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{{cquote|Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.|4=[[Aldous Huxley]]}}

I'm a computer scientist with broad interests in history and the sciences. I found the instant improvability of Wikipedia to be nearly irresistible. It's a great system, so I decided to become part of it.

* [http://wwwlehre.dhbw-stuttgart.de/~sschulz/DHBW_Stephan_Schulz/Stephan_Schulz.html My home page]
* [http://www.garlic-gang.de/REZEPTE/rezeptliste.html My cooking site] (German language)
* [https://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-ec/index.php?user=Stephan+Schulz&project=en.wikipedia.org My Editcount] via [https://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-ec/ X!'s edit counter]
* [https://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-articleinfo/index.php? X!'s Article revision statistics]
* I'm a [[Project Steve|Steve]].

Contrary to some impressions, I'm not online all of the time, and I sometimes even travel to the big room with the blue roof. Thus, I may take some time to reply to a discussion or request. Further delay is possible in the rare cases where I think before I write something. ;-)

A snapshot of my reading (September 15th, 2016):
* [[Arthur C. Clarke]]: ''[[The Sentinel (anthology)|The Sentinel]]'' (I have the Kindle edition, which seems to have more stories) - let's just say that I got the omnibus edition of Clarke short stories immediately after. I liked this a lot better than Heinlein... 
* [[Nancy Kress]]: ''[[Beggars in Spain]]'' - very good! However, it's a bit of a letdown that Kress (and her superhuman characters) seem to know [[Ayn Rand|Rand]], but never seem to have heard of [[John Rawls|Rawls]]
* [[Aravind Adiga]]: ''[[The White Tiger]]'' - following Kress on my reading list should have been a hard job, but wow! 
[[User: Stephan Schulz/Reading|Older snapshots]].

== Collected ramblings ==

* In a democratic society, good decisions can only be expected from an informed population. Oppose censorship, both online and offline.
* In [[science]], any compromise between a correct statement and a wrong statement is a wrong statement.
* If I disagree with an ''argument'', please do not assume that I automatically disagree with the ''conclusion''. I may well do so, but I also point out flaws in arguments where I have no opinion on the conclusion, or even (if rarer, I'm no saint ;-) where I agree with the conclusion. I cannot stand bad logic - it's a professional weakness.
* In [[USA|Soviet Russia]], [[Samsung|TV]] [[Vault 7|watches you]]!
* [https://www.eff.org/de/cyberspace-independence On this sad occasion...]
[[File:Blue Ribbon Campaign banner.png|right]]

== About Wikipedia ==
{{cquote|1=[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AWilliam_Connolley&diff=171936779&oldid=171852937 Sadly, anonymous trolls are an endlessly renewable resource - experts willing to put up with this place, not so much.]}}

== Online civil liberties ==

{{cquote|Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.|4=[[Edward Snowden]]}}

== "The real complaining party at the bar in this courtroom is civilization" ==

{{cquote|There are those in our own country too who today speak of the "protection of country" -- of "survival." A decision must be made in the life of every nation at the very moment when the grasp of the enemy is at its throat. Then, it seems that the only way to survive is to use the means of the enemy, to rest survival upon what is expedient -- to look the other way.

Well, the answer to that is "survival as what?" A country isn't a rock. It's not an extension of one's self. It's [[Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse|what]] [[Waterboarding|it]] [[Torture Memos |stands]] [[Enhanced interrogation techniques|for]]. It's what it stands for when standing for something is the most difficult!

Before the people of the world, let it now be noted that here, in our decision, this is what we stand for: justice, truth, and the value of a single human being.|4=[[Spencer Tracy]] as Judge Dan Haywood in ''[[Judgment at Nuremberg]]'' [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgvR67Ktwio]}}

== On education ==

{{cquote|The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance, but to overcome it.|4=[[Lawrence Krauss]]}}

== Awards ==

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | '''The Resilient Barnstar'''
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For keeping your temper in the face of provocation (by one who has been professionally trained to provoke, no less) you are hereby awarded the '''Resilient Barnstar.''' [[User:Raymond arritt|Raymond Arritt]] 00:31, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
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|I hereby present you with '''The Zen Garden Award for Infinite Patience''' for discussing [[Holocaust denial]] in a calm, rational, civil and good-humoured manner in the face of severe provocation ;) [[User:EyeSerene|EyeSerene]]''<sup>[[User talk:EyeSerene|<span style="color:green;">TALK</span>]]</sup>'' 19:06, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | '''The Reference Desk Barnstar'''
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Thank you for your reply to my query at the Science Reference Desk regarding the [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008_January_9#History_of_quantum_mechanics|History of Quantum Mechanics]]. Your contribution to the discussion was insightful, and helped me find the answers I was looking for. Thanks! [[User:FusionKnight|FusionKnight]] ([[User talk:FusionKnight|talk]]) 19:43, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | '''The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar'''
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" |  I award you this Barnstar for the fine reasoning you demonstrated [[Talk:The_Holocaust#Including_some_points_about_those_that_deny_Holocaust_occured.3F|here]]. Your efforts to maintain legitimate scholarship as it appears on Wikipedia and prevent its obfuscation are appreciated. Keep up the good work! Regards, [[User:WilliamH|WilliamH]] ([[User talk:WilliamH|talk]]) 21:48, 28 February 2008 (UTC) 
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For all the hard work and tireless contributions you have made to Wikipedia while maintaining a high standard of quality. [[User:Green451|Green451]] ([[User talk:Green451|talk]]) 02:19, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For keeping your temper in the face of hostility and for reverting countless acts of vandalism.  Great Work.  [[User:South Bay|South Bay]] ([[User talk:South Bay|talk]]) 21:39, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | We don't always agree, but you demonstrate calmness on controversial issues. [[User:The Founders Intent|<span style="color:green;">'''''T<small>HE</small> F<small>OUNDERS</small> I<small>NTENT </small>'''''</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:The Founders Intent|''PRAISE'']]</sup> 14:57, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Thank you for being so patient and inversting so much time while trying to help me resolve my Emacs and SINGULAR problems. Your kind acts do not go unnoticed and are very much apprciated. <span style="white-space:nowrap;">— [[User:Fly by Night|<span style="font-family:Segoe print">'''''Fly by Night'''''</span>]] <span style="color:#000000;">([[User talk:Fly by Night|<span style="font-family:Segoe print; color:#000000;">talk</span>]])</span></span> 15:14, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | thank you, that gave me a much needed laugh. [[User:KillerChihuahua|KillerChihuahua]]<small><sup>[[User talk:KillerChihuahua|?!?]]</sup>[[User:Heimstern/Ignoring incivility|Advice]]</small> 15:32, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Thank you for your help with my C problems! [[Special:Contributions/169.231.8.73|169.231.8.73]] ([[User talk:169.231.8.73|talk]]) 21:59, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For this [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Science&diff=537854905&oldid=537854696 gem] [[User:Medeis|μηδείς]] ([[User talk:Medeis|talk]]) 21:05, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Awarded to Dr. Schulz for being willing have the discussion 450 and the Pope would not. [[Talk:List of participants in the creation–evolution controversy#Complete Nonsense]] --[[User:Kaptinavenger|Kaptinavenger]] ([[User talk:Kaptinavenger|talk]]) 07:39, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
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'''"I found the instant improvability of Wikipedia to be nearly irresistible"'''<br />
Thank you, veteran editor with the same great line on the user page from 2003 to now, for quality articles such as [[Craig M. Wright]], [[British Alpine Hannibal Expedition]] and [[Talk:Global warming/FAQ]], for answering science questions at the help desk, for {{diff|Topics of note in Atlas Shrugged|2128624||precision}} and protection, for earning praise for "calm, rational, civil and good-humoured manner", for "Further delay is possible in the rare cases where I think before I write something", - you are an [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Quality Article Improvement/PumpkinSky Prize|awesome Wikipedian]]!

--[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 06:15, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
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