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''Secession is the right of all sentient beings.'' &mdash; me.

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[[Image:Jdavidb.jpg|frame|This is me and my little boy.  I think it's also the first image I ever uploaded.  My son loves watching while I edit Wikipedia, but he also loves hitting the keyboard.  He got his good looks from [[User:Carradee|his mother]].  This picture was taken back when he was tiny, and not the huge 20-pound hulking behemoth he is now.]]

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{{userbox|id=JDB|info=This user is '''J. David Blackstone''' first and a Wikipedian second.  He helps Wikipedia out of the goodness of his heart.  It's his hobby, not his job.  He thinks his individuality should not have to be left at the door to do that, and he happens to think he does a bang-up job writing NPOV and policing people of his own POV who do not know how to do that.  He thinks the chance to have a little bit of individual space is something even his heartless corporation allows in his soulless cubicle.  He thinks userboxes are overall pretty silly, including the Babel project, but recognizes that user categorization has been around for a long time, since before categories were invented, even categorizing such stupid things as user's pets and D&D alignments, and he knows that it gives users a good feeling to identify common interests, and he realizes that some people hate religion so much they can't imagine that it would be good for people to identify it as a common interest.  He thinks that anyone who agrees with Tony Sidaway's deletion summary on {{tl|user Christian}} that "proselytizing" was occurring is probably not capable of exercising NPOV.}}

<font color="gold" size=4>'''To see what I'm thinking or learning lately about Wikipedia, check out my [[/blog|wiki blog]].'''</font>

I am married to [[User:Carradee]].  We have one little boy, pictured, and not long ago we discovered that Carradee is expecting another baby! :)  Carradee was a twelve-year [[Homeschooling|homeschooled]] autodidact, and our children will be homeschooled as well.

I'm religious, a member of the [[Church of Christ]].  I enjoy the way Wikipedia's collaborative editing results in unbiased presentation of information.  I enjoy editing articles, particularly about religious topics, to remove bias, either on the part of those who agree with me or on the part of those who do not.  (As a member of the Church of Christ I'm in the unique position of often disagreeing with most of Christendom as well as other religions and atheists.)

I'm also quite political, being a [[American conservatism|conservative]], [[laissez-faire]] [[anarcho-capitalism|anarcho-capitalist]] (I accept the label "anarchist"), [[pro-life]], [[libertarianism|libertarian]].  I agree with the [http://www.lp.org/issues/platform_all.shtml#secess secession plank] of the American [[Libertarian Party (United States)|Libertarian Party]]; indeed, I consider it the foundation of freedom.  (However, I am not an LP member and will not display its logo because it is a [[Statue of Liberty|goddess]].)  Incidentally you might be interested to read the arguments from [http://www.l4l.org/ libertarians for life] which explain why I believe EVERYONE should believe in legal protections for the unborn without reference to religious belief.

At the intersection of my homeschooling beliefs and my political beliefs is the belief that government should not be involved in coercive education at all.  Providing free education to all comers (or as many comers as possible) is a worthy goal, provided it is pursued with donated, rather than stolen (taxed) money.  But compulsory schooling violates the liberty of students and their parents, and may often not be the best thing for them.  If you disagree, perhaps you should give your edits to the compulsory education system instead of Wikipedia?

I started the [[Well of souls]] article.

My favorite new article I've created so far (and probably my favorite ever) is [[singing school]].  Being the son of a singing school teacher, I love singing schools and hope to teach them myself some day.

I keep track of new things I learn and do at Wikipedia in my [[/blog|wiki blog]].  Here I'll make note of new things I've learned how to do, thoughts about how things should be done, etc.

== Current projects ==

* Right now I view myself as more of a Wikipedia ''user'' rather than a Wikipedia ''editor''.  I'm usually on Wikipedia at least once a day looking around, looking up something I want to know, etc.  Sometimes I'll make minor changes.  Sometimes I'll go after a vandal.  Sometimes something will interest me enough to get me involved in editing again for a short while.
* Removing links to [[fanlisting]]s.  Since fanlistings are lists of non-notable people, they don't belong here.  How does it help you understand more about a topic to have a list of all the [[Joe Blow]]s of the world who like it?

== Milestones ==

I have a relatively low edit count for someone of my position.  I'm commonly mistaken for a newbie.  Be warned; it is entirely possible I have been around Wikipedia longer than you.  I've been here since [[2004-02-20]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Jdavidb&diff=prev&oldid=2462558] (counting from my earliest registered edit, which was not my first edit).

My user page was first vandalized at 2005-09-28 13:40 (CDT) and has been vandalized a total of four times: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Jdavidb&diff=24250852&oldid=23700774] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Jdavidb&diff=24250912&oldid=24250875] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Jdavidb&diff=24250937&oldid=24250912] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Jdavidb&diff=50087488&oldid=41030135].

An additional more subtle vandalism attempt occurred when somebody mad at me vandalized the picture of my baby (see history on that page for details).

On [[2005-09-29]] I passed a [[WP:RFA|request for adminiship]] for which I nominated myself.  I expect to use my administrator status and powers to further my efforts against link spam and vandalism.

On [[2005-10-06]] I added myself to my sixteenth Wikipedian user category.  At some point, this has got to stop! :)

== Link spam brigade ==

I would like to invite other Wikipedians to join me in an effort to police Wikipedia for link spam.  I'll be outlining some plans and goals at [[/Linkspam]] and possibly eventually starting a new [[Wikipedia:WikiProject]].

== Multilicensing ==

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to Wikipedia, without exception, according to the following:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-SA}}
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== Weekly Torah portion ==

Awhile back I became interested in [[Judaism]]'s [[parsha]] [[Bible]]-reading (specifically [[Torah]]-reading) schedule.  Now I've discovered this [[Template:Torah portion|really cool related template]]:

{{Torah portion}}

== Home ==

I live in the [[Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex]].
{{Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex}}

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