeolithic life-style that includes a lot of aerobic exercise. Like Brillat-Savarin, I suspect carbs make you fat I think because they're less satisfying for the same number of calories than protein.

Christianity: There's something a bit silly about any religion that insists that everyone who doesn't follow it will suffer eternally in hell. Of course, not all Christians believe that.

Wikipedia: Wikipedia is largely poorly written. However, if the Encyclopaedia Britannica is the gold standard of encyclopaedias, then Wikipedia clearly cannot be denied from qualifying as an encyclopaedia on the basis of accuracy[2] and in my view isn't denied on any other basis. Oddly, before this study was done, I would have estimated Wikipedia to have around a thousand times more errors than Britannica. I'm not greatly surprised by the revealed error rate of the former, but I am surprised by that of the latter given the degree of respect it is accorded.

I suppose Britannica is like a public bathroom where the graffiti is carved into the walls rather than pencilled.