User:Nihiltres

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I am Nihiltres (IPA: /nɪˈhɪlˌtɹɛs/?), a Wikipedian. I am an administrator, and have been since a nomination in May 2007. I do a lot of work deleting articles tagged for speedy deletion, protecting pages based on requests, responding to requests for edits to protected pages, and occasionally blocking someone with an inappropriate username or who has been vandalizing. Aside from my administrative duties, I do a bunch of work with templates, cleanup, and occasionally writing articles. I also volunteer answering emails as part of the Wikimedia OTRS team. I'm often on IRC in the #wikipedia, #wikipedia-en, and #wikipedia-en-admins IRC channels, so you can talk to me there if I'm available.

About me

I am a science student living in Pointe Claire, on the island of Montreal. As I am a student, it's possible to roughly estimate my age, however I would discourage people from guessing my age 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.

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 political compass test, I scored as -4.92 on an economic scale of left versus right, and -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 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 in nature.

My username

My pseudonym is arbitrary: it is Latin for "nothingthree" (nihil = nothing, 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 specifically nihilistic, but 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 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 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.

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.

Userboxes

en

This user is a native speaker of the English language.

fr-3

Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau avancé de français.

la-1

Hic usor simplici latinitate contribuere potest.

This user can use and program conditional templates.

This user is an advanced TI-BASIC programmer.

vb-2

This user is an intermediate Visual Basic programmer.

Ascript-2

This user is an intermediate AppleScript programmer.

js-1

This user is a beginning JavaScript programmer.

flute-2

This user is an intermediate flautist.

This user is a recent changes patroller.

This user repairs links to disambiguation pages.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Novels.

12,000+

This user has made more than 12,000 contributions to Wikipedia and, as a result, may be slightly insane.

vn-27

This user page has been vandalized 27 times.

This user wants to be your friend.

Userspace

In this userspace I have a number of useful pages:

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 userboxes:
Other subpages:
- User:Nihiltres/Click-to-ImageMap, a now unnecessary script written in AppleScript that converted implementations of {{click}} to the better ImageMap format. I used it while {{click}} was still a CSS hack that impaired usability. {{Click}} has since been converted to use ImageMap itself, as a method of bypassing the limitation of ImageMap was implemented by 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/monobook.js, which contains a number of various scripts which enhance my user experience. I have customized the action of most that I use, however my modifications are largely cosmetic.
- User:Nihiltres/monobook.css, which fine-tunes the interface for me, in particular setting link underlining and removing annoying information that I won't use.

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.