User:Ed Poor

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These are the last 50 articles I started:Right to life movement, Saline abortion, Comfort women, Silent scream, Speech codes, Balint Vazsonyi, Usage, Theory and fact, Rastafarianism, Wiki way, Red link, The word, Getting Better, Brian Mitchell, How to write a Conservapedia article, Unguided evolution, Fidelity, Conscientious objector, National Center for Science Education, Infrared, I Have a Dream, Paul Simon, Political spectrum, Infinity, Equality, Trawl, Orbit, Deduction, Sit-ins at lunch counters, Wikipedia:Avoid personal remarks, Diane Ravitch, George Carlin, Donkey, The Manchurian Candidate, Wolves, Suffolk Punch, Manure, Riders of the Purple Sage, The Family Man, Brainwashing, Frank Sinatra, To Sir, With Love, Strider, Hate, Methods of contraception, Fornication, Idiot, Ellipse, Blood type, The Paradoxical Commandments, Carbon dioxide

Who do you think you are?

Q: Is this your personal blog, or what?!

A: No, but it just so happens that nearly every word I type, link I create, article or template I start - gains instant and widespread acceptance.

Q: Isn't that a bit arrogant?

A: Okay, I guess you're right. Perhaps I should be more humble.

Explanations

There was a time when Wikipedia was a meritocracy, and I rose rapidly through the ranks then. I got Jimbo to create the Mediation and Arbitration committee's, so he wouldn't have to be the sheriff all the time. I became the first elected bureaucrat, and pioneered the system whereby admins could enforce rules without having to take everything before a committee.

But I didn't see the anti-elitism creeping up and choking the life out of the place. Larry Sanger was right.

My only worry about Conservapedia is that it might make the equal and opposite mistake; it has certainly been accused of it, hundreds of times. But senior staff have been amazingly tolerant of opposing ideas here so far and I reason to hope they will continue to do so.