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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
My April Fools' Day joke next year will be absolutely epic. You have been warned. Hype it!
Hi, I'm Kurt Weber, wikipedian-sort of and denizen of #wikipedia on Freenode (irc.freenode.net).
I am a Libertarian and a resident of Princeton, Indiana (actually a few miles outside of it).
I am also an economics/history double-major and classics/philosophy double-minor at the University of Southern Indiana, and an instructor for the Princeton Community High School marching band.
My favorite writers are (in order):
I am also a Member Advocate.
My home page
Other sections of my user page:
As of 19:39 CST 17 August 2008, this page has been vandalized 11 times.
Wikipolitics
I am an extreme inclusionist. Only articles that support a small subset of speedy criteria should be deleted:
I hold that copyright is not simply a legal or utilitarian construct but an objective moral principle, and thus all individuals are obligated to abide by it totally and absolutely. Thus, I oppose all so-called (but misnamed) "fair use" images and aggressively pursue copyvios. This is not a contradiction with my radical extremist inclusionism, as inclusionism is concerned with what subjects are worthy for articles, not the particular content of those articles.
Essays
Cranks
I am the creator of Template:Crank, which looks like this:
This article concerns a topic which is deemed by the overwhelming majority of experts in its concerned field to be absolutely absurd or total nonsense
I created this a few weeks after someone (probably only half-jokingly) suggested it in #wikipedia; however, it has usefulness. Use it where needed, but be prepared to back it up.
M*A*S*H Quotes
(Season Three, Episode "Springtime"):
Radar: Slaking? Wow...
(Season Six, Episode "Fade In, Fade Out"):
Winchester: Where may I find your commanding officer?
Radar: Uh, in his commanding office, sir.
Articles I have written
I am the primary author or originator of the following articles:
I am the primary author or originator of the following lists:
Redirects:
A current major project of mine is breaking up the article on President George W. Bush; to that end, I have created the following articles which consist of content moved over from the main article:
Templates I have created
My photographs and images
Geographical
Functional
M*A*S*H Episodes
I also write articles on various individual M*A*S*H episodes:
Other Wikipedia Stuff
I am a participant in the Stub Sorting WikiProject.
I am the founder of WikiProject Indiana.
Other Wikis
I am active on English Wikibooks, albeit under a pseudonym (the only place I use one).
I am the founder of Monster M*A*S*H and the Indiana-Illinois-Kentucky Tri-State Wiki, under the same username (Kmweber) as here.
Quotes and Observations
"The difference between myself and socialists is that I want freedom for everyone, whereas socialists only want freedom for those who don't have something they want (and EVERYBODY has something a socialist wants)."
"A field of study can be safely considered complex when it starts using Hebrew letters for symbols."
"Given a sufficiently strong spring, any Maglite battery compartment cover is impossible to close."
"The most amazing thing in the world is how the company that makes Maglites manages to stay in business. The most any person would need at any one time is three--one for the house, one for the car, and one kept with all his camping gear. And those three will last forever, and will likely wind up being passed on to the grandchildren, who will pass them on to their grandchildren, ad infinitum. So where are all these new sales coming from?"
"Revolution becomes necessary, or at least justified, when government seeks to deny its citizens the means of planning or carrying out a revolution."
"People who think porn degrades women obviously haven't heard of feminism."
"Welfare recipients are the new feudal lords--they are the unproductive living off the productive by holding them at gunpoint."
"Anyone who argues against something on the grounds that it will help 'the big companies' can be safely ignored--not because of the idea itself, but because he used the phrase 'the big companies'."
"Leonard Peikoff is such a secondhander..."
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