User:Gene Poole

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I'm a 40-ish male resident of Sydney who discovered Wikipedia late in 2002.

I happily admit to being an eccentric and a polymath; I hold a design degree, work in sales & marketing in the financial services industry, and spend my time pursuing a multiplicity of interests.

As co-founder and chief executive of Atlantium I'm the public face of a socially and politically progressive globalist organisation with around 1000 members in over 90 countries.

I've been a volunteer broadcaster on Australia's oldest and largest public (community) FM radio station, 2MBS for nearly 2 decades. Since October 2005 I've also been a director of the station, and as Chair of the IT Committe am responsible for driving the organisation towards online multi-channel content delivery.

I enjoy international travel and photography, and try to spend at least 4 weeks every year outside Australia indulging these passions. My architectural photography has featured in exhibitions at such institutions as the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Melbourne City Museum, and in publications such as the Qantas Airways in-flight magazine. If you'd like the URL of my commercial photography site, send me an email.

All of the above means that I have a need to be efficient with my time, and as a result I have a very low tolerance for fools, the wilfully stupid, pedants, dogmatists, sophists and career deletionists.

When it comes to Wikipedia I am an unashamed egalitarian inclusionist, and support the creation and retention of articles on any subject that can be verified by two or more documentary third-party offline sources and which is also unique and/or interesting enough to be a subject that someone, somewhere, sometime is likely to research on Wikipedia. I'm particularly interested in quirky topics and related oddities, which I feel we have a social and historical responsibility to properly document.

Countries I've lived in or visited

Countries I'm planning to visit during 2007-09

Countries I am planning to visit from 2010 onwards

Articles that I have created:

2MBS - Australia's oldest and largest public radio FM station.
4 o'clock wave - An interesting piece of local Australian lore.
ANZAC War Memorial - Australia's finest Art Deco public building.
Araucania and Patagonia - A doomed 19th Century South American kingdom.
Aurora Islands - Mysterious phantom islands in the south Atlantic.
Avram - A full-blown Tasmanian eccentric.
Bent Pyramid - The most unusual pyramid in Egypt.
Blue Mountains panther - Is a mysterious big cat living on Sydney's outskirts?
Bosnian pyramids - Pyramid-builders in the Balkans?
Coats of arms of micronations - Symbols and seals of ephemeral states.
Dashur - An important pyramid site near Cairo.
Egyptian pyramids - An overview of the pyramid-building phenomenon.
Empire of Atlantium - The political lobby group I co-founded.
Fisher's ghost - A famous legend of early colonial Australia.
Flags of micronations - Real flags of ephemeral states.
Floating islands - An unusual but common phenomenon.
Fort Dennison - The last martello tower ever built.
Freak wave - A fascinating, terrifying natural phenomenon.
Fruit palace - Predecessor of the McMansion.
Garden Palace - Site of the Sydney International Exhibition of 1879.
Holy Name Cathedral, Brisbane - Australia's biggest unbuilt church.
Independent State of Aramoana - New Zealand environmental secessionist state.
Independent State of Rainbow Creek - Another rural Australian secessionist state.
List of largest gatherings in history - Mine is bigger than yours!
List of Art Deco buildings in Melbourne - see below.
List of Art Deco buildings in Sydney - the start of an intended project.
List of Art Deco buildings in Tasmania - see above.
Nan Tien temple - The largest Buddhist temple in the southern hemisphere.
Nation of Celestial Space - The biggest micronation ever!
Nubian pyramids - The little-known pyramids of Sudan.
Padstow, New South Wales -
Panania, New South Wales - Where I lived as a child.
Panania railway station, Sydney - Where I caught trains as a child.
Province of Bumbunga - Outback Australian eccentric British monarchist.
Potts Point, New South Wales - The suburb of inner-Sydney in which I live.
Pyramidion - The pointy bit at the top of Egyptian pyramids.
Red Pyramid - The world's first true pyramid.
Riverwood, New South Wales - The suburb formerly known as Herne Bay.
South Saqqara Stone - An important archaeological artefact from Egypt.
Sovereign State of Aeterna Lucina - The country that banned blue icecream.
Trim (cat) - The first feline to circumnavigate Australia.
Ultima Thule Ambient Music - Nationally-syndicated radio show that I've produced for 18 years.