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This is the userpage of [[Steven Rubenstein|Slrubenstein]], a great guy and a dedicated and skillful Wikipedian, who contributed more than 30,000 edits to Wikipedia since his [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Natural_selection&diff=332257137&oldid=332257136 first] edit on December 12, 2001 to his [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Thompsma&diff=prev&oldid=479728140 last] on March 1st 2012. 

Being a [[Cultural Anthropology|cultural anthropologist]] by profession he made most of his contributions in areas related to human [[culture]], but he was also a prolific editor in other areas, contributing hundreds of edits to pages such as [[Jesus]], [[Race (classification of humans)|Race]] and [[Franz Boas]]. In the world of academia he was a recognized expert on the culture of the [[Shuar people]] of [[Ecuador]], as well as an ardent spokesperson for [[indigenous rights]]. He was also a dedicated proponent of free knowledge, and over the 11 years he edited he also made many important contributions to developing the basic policies and guidelines by which Wikipedia operates. He will be sorely missed by the Wikipedia community and by all who knew him. 

{{quote|''The tale of the fool, the naif, the adventurer, the wiseacre, may be the best weapon against the myths of the state.''|[[Steven Rubenstein]], 2002.}}</div>


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Hi.  I used to believe I had nothing to say about myself beyond what I contribute to articles, which I hope reflects my knowledge and interests but not my biases, and to talk pages, in which I try to be honest about my biases, especially if someone asks.  I still think that as a Wikipedian I am best judged by [[User:Slrubenstein#Some_pages_I_care_about|my work on Wikipedia]], although those who now care to, may judge me by [[User:Slrubenstein#Some_of_my_favorite_books and poems|what I read]] and [[User:Slrubenstein#Forty_of_my_favorite_movies|what I watch]].  Of course, I am always willing to answer a question if you [[User talk:Slrubenstein|ask me]].

Anyway, I now believe I can do what so many other Wikipedians have done on their user pages: introduce myself:


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Everyone has '''one''' question.  For [[The Little Prince|the Little Prince]], the question is whether his drawing #1 frightened them.  If they answer "Why should I be frightened of a hat?" he knew that they understand nothing.

Here is my question: 

:<div style="color:#000080; font-family:garamond; font-size:large">'''Do you believe that ...'''
::('''''CHOOSE ONE''''': '''[[Michaelangelo|Michaelangelo's]] ceiling of the [[Sistine Chapel]] or statue of [[David]], the [[Dome of the Rock]], ''[[Epic of Gilgamesh|The Gilgamesh Epic]]'', the ''[[Iliad]]'', [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare's]] ''[[Hamlet]]'', [[Denis Diderot|Diderot's]] ''[[Jacques le fataliste et son maître|Jacques the Fatalist]]'', [[John Keats|Keats']] "[[Ode on a Grecian Urn]]," [[Matthew Arnold|Arnold's]] "[[Dover Beach]]," [[Herman Melville|Melville's]] ''[[Moby-Dick]]'', [[Rainer Maria Rilke|Rilke's]] ''[[Sonnets to Orpheus]]'', [[E.M. Forster|Forster's]] ''[[A Passage to India]]'', [[William Somerset Maugham|Somerset Maugham's]] [[The Razor's Edge]], [[Graham Greene|Greene's]] [[The End of the Affair]], [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry|Saint-Exupéry's]] ''[[The Little Prince]]'', [[John Fowles|Fowles's]] ''[[The Magus (novel)|The Magus]]'', [[Ursula K. Le Guin|Le Guin's]] [[Earthsea|Earthsea trilogy]] (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Wizard_of_Earthsea], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tombs_of_Atuan], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farthest_Shore]), [[J. M. Coetzee|Coetzee's]] ''[[Waiting for the Barbarians]]'', [[Ray Bradbury|Bradbury's]] ''[[The Martian Chronicles]]'', [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven's]] ''[[Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven)|Fifth Symphony]]'' or ''[[Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)|Ninth symphony]]'', [[Duke Ellington|Ellington]] and [[John Coltrane|Coltrane's]] ''Duke Ellington & John Coltrane'', and for the cognoscente, [[Bruce Springsteen|Springsteen's]] "Darkness on the Edge of Town," and [[Elvis Costello|Elvis Costello's]] "Alison")'''</div>
:<div style="color:#000080; font-family:garamond; font-size:large">'''...expresses some great truth?'''</div>

<div style="color:#000000">If the person answers yes (or can answer yes to an appropriate addition), I know they will understand why the fact that I think [[Tanakh|the Bible]] was written by human beings and that many parts of it are not historically accurate does not mean that I think it a fraud or an anachronism, nor does it mean that I am a blaspheming heretic, but on the contrary that I believe it to be a divinely profound and truthful work.  And if the person answers yes, they will understand why as a [[Science|scientist]] I think that research with living people, the aim of which is to understand how they make meaning of their lives and their world &mdash; something that cannot be measured and subjected to statistical analysis, and research that is not reproducible &mdash; is nevertheless among the most significant and valuable research one can conduct and learn from.

If the person answers "no," I know that they understand nothing.</div>
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I think of those people who would answer "no" to my question whenever I read this passage from [[Umberto Eco|Umberto Eco's]] [[Foucault's Pendulum (book)|Foucault's Pendulum]]:

:<span style="color:navy; font-family:garamond; font-size:large">'''Idiot. Above her head was the only stable place in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei, and she guessed it was the Pendulum's business, not hers. A moment later the couple went off &mdash; he, trained on some textbook that had blunted his capacity for wonder, she, inert and insensitive to the thrill of the infinite, both oblivious of the awesomeness of their encounter &mdash; their first and last encounter &mdash; with the One, the Ein-Sof, the Ineffable. How could you fail to kneel down before this altar of certitude?'''</span>
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[[Image:Foucault pendulum animated.gif|thumb|[[Foucault pendulum|Foucault's pendulum]] does not rotate.  It swings back and forth, as the earth rotates beneath it]]
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There ''is'' one other question I think is rather important (actually, I suspect "my one question" is really a corollary of this question, or this question is just a cruder version of "my one question"):
:<span style="color:silver; font-family:garamond; font-size:large">'''Do you believe that a text has only one true meaning, generally that intended by the author of the text?'''</span>

<span style="color:black">If you answer "yes," you are, by my definition, a fundamentalist, whether the text you are thinking of is [[The Bible]], [[The Communist Manifesto]], [[Euclid's Elements]], [[Moby-Dick]], or something else.  If this be the case, sooner or later you and I will find it very hard to understand each other.</span></div >
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== Two Poems by [[Bertholt Brecht]] ==	
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<span style="font-size:large">''A Bed for the Night''</span>

<div style="color:maroon">I hear that in New York<br>
At the corner of 26th street and Broadway<br>
A man stands every evening during the winter months<br>
And gets beds for the homeless there<br>
By appealing to passers-by.<br></div>

<div style="color:maroon">It won't change the world<br>
It won't improve relations among men<br>
It will not shorten the age of exploitation<br>
But a few men have a bed for the night<br>
For the night the wind is kept from them<br>
The snow meant for them falls on the roadway.<br></div>

<span style="color:maroon">Don't put down the book on reading this, man.<br></span>

<div style="color:maroon">A few people have a bed for the night<br>
For the night the wind is kept from them<br>
The snow meant for them falls on the roadway<br>
But it won't change the world<br>
It won't improve relations among men<br>
It will not shorten the age of exploitation.<br></div>
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<span style="color:#000000"; font-size:large">''On the Critical Attitude''</span>

<div style="color:maroon">The critical attitude<br>
Strikes many people as unfruitful<br>
That is because they find the state<br>
Impervious to their criticism<br>
But what in this case is an unfruitful attitude<br>
Is merely a feeble attitude. Give criticism arms<br>
And states can be demolished by it.<br></div>

<div style="color:maroon">Canalising a river<br>
Grafting a fruit tree<br>
Educating a person<br>
Transforming a state<br>
These are instances of fruitful criticism<br>
And at the same time instances of art.<br></div>
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== Comments or Questions for me ==
Since I have been here people have posted questions and comments to my user page and talk page indiscriminately.  I have archived all of this material on this page.  But if you wish to make a comment, please do so on my [[User talk:Slrubenstein|talk page]].

''The rest of this page is somewhat self-indulgent''

== Some pages I care about ==
Since I started contributing to Wikipedia I have edited a number of pages.  However, there are a few where I am especially proud of the research I did in order to contribute to the article:

=== Articles===

[[Anthropology]]

[[Biblical canon]]

[[Cultural anthropology]]

[[Cultural evolution]]

[[Cultural and historical background of Jesus]]

[[Cultural relativism]]

[[Culture]]

[[Ethnic group]]

[[Franz Boas]]

[[Incest taboo]]

[[Jivaroan peoples]]

[[Judaism and Christianity]]

[[Karl Marx]]

[[Pharisees]]

[[Race]]

[[Shuar]]

[[Tribe]]

=== Policies and guidelines ===
Over the years I have at times put considerable work into:

[[WP:NOR|No original research]]

[[WP:DE|Disruptive editing]]

which I believe have helped maintain the encyclopedic quality of Wikipedia.

=== Essays on Wiki-Process ===
[[Wikipedia:Advice for new administrators]]

[[Wikipedia:The role of policies in collaborative anarchy]]

[http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk/wiki/The_Durova_incident The Durova Incident (by JzG)] (Note: I care about this very clear-headed and informative analysis of one of the many overblown incidents here that are symptomatic of a whole set of systemic problems at Wikipedia.  I did not play any significant role in the incident, and did not write or edit this page.)

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SlimVirgin/Poetgate The continued harassment of Slim Virgin (an account by the victim)] (Note: I neither wrote nor edited this page, but consider it another very instructive example of a crippling weakness of Wikipedia.)

[[User:JzG/Harassment links|Dealing with harassment on wikipedia]] by [[User talk:JzG|User:JzG]]

=== Essays on Wiki-Research ===

[[WP:RES|Advice on researching with Wikipedia]]

[[User:AndyZ/Suggestions|Suggestions for excellent content]] by [[User:AndyZ]]

[[User:DGG/LG | Librarian's Guide to the way Wikipedia works]] by [[User:DGG]]

[[User:DGG/LR | Librarian's view of Wikipedia and Reliability]] also by [[User:DGG]]

== Some of my favorite books and poems ==
===Literature===
[[Matthew Arnold]] 
*"[[Dover Beach]]"

[[Ray Bradbury]] 
*''[[The Martian Chronicles]]''

[[J. M. Coetzee]] 
*''[[Waiting for the Barbarians]]''

[[Denis Diderot]] 
*''[[Jacques le fataliste et son maître|Jacques the Fatalist]]''

[[Umberto Eco]]
*''[[Foucault's Pendulum]]''

[[E.M. Forster]] 
*''[[A Passage to India]]''

[[John Fowles]] 
*''[[The Magus (novel)|The Magus]]''

[[Graham Greene]] 
*''[[The End of the Affair]] ''

[[Homer]]
*''[[Iliad]]''

[[John Keats]] 
*"[[Ode on a Grecian Urn]]"

[[Ursula K. Le Guin]]
*''[[A Wizard of Earthsea]]''
*''[[The Tombs of Atuan]]''
*''[[The Farthest Shore]]''
*''[[The Dispossessed]]''

[[William Somerset Maugham]] 
*''[[The Razor's Edge]]'' 

[[Herman Melville]] 
*''[[Moby-Dick]]'' 

[[Rainer Maria Rilke]] 
*''[[Sonnets to Orpheus]]''

[[Philip Roth]]
*''[[The Ghost Writer]]''

[[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]] 
*''[[The Little Prince]]''

[[John Steinbeck]]
*''[[Of Mice and Men]]''

[[Leo Tolstoy]]
*''[[Anna Karenina]]''

Unknown
*''[[Epic of Gilgamesh|The Gilgamesh Epic]]'' trans. by Herbert Mason

[[Documentary hypothesis|Various Authors]]
*''[[Tanakh]]''

===Jewish===
[[Daniel Boyarin]]
*''A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity'' (1997) The University of California Press ISBN 0520212142 

[[Abraham Joshua Heschel]]
*''God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism'' (1976) Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0374513317 
*''The Prophets'' (2001) Perennial Classics ISBN 0060936991

[[Max Kadushin]]
*''The Rabbinic Mind'' (2001) Global Publications at SUNY Binghamton University ISBN 1586840940

[[Yechezkel Kaufmann]]
*''The Religion of Israel: From Its Beginnings to the Babylonian Exile''  (1972) Schocken ISBN 0805203648 

[[Franz Rosenzweig]]
*''The Star of Redemption'' (2005) University of Wisconsin Press ISBN 0299207242 

Leo W. Schwarz, editor
*''Great Ages and Ideas of the Jewish People'' (1977) Modern Library ISBN 039460413X

===Anthropology===
====For the Neophyte====
[[Ruth Benedict]]
*''Patterns of Culture'' (1989) Mariner Books ISBN 0395500885 

[[Marvin Harris]]
*''Our Kind: Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going'' (1990) Perennial ISBN 0060919906 

[[Hortense Powdermaker]]
*''Stranger and Friend'' (1966) W.W. Norton & Company ISBN 0393004104 

[[Eric Wolf]]
*''Europe and the People Without History'' (1997) University of California Press ISBN 0520048989

====For the Veteran====
[[Gregory Bateson]]
*''Naven'' (1958) Stanford University Press ISBN 0804705208 

[[Franz Boas]]
*''Race, Language, Culture'' (1940) The University of Chicago Press ISBN 0226062414 

[[Alan Tormaid Campbell]]
*''To Square with Genesis: Causal Statements and Shamanic Ideas in Wayãpí''(1989) The University of Iowa Press  ISBN 0877452482

Terrence Deacon
*''The Symbolic Species: The Coevolution of Language and the Brain'' (1998) W. W. Norton & Company ISBN 0393317544 

[[Johannes Fabian]]
*''Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes its Object'' (2002) Columbia University Press ISBN 0231125771 

[[James Ferguson]] 
*''The Anti-Politics Machine: "Development," Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho'' (1994) University of Minnesota Press ISBN 0816624372  

[[William H. Fisher]]
*''Rain Forest Exchanges: Industry and Community on an Amazonian Frontier'' (200) Smithsonian Books ISBN 1560989831  

[[Ronald Frankenberg]]
*''Village on the Border: A Social Study of Religion, Politics and Football in a North Wales Community'' (1989) Waveland Press ISBN 0881334855 
 
[[Morton Fried|Morton H. Fried]]
*''The Evolution of Political Society: An Essay in Political Anthropology'' (1967) Random House 
*''The Notion of Tribe'' (1975), Cummings ISBN 0846515482 

[[Judith Friedlander]]
*''Being Indian in Hueyapan: A Study of Forced Identity in Contemporary Mexico'' (1975) Bedford/St Martins ISBN 0312073151 

[[Thomas Gregor]]
*''The Mehinaku: The Dream of Daily Life in a Brazilian Indian Village'' (1980), University Of Chicago Press ISBN 0226307468 

[[Bruno Latour]] and Steve Woolgar
*''Laboratory Life'' (1986), Princeton University Press ISBN 069102832X 

[[Claude Lévi-Strauss]]
*''Tristes Tropiques'' (1992) Penguin Books ISBN 0140165622 

[[Robert F. Murphy]]
*''The Dialectics of Social Life'' (1971) George Allen and Unwin ISBN 0043010490

Yolanda and Robert F. Murphy
*''Women of the Forest'' (1985) Columbia University Press ISBN 0231060890 

[[Marshall Sahlins]]
*''Culture and Practical Reason'' (1978) The University of Chicago Press ISBN 0226733610 

[[Gerald M. Sider ]]
*''Lumbee Indian Histories: Race, Ethnicity, and Indian Identity in the Southern United States'' (1994) Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521466695  

[[Michael Taussig]]
*''Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America'' (1983), University of North Carolina Press ISBN 0807841064 
*''Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing'' (1991) University Of Chicago Press ISBN 0226790134 
*''The Nervous System'' (1991) Routledge ISBN 0415904455 
*''Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses'' (1992) Routledge ISBN 0415906873 
*''Defacement: Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative'' (1999) Stanford University Press ISBN 0804732000  

D. Lawrence Wieder
*''Language and social reality: The case of telling the convict code'' (1974) Mouton ASIN B0006C9O5E 
 
[[Paul Willis]]
*''Learning to Labor'' (1981) Columbia University Press ISBN 0231053576

===Social Sciences and the Humanities===
[[Jessica Benjamin]]
*''The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Problem of Domination'' (1988) Pantheon Bools ISBN 0394757303

[[John Berger]]
*''Ways of Seeing'' (1995) Penguin Books ISBN 0140135154 

[[Marshall Berman]]
*''All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity'' (1988) Penguin Books ISBN 0140109625 

[[Martin Buber]]
*''I and Thou'' (1971) Free Press ISBN 0684717255 

[[Nicholas Cook]]
*''Music: A Very Short Introduction'' (2000) Oxford University Press ISBN 0192853821 

[[Jonathan Culler]]
*''On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism After Structuralism'' (1983) Cornell University Press ISBN 0801492017 

[[Charles Darwin]]
*''The Origin of Species'' (2004) Castle Books ISBN 0785819118 

[[Gilles Deleuze]] and [[Felix Guattari]]
*''Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia'' (1983) University of Minnesota Press ISBN 0816612250 

[[Jacques Derrida]]
*''Of Grammatology'' (1998) Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN 0801858305 
*''Dissemination'' (1983) University of Chicago Press ISBN 0226143341 

[[Isaac Deutscher]]
*''The Prophet Armed: Trotsky 1879-1921'' (2003) Verso ISBN 1859844413 
*''The Prophet Unarmed: Trotsky 1921-1929'' (2003) Verso ISBN 1859844464 
*''The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky 1929-1940'' (2003) Verso ISBN 1859844510

[[Frantz Fanon]]
*''The Wretched of the Earth'' (1965) Grove Press ISBN 0802150837 

[[Michel Foucault]] 
*''Discipline & Punish : The Birth of the Prison'' (1995) Vintage ISBN 0679752552 
*''The History of Sexuality : An Introduction (History of Sexuality)'' (1990) Vintage ISBN 0679724699 

[[Paulo Freire]]
*''Pedagogy of the Oppressed'' (2000) Continuum International Publishing Group ISBN 0826412769 

[[Sigmund Freud]]
*''Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria'' (1997) Touchstone ISBN ISBN 0684829460 
*''Three Case Histories'' (1996) Touchstone ISBN 0684829452 
*''The Interpretation of Dreams'' (1980) Avon ISBN 0380010003 
*''Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality'' (2000) Basic Books ISBN 0465097081 

[[Anthony Giddens]]
*''Central Problems in Social Theory'' (1979) University of California Press ISBN 0520039750 

[[David Halberstam]] 
*''The Best and the Brightest'' (1993) Ballentine Books ISBN 0449908704 

[[William Hinton]]
*''Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village'' (1997) University of California Press ISBN 0520210409 

[[Bruno Latour]]
*''We Have Never Been Modern'' (1993) Harvard University Press ISBN 0674948394 

[[Jonathan Lee]]
*''Jacques Lacan'' (1991) University of Massachusetts Press ISBN 0870237373 

[[Karl Marx]]
*''Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte'' (1963) International Publishers ISBN 0717800563 

[[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]]
*''The German Ideology: Including Thesis on Feuerbach'' (1998) ISBN 1573922587 

[[Louis Menand]]
*''The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America'' (2002) Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0374528497 

[[James Miller]]
*''The Passion of Michel Foucault'' (2000) Harvard University Press ISBN 0674001575 

[[Juliet Mitchell]]
*''Psychoanalysis and Feminism: A Radical Reassessment of Freudian Psychoanalysis'' (2000) Basic Books ISBN 0465046088 

[[Ray Monk]]
*''Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius'' (1991) Penguin Books ISBN 0140159959

[[Friedrich Nietzsche]]
*''Beyond Good and Evil'' (1989) Vintage ISBN 0679724656 
*''The Genealogy of Morals'' (2003) Dover ISBN 0486426912

[[Stephen C. Pepper]]
*''World Hypotheses: a Study in Evidence'' (1961) University of California Press ISBN 0520009940

== Thirty-nine of my favorite movies ==
* ''[[The Adventures of Baron Munchausen]]'' ([[Terry Gilliam]])
* ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'' ([[Francis Ford Coppola]])
* ''[[The Big Country]]'' ([[William Wyler]])
* ''[[Blazing Saddles]]'' ([[Mel Brooks]])
* ''[[Blue Velvet]]'' ([[David Lynch]])
* ''[[The Bridge on the River Kwai]]'' ([[David Lean]])
* ''[[Biruma no Tategoto]]'' (''The Burmese Harp'') ([[Kon Ichikawa]])
* ''[[Cabaret (movie)|Cabaret]]'' ([[Bob Fosse]])
* ''[[City Lights]]'' ([[Charlie Chaplin]])
* ''[[Cop Land]]'' ([[James Mangold]])
* ''[[Cradle Will Rock]]'' ([[Tim Robbins]])
* ''[[Le Crime de Monsieur Lange]] (The Crime of Monsieur Lange)'' ([[Jean Renoir]])
* ''[[Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb]]'' ([[Stanley Kubrick]])
* ''[[Dr. Zhivago]]'' ([[David Lean]])
* ''[[La Dolce Vita]]'' (''The Sweet Life'') ([[Federico Fellini]])
* ''[[8½]]'' ([[Federico Fellini]])
* ''[[Les Enfants du Paradis]]'' (''Children of Paradise'') ([[Marcel Carne]])
* ''[[The Godfather]]'' ([[Francis Ford Coppola]])
* ''[[The Graduate]]'' ([[Mike Nichols]])
* ''[[Ikiru]]'' (''To Live'') ([[Akira Kurosawa]])
* ''[[Last Tango in Paris]]'' ([[Bernardo Bertolucci]])
* ''[[The Last Temptation of Christ]]'' ([[Martin Scorsese]])
* ''[[Little Big Man]]'' ([[Arthur Penn]])
* ''[[The Manchurian Candidate]]'' ([[John Frankenheimer]])
* ''[[Mary Poppins]]'' ([[Robert Stevenson]])
* ''[[Moonstruck]]'' ([[Norman Jewison]])
* ''[[North by Northwest]]'' ([[Alfred Hitchcock]])
* ''[[Once Upon a Time in the West]]'' ([[Sergio Leone]])
* ''[[Les Parapluies de Cherbourg]]'' (''The Umbrellas of Cherbourg'') ([[Jacques Demy]])
* ''[[Pecker]]'' ([[John Waters (filmmaker)|John Waters]])
* ''[[Rear Window]]'' ([[Alfred Hitchcock]])
* ''[[Salvador (film)|Salvador]]'' ([[Oliver Stone]])
* ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]'' ([[Robert Mulligan]])
* ''[[Tom Jones (film)|Tom Jones]]'' ([[Tony Richardson]])
* ''[[Twelve Angry Men]]'' ([[Sidney Lumet]])
* ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]'' ([[Stanley Kubrick]])
* ''[[I Vitelloni]]'' (''The Yearlings'') ([[Federico Fellini]])
* ''[[Young Frankenstein]]'' ([[Mel Brooks]])
* ''[[Z (film)|Z]]'' ([[Costa-Gavras]])

===Movies I have a soft spot for===
*''[[Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes]] (Aguirre, Wrath of God)'' [[Werner Herzog]]
*''[[Amarcord]] (I Remember)'' ([[Federico Fellini]])
*''[[The Best Years of Our Lives]]'' ([[William Wyler]])
*''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]'' ([[Ang Lee]])
*''[[Die Hard]]'' ([[John McTiernan]])
*''[[Excalibur]]'' ([[John Boorman]])
*''[[Lili]]'' ([[Charles Walters]])
*''[[The Lion in Winter]]'' ([[Anthony Harvey]])
*''[[The Natural]]'' ([[Barry Levinson]])
*''[[Network]]'' ([[Sidney Lumet]])
*''[[The Philadelphia Story]]'' ([[George Cukor]])
*''[[The Pianist]]'' ([[Roman Polanski]])
*''[[Raging Bull]]'' (the cure to any [[Chick flick|chick-flick]]) ([[Martin Scorcese]])
*''[[Searching for Bobby Fischer]]'' ([[Steven Zaillian]])
*''[[Secrets & Lies]]'' ([[Mike Leigh]])
*''[[Shane (film)|Shane]]'' ([[George Stevens]])
*''[[The Sixth Sense]]'' ([[M. Night Shyamalan]])
*''[[Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow]]'' ([[Kerry Conran]])
*''[[Star Wars]]'' ([[George Lucas]])
*''[[A Streetcar Named Desire (film)|A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' ([[Elia Kazan]])
*''[[The Sweet Hereafter]]'' ([[Atom Egoyan]])
*''[[The Thin Red Line (1998 film)]]'' ([[Terrence Malick]]) (with ''[[Paths of Glory]]'', one of the two greatest war films)
*''[[True Grit (1969 film)]]'' ([[Henry Hathaway]]) 
*''[[Unforgiven]]'' ([[Clint Eastwood]])
*''[[West Side Story]]'' ([[Robert Wise]], [[Jerome Robbins]])
*''[[The Wild Bunch]]'' ([[Sam Peckinpah]])
*''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' ([[Victor Fleming]])

==="Great" movies I hate===
*''[[Dances With Wolves]]'' ([[Kevin Costner]])
*''[[E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial]]'' ([[Steven Speilberg]])
*''[[Gone With the Wind]]'' ([[Victor Fleming]])
*''[[Intolerance]]'' ([[D.W. Griffith]])
*''[[On the Waterfront]]'' ([[Elia Kazan]])

===How I learned to hate Chick Flicks===
*''[[An Officer and a Gentleman]]'' ([[Taylor Hackford]])
*''[[Terms of Endearment]]'' ([[James L. Brooks]])
*''[[Beaches]]'' ([[Garry Marshall]])
*''[[Sleeping with the Enemy]]'' ([[Joseph Ruben]])

== The answers to two common questions ==
*[[James T. Kirk|Kirk]]
*[[Ringo Starr|Ringo]]

==Tools==

*[http://wikipedia.ramselehof.de/wikiblame.php Wikiblame]
*[http://www.wikiwax.com/ Quick Index]
*[http://tools.wikimedia.de/~kate/cgi-bin/count_edits Kate's edit counting tool]
*[http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/count_edits? Interiot's edit counting tool]
*[http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate Interiot's "wannabe kate" edit counter]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Blockip Block user]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Ipblocklist&action=unblock Unblock user]
*[http://toolserver.org/~mzmcbride/ assorted Wikipedia tracking tools]
*[http://vs.aka-online.de/wppagehiststat/ Wikipedia Page History Statistics]
*[http://www.wikirage.com/ What's hot at WP ''right now'']
*[http://www.alexa.com/ Alexa webtraffic tool]
*[http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm?GetLocation IP address locator]
*[http://www.iplocation.net/index.php Another IP address locator]
*[http://www.technorati.com/search/o-smear.blogspot.com smear-monitor]

*[[Wikipedia:How to move a page]]
*[[Wikipedia:How to fix cut-and-paste moves]]

*[[Wikipedia:List of administrators]]
*[[Wikipedia:Administrators' how-to guide]]
*[[Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list]]
*[[Wikipedia:Blocking Policy]]
*[[Wikipedia:Banning policy]]
*[[Wikipedia:Checkuser]]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&group=checkuser Checkuser Access]
*[[Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/How to present a case]]

For repeated vandalism by an anonymous [[IP address]], it is helpful to take the following additional steps:
# Trace the IP address (cf. http://dnsstuff.com) and add {{tlx|whois|Name of owner}} to the user talk page of the address. If it appears to be a [[Proxy server|shared IP address]], add {{tlx|SharedIP|Name of owner}} or {{tlx|SharedIPEDU|Name of owner}}. 
# For repetitive anonymous vandalism, particularly where registered to a school or other kind of responsive [[ISP]], consider listing it on [[Wikipedia:Abuse reports]].

{{User:Tangotango/RfA Analysis/Report}}

==Frequently used templates==

*[[Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace]]


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:<nowiki>{{pp-semi-vandalism}}</nowiki>


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== Archives ==
[[User:Slrubenstein/archive 1]]

[[User:Slrubenstein/archive 2]]

[[User:Slrubenstein/archive 3]]

[[User:Slrubenstein/archive 4]]

== The Closet ==
*[[User:Slrubenstein/Hey 172!!]]
*[[User:Slrubenstein/Case Against CheeseDreams]]
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Slrubenstein My first RfC! - RIP]
*[[Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/BCE-CE Debate]]
**[[Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/BCE-CE Debate/Discussion]]
**[[Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/BCE-CE Debate/Votes]]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive292#Fourdee_making_racist_postings Fourdee goes down]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Salom_Khalitun Another anti-Semite]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive433#For_review:_indefinite_block_of_User:Jagz Jagz attracts attention] 
** Jagz &mdash; the final days:[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Talk_page_guidelines&diff=next&oldid=222270909], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jagz&diff=prev&oldid=222554853#More_advice], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:MastCell&diff=222564082&oldid=222532277], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jagz&diff=222574327&oldid=222574169]
* What a night! [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:THEN_WHO_WAS_PHONE%3F#Warning], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Slrubenstein#Warning_IP_Users], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Archive167#Bizarre_block]
* Charles Matthews
**[[User:Slrubenstein/MathSci unblocked]]
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/SlrubensteinII My second RfC!!]
* [[User:Noloop]]
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Slrubenstein My third RfC!!!]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive636#user:TechnoFaye_user_page_-_possible_image_violation.3F TechnoFaye crash and burn]
*[[User:Noleander]]
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Economic_history_of_the_Jews Jews and Money deletion]

===The Closet Shelf===
[[User:Slrubenstein/The box on the shelf in the closet]]

[[User:Slrubenstein/Pharisees]]

== My Sandbox ==
*[[User:Slrubenstein/Sandbox]]
*[[User:Slrubenstein/Sandbox/history of Judaism]]
*[[User:Slrubenstein/sandbox/covenant code]]
*[[User:Slrubenstein/sandbox/Jews and Money]]
*[[User:Slrubenstein/sandbox/Economic history of the Jews]]

== My filing cabinet ==
*[[User:Slrubenstein/Jewish authorities]]
*[[User:Slrubenstein/Local news]]
*[[User:Slrubenstein/NOR]]
*[[User:Slrubenstein/Judaism]]
*[[User:Slrubenstein/old race]]
*[[User:Slrubenstein/molecular genetics]]
*[[user:Slrubenstein/Verifiability]]

[[WP:Areas for Reform]]
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