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I've been editing on English Misplaced Pages Since July 2005. I started out working on subject matters that interested me back then, such as Japanese television dramas, Apple Computer related articles, and articles related to the State of Hawaii.
Today
More recently, I've been focusing on boosting the image of ten-pin bowling in Japan. Bowling was my childhood sport, as I competed in junior bowling during my junior and high school years. Back in school, I was a walking encyclopedia of bowling knowledge, as I constantly studied the sports history, equipment and people who made up the sport. I once competed in a juniors tournament in Osaka, Japan, and fell in love with the culture and the people I met there (although I totally wasted the cultural aspect by eating at McDonald's every day.) Once I came back to Hawaii, I started studying Japanese, which led to my interests in many things Japanese. But, when surfing around Misplaced Pages, I was amazed that there was a total lack of information regarding bowling in Japan. This is currently my major focus.
My Philosophies of Misplaced Pages
I believe in deletionism, and I believe in immediatism. Understand these two ism's, and then you'll understand where I'm coming from in virtually any dispute. Misplaced Pages is basically a summary of the Internet. In a nutshell, if a subject is not well-known throughout the Internet, then it does not belong on Misplaced Pages. You may know about the subject. Your friends may know about the subject. The entire neighborhood may know about the subject. BUT, unless independent sources across the Internet are talking about the subject, it is not notable. If at least two or three independent people out of millions upon millions of Internet users do not find the subject important enough to write about it, then gosh, darn, gee whiz it isn't good enough for Misplaced Pages. Unless the subject meets notability guidelines immediately upon its article's creation, it does not belong on Misplaced Pages, thereby I will always vote for the article's removal.
I think the majority of Wikipedians subscribe to my ideology. If you think we're all wiki Nazis, then so be it. But I'd rather have a clean Misplaced Pages than one that is taken over by fanatics, dorks, geeks, otaku, trekers and the like. Just because the Internet attracts people like these, it does not mean every public accessible web resource has to turn to utter crap.
One other idea I want everyone to walk away from here with: Just because Misplaced Pages does not have an article about a certain subject does not mean the subject doesn't have any meaning. I've run into this with many contributors who believe that their product, book, radio show, electronic device, etc. must have a Misplaced Pages article in order for it to mean something. If you think the Internet circles around Misplaced Pages, or Misplaced Pages is the quoran of the Internet, then you've got to re-examine your ideology. I'm just saying that there's life beyond Misplaced Pages.
Reminders of why Misplaced Pages's policies work
EunSoo - His/her/its existence on Misplaced Pages were interesting and entertaining for a few days. But for some reason, he wanted to put up a fight against the many policies and culture within Misplaced Pages. Message to EunSoo: don't fight the good fight! Study English, and do something else to occupy your time during school summer vacation.
Femmina - The following quote from this editor explains it all: "Dear Apple lovers, I've a small confession to make here. I didn't start this discussion because I thought I could stand a chance against your madness. As Paul noticed, I baited you and driven this discussion to a completely ridicuols ground deliberatily. And I did this to have my friends and anybody else I care in real life that was thinking about buying something form Apple to come here and read this discussion. Some of them will hopefully never buy anything from this technological/religious supplier. Thank you for your help. Have a nice day." There are a lot of trolls like this around Misplaced Pages. Misplaced Pages's system works when dealing with people like this editor.
