User: Buster7

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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I am a continually learning member of the Wikipedia 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 Wikipedia 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 Wikipedia 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 Wikipedia 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.

: We put thirty spokes together and call it a wheel;

: But it is on the space where there is nothing that the usefulness of the wheel depends.

: We turn clay to make a vessel;

: But it is in the space where there is nothing that the usefulness of the vessel depends.

: We pierce doors and windows into a wall to make a house;

: And it is on these spaces where there is nothing that the usefulness of the house depends.

: We spend endless hours to create an online encyclopedia;

: But it is on the 'to be edited' space that the effort lives.

: Therefore, just as we take advantage of what is, we should recognize the usefulness of what is not.

• Almost ten long years ago, I was visiting the talk page of my unforgettable very best Wiki Friend, {{ping|Writegeist}}, and I said the following,

{{quotation|""Somewhere in the emptiness of "Future Wikipedia" is a Use-full-ness place to be happy. I hope to someday find it"". Buster Seven Talk 21:43, 3 April 2015 (UTC)}}

• And find it I did. Facilitating the weekly Editor of the Week awards has kept me safe and sane and far from the Drama of HOT, "in the Moment", "It's happening as we edit", articles that can drain energy and forbearance and bring tension into the Real World. Buster Seven Talk (UTC) 10:55, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

First, in case you think I might be some Johnny- (or Joanna-) come-lately to the Computer Interweb, I'll have you know I started the first-ever blog in 1909: A Gentleman's Discourse on the Trouser Gusset, the Hobble Skirt, the Advisability of Thornproof Tweed Undergarments, and Sundry Other Sartorial Matters of Concern to the Aspiring Aviator. It was published in Compo-Serve (motto: Per Compostum ad Astra), which at that time was the premier organ for distinguished pensées on the twin arts of composting and aviating. R-e-s-p-e-c-t! (It's a little-known fact, which really deserves a Wikpedia article all to itself, that I inspired Mr. Redding's song.)

Following in the illustrious footsteps of my blog, Wikipedia editors sometimes dispense advice on their user pages. I advise joining the Wikipedia Discourteous Editing Club, ignoring all rules, and noting Don't-give-a-fuckism. Oh, and beware of advice from strangers.

Nothing in Wikipedia should be relied on as fact (and the passive voice should be avoided wherever avoidance is found to be possible). Wikipedia is a humorous parody of Uncyclopedia [http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com] and Conservapedia [http://conservapedia.com], the only online encyclopedias that are edited with high regard for accuracy, verifiability and neutral point of view. If you find content in Wikipedia that you can corroborate as factually correct it's just coinkidink and you should edit it boldly, satirically and immediately.

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