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I am '''Nihiltres''' <span title="I guessed the pronunciation, so this might be horribly wrong. NIH-HILL-TRESS.">(IPA: /nɪhɪl̩tres/?)</span>, a whore who enjoys bitchsex. My pseudonym is arbitrary: it is ] for "nothingthree" and does not imply anything whatsoever. I edit a wide variety of articles, usually ranging among things in which I am interested or have an involvement with. In addition, I do some general grunt work, ranging from patrolling the most recent changes to fixing up templates. I claim no particular credentials save being well-read and having a genius-level IQ.
I am '''Nihiltres''' <span title="I guessed the pronunciation, so this might be horribly wrong. NIH-HILL-TRESS.">(IPA: /nɪhɪl̩tres/?)</span>, a Wikipedian. My pseudonym is arbitrary: it is ] for "nothingthree" and does not imply anything whatsoever. I edit a wide variety of articles, usually ranging among things in which I am interested or have an involvement with. In addition, I do some general grunt work, ranging from patrolling the most recent changes to fixing up templates. I claim no particular credentials save being well-read and having a genius-level IQ.
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I am Nihiltres (IPA: /nɪhɪl̩tres/?), a Wikipedian. My pseudonym is arbitrary: it is Latin for "nothingthree" and does not imply anything whatsoever. I edit a wide variety of articles, usually ranging among things in which I am interested or have an involvement with. In addition, I do some general grunt work, ranging from patrolling the most recent changes to fixing up templates. I claim no particular credentials save being well-read and having a genius-level IQ.
I am a science student living in Pointe Claire, on the island of Montreal. As I am a student, it's possible to estimate my age, however I would discourage people from guessing my age because older contributors have an unfortunate tendency to look down on the younger ones, stereotyping them as shallow, inexperienced, or immature. This has been a factor in requests for adminship, a status to which I would aspire. I prefer to imagine that I can be ageless on Misplaced Pages, being judged 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 on my userpage. 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 prefer the idea of Buddhist-flavored transcendental pluralism. I therefore follow the Five Precepts and some other tenets of Buddhism, but am otherwise agnostic. In terms of "transcendental pluralism", I mean it that I hold one's beliefs to be generally transcendentally true for oneself. Aside from this pluralism, I dislike dogma in general, especially those which can be categorized as pseudoscience, although I acknowledge that any argument involving an omnipotent being is necessarily inductive in nature.
On other websites, although I usually use my unique username Nihiltres, I prefer when available the username Shade. This may stem from certain media to which I have been exposed and enjoyed, for example Shade's Children or ShadowWraith. I'm generally an unusual individual, although that seems to be not entirely a bad thing. For example, among my favourite flavours I count mint; grapefruit, Lime and other citrus; and dark or coffeechocolate; among other foods noted for bitterness or sourness, although I must also reveal a healthy sweet tooth.
Some other favourites of mine:
In terms of my grammatical preferences, I have reasonably conformist views:
I do not use singular they in formal writing, although I find the use of they as a singular neuter pronoun for a person useful.
I find split infinitives to be something to be avoided in formal writing, although occasionally they must be used to avoid ambiguity, and allowing their use in casual or otherwise nonessential writing greatly simplifies the process.
The passive voice is acceptable, but the active voice is usually preferable.
I absolutely will not allow a sentence to end in a preposition in formal writing, although it is awkward to force sentences in casual writing into forms which do not end in such a way.
I generally use the vernacular as opposed to politically correct alternatives - I see no problem with the vernacular.
"Whom", in my view, should be used in the object case whenever applicable, even to a certain extent in casual speech, although there the omission of the final "m" is forgivable.
The serial comma is almost always preferable, except under some unusual circumstances where it may cause ambiguity.
I have a personal sandbox, where I am currently working on improving the ShadowWraith article. If you want to edit in that sandbox, feel free! I have no objection with anyone editing my sandbox, as long as any edits made are constructive.
Articles I've created or greatly improved
This section is not intended to impress you. This list is of the content for which either I feel that I have made a major improvement, or for which I am the original creator or uploader of such content. I keep it here for objective reference, and because this helps encourage me to continue contributing to Misplaced Pages whenever I look at it or add to it.
Template:Ce - This template I created uses ParserFunctions to function in the same way as all of the chemical element symbol templates, except that this one takes the element name or symbol as a parameter. It deprecates all of those templates, but I won't replace their instances.
