User:Vassyana

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I am a coordinator for informal mediation, a member of the Mediation Committee, a semi-regular third opinion provider and sporadic good article reviewer. If you need assistance with a dispute or want an outside opinion, I'll be glad to help however I can, including pointing you at places where you might receive better help than I can provide.

Contents 1 Two-dimensional cubes 2 Essays 2.1 Rants 2.2 Thoughts 3 Things needing to be done 3.1 Vital article improvement 3.2 Taoism related articles 4 Sandboxes 5 Useful and helpful 6 Awards 7 Identity 8 Meta 8.1 Other WMF projects 9 Old

Wikipe-tan meditating deeply upon the mysteries of Wikipedia. Aum...

[edit] Two-dimensional cubes

Boxish sort of things This user's account is secured with a unique Committed Identity. Content contributed by this user is released under any Creative Commons attribution license. It is possible this User is human. Please approach with extreme caution.

Sysopy objects This user [1] an administrator on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This administrator can, and will, make difficult blocks if needed. I am fallible. I encourage other admins to be bold in reverting my admin actions.

Project related rectangles There is no Mediation Cabal and this user isn't in it. This user is a member of the Good Article Wikiproject. This user values third opinions and occasionally provides one. This user is a member of the Mediation Committee.

[edit] Essays

Wikipedia:The rules are principles (Authored) Wikipedia:These are not original research (Rewritten) About BLP. (Authored) Wikipedia:Content policy in a nutshell (Authored) Wikipedia:Verifiability and notability (Authored, Draft)

[edit] Rants Fiction is a sad pathetic thing on Wikipedia. Disruption of the wiki process (specifically consensus) is horrific. Use some common sense when it comes to notability.

[edit] Thoughts My kind of "eventualism".

[edit] Things needing to be done

Here are some tasks you can do:

• Wikify: Don Angell, Sergio Berlioz, Gene Clark, Maravilla, Alhamiri, Backlog...
• Cleanup: Tourism in the United States, List of music prodigies, Harry T. Burn, 1990 in association football, Software quality, Purwokerto, Backlog...
• Stubs: 1928 in radio, Capitalist Roader, Cable box (outside), CEVNI, Ajeeb, Academic institution, 112, More...
• Verify: Language demographics of Quebec, Pirates in popular culture, Angel, Backlog...
• Update: British Columbia Highway 99A, Australian Senate, Ansari X Prize, BBC One, Bright House Networks, More...
• Neutrality: E. Lee Spence, History of Latinos and Hispanics in the United States, Cod, Jack Dann, Liang-Jie Zhang, Backlog...
• Copyedit: Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha, OC Transpo Route 95, Naidu, Sorcerer Hunters, Gienger, More...
• Merge: Mendez Middle School, Elgin tablets, Institute of Scientific Instrumentation, Backlog...
• Style: Evolution of belief, CD-R, Gladiators (British TV show), Mercer County Park, Henry V (play), More...
• Expand: Bone Against Steel, Jed Buchwald, 1593 in music, Dan Balz, 1962 NFL Draft, The Artist at Work, 1975 Minnesota Twins season, 4G, Michael Curry, More...
• Requests: Interim efficient, Internal knowledge spillover, Linear pricing schedule, Market power theory of advertising, Metaproduction function, More...
• Articles to be split: A Separate Peace, AMV (TV station), Abu Suhail an-Nafi, Adam's Bridge, Afro-Mexican, More...
• Mediation Cabal: India, or help mediate an open case!
• Cleanup backlogs - Review recent overhauls - Active fixup projects - Maintenance projects - Maintenance COTW: be merged

[edit] Vital article improvement

You can help, if you'd like, by adopting one of these articles (or really any vital article or core topic needing attention).

• Virgil
• Euclid
• Plato
• Socrates
• Paul the Apostle
• Zoroaster
• Confucianism
• Utilitarianism
• Adam (Bible)
• Aristotle
• Sun Tzu -- Underway. Unreferenced material and original research drastically cut. Expansion with reliable academic sources started. 05:07, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
• Shinto
• Haitian Vodou

[edit] Taoism related articles

• Sun Tzu -- Underway. Unreferenced material and original research drastically cut. Expansion with reliable academic sources started. 05:07, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
• Laozi -- Potential FA. Needs more work.
• Wu Chi -- Needs serious work.
• Fusion of the Five Elements -- A common and central practice in Taoist alchemy and meditation.
• Mantak Chia -- Very prominent figure in Taoist circles in English-speaking countries.
• Chinese alchemy -- Needs serious work.

[edit] Sandboxes

• Exercise in trying to pare down policy. Sandbox only. Experimentation and personal interest.
• To-do list. rarely up to date
• Exercise in writing Wikipedia Principles for Normal People. Self-explanatory.
• /Ellen Barrett. A potential article about Ellen Barrett, the Episcopal priest.

[edit] Useful and helpful

Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia

Virtual classroom Category tracker Manual of Style

Good stuff. Editor review backlog. Deletion discussions.

New users need to be welcomed. User talk templates. Stub cleanup project.

Cleanup templates. Underused but useful template. Sweet sweet tools.

CAT:P. Now with subcats for conduct, content and deletion policy.

[edit] Awards

Some people gave me shiney happy things. Here they are.

[edit] Identity

[edit] Meta

I am Vassyana on meta.

[edit] Other WMF projects

Vassyana on the incubator.

Vassyana on Wikibooks.

Vassyana on Wikiversity.

[edit] Old

• /ArbCom 2007 Some interesting comparisons of the numbers in the 2007 ArbCom election.