View source for User:Coldacid

{{lowercase-user}}
{{userpage}}

<!-- topicons -->
{{Autoconfirmed topicon}}
{{Navigation popups topicon}}
{{HotCat topicon}}
{{Twinkle topicon}}

{{userboxtop}}
<!--{{User:Coldacid/Userboxes/Leaving Wikipedia}}-->
{{user incl}}
{{User wikipedia/Anti-Administrator}}
{{User:ZeroOne/Userboxes/Bureaucracy}}
{{User:Mistress Selina Kyle/User Copyright}}
{{User:Hotspot/userbox/copyrightimagesinuserboxes}}
{{User:Coldacid/Userboxes/Kilobytes}}
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing/Userbox}}
{{User WikiProject Microsoft}}
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Toronto/Userbox}}
{{User Microformats}}
{{User frs}}
{{User Wikidata}}
{{User canada}}
{{User programming-3}}
{{User:Scepia/game dev}}
{{User:Scepia/politics}}
{{userboxbottom}}
{| style="float: right; clear: none; margin-top: -7px;"
|-
|{{Todobox|for={{u|coldacid}}}}
|-
|}

'''Welcome to the user page of Mr Acid the Harassment Campaigner!'''

I'm an on-again off-again kind of editor, but I can really sink my jaws into some articles here. I've created and heavily revised a number of articles here, and have also created a variety of [[User:Coldacid/Userboxes|userboxes]]. I did a lot of work some time ago building out the [[Toastmasters International]] article, and while it's been some time since I worked on it, I'm proud of the state I brought it to, and of the work by other editors in maintaining the quality I brought to it. My main focus now on Wikipedia involves software development and video game topics, although I'm also likely to lurk in administrative spaces (as much as I don't want to be an admin, I'm still interested in the processes and how I can help improve the site through them.)

I have my [[User:Coldacid/Complaints about Wikipedia|complaints and issues]] about Wikipedia (mostly related to bureaucracy and fair use [[paranoia]]) but I don't let that stop me from making my own improvements to the content. I've considered leaving the project in the past, and whenever I become a bit too melancholy, such thoughts are quick to return. As a font of information, Wikipedia would be so much better were it not for people of bureaucratic inclinations who are too heavily focused on the notion of notability, when rather they should focus on whether something is factual. In fact, I'm even [[User:Coldacid/Verifiability, and truth|writing an essay]] about how verifiability should be balanced with truth, instead of strictly overriding it.

==Wikipedia interests and activities==
*[[Software development]]
*[[Portal:Computer and video games|Computer games]] and [[game development]]
*[[Toronto]], [[Pickering, Ontario|Pickering]], and historical townships and counties of [[Ontario]]
*Minor clean-up of pages (copyediting, link fixing, etc.)

''[[Special:Contributions/coldacid|All contributions]]''

===Pages I've started or contributed to heavily===
This is not a complete list, and just because the article may be great (or crappy) now doesn't mean that I'm the reason for it. If I am responsible for such status, however, you'll see it bragged about below.
*[[City of Toronto Act]] (rewrite)
*[[Cure for Sanity]] (plus [[:Image:PWEI-Cure For Sanity cover.jpg|cover image]])
*[[George Brown College]]
*[[OkCupid]]
*[[Port Union, Ontario]]
*[[Program Design Language]]
*[[Toastmasters International]] (rewrite; plus [[:Image:Toastmasters curriculum.png|curriculum graph]])
*[[Commodore 8060]]

====Templates of note====
*{{tlx|Mf-adr}}
*{{tlx|oldmergefull}}
*{{tlx|Commodore disk drives}} (reorganized)
*{{tlx|User python-0}}
*{{tlsx|SPI-notice}}

===Former or minor interests===
*[[Template:Holocene]] and other early civilization period templates
*[[Portal:Computer science|Computer science]] and [[software engineering]]
*[[Big Eyes, Small Mouth]] and [[Tri-Stat dX|Tri-Stat]]

==Disclosures==
* I am a member of [[Toastmasters International|Toastmasters]].
* I have a pro-[[GamerGate controversy|GamerGate]] bias (and am avoiding that page due to it).
* I am a (past) member of the [[Pirate Party of Canada]].
* I work as a software developer, primarily with Microsoft technologies.
* I attended [[George Brown College]].

==User subpages==
*[[User:Coldacid/Verifiability, and truth|Verifiability, and truth]] (essay)
*[[User:Coldacid/Userboxes|Userboxes by coldacid]]
*[[User:Coldacid/Complaints about Wikipedia|Complaints about Wikipedia]]
''[[Special:PrefixIndex/User:Coldacid/|All subpages]]''

==Possibly useful crap?==
* When summoned by [[WP:FRS]] to participate in an RfC, and not planning to watch the page, the following can be used in place of the regular signature:
: <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Help:Substitution|subst]]:[[User:Coldacid/Templates/FRS involved]]|coldacid<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code>
: Of course, if you're not me, you should replace my username with your own.

* When involved in content disputes, or dealing with stuff in places like [[WP:AN/I]] or [[WP:AE]], chill out and read these before doing something you may regret later. (You especially, {{ul|coldacid}}.)
** [[WP:DBF|Don't be a fanatic]]
** [[WP:REICHSTAG|No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man]]
** [[WP:BIKE|Avoid Parkinson's Bicycle Shed Effect]]

* '''Reminder:''' As much as you may want to, you can't give thanks to a bot. :(

* '''Reminder:''' Despite whatever the definition for ''[[wiktionary:they|they]]'' says, it absolutely cannot be used as the singular third person! To do otherwise is [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&curid=5137507&diff=653213210&oldid=653211821 obviously an attack]. /s

[[Category:Wikipedians in Ontario|coldacid]]