User:Nightstallion
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Personal InformationA«nightstallion»is the male equivalent of anightmare.Istolethispunfrom thefantasyauthorPiers Anthony,well-known for hisXanthnovels.(Wow,Signpost,thisis the fact youtook from this page?^_^) Ichoseto use this name in myinternetactivities around the turn of the newmillenium,as I had grown discontent with my prioralter ego,«Baldur»or«Balduran»,which in turn had been inspired by the well-knownCRPG seriesBaldur's Gate.(Almost as great asPlanescape: Torment,which is, of course,thebestcomputer gameever to have beenprogrammed.) For a variety of reasons, I prefer to remain mostlyanonymouson Wikipedia for now; since I also consider it important to know whom one is working with, I will, however, divulge information about myself to a certain degree. I'm amaleadultspecimen of the specieshomo sapiens wikipædiacusand live in a rather small town close tomy country'scapital,Wien.I'm currently studyingTechnomathematicsat theTechnical University of Vienna,and will probably studyLinguisticsorEuropean Studiesat theUniversity of Viennaafterwards. I am one of those people who suffer greatly from the fact that there are only twenty-fourhoursto adayand only seven days to aweek;notwithstanding this, I collect hobbies the same way other people collect stamps; see the next section for more on that. I also love to chat about virtually every subject you could think of (I've been accused of being morecommunicativethan the average girl), so feel free tostart a conversationwith me about any topic you want. HobbiesI like to watchanimeand go to thecinemaregularly, strongly preferring original versions overdubbedones. I also like toread,especiallyalternative history,crime fiction,fantasyandscience-fiction.While I greatly enjoyrole-playing games(in particularDas Schwarze Auge,GURPS,Paranoia XP,ShadowrunandVampire: The Masquerade), I haven't been able to play for a few years now, first due to the lack of time and more recently due to the lack of a group to play with. I enjoy listening tomusic,with my preferences ranging fromclassical musicandjazztopunk rockand certain kinds ofhip hop;the only styles I can't stand aretechnoandrap.Furthermore, I like tosing,mostly inchoir,although I've also started working on mysolovoice in the autumn of 2005. Two of my hobbies were probably stronglyinfluencedby my oldersiblings:I took upequestrianismin my mid-teens (after having observed my sister partake in uncountableeventingtournaments), and I've always taken great interest incomputersandcomputer games(having looked over the shoulder of my brother playing computer games since I can think). Last, but certainly not least, I've beendancingat theTanzschule Rueffsince 2003. I also became acquainted with mygirlfriendthere, whom I've been together with since21 May2004.(You're welcome to offer your good wishes on ouranniversary.) Toget rid ofmy chronic tensions, I will take upAshtanga Vinyasa Yogain the near future. Wikipedia Naming ConventionsI'm rather unhappy with the wikipedia policies of "use common name" and "use English" (WP:NC(CN)andWP:NC(UE)). In my humble opinion, its principle amounts tode factodisinformation of the reader, who is lead to believe that thecommonname is also thecorrectname. Examples of this would be:
(Note: Maybe theCentral African Republicand theDominican Republicshould think about adopting short form names at some point, as well...?) Naturally, I also support the use of ß, Þ, ó, ä and similar characters of the extended Latin alphabet in article titles, as well as the use of diacritics, especially if the only difference between the correct name and the "English" name is the lack of diacritics in the latter. Wikimedia Projects There are a number of interesting issues going on atmeta:of which the casual user may not be aware; this section is meant to draw your attention towards a few of them which I consider the most important and the ones most worthy of support. Among theproposals for new projectsanddevelopment tasksare two which enjoy my highest support. The first isWikidata,which is meant to store data in a format which can be easily edited and retrieved for use in all other Wikimedia projects; for instance, we would finally have a single authoritative source for data about a country's area and population. The second isWikiMusic/WikiScores/Wikimusic II,a project meant to store data about works of music in the same way that theWikimedia Commonshouse images, audio and video files andWikisourcehouses textual works. There are plans to move from various language-specific editions ofWiktionarytowards a single one, calledOmegaWiki(omegawiki.org); in my opinion, this would be a great step towards making Wiktionary an authoritative source for checking translations of words into various languages. I believe that Wikibooks and Wiktionary need new logos; this is currently under discussion on meta. Furthermore, discussion is ongoing on Wikispecies about a small change to the current logo, and the new Wikiversity project is also in need of a logo. I've put links to the respective debates near the top of this page, below the navigation bar. I am against the concept behindsimple:.In my opinion, people whose English is rather bad should be integrated intoen:as well as possible; after all, there's a sufficient reservoir of people with very good English who can correct mistakes. Other interesting links:
International StandardsI strongly endorse, regularily use, and am closely accustomed with the followingISOcodes, and would strongly suggest the same to you: Things to Be Proud ofI've written onefeatured article,twofeatured listsand onegood article:
Opt-outs in the European Union Furthermore, onmeta:I took care of the organisation and administration of the votes on thenameandlogoofWikimedia Incubator,thelogoof theTest Wikipedia,thelogoofWikiversity,thenew logoofWiktionaryand thenew logoofWikibooks. Barnometer™
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| For your constant contribution to the euro topics.Miguel.mateo(talk) 13:13, 21 April 2008 (UTC) |