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Hi, I'm Kurt Weber, wikipedian-sort of and denizen of #wikipedia on Freenode (irc.freenode.net).

I am a resident of Princeton, Indiana (actually a few miles outside of it).

I am a radical ardent Libertarian Individualist Objectivist extremist, and seek nothing short of the entire destruction of socialism and collectivism in my lifetime. Paradoxically, then, some of my favorite writers happen to be self-described socialists such as George Orwell and (fellow Hoosier/fellow Kurt) Kurt Vonnegut, although my appreciation of the latter has waned as I have realized that his stories have no plot whatsoever.

My favorite writers, though, are (in order):

• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• John Irving
• Viktor Muravin
• Leo Tolstoy
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I was for some time a member of Southwind Drum & Bugle Corps of Lexington, KY; however, I was beset by medical problems that ended my season after just five weeks.

I am also a Member Advocate.

My home page

Other sections of my user page:

• My attempt to compile a list of everyone who has ever lived
• Books I have read or am reading (thanks to Android79 for the idea).
• Important wikilinks so I can have them all in one place

Wikipolitics

I will, almost reflexively, vote Keep or Merge in every VfD I come across unless the topic is just blatantly inappropriate (basically, if the subject is utterly and indisputably non-notable) OR if the topic itself is worthy but the article is such that to meet standards of NPOV and tone it would have to be totally scrapped and started over from scratch anyway. But if the topic is worthy and the article has any redeeming aspects at all, I will vote to keep--that way it provides a starting point for anyone who might want to just make one or a series of incremental improvement(s) but might be intimidated by the work involved in starting something totally from scratch. Anything that makes it more likely that someone who has something worthwhile to contribute will contribute it is a good thing.

This is an encyclopedia--better to keep something that maybe doesn't belong than to eliminate something that does.

Cranks

I am the creator of Template:Crank, which looks like this:

This article concerns a topic which is deemed by the overwhelming majority of experts in its concerned field to be absolutely absurd or total nonsense

I created this a few weeks after someone (probably only half-jokingly) suggested it in #wikipedia; however, it has usefulness. Use it where needed, but be prepared to back it up.

M*A*S*H Quotes

(Season Six, Episode "Fade In, Fade Out"): Winchester: Where may I find your commanding officer? Radar: Uh, in his commanding office, sir.

Articles I have written

I am the primary author or originator of the following articles:

• Testor Corporation
• Empire (novel)
• Arban method
• Rupert Jee
• Zlata's Diary
• Indiana State School Music Association
• Beer run
• Wabash Heritage Trail

I am the primary author or originator of the following lists:

• List of counties in Indiana by population
• List of counties in Indiana by area

M*A*S*H Episodes

I also write articles on various individual M*A*S*H episodes:

• Last Laugh
• War of Nerves
• The Winchester Tapes

Other Misplaced Pages Stuff

I am a participant in the Stub Sorting WikiProject.

I am the founder of WikiProject Indiana.

I have also created Template:american-chronicle for Gore Vidal's American Chronicle books. It looks like this:

I have created Template:inclusionist-cleanup for use by extreme inclusionists such as myself in listing pages on Misplaced Pages:Cleanup. It looks like this: Template:Inclusionist-cleanup

Quotes and Observations

"The difference between myself and socialists is that I want freedom for everyone, whereas socialists only want freedom for those who don't have something they want (and EVERYBODY has something a socialist wants)."

"A field of study can be safely considered complex when it starts using Hebrew letters for symbols."

"Given a sufficiently strong spring, any Maglite battery compartment cover is impossible to close."

"The most amazing thing in the world is how the company that makes Maglites manages to stay in business. The most any person would need at any one time is three--one for the house, one for the car, and one kept with all his camping gear. And those three will last forever, and will likely wind up being passed on to the grandchildren, who will pass them on to their grandchildren, ad infinitum. So where are all these new sales coming from?"

"Revolution becomes necessary, or at least justified, when government seeks to deny its citizens the means of planning or carrying out a revolution."

"People who think porn degrades women obviously haven't heard of feminism."

"Welfare recipients are the new feudal lords--they are the unproductive living off the productive by holding them at gunpoint."

"Anyone who argues against something on the grounds that it will help 'the big companies' can be safely ignored--not because of the idea itself, but because he used the phrase 'the big companies'."

"Leonard Peikoff is such a secondhander..."

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