User:EventHorizon

About me

After an absence lasting about a year and a half, I reintroduced myself to Wikipedia on December 3, 2004. As of February 11, I have 653 edits on this account.

I have strong views on ethical issues related to the Internet and Wikipedia. Forgive me if I voice them loudly; it's nothing personal.

I recently completed a month's worth of research on the "Ambition controversy" to satisfy my curiosity about the matter. The findings are below, and I believe them to be a neutral presentation of the facts. Feel free to comment if you disagree.

Mission statement

I was a Wikipedia contributor during 2003, and left that summer because of building incivility. Wikipedia ceased to be what it once was, a wonderful idea in practice, but increasingly over-run by the barbarians.

I've come back because I've realized that this project is important and that, really, the only way to fix it is to fight. By proving myself a valuable contributor, I will gain the recognition, then respect, of this community so I can right it.

I will be harshly critical of users, particularly sysops, who I judge to be detrimental to civility and the Wikipedia community. I hope no one takes this too personally.

I have worked on

Created article

• 1993 North American storm complex¹
• Common knowledge
• Energy (motivational)
• Human extinction
• I'd Hit It
• January thaw
• Little Nicky (disambiguation)
• Pet cloning
• Pressure system
• Singularity (climate)
• Sept (slang)
• Split dollar game
• Sucks
• Texas hold 'em hands
• Winter storm¹

¹ Used one or more pre-existing articles, major revisions and page moving.

Major revisions

• Black cat
• Celebrity
• Class in the contemporary United States
• Foot binding
• Gin rummy
• Necrophilia
• Nouveau riche
• Numeracy
• Social hierarchy
• Suction
• Vitality curve

Mid-size revisions

• Fuck
• Grade (education)
• Matias Reyes
• Rape

Hall of shame

Users who have vandalized my user page:

• User:Zipper (Dec. 13, 2004)
• User:Scluum (Feb. 1, 2005)

Discussions and other topics

• Ask an Expert? (December 26, 2004)
• Findings on Ambition Controversy (January 19, 2005)
• Next danger to United States (February 7, 2005)

External links

• Edit counter
• Dream On America - Newsweek article, a great read.