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	I am '''Philip L. Welch''', senior at ] double-majoring in ] and ] and planning to graduate in December of 2006. My was on ], ].

	Gratuitous pirate joke:
	:Q: What happened when sea pirates started editing Misplaced Pages?
	:A: We sent them to ]rrrrrrr.

	==Philwelch's Observation==
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	All other factors held equal, the greater the notability and encyclopedic merit of a given subject on Misplaced Pages, the higher quality the related article.

	== Constructive edit warring ==
	As opposed to simply reverting back and forth, I like to review any two edits and devise a third, better edit that uses the best aspects of both while improving. This is better than simple reversion, and I, for one, would like to see any "edit war" using these techniques escalate beyond control. Here's a prototypical example. shows a distinctly poor edit that made the article less readable. was a selective improvement on both versions. Occasionally, an edit will be made that's all bad. In those cases, yeah, I'll revert, or just leave it for awhile until I can do a copyedit on the whole article (as to not single out certain edits and thus certain editors).

	==Inspiration==

	"I was recently in Brazil. I was recently in India. There are people there without electricity, without computers, without internet, without healthcare. Those people could give a shit about whether we have a link on a toolspage to a tool that might bring in some revenue, and whether some people consider this an affront to their aesthetics. But they need books. They need educational materials. They need freely licensed work they can modify, adapt, redistribute, copy freely, so they can learn what they need to know to have power in their own lives. Misplaced Pages is for them. Not for us. So, we need to be very very very careful about commercialism, and we need to be very very thoughtful about how we can use money to change the world, and that's why I do everything that I do. I hope that explanation is helpful." --Jimbo Wales in #wikipedia, October 23, 2005.

	==Accomplishments==
	*I am the coiner of ], a term referring to a practice in which a page is blanked or deleted to remove unsalvagably atrocious text and rewritten because the subject is still a good candidate for an article. I hope it catches on.
	*Began ], a proposed project to merge otherwise redundant information.
	**As a test case, merged list from article ] into the Gay Icons category--a project that required over 500 edits. Reactions to the test case will hopefully determine if the project moves forward, and if so, what we will do the same and what we will do differently. If you have an opinion, please post it at ]
	**Project is on hold.
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	**I removed a lot of original research from the article, which led to the following honor (in the form of a non-sequitur added to the article itself): "The Great Independent Research Purge of ] eliminated most of these inconsistencies by shooting them in the back (See: ])."

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	===Edited With Great Relish===
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	== #wikipedia bash ==

	BabaJobu: Vague, the only respectable way for a girl to rebel is to have lots of sex with lots of different people.
	Philwelch: BabaJobu: And only if those people include myself.
	Vague_Pant: Concur with Baba and Phil.
	BabaJobu: Phil, actually the rule refers to me, not you.
	Philwelch: BabaJobu: If she's fucking lots of different people she'll get to both of us eventually.
	Vague_Pant: So will venereal disease.

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