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Over the past few months, I’ve come to believe that ] is one of the most under-appreciated policies on Misplaced Pages, especially when dealing with suspected sockpuppetry or meatpuppetry. The purpose of processes such as ] is to prevent people from disrupting Misplaced Pages using sockpuppet accounts. Accounts that have been registered for the purpose of disruption obviously need to be blocked, but it should be possible to determine that based primarily on whether or not their editing behavior is disruptive. When the effort to identify and block suspected sockpuppets or meatpuppets is causing more disruption than the accounts themselves are causing, such as indef-blocking editors who have made nothing but constructive contributions based on the suspicion that they ''might'' be socks, this policy is being misused to have the opposite effect from how it’s intended. See also ].
I’m an artist and writer who likes to debate about evolution, particularly when it involves my two favorite topics: evolutionary psychology and the origin of birds. I also sometimes draw comics about creationism. The name “Captain Occam” is derived from one of the characters in my comic series.
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I tend to edit articles about evolution-related topics, and about social and biological issues related to race. The following are a few articles to which I've contributed a lot:
Since joining Misplaced Pages I’ve contributed mostly to articles about science, politics, and areas where the two intersect, such as creationism/evolution and controversies over the biology of race. I might at some point get involved in Misplaced Pages’s articles on climate change, but I’m very hesitant to do so because I get the impression that these articles’ editing environment is one of the most contentious and drama-ridden anywhere on Misplaced Pages. I’m also interested in paleontology, but it’s surprisingly difficult to find paleontology information that needs to be included in articles that hasn’t already been added by someone else.
Articles to which I’ve contributed a lot (in chronological order) are:
Over the past few months, I’ve come to believe that WP:IAR is one of the most under-appreciated policies on Misplaced Pages, especially when dealing with suspected sockpuppetry or meatpuppetry. The purpose of processes such as SPI is to prevent people from disrupting Misplaced Pages using sockpuppet accounts. Accounts that have been registered for the purpose of disruption obviously need to be blocked, but it should be possible to determine that based primarily on whether or not their editing behavior is disruptive. When the effort to identify and block suspected sockpuppets or meatpuppets is causing more disruption than the accounts themselves are causing, such as indef-blocking editors who have made nothing but constructive contributions based on the suspicion that they might be socks, this policy is being misused to have the opposite effect from how it’s intended. See also this arbitration principle.
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Since joining Misplaced Pages I’ve contributed mostly to articles about science, politics, and areas where the two intersect, such as creationism/evolution and controversies over the biology of race. I might at some point get involved in Misplaced Pages’s articles on climate change, but I’m very hesitant to do so because I get the impression that these articles’ editing environment is one of the most contentious and drama-ridden anywhere on Misplaced Pages. I’m also interested in paleontology, but it’s surprisingly difficult to find paleontology information that needs to be included in articles that hasn’t already been added by someone else.
Articles to which I’ve contributed a lot (in chronological order) are:
Captain Occam, despite the many dangers involved, has ably demonstrated that he, in fact, has a clue. Thus, I award him this cluestick. May its ample weight add to the swagger of his strut and the trepidation of his foes! —Aryaman(talk) 15:34, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
