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This user is currently working on improving physicalism. enThis user is a native speaker of the English language. de-2Dieser Benutzer hat fortgeschrittene Deutschkenntnisse. This user is a member of the Counter-Vandalism Unit. Today is 8 December 2024 The English Wikipedia has 6,921,315 articles. exoThis editor is an exopedian. This user is a Citizen of the World (Terra, ⊕).

Wikipedian as of February 18, 2006, with 290 contributions as of July 06 2006.

Goals

My goals as an editor of wikipedia are

To increase the amount of available knowledge

• Knowledge is an important thing to people, and adding to it is a great task to accomplish.
• Also it may help a person who needs certain information.
• Wikipedia is a free source of knowledge and deserves to be as good a possible; I hope to make it better.

To contribute to the comunity

• Wikipedia is a community effort, that needs everyones collaboration to succeed.
• Also, it is more than just text; it is the effort of people from every part of the world.
• Many people believe that Wikipedia is "no good", and I'll try to change their minds by writing higher quality articles.

and to learn in the process

• As I progress and grow I will aquire more knowledge naturally.
• And Perhapse, I will learn more about myself along the way.

Featured Article

Swift with her Best Female Video trophy for the song

"You Belong with Me" is the third single from Taylor Swift's second studio album Fearless (2008). Big Machine Records released the song to radio on April 20, 2009. Swift and Liz Rose wrote the lyrics, which discuss unrequited love. Swift and Nathan Chapman produced the track, which has a banjo-led country pop production. The song was nominated in three categories at the 2010 Grammy Awards, reached the top 10 on several charts and received certifications in Australia, Canada, Japan, and New Zealand. The song peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100; the RIAA certified it seven-times platinum. Roman White directed the song's music video, which stars Swift in two roles, and won Best Female Video (pictured) at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, where Swift's acceptance was interrupted by Kanye West. Following a dispute about the ownership of Swift's back catalog, she re-recorded the song as "You Belong with Me (Taylor's Version)" for her 2021 album Fearless (Taylor's Version). (Full article...)

Recently featured:

• Wilfred Arthur
• École Polytechnique massacre
• Mimodactylus

In the news

Bashar al-Assad

• Syrian rebel forces capture Damascus following multiple offensives as overthrown president Bashar al-Assad (pictured) flees.
• Notre-Dame de Paris reopens following reconstruction after the 2019 fire.
• Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah wins the presidency in the Namibian general election.
• Fianna Fáil wins the most seats in the Irish general election but their ruling coalition with Fine Gael and The Greens does not achieve a majority.

Ongoing:

• Israel–Hamas war
• Israeli invasion of Lebanon
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • timeline
• Sudanese civil war
  • timeline

Recent deaths:

• Kelly Powers
• Mohamed Ali Yusuf
• Debbie Mathers
• Marianne Preger-Simon
• Brian Thompson
• Chiung Yao

Selected anniversaries

December 8: Rōhatsu in Japan; Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Day in Ethiopia

Metallica

• 1504 – Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah wrote his Oran fatwa, arguing for the relaxation of Islamic law for forcibly converted Muslims in Spain.
• 1854 – Pope Pius IX promulgated the apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, proclaiming the dogmatic definition of the Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Virgin Mary was conceived free of original sin.
• 1980 – English musician John Lennon was murdered at the entrance of the Dakota, where he resided in New York City.
• 1998 – The Australian Cricket Board's cover-up of Shane Warne and Mark Waugh's involvement with bookmakers was revealed.
• 2013 – Metallica (pictured) played a concert in Antarctica, becoming the first band to perform on all seven continents.

• John Peckham (d. 1292)
• John Pym (d. 1643)
• Jean Sibelius (b. 1865)
• John Banville (b. 1945)

More anniversaries:

• December 7
• December 8
• December 9

Select quotes

Most Influential person of the 1900s.

• "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds" — Albert Einstein
• "Those who do not remember their past are condemned to repeat their mistakes" — George Santayana
• "There is only one good, which is knowledge, and one evil, which is ignorance" — Plato
• "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance" — Socrates
• "He who has overcome his fears will truly be free" — Aristotle
• "Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the world" — Archimedes
• "Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases" — George Orwell
• "Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things" — Isaac Newton
• "An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind" — Gandhi