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This user is a Citizen of the World (Terra, ⊕).

This user is a native of the United States of America.

Don't vote democrat. Daniel Olsen, is a 17 year old resident of Oakland, California. He currently lives in East Oakland and goes to school at Oakland Technical High. He enjoys Wikipedia, fractals, coffee, fire poi, and apparently talking about himself in the third person. Feel free to drop him an email at DanielJOlsen@gmail.com.

The wikipedia edits that he's most proud of are the ones that he's contributed to because of personal connection to the subject:

He's also done a fair amount of work:

and substantial work:

Inclusionism

Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians

This user finds copyright paranoia disruptive.

After an unpleasant encounter with a group of deletionists, I've become an enthusiastic inclusionist.

Information that is verifiable should never be deleted. People come to wikipedia for information, and although I support deletion of test-pages or pure junk, I don't believe that deleting information does any good to wikipedia. The essense of any encyclopedia is the supply of information, and as wikipedia is not a paper dictionary we have the unique ability to provide volumes of information without having to worry that it will not appeal to everyone. Information need not appeal to everyone in order to be useful.

WP:N is counterintuitive to the what I see as the nature of wikipedia. Anyencyclopaedia can write an article on London, but wikipedia can write articles on neighborhoods of San Jose. Including information that is "non-notable" provides more information to the people who are looking for it. Someone looking at The Simpsons could click on Recurring jokes in The Simpsons, click on Tube Bar prank calls, and find out the origin of the popular Simpsons gag. Imagine if, in the same manner as the simpsons, you could find out detailed information about all of the articles encountered while surfing random articles. Imagine if all of the facets of every esoteric topic could be looked at in the same manner as the Simpsons. The articles may be short, and rarely accessed, but just because a topic isn't popular doesn't mean it doesn't deserve a detailed encyclopedic article. We should embrace non-notable articles, because the ability to cover every topic imaginable should be the goal of an encyclopedia.

Bad articles are still articles. If a user created an article, most likely there is some information contained within that article. Whether it's formatted horribly, has POV, grammatically incorrect, or using some copyrighted material, there is information contained within. It's better to inprove than to destroy. Substandard material will eventually improve; if that's to slow for you then be bold and do something about it. Wikipedia cannot become the total sum of all human knowledge if we delete the information that would be extremely hard to find elsewhere.

This user is a member of the
Counter-Vandalism Unit.

Vandalism is the reason wikipedia is often seen as substandard. The same wiki philosophy that allows anyone to edit allows anyone to vandalize. Any wiki draws vandals. Wikipedia has already taken steps to restrict edits with protection of certain pages, but I think it needs to be taken a step further. Users should be forced to register before editing. When people have a username, they are accountable, and a block will actually stop them from editing. Sock puppets may be created, but sock puppets are much easier to control than the 4 billion different IPs out there.

Diambiguation pages

This user repairs links to disambiguation pages.

Many sloppy editors add links to disambiguation pages unknowingly. This (among other things) creates links that go where they are not supposed to go, which reduces the user experience. When a user edits a page and adds a link to a disambiguation page, the user should be warned that the link does not go where it is supposed to, so that the user can correct the link. While this is one of the more low priority problems on wikipedia, it is an ongoing problem that could be fixed with a few edits to the MediaWiki software.

This user overuses userboxes. Deal with it.

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This user uses entirely too many userboxes.

This user was up all night finding userboxes and is now very sleepy.

This user plays with fire.

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 '''Daniel Olsen''', is a 17 year old resident of [[Oakland, California]]. He currently lives in [[East Oakland, Oakland, California|East Oakland]] and goes to school at [[Oakland Technical High]]. He enjoys [[Wikipedia]], [[fractals]], [[coffee]], [[fire poi]], and apparently talking about himself in the third person. Feel free to drop him an email at DanielJOlsen@gmail.com.