User:Edison
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I am interested in electrical engineering, psychology, politics, music, genealogy, photography, religion, science and technology, the American Civil War, and the history of electrical and electronic technology, radio, and television. I am interested in giving appropriate recognition to scientists and inventors whose contributions may have been obscured by the more famous or financially successful persons who used earlier work without crediting the person who developed the device or process.
At the same time, I wish to refute invalid claims that someone who tinkered with a device was the "true inventor" when their work did not verifiably influence the course of development of the device. Success has a thousand fathers. After someone developed the first usable and practical version of a device in the 19th century, it was common for competitors seeking to invalidate the patent to bring forth fraudulent claimants, complete with post-dated documents, lying witnesses, and prototypes supposedly decades old but in fact newly made. A thousand unreferenced websites validate a claim less than a public demonstration, a publication with details of the invention or discovery, or a patent application.
- Member since March 1, 2006
- Edit count as of Jan. 2, 2007
Total edits 5751 Main: 1693 Talk: 794 Wikipedia: 2710 Wikipedia talk: 188 User: 42 User talk: 322 Portal: 1 Category: 1
- Edit count as of Feb. 1, 2007:
Total edits 6991 Main: 1907 Talk: 881 Wikipedia: 3402 Wikipedia talk: 334 User: 56 User talk: 409 Portal: 1 Category: 1
- I have worked to establish guidelines for the notability of churches, synagogues, mosques, etc at WP:CONG and have worked to establish guidelines for the notability of shopping malls at WP:MALL. I created a proposed guideline Wikipedia:Notability (news) for the notability of the subjects of news stories, noting that not everything which makes it into the news is encyclopedic.
Politically, I am of the philosophy that the government which governs best is the one which best keeps its feet at all times off my neck. That may translate as Libertarian, Democrat, or Republican.
- Member of BLP Patrol:
- I contribute to the Reference Desk for Science, Humanities, and Miscellaneous.
- I revert vandalism and welcome newcomers.
