I'm Snowspinner. In addition to my work on Wikipedia, I am the author and creator of an anthology of Microfiction called Pulp Decameron which I release under a Creative Commons license. It can be found at http://pulpdecameron.livejournal.com .

As of July 31st, 2004, I am entrusted with a mop and a bucket. I like cleaning, as it happens.

Wikiwork

I am the creator of WikiProject Critical Theory. If you'd like to help out with the project, we'd love to have you.

I am also a member of WikiProject Philosophy, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Sexology and Sexuality.

Articles I have done substantial work on include:

• Michel Foucault
• Louis Althusser
• Anarchism
• Wayne Booth
• Chicago School (literary criticism)
• Critical theory
• Critique of Judgment
• Dasein
• Bill Finger
• Heteronormativity
• Janet Murray
• Objectivist philosophy
• Private Sphere
• Psychoanalytic theory
• Public Sphere
• Video game theory

Articles which I hope to do meaningful work on soon include

• Lauren Berlant
• Marxist theory
• List of major critical theorists
• Notable works in critical theory

Wiki attitudes

I briefly considered running for the arbitration committee, before withdrawing on the grounds that I felt I could better serve Wikipedia by compiling evidence instead of hearing it. An expanded version of my statement and beliefs on the role of the arbcom can be found at /arbcom

I am largely an inclusionist, and do not think that an article need be perfect to be worth keeping. I think a lot of articles that go on VfD get deleted when what they need is a serious rewrite. What follows is a list of articles I've "saved" from VfD by providing some amount of rewrite.

• Cassandra Claire
• Electional astrology
• Betty Brant

I am a strong advocate of assuming good faith. I am also a strong advocate of people remembering the second part of that decree, which is "until bad faith makes its presence known." That is to say, I call a spade a spade.

Memorable Moments

A few milestones from my talk page.

Barnstars

I award you this barnstar for fighting trolls and working to improve and reform Wiki policy
--H. CHENEY

Sysop

After a new record of 62 votes in your favour at RfA, you are now an administrator. When you get over the shock of having such a scary number of people voting for you, you should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the administrators' how-to guide helpful. Good luck. :) Angela. 17:56, Jul 31, 2004 (UTC)

Lir

Don't talk to me. Lirath Q. Pynnor

Common Sense

Wikipedia policy, or, at least, what exists of it in a codified fashion, is exceedingly well written, flexible, and, on some occasions, manages the rare feat of being funny as well. Unfortunately, codified Wikipedia policy changes at a speed that can generally be outstripped by a VW Bug in park.

There is a school of thought within Wikipedia that there exist policies that are not written down. I am a firm believer in this school of thought. The rules of Wikipedia are not a suicide pact, and attempts to slavishly follow the rules when one of the rules is to ignore all rules is an exercise in absurdism.

To put it another way, from IRC:

Raul654: oh, and snowspinner, I've come to a conclusion
Raul654: making policy on wikipedia is hard
Raul654: because there are people who oppose any common sense measures
JamesF: Raul> Indeed.
Snowspinner: Yes. I came to that conclusion as well.
Raul654: I have decided that it's better to shoot first and ask questions later ;)
Snowspinner: Cool.
Snowspinner: I'm in that camp too now.
Raul654: seriously
Raul654: don't worry about making common sense policy
Raul654: just do things with common sense
Raul654: and wait for policy to catch up

Use common sense.

I agree to multi-license all my contributions as described below:

All we are saying is give jackbooted fascism a chance.