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I'm Nihiltres, a Wikipedia editor since April 2005 and administrator since May 2007.

A section from Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights — A section from Hieronymus Bosch's *The Garden of Earthly Delights*

I often use this sub-section of Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights as a pseudonymous visual identity.

Contact information:

Talk page: User talk:Nihiltres
Email: Wikipedia email system
Nihiltres#0003 on Discord

I'm Nihiltres (/nɪˈhɪlˌtɹɛs/; ni-HIL-tres), a Wikipedia editor since April 2005 and administrator since May 2007. My pseudonym is arbitrary: it is Latin for "nothingthree" (nihil → "nothing", tres → "three") and does not imply anything whatsoever. I'm originally from Pointe-Claire, Quebec, on the island of Montreal in Canada, but I currently live in Rockville, Maryland, near Washington, D.C. in the United States.

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+--><div style="height: 0; width: 0; visibility: hidden;">I'm Nihiltres, a Wikipedia editor since April 2005 and administrator since May 2007.</div><!--
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-I am '''Nihiltres''' <span title="I guessed the IPA pronunciation, so this might be horribly wrong. NIH-HILL-TREHS.">(IPA: /nɪˈhɪlˌtɹɛs/?)</span>, a Wikipedian. I am an [[Wikipedia:Administrators|administrator]], and have been since a [[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Nihiltres|nomination]] in May 2007. I do a fair amount of work as an administrator, primarily deleting pages tagged for [[Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion|speedy deletion]] or [[Wikipedia:Proposed deletion|proposed deletion]]. Aside from my administrative help, I do a bunch of work with templates, cleanup, and occasionally writing articles. I also volunteer answering emails as part of the Wikimedia [[meta:OTRS|OTRS]] team. I'm often on IRC in the [irc://chat.freenode.net:8001/wikipedia #wikipedia],  [irc://chat.freenode.net:8001/wikipedia-en #wikipedia-en], and  [irc://chat.freenode.net:8001/wikipedia-en-admins #wikipedia-en-admins] [[Wikipedia:IRC channels|IRC channels]], so you can talk to me there if I'm available.
-<h3 style="text-align:center;">About me</h3>
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-[[Image:Hieronymus Bosch 016.jpg|250px|left|A section from Hieronymus Bosch's ''The Garden of Earthly Delights''.]]
+<div style="font-size:0.85em;">I often use this sub-section of Hieronymus Bosch's ''[[The Garden of Earthly Delights]]'' as a pseudonymous visual identity.</div>
-I am a science student living in [[Pointe-Claire, Quebec|Pointe Claire]], on the [[island of Montreal]]. As I am a student, it's possible to guess at my age: I would discourage people from doing so, because I wish to be ageless on Wikipedia, being judged instead on the quality of my contributions and the cogency of arguments which I put forth.
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-It should generally be assumed that people are inherently biased—as such, I reason that it would be appropriate to disclose these biases. In terms of political standpoint, I tend to be reasonably liberal: according to the [http://www.politicalcompass.org/ political compass test], I scored as {{nowrap|−4.92}} on an economic scale of left versus right, and {{nowrap|−5.25}} on a social scale of libertarianism versus authoritarianism. In terms of spirituality, I am ''nominally'' a Protestant, though I abandoned those beliefs a number of years ago and now am largely agnostic, with some [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] leanings. I therefore follow [[the Five Precepts]] and some other tenets of Buddhism, but am otherwise agnostic. Although I am generally accepting of people's religious beliefs, I personally greatly dislike dogma, especially those which can be categorized as pseudoscience, although I acknowledge that any argument involving an omnipotent being is necessarily [[Inductive reasoning|inductive]] in nature.
+<div style="height:1.5em; padding-left: 1em; font-weight:bold;">Contact information:</div>
+<div style="padding-right:1em;">
+*Talk page: <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Nihiltres&action=edit&section=new User talk:Nihiltres]</span>
+*Email: [[Special:EmailUser/Nihiltres|Wikipedia email system]]
+*Nihiltres#0003 on [http://discord.gg/wikipedia Discord]
+</div>
+</div>
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+I'm '''Nihiltres''' ({{IPA-en|nɪˈhɪlˌtɹɛs|}}; {{respell|ni|HIL|tres}}), a Wikipedia editor since April 2005 and [[Wikipedia:Administrators|administrator]] [[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Nihiltres|since May 2007]]. My pseudonym is arbitrary: it is [[Latin]] for "nothingthree" ({{lang|la|nihil}} → "nothing", {{lang|la|tres}} → "three") and does not imply anything whatsoever. I'm originally from [[Pointe-Claire, Quebec]], on the island of Montreal in [[Canada]], but I currently live in [[Rockville, Maryland]], near [[Washington, D.C.]] in the [[United States]].
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-<h3 style="text-align:center;">My username</h3>
+</div>
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-My pseudonym is arbitrary: it is [[Latin]] for "nothingthree" ({{lang|la|''nihil''}} → "nothing", {{lang|la|''tres''}} → "three") and does not imply anything whatsoever. Several Wikipedians have at various times questioned me as to its meaning, usually making connections to [[nihilism]]. I am not a nihilist, though I do at times value a nihilistic or, similarly, minimalist point of view for its philosophical clarity.
-In reality, it was an interesting compromise: I originally wanted to be {{lang|la|''Nemo''}}, [[Latin]] for "nobody", but the famous captain of [[Jules Verne]]'s story ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]'' had ruined the obscurity of the word for me. Further, I tried "Nihil", but that was taken. I dislike numbers in names, but adding a number as text sounded fine, so I added one of my favourite numbers, three, in the same Latin as my alternate "Nihil", to form my now [[wikt:epidemic|epidemic]] username, Nihiltres.
-The strangest connection that has been made with my username to another topic is the "-tres" to [[Moltres]], whose name happens to have similarly borrowed "tres" from Latin, though through [[Spanish language|Spanish]].
-I tend to use the same username across the internet, Nihiltres, but occasionally I am known as '''Shade''', a name I will sometimes prefer when it is, rarely, available.
-{{clear}}
-<h3 style="text-align:center;">Userspace</h3>
-[[Image:Hieronymus Bosch 021.jpg|250px|right|A section from Hieronymus Bosch's ''The Garden of Earthly Delights''.]]
-In my userspace I have a number of useful pages:
-*[[/Sandbox|My sandbox]], which I use for experimentation and development of things not yet ready or inappropriate for the article or template namespaces. Feel free to edit it, as long as you are constructive.
-**An archive of a rewrite of the [[Shade's Children]] article I made using the sandbox: [[User:Nihiltres/Sandbox/Shade's Children archive]]
-*A number of [[Wikipedia:Userboxes|userboxes]]:
-**[[User:Nihiltres/Userboxes/Friendly]]
-**[[User:Nihiltres/Userboxes/TI-BASIC]]
-**[[User:Nihiltres/Userboxes/Super contrib meta]]
-*Other subpages:
-**[[User:Nihiltres/Click-to-ImageMap]], a now unnecessary script written in AppleScript that converted implementations of {{[[Template:click|click]]}} to the better [[mw:Extension:ImageMap|ImageMap]] format. I used it while {{[[Template:click|click]]}} was still a CSS hack that impaired usability. {{[[Template:Click|Click]]}} has since been converted to use ImageMap itself, as a method of bypassing the limitations of ImageMap was implemented by the developers.
-**''[[User:Nihiltres/ImageMap how-to]]'' is now a redirect to the page to which it was moved, [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-03-03/Tutorial]]. That page is a tutorial explaining how to use the ImageMap feature.
-*Pages which govern the appearance of my userspace:
-**[[User:Nihiltres/Header]] controls the appearance of my talk page
-**[[User:Nihiltres/Archived]] controls the appearance of my user talk archives.
-**[[User:Nihiltres/Nav]] controls the navigation box which appears on many of my subpages.
-*My user skin customization pages:
-**[[User:Nihiltres/vector.js]], which contains a number of various scripts which enhance my user experience by altering the interface slightly.
-**[[User:Nihiltres/vector.css]], which fine-tunes the interface appearance for my personal preference, including some minor changes to colour.
-**[[User:Nihiltres/monobook.js]], the equivalent of the vector.js page while I use the Monobook skin. It implements a couple other changes:
-***[[User:Nihiltres/iPod.js]], special scripts called through the monobook.js page if I'm using my iPod Touch.
-***[[User:Nihiltres/iPod.css]], special styling called through the monobook.js page if I'm using my iPod Touch.
-**[[User:Nihiltres/monobook.css]], the equivalent of the vector.css page while I use the Monobook skin.
-I will update this section as needed if more content is created. If you like the layout or design of my userpage, ask me and I'll create something similar for you.
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