User:Hbackman

"Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic." – Dan Rather

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Hi everyone! Don't really have much to say about myself personally, other than stuff that's already covered below. Feel free to drop a message on my talk page if there's anything you'd like to chat about! :)

A sort of to-do list

If someone wants to give me a hand with any of these, I'd always appreciate the help. :)

• Make Stereotype threat into its own article, rather than a redirect to Stereotype
• Translate this into English, to be integrated into Finrod Felagund (working on it now; see User:Hbackman/Finrod)
• subst: all of the test templates that haven't been subst:ed. Currently on {{test}}.
• Join Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels, when I have the time to actually participate in the project.
• Fix a number of punctuational errors and awkward things introduced into Rent (musical) by an anon. (done almost through the Act I plot summary)
• Archive Talk:Stanford University.
• Make The Rape of the Lock readable.
• Help pare Nineteen Eighty-Four down.
• Create sections in The Spoilers.
• Remove irrelevant information from the section on Pilgrim's Progress in John Bunyan and put this information in other, more appropriate sections.
• Add a reference to support the fact that Dickens worked in a blacking factory to Charles Dickens.

About me

User:MiraLuka/Userboxes/User female	This user identifies as bisexual.	User:MiraLuka/Userboxes/User boyfriend
This user was born on February 9.	Template:User College	This user does not smoke.
Template:User tea

Wikipedia

Template:User vandalized	This user maintains a strict policy advising against all personal attacks.	This user does not understand mean people. Please be nice.
Template:User novanity	It's really pretty simple: → Remain neutral ← → Don't be a dick ← → Ignore all rules←	This user believes that only articles need reflect a NPOV, and that displaying political, religious, or other beliefs using userboxes and user categories should not be banned.
This user is opposed to online censorship.	Wikipedia is not censored.	This user is a member of the Counter-Vandalism Unit.
This user finds edit/revert wars disruptive.	This user is a recent changes patroller.	This user scored 215.34959365358978 on the Wikipediholic test.

Article(s) I've created

• Lucile Lomen, the first woman to clerk for a Supreme Court justice

Mini-rants

(Some) people are stupid

More and more, as I look at the talk pages of users with warnings, particularly those who might be able to make constructive edits if they were only willing to compromise and listen to other people, I'm struck by how full of themselves some people can be. This is a cooperative project, people, and you are not God's gift to Wikipedia. Don't come in as a newbie assuming you can run the place. Take some time, learn the ropes (policies, how people interact on the site, how to get things done), and FOR GOD'S SAKE be civil. Do you actually think it's going to help your case to throw insults around?

I have too much faith in rationality

Why, why, why can't I stop feeding the trolls? I have some strange belief that I might be able to get them to come around if I talk to them reasonably... I guess I just can't understand getting one's kicks from being vindictive, irrational, mean-spirited, and destructive.

Favorite edits

Wikipedia:Babel

enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.

fr-2Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français.

...This user would like to be able to speak more languages.

Search user languages

• The edit summary on this made my day. Rklawton never fails to entertain me in his dealings with vandals.
• This... I don't even know what to say about this. Where did it come from?
• This tall tale concocted for an AfD which was interesting in and of itself... talk about desperation to get an article kept.
• YES! PLEASE!!! That comment should go at the top of every damn page in Wikipedia. If people are going to vandalize, they can at least entertain those of us who have to go around and revert it.
• Another "where the heck did THAT come from?" edit. Seriously. How do people come up with this stuff?
• It amazes me how full of themselves some people are...
• Wow... did someone whose page about a band was put up for speedy deletion just make a CIVIL and UNDERSTANDING talk page comment? This made my night. Nice people do exist.
• Yeah, no kidding. (You have to read the two comments directly above the added one for this to make sense.) This made me laugh out loud.

I ::heart:: English

Grammar

Since I'm an English major, I figured that I should weigh in on the pressing grammatical issues of our time. </tongue in cheek>

A, B, and CThis user prefers the serial comma.	they he or sheThis user considers the singular they to be substandard English usage.	infinitiveThis user has no opinion about split infinitives.
... in.Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which this user will not put.	to too twoThis user thinks that too many people have no idea how to use words that they should have learned in grade two.	AIM-0This user does not understand or have any interest in AOLer.
itsThis user is a native speaker of Itsekiri.	’sThi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice.

Reading

Template:User Bibliophile	Template:User fiction	This user enjoys reading anything.
Template:User heavy reading	Template:User short stories	This user reads newspapers.
Big Brother is watching this user.	._.This user sometimes reads manga.

Interests/Hobbies

Template:User Writing	Template:User singing	Template:User cook
*_*This user loves anime.

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My Politics and Other Beliefs

User:MiraLuka/Userboxes/User liberal	This user believes it is every citizen's duty to vote.	This user opposes George W. Bush but equally vandalism of his Wikipedia biography.
This user believes that the death penalty should never be used.	PC This user is pro-choice.	This user supports equal rights for queer people.
This user supports the legalization of same sex marriage.	File:FirstCrusade.jpg This user believes the world would be a happier, safer and saner place without religion.	This user is probably going to Hell.

Sex

User:MiraLuka/Userboxes/User sex

This user supports and encourages the practice of safe sex.

This user supports the inclusion of sex education in school systems.

Random Other Stuff That I Find Amusing

This user knows that 42 is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.	Template:User Carmen Sandiego
Just because I think everyone is trying to kill me doesn't mean they aren't. You know what I mean?

Userboxes about Userboxes! *dies*

This user recently discovered how to use userboxes.	Template:User ubx	ubx-5This user uses entirely too many userboxes.
Template:Userbox Love	Template:Userbox Night	Template:User preference
Template:User ubx num	Template:User selfref-3	Template:User uniform userbox

Barnstars

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar For having infinitely better interpersonal skills than I, basically you know why this is awarded. For something I wish I could do myself. — nathanrdotcom (T • C • W) 05:14, 26 March 2006 (UTC)