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Whenever I begin to wonder if what I do around here is worthwhile, I go to this page and remember all the smiles and good feelings that the Eddy Awards have brought to people over the years. It really uplifts my spirits. Buster Seven Talk (UTC) 22:49, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

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Labor of Love

Who is Buster7

I am a continually learning member of the Misplaced Pages experience/family/social group/society...whatever you want to call it. I was born in Belgium and came to America in 1951. I have lived in America for 72 years. I was taught by BVM nuns and Franciscan brothers. I have been finding my way around the many nooks and crannies of Misplaced Pages since I wondered "Who the heck is Sarah Palin"...over 16 years ago. One of many interests has always been articles about the Flemish language. I also monitor articles relating to the region of my birth (which was once collectively known as the Low Countries). Promoting and prolonging whatever it is that Misplaced Pages tries to be has become important. Maybe it is the concept of something that I contributed to living into eternity or maybe it is just trying to write a good, clear, concise sentence. Whatever it is, I'm still having fun! Except for the time I was put up for "the Mop". My demise through the false presentation and words of a editor still sting ten years later. I would have been a good administrator. Better than most I would now dare to say. But, it wasn't to be. Now I have attained ELDER status--self-proclaimed.

Since then, I promised to listen to the voice that speaks to greatness... in myself and in others. I have been facilitating the Editor of the Week program for over 10 years. I am a Baháʼí. I believe it is possible for human behavior to improve and develop and grow, especially in arenas where we are required to interact with each other. Making positive, non-political contributions to the planet is essential to Bahai practices and a bedrock of my Faith. I reluctantly drift into hot bed political articles but am wary of the drama that can result. I strive to be the best editor I can be. I am not a perfect editor. I have learned from past mistakes and, more than likely, I will make more down the line and learn from them. My constant hope is that the environment of Misplaced Pages will become calmer and more balanced, and that healthy collaboration will become the focus of all editors, now and to come. While some of the more troublesome WP arenas are political, the focus is not. The focus should always be OUR READER, or stated more distinctly, OUR VISITOR. Quite simply, I want to be left alone. Not bothered by vindictive editors, to enjoy the pleasure of WikiLife at some non-toxic level of article/essay creation and facilitating Editor of the Week. I want to enjoy the unspoken bond that can exist between editors and enjoy giving out awards. No emotional see-saws, tension, protagonists, provocative provocateurs. I reject the drama of untimely name-calling and sarcasm ladened replies. It doesn't work here any better than it works in RL. I work to see barriers dissolve in the face of mutual respect and humanity. I like to make editors smile.

Beware of Bamboozalers

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If people are bamboozled long enough, they tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. They are no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured them. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to themselves, that they have been taken (for a ride). Maga is a prime example. Political Lesson #1---Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.— Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World Political Lesson #2---If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you. President LBJ Political Lesson #3---exPresident Trump is a poor man's idea of a rich man, a weak man's idea of a strong man, and a stupid man's idea of a smart man. ANON

Gleanings

Countries I have travelled in

AI

• Artificial intelligence
• Artificial intelligence art
• Computer art
• Outline of artificial intelligence
• Stable Diffusion
• 15.ai
• Freeware

stuff

Cruft

Murals

Totem

Vandalism

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WP:BLOCK Misplaced Pages's Blocking Policy
WP:GAIV Guide to administrator intervention against vandalism
WP:AIV For reporting continuous vandalism

• Vandalizing articles is easy. The challenge is to create one!
• Vandalism Only Accounts usually get blocked rather quickly. Any child can vandalize. The Real Challenge is to create an article.
  

Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Sri Lanka Reconciliation/housekeeping#Dealing with disruptive editors Suggestions on dealing with disruptive editors

Writing an article

1. Use reliable, independent sources (WP:RS) to include significant encyclopedic information.
2. Use self-published sources as rarely as possible, and only for common uncontroversial information.
3. Avoid all qualifiers for knowledge, quality, size and success (WP:NPOV, WP:PEACOCK).
4. Avoid trivial listings, tedious boring details, and vague PR speak with no tangible facts.

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Images saved for a variety of reasons:

• Flanders
• Came to America on the New Amsterdam out of Holland in 1951
• My beloved Cubs were once world Champions. Maybe again next yearnext yearnext yearnext yearsome distant year
• My Uncle Jacque was a Voyageur
• My grandfather was a participant
• Adolescent Kestrel which I fed for three days in 2012
• Stekene City Hall. I was born nearby.
• The Holy Cross Church, de Heilige Kruiskerk. Baptized here, 8/8/47
• I'm the guy in back
• It's always a good idea to have an available picture of an elephant in a ro
• Why on earth would someone demolish such a wonderful house?
• I like it
• I like it
• 1892 Photograph of American Bison skulls (in Detroit} waiting to be ground into fertilizer or charcoal.
• Steel columns at The National Memorial for Peace and Justice waiting for U.S. counties to appropriate.
• Milwaukee Art Museum
• My Kind of Town, Chicago Is
• A pic I took of the new left field scoreboard
• Double-compound-pendulum
• A spiral diatom
• Three Body Problem
• Morning exercise routine
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• Ansel Adams, "Tetons and the Snake River"
• This is not me...on most days!

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Wag more, bark less, Don't bite.

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• From User talk:Mast Cell: More generally, the reason I first got involved with Misplaced Pages—and a governing principle in my decade-plus here—has been to make Misplaced Pages a vehicle of accurate, high-quality medical information, and to limit the harm caused by medical misinformation here. I don't think I anticipated a situation where the President of the United States, and his political enablers, would become the primary vectors for medical misinformation, nor where simple opposition to blatant medical misinformation & lies would be treated as a partisan act rather than as a basic expression of this site's founding principles. (Of course, I never dreamed that these people could turn the simple use of face masks, during a deadly global pandemic, into a partisan wedge issue either. Live and learn.)
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