User:The Prince Manifest
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After observing the Wikipedia for some months, I joined in early 2004 and have since contributed on a regular to rare basis depending on what I am doing. From 2004 to the beginning of 2007 I used the name Evolver of Borg, but am now using the more Machivellen title of The Prince Manifest (The Prince and its latin name were taken).
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[edit] Origins
I was born in Melbourne, Australia on October 15th 1988. My grandparents on my mother's side are both survivors of the Holocaust. My grandfather comes from Poland and escaped the Nazis with only his life, losing both his parents, brother and sister. He was in the Lodz Ghetto and was transferred between a number of Labour Camps during the war. My grandmother, from Polish Ukraine (made part of the Ukraine again after the war), lucky enough to survive with 4 of her brothers and her mother, her oldest brother dissapearing when the Nazis marched in, presumed murdered by the SS. After hiding in the forests with many relatives until the Red Army liberated the Ukraine, her youngest brother dissapeared with the Red Army, before returning after the war. He then went to the British Mandate of Palestine in its last years before they came to Australia, where he fought in the Israeli War of Independence as a member of Menachem Begin's Irgun. On the father's side my family has been in Australia for 9 generations, some of the first Jewish settlers in Australia.
[edit] Life
Currently in limbo as I await first year university to begin, I currently sit around most of the day unemployed, trying to figure out what to do. I'm still quite tired from my final year of school, so I'm enjoying all those things I missed during the horrible year that was 2006. I enjoy reading The Australian, The Fin Review and The Age. Morals compromise a significant part of my identity, being the compassionate conservative that I am.
[edit] Education
I received an ENTER score of 99.30 for my VCE in December 2006, and have been offered a place in the LLB/BComm double degree at the University of Melbourne.
[edit] Ideology
Since being right in a class survey in Second Grade in which I as part of a 2 person minority against a 17 member majority I predicted that John Howard would win the 1996 Australian Federal Election, my preferences leaned more towards the right. I am a strong believer in the Liberal Party of Australia, of which I am a member, although I don't approve of the arrogance of some former power holders such as Jeff Kennett and Malcolm Fraser towards the general public and towards their own party. On the front of American Politics I am a supporter of the US Democrats, although I don't mind Republican policy (as with is the case to a lesser extent with the ALP). In the case of the United Kingdom I am a supporter of the Tories, as I believe that New Labor will stay true to the old Labor roots and because of this are a left-wing party. Because of the indecisiveness of the left in Israeli politics, I was a supporter the Israeli Likud Party, although I didn't agree with everything they did. This is why I now am a supporter of Kadima, which has more in common with my centre-right/moderate ideology. Although I am of a religious background, I believe that relgious parties have no place in Israeli politics, nor Australian or anywhere else for that matter of fact.
[edit] On the Internet
I have been using the internet since my family purchased an IBM Aptiva in late 1997, which I continued to use until mid 2003. Due to my interest in gaming, as was the case with many kids at the time, I became a member of the gaming community, more specifically the fan community of the Sega game "Sonic the Hedgehog". Combinded with my learning of basic HTML, this led to my first and only foray into websites, with my website Sonic PC - http://www.geocities.com/ssrgau/ - which I ran from 2000 to 2002 with medium success. Since then I left the community and have not returned since. I've also had a stint with a right/left wing humour blog, although people affiliated the humour too much to my personal character so I didn't bother keeping it past two posts.
[edit] My views on the management of Wikipedia
Although I noted my political position earlier, I do not believe (as Wikipedia policy states) that point of view should effect how Wikipedia is managed. I object strongly to any attempts to hijack Wikipedia for ideological purposes, the content created by such attempts belonging on private Geocities webspace. However, this does not mean I object to grassroots movements aimed at protecting content. As Larry Sanger's proposal of Citizendium shows, it is extremely hard to keep Wikipedia both neutral in point of view and professional in the way it is written. While I support Sanger's decision, Citizendium will ultimately face the same problems Wikipedia faces. Nothing is perfect (see United Nations). In the coming year, I hope to become more actively involved.
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