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User:Philwelch/Header

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I am Philip L. Welch, senior at Washington State University double-majoring in Philosophy and Management Information Systems and planning to graduate in December of 2006. My first logged-in edit still on record was on February 2, 2004.

Gratuitous pirate joke:

Q: What happened when sea pirates started editing Misplaced Pages?

A: We sent them to WP:RfArrrrrrrr.

Guiding Principles

• My undertakings should never exceed my expertise. I never make substantial edits if I don't know what I'm talking about. Right now I'm of most use doing regular drudgery--reverting vandalism I discover on RC, doing some copyediting, voting on VfD, and so forth.
• More breadth, less depth. With only a couple exceptions, I've never done major, in-depth edits of a given article to push it ahead in quality, instead spreading moderate edits across articles as I discover them and see something is to be fixed. Most of my small, transitory watchlist is to oversee and protect articles that I've edited (not in terms of keeping them the way I left them, but in terms of making sure that subsequent edits to an article I've taken a measure of responsibility for are useful, or can be made useful.
• The third way. In any editing dispute, I try to find a third way that satisfies both parties to the dispute and also makes Misplaced Pages a better encyclopedia.

Accomplishments

• I am the coiner of keletion, a term referring to a practice in which a page is blanked or deleted to remove unsalvagably atrocious text and rewritten because the subject is still a good candidate for an article. I hope it catches on.
• Began Misplaced Pages:Merge lists to categories, a proposed project to merge otherwise redundant information.
  • As a test case, merged list from article Gay icon into the Gay Icons category--a project that required over 500 edits. Reactions to the test case will hopefully determine if the project moves forward, and if so, what we will do the same and what we will do differently. If you have an opinion, please post it at Misplaced Pages talk:Merge lists to categories
  • Project is on hold.

Rewritten/Expanded

• Objectivist philosophy (subsequently rewritten and forked into separate articles).
• Firearm
• 2112 (album)
• Alleged inconsistencies in Star Wars
  • I removed a lot of original research from the article, which led to the following honor (in the form of a non-sequitur added to the article itself): "The Great Independent Research Purge of Philwelch eliminated most of these inconsistencies by shooting them in the back (See: Order 66)."

Created

• Randian hero (in effect, also in progress)
• Color metaphors for race (in effect)
• Ice Bowl
• Notable lines in the Star Wars series
• William Shatner's musical career
• Template:Matrix
• Supreme Court templates
  • Template:Jaycourt
  • Template:Rutledge-court
  • Template:Ellsworth-court
  • Template:Marshall-court
  • Template:Taney-court
  • Template:Chase-court
  • Template:Waite-court
  • Template:Fuller-court
  • Template:White-court
  • Template:Taft-court
  • Template:Hughes-court
  • Template:Stone-court
  • Template:Vinson-court
  • Template:Warren-court
  • Template:Burger-court
  • Template:Rehnquist-court

Edited With Great Relish

• Darth Vader
• Garfield—added "production and criticism" section to an otherwise over-congratulatory article.

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