User:Dayewalker

Welcome to my page, and go Celtics!

The Balance

I see myself and my work here as a part of the balance. I try and keep any personal feelings separate from the articles I edit here. My work here is really important because Wikipedia is a valuable source of accurate information and it provides me with something to spend my insignificant life doing, even though I'm a pompous git.

I rarely edit anything I have a strong interest in, although I will watch those pages with interest and participate in the talk page discussions. I really enjoy watching the process of gaining consensus take shape.

As I pick up articles on my watch list from vandals, I try and balance out the protection. I've watched Sean Hannity and Keith Olbermann, Baptist and Satanist, Republican National Convention and Democratic National Convention, Nancy Pelosi and Jesse Helms.

If I've changed one of your edits, please understand that it wasn't anything personal. My goal here is to be absolutely neutral, to the point that nothing can be learned about me from perusing my edit lists. My personal feelings should have no bearing on my wikipedia edits.

Walking Away

There's a lot to be said for knowing when to just walk away from an argument. I've seen simple discussions that were never going to amount to anything positive descend into long, pointless, venomous arguments that only ended when they had finally chewed up so much space and emotion, that either someone was blocked or an admin finally shut the whole thing down.

When there's nothing to be gained, there's nothing to fight for. Simply disengaging from the conflict is often the best way to go. While sometimes emotionally difficult to just let go, in the end it is far more satisfying to do nothing, than it is to do the wrong thing.

If the answer is "Who cares?" then why should you? There's a lot to be said for simply letting the unproductive slide.

This user is not a Wikipedia administrator but would like to be one someday.