• "Copyright is the request for the government to enforce false scarcity through threats of violence."

• How depressing. I found the information I was looking for, only to discover that someone is trying to delete it.

Welcome to my Wikipedia page. My nick in the #Wikipedia channel is either ShaunMacPherson or Synonymous in case you wanted to know :). I have been a member of Wikipedia since January, 2004. Some describe me as an inclusionist although I dislike (being imprisoned by) labels.

My background: I am a 2003 cum laude graduate from Laurentian University with an honours Bachelor of Arts in economics / psychology. I have ~50% more courses in economics than psychology so one could possibly say I have a major in economics.

I like science fiction, organizing data, video and computer games, reading books, and reading online articles, news, columns, blogs and reports.

I've contributed large lists of information for List of SNES games and List of video game music. I am especially good at collecting and manuplating spreadsheet information, and then converting it into Wiki format.

I was on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits and was sliding down due to having limited internet access. However now I do :).

Wikipedia Projects I belong to

• WikiProject_Fact_and_Reference_Check
• Data Management]

Articles I have started

Quotations

See also: Archive of Quotes

Last week's quote:

There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped or turned back, for their private benefit.
Robert Heinlien

Google Popularity Wikipedia Article Ranking Project

What a mouthful! I am starting an interesting little sub project here to see how well Wikipedia ranks on google for information on different topics. If you think this is a good idea feel free to move this to a common area and email the the address in my talk page.

Links

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• List_of_Number_1_Hits_(USA)

• List_of_court_cases
• List_USA_court_cases
• List_Canada_court_cases
• List of Famicom Disk System games
• List of Famicom games
• List of Japanese companies
• List of NES accessories
• List of NES games
• List of SNES games
• Wikipedia:Gaming_Collaboration_of_the_week

• William-Adolphe Bouguereau_gallery
• List_gallery

• Roms and Roms lists for NES, SNES, and others

• [3]

• Wikipedia Requests for Comment

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As the template suggests all my work on Wikipedia has been, and will continue to be unless otherwise noted, released under the creative commons copyright license as shown.