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== Welcome ==
I became a contributor on [[February 1]], 2005 after finding repeatedly very useful information there when I was searching some topic. Finding the misspelled name of [[Anne Treisman]], I registered (see below about my user name), and pressed the edit-button [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Attention&diff=prev&oldid=10848453]. My first non-minor series of edits came about when stumbling over the [[Adolf Hitler]] article, which was in a terrible condition. Being unexperienced and '''[[bold]]''' enough,  I thought I would go and save it... <br>
I think I helped improving the article considerately and at the same time I learned a lot about wikipedia and other wikipedians. I since have prefered to stay away from controversial topics &ndash; well, that is except  for [[Neural Network]]s and [[Nuclear power phase-out]] ;). <br>
After my article about [[Scholarpedia]] was deleted during a short absence I am very hesitant to start new articles. <br>

I enjoy very much the broad spectrum of ideas and the global perspective that can be found in en.wikipedia. I like meeting different people and to try to figure out how they understand the world.
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== Contributions ==
Usually I start reading somewhere and edit when I find something incorrect or inaccurate or have something to add to the article. Most of my edits consequently constitute minor edits or just expansions of articles. Topics are widespread but currently focus around artificial intelligence and free software. I have made [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username=Male1979&site=en.wikipedia.org many edits to wikipedia]. 

My favorites among the articles I contributed to (or which I created) include: (earliest first, recent last)

[[Ukiyo-e]] | [[Irony of Fate]] | [[Cognitive architecture]] | [[Biological neural networks]]|  [[Japonism]] | [[Unified Theory of Cognition]] | [[Yamato-e]] | [[Brain implant]] | [[Sensory substitution]] | [[Nuclear power phase-out]] | [[Les Nabis]] 

Here is a list of the articles I started. Sometimes I've only created a stub, sometimes it became more.

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* [[Josef Bachmann]]
* [[Isolation tank]]
* [[Anne Treisman]]
* [[List of people in St. Petersburg]]
* [[Irony of Fate]]
* [[Feature integration theory]]
* [[Cognitive architectures]]
* [[Scale-space theory]]
* [[Biological neural networks]]
* [[Copycat (software)]]
* [[Japonism]]
* [[Unified Theory of Cognition]]
* [[Shubun]]
* [[Yamato-e]]
* [[Josetsu]]
* [[Maki-e]]
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* [[Shoen]]
* [[Siebengebirge]]
* [[Shinbutsu Shugo]]
* [[Shinbutsu Bunri]]
* [[Nishiki-e]]
* [[Shingaku]]
* [[Nikolai Kozyrev]]
* [[Berliner Tageblatt]]
* [[Ulk]]
* [[Shinden-zukuri]]
* [[Shingei]]
* [[Brain implant]]
* [[Sensory substitution]]
* [[Chuo University]]
* [[Three wise monkeys]]
* [[Artificial brain]]
* [[National Assembly of Bulgaria]]
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* [[Kairaku-en]]
* [[Die Partei]]
* [[Parallel terraced scan]]
* [[Nuclear power phase-out]]
* [[Nuclear energy policy]]
* [[Kokutai]]
* [[Banya (sauna)]]
* [[Herr Lehmann]] 
* [[Nautilus Pompilius (band)|Nautilus Pompilius]]
* [[Undervud]]
* [[Lufthansa Flight 181]]
* [[The Star Diaries]]
* [[Marah Durimeh]]
* [[Old Shatterhand (film)]]
* [[Mengen, Turkey]]
* [[Normal conditions]]
* [[Wikiweise]]
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* [[Hybrid neural network]]
* [[Winner-take-all]]
* [[John Robert Anderson (psychologist)]]
* [[Nuclear power in France]]
* [[Nuclear power in Finland]]
* [[Energy policy of Taiwan]]
* [[Nuclear power in the United Kingdom]]
* [[Nuclear technology in the United States]]
* [[Nuclear power in Russia]]
* [[Nuclear power in Bulgaria]]
* [[Nuclear power in Japan]]
* [[Nuclear power in Sweden]]
* [[FreeMat]]
* [[Necrophagy]]
* [[Scholarpedia]] (was deleted)
* [[Fibag scandal]]
* [[Rprop]]
* [[Java Agent DEvelopment framework]]
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Other articles to which I contributed considerably large parts:  

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*[[Adolf Hitler]]
*[[The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife]]
*[[Hakone, Kanagawa]]
*[[St. Petersburg]]
*[[Sofia]]
*[[Timeline of Middle Eastern History]]
*[[Scale-invariant feature transform]]
*[[Neural Networks]]
*[[ACT-R]]
*[[Amélie Nothomb]]
*[[Georges Rouault]] 
*[[ukiyo-e]]
*[[Les Nabis]]
*[[Lyonel Feininger]]
*[[Blumenau]]
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*[[Keiretsu]]
*[[Chinoiserie]]
*[[Joyo kanji]]
*[[Culture of Japan]]
*[[Dietrich Dörner]]
*[[Hakone, Kanagawa]]
*[[List of Japanese learning resources]]
*[[Frankfurter Rundschau]]
*[[Leonor Fini]]
*[[Titanic (magazine)]]
*[[Karl Kraus]]
*[[Muzulman]]
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|<div class="references-small">The article '''[[Nuclear power phase-out]]''', which [[User:Male1979|Ben]]  <sup>[[User_talk:Male1979|T]]</sup>/<sub>[[Special:Contributions/Male1979|C]] </sub> created, has been mentioned on Wikipedia's [[Main Page]] in the '''[[:Template:Did you know|Did you know?]]''' column on August 16, 2005.</div>
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|style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Thanks for your work on Nuclear energy and trying to keep NPOV alive. [[User:Jfingers88|<font color="darkgreen">Jfing</font>]][[Wikipedia:Esperanza|<font color="green">'''e'''</font>]]<font color="blue">r</font><font color="black">s</font>[[User Talk:Jfingers88|<font color="blue">88</font>]] 22:34, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
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== Attempt at a Declaration of Bias ==
My user name Male1979 was chosen by accident when trying to register on a very slow server connection via a badly configured proxy. I was timed-out again and again and subsequently found each name already in use (probably by myself when trying before). So, I came to trying names that I would have never be thought of under [[normal conditions]]. I didn't like the name at all at first, however at a second glance it is not that bad at all. As for my biases, my user name expresses clearly two essential ones: I am [[Man|male]] and born [[1979]]. Of course, first of all I am [[Cognitive bias|human]]. Therefore I am also a [[vertebrate]], [[tetrapod]], [[primate]], [[ape]], and [[hominid]]. Born in [[Germany]] into a [[protestant]]-[[Martin Luther|lutheran]] family, nurtered with a mix of [[The Enlightenment|enlightened philosophy]], I later became an [[atheist]] for moral reasons, only to become [[agnostic]] then [[existentialist]], finally a [[Romanticism|romantic]] [[pragmatist]], though I prefer calling myself [[Philosophical skepticism|skeptical]] [[Instrumentalism|instrumentalist]]. I am a shy [[extrovert]] with a disposition towards [[Hasty generalization|generalizations]]. Politically, many of my opinions can be categorized as being [[European]], [[liberal]], and having a strong sense of ethics. Please take these considerations into account in order to eliminate any possible bias I might have introduced. 

=== Political and psychological attitudes ===
On the [[political compass]][http://www.politicalcompass.org/] I am <br>
Economic Left/Right: -8.00 <br>
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.97 <br>
... but I am not sure as to what that means. You also have to take into account that it was an [[Culture of the United States|American test]]. 

I also took a very strange [[Myers-Briggs Type Indicator|personality test]]. See [http://www.gladwell.com/2004/2004_09_20_a_personality.html]
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== About wikipedia ==
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types]] - to know what stub to put
* [[Wikipedia:Template messages]]
* [[User:Eloquence/Mozilla keywords|mozilla keywords for wikipedia]] - to be faster in posting and editing (just don't forget them)
* [[Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages#Customizing your signature|how to get the '''(talk)''' thing next to your signature and help other people save time]]
* [[Public domain resources]]
* [[Wikipedia:2004_Encyclopedia_topics]]
* [[Wikipedia:Five pillars]]
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* [[User:Angr/Reasons to leave]]. I strongly support points 2 and 8. I also would like to agree to point 3, but I feel it is too ambitious. 
* [[:de:Benutzer:Southpark/Playing Wikipedia]] Wikipedia as a [[MMOG]]. (German)
* [http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-September/031526.html Erik Möller's comparison of block frequency]

== Toolbox ==

I think it is very important to [[Wikipedia:Citing sources|source articles with references]]. Thus, useful tags are <nowiki>{{fact}}</nowiki> and <nowiki>{{unreferenced}}</nowiki>. 

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'''Check''' {{tl|delete}} [[:Template:delete|<nowiki>{{db|...}}</nowiki>]] {{tl|no source}} {{tl|no license}}

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'''Delete''' {{tl|afd}} {{tl|cfd}} {{tl|ifd}} {{tl|tfd}} {{tl|rfd}} {{tl|mfd}} 

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'''Others''' [[Template:Wikibooks|<nowiki>{{Wikibooks}}</nowiki>]] [[Template:Wikiquote|<nowiki>{{Wikiquote}}</nowiki>]] [[Template:Wikisource|<nowiki>{{Wikisource}}</nowiki>]] [[Template:Wiktionary|<nowiki>{{Wiktionary}}</nowiki>]]

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== Some popular articles ==
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* [[The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll]]
* [[AFI 100 Years series]]
* [[Hitler Has Only Got One Ball]]
* [[Infinite monkey theorem]]
* [[erototoxin]]
* [[cow tipping]]
* [[Inherently funny word]]
* [[Heavy Metal Umlaut]]
* [[Exploding Whale]]


== External links ==
* <small>Seth Anthony (2006), [http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:SA1 Contribution Patterns among Active Wikipedians: Finding and Keeping Content Creators]. ''Wikimania 2006''.</small>
* <small>Aaron Swartz (2006), [http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia Who Writes Wikipedia?]. ''Raw Thought''. This helped me to reconcile the obvious contradiction between Jimbo Wales' statements about the 1500, who are supposedly responsible for all good articles[http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/fahrplan/files/372-wikipedia-sociographics-slides.pdf 10% of wikipedia users make 80% of all edits]  on one side, and [[free software movement]] [[group dynamics]] (cf [[The Wisdom of Crowds]]) about [[boosting]] article quality on the other side.  </small>
* <small>Evgeniy Gabrilovich and Shaul Markovitch (2006), [http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gabr/papers/wiki-aaai06.pdf Overcoming the Brittleness Bottleneck using Wikipedia: Enhancing Text Categorization with Encyclopedic Knowledge]. ''Department of Computer Science, Technion&mdash;Israel Institute of Technology''.</small>

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