user:ThadeusOfNazereth
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|image_caption=Myself in 2021
|name=ThadeusOfNazereth
|real_name=Thadeus Smith
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|nationality=American
|height=6'1"
|personality_type=INFJ
|occupation=High school teacher
|education=A.A. Olympic College (2019)
B.A. Pacific Lutheran University (2021)
M.A. University of Essex (2022)
|religion=Episcopalian
|website=https://thadeussmith.com/|joined_date=August 8, 2016
|edit_count=~25,000
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My username is ThadeusOfNazereth, but my real name is Thadeus Smith. I've been editing on Wikipedia as an IP and a registered user under different accounts since sometime in 2014. Having lost the password to my childhood account Football1607, I began editing at this account on August 8th of 2016 and have no plans to change that.
My interests on Wikipedia are pretty broad! At any given moment in time, I can be found:
- Adding short descriptions to articles
- Creating redirects
- Removing and replacing citations to [https://ourcampaigns.com OurCampaigns]
- Fixing CS1 errors, fixing HARV errors, and adding missing page numbers to citations
- Reviewing articles at WP:DYK, WP:NPP, and :Category:Articles without sources
- Writing biographies of niche historical figures
- Writing articles on recently released books
- Helping out at Draft:Missing Pieces
In addition to my Wikipedia editing, I am a Voting Member of the Wikimedia Foundation elections committee, which organizes and oversees elections to the Board of Trustees. I was elected as an administrator in the October 2024 Admin Elections and was "promoted" (so-to-speak) on November 4, 2024.
I have a conflict-of-interest in the following articles: John Hagan (sailor), Olympic College, Pacific Lutheran University, University of Essex, American Heritage School (Florida), and Speak (2025 film). Any other potential COI's are so insignificant as to be irrelevant.
Recommended Reading
{{Blockquote|text="But when I think of you, I want to be alone together. I want to strive against and for. I want to live in contact. I want to be a context for you, and you for me."|author=Amar El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone|title=This is How You Lose the Time War}}
= Fiction =
- This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone is my favorite book of all time. It's a lyrical, poignant love story that contains one of the most beautiful descriptions of love I've ever read.
- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke is a quick, fun read about a 'lil guy wandering a mysterious house, and I'm afraid I can't share more than that!
- Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman is an engaging work of climate fiction with more than a little bit of that classic British self-deprecation.
= Non-fiction =
- Why Fish Don't Exist by Lulu Miller is a book about the incredible life and disturbing contradictions of David Starr Jordan. I started reading this on my break at work and was so enthralled that I stayed three hours late to finish it.
- We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families by Philip Gourevitch is a narrative of the Rwandan genocide. This book was assigned reading in my first year of undergrad and it formed the foundation of my life's trajectory.
- Cross-X by Joe Miller follows the Central High School speech and debate team in their journey to the 2002 National Speech and Debate Tournament. As someone whose life was changed by participation in speech and debate, I found this book deeply moving.
= Purely academic =
- Two Dozen (or so) Arguments for God by Jerry Walls and Trent Dougherty is a long-form articulation of Alvin Plantinga's arguments for God's existence, with a team of contributors that includes Alexander Pruss, William Lane Craig, and Richard Swinburne.
- Washington's End by Jonathan Horn is an unusual biography that focuses almost entirely on George Washington's post-presidency years, providing insight into his personal struggle with slavery.
- Normal Life by Dean Spade is about the myriad of ways bureaucratic violence impacts the life of trans people in America and around the world.
= Online reading =
- [https://www.antilibrari.es/ Antilibraries] is one of my favorite "hidden gem" websites{{Emdash}}a collection of books that have yet to be read. It inspired me to create my own antilibrary, which quickly just became my actual library.
- [https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/ The SCP Foundation] is the single greatest work of collaborative fiction to have ever existed{{Emdash}}Now pushing 10,000 articles!
- [https://afkimel.wordpress.com/ Eclectic Orthodoxy], Fr. Adrian Kimel's blog, is my favorite religion website and an invaluable resource for Christian Universalism.
My contributions
This is a list of my more notable contributions, namely pages I've created or substantially expanded/contributed to. They're arranged in alphabetical order under the respective columns, not chronological.
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= Biographies =
- {{icon link|ga|A. A. Adams}}
- {{icon link|c|Alfred O. Adams}}
- {{icon|dyk}}{{icon link|start|Adele Ferguson (American journalist)}}
- {{icon link|start|Aspinet (Nauset)}}
- {{icon link|start|Betty Fiechter}}
- {{icon link|start|Buck Lansford}}
- {{icon link|start|Carl Schlegel}}
- {{icon link|start|Christian Aalvik}}
- {{icon|dyk}}{{icon link|c|Dan Rossi}}
- {{icon link|start|Eliyahu Fink}}
- {{icon link|start|Emile Grandjean}}
- {{icon|dyk}}{{icon link|c|Enoch Marvin Banks}}
- {{icon link|start|Estuardo Núñez Hague}} (Translated from Spanish to English)
- {{icon link|c|Eugen Ewig}} (Translated from German to English)
- {{icon link|c|Fergie Chambers}} (with {{u|Ganesha811}})
- {{icon link|start|Florence McRaven}}
- {{icon link|start|Francisco Izquierdo Ríos}} (Translated from Spanish to English)
- {{icon link|c|Frederick J. Dockstader}}
- {{icon link|c|George W. Clayton}}
- {{icon link|c|Gloria Bornstein}}
- {{icon link|c|Henry Cayou}}
- {{icon link|stub|Howard L. Quilling}} (Translated from Dutch to English)
- {{icon link|c|Howard McDonnell}}
- {{icon link|start|Irvin Williams}}
- {{icon link|c|Isaiah Nixon}}
- {{icon link|start|James H. Alston}}
- {{icon|dyk}}{{icon link|c|Jeffrey Veregge}}
- {{icon link|start|John Arum}}
- {{icon link|start|John E. Hussey}}
- {{icon link|ga|Jimmy Allen (pastor)}}
- {{icon link|c|John Hurst Adams}}
- {{icon link|c|Kenneth Sonderleiter}}
- {{icon link|start|Mary Lum}}
- {{icon link|c|Nathan A. Moore}}
- {{icon link|start|Nathaniel J. Sargent}}
- {{icon link|start|Rodney White (pioneer)}}
- {{icon link|c|Rose Freistater}}
- {{icon link|c|Ryan Feddersen}}
- {{icon link|c|Shiro Kashino}}
- {{icon|dyk}}{{icon link|c|Stella Alexander (American politician)}}
- {{icon link|c|William Leasure}}
- {{icon link|ga|William Pitt Trimble}}
- {{icon link|c|Yvette González-Nacer}}
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= Books =
- {{icon link|start|All the Broken Places}}
- {{icon link|start|Animal Life (book)}}
- {{icon|dyk}}{{icon link|start|Anon Pls.}}
- {{icon link|start|Beaverland}}
- {{icon link|start|The Bookshop (nonfiction book)}}
- {{icon link|c|Creation Lake}}
- {{icon link|c|Cursed Bunny}}
- {{icon link|c|Doppelganger (Klein book)}}
- {{icon|dyk}}{{icon link|start|Encyclopedia (novel)}}
- {{icon link|start|The Facts of Reconstruction}}
- {{icon link|start|'Fighting by Southern Federals}}
- {{icon link|start|First Nations Version}}
- {{icon link|start|Haiti: Her History and Her Detractors}}
- {{icon link|start|How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund?}}
- {{icon link|start|How to Survive Everything}}
- {{icon link|start|Greek Lessons}}
- {{icon link|start|Gunk Baby}}
- {{icon link|start|I Have Some Questions for You}}
- {{icon link|c|Lazarus Man}}
- {{icon link|start|Life of Turner Ashby}}
- {{icon link|start|New Tavern Tales}}
- {{icon link|start|On the Trail of Negro Folk-songs}}
- {{icon link|start|''North Woods (novel)}}
- {{icon link|c|Oh God, the Sun Goes}}
- {{icon link|start|Plume of the Arawas}}
- {{icon link|start|Poverty, by America}}
- {{icon link|start|Rebecca, Not Becky}}
- {{icon link|start|Recollections of a California Pioneer}}
- {{icon link|start|Sam (Goodman novel)}}
- {{icon link|start|Screaming on the Inside}}
- {{icon link|start|The Terraformers}}
- {{icon link|start|Things We Found When the Water Went Down}}
- {{icon link|c|This Strange Eventful History}}
- {{icon link|start|The Tudors in Love}}
- {{icon link|start|Twist (McCann novel)}}
- {{icon link|start|Your Utopia}}
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= Elections =
- {{icon link|list|List of Alaska ballot measures}}
- {{icon link|fa|List of Colorado ballot measures}}
- {{icon link|list|List of District of Columbia ballot measures}}
- {{icon link|list|List of Florida ballot measures}}
- {{icon link|list|List of Hawaii ballot measures}}
- {{icon link|list|List of Michigan ballot proposals}}
- {{icon link|fa|List of Washington (state) ballot measures}}
- {{icon link|list|List of Wyoming ballot measures}}
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= Other articles =
- {{icon link|start|a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun)}}
- {{icon link|start|Babets v. Johnston}}
- {{icon link|start|Bilby tower}}
- {{icon link|c|Bicentennial of the Independence of Peru}} (Translated from Spanish to English)
- {{icon|dyk}}{{icon link|ga|Competitive debate in the United States}}
- {{icon link|c|hang (play)}}
- {{icon|dyk}}{{icon link|start|House of Awakened Culture}}
- {{icon link|start|Hustler Fund}}
- {{icon link|start|Ives-Quinn Act}}
- {{icon link|c|Killing of Clarence Horatious Pickett}}
- {{icon link|list|List of monasteries in the United States}}
- {{icon link|c|Louisiana Interscholastic Athletic and Literary Organization}}
- {{icon link|start|Mr. Nobody Against Putin}}
- {{icon link|start|National Memorial Association}}
- {{icon link|c|Neale Publishing Company}}
- {{icon link|start|Sinclair Park}}
- {{icon link|start|Still a Brother}}
- {{icon link|start|Southport Raw Bar}}
- {{icon link|start|Thud (media company)}}
- {{icon|dyk}}{{icon link|c|Transgender asylum seekers}} (with {{User link|ProfGray}})
- {{icon link|c|Transgender genocide}} (With {{User link|ProfGray}})
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Awards, boxes, and the like
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|rowspan="2" valign="middle" | {{#ifeq:{{{2}}}|alt|100px|100px}} |rowspan="2" | |style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar |
| style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For taking a moment to welcome new editors: Thanks! ProClasher97 (talk) 01:38, 8 May 2020 (UTC) |
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|rowspan="2" style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 5px;" | 100px |style="font-size: x-large; padding: 3px 3px 0 3px; height: 1.5em;" | The Resilient Barnstar |
| style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Not a lot of people hold beliefs like you do and I commend you for staying true to who you are in this day and age. I wish you countless healthy years. Dub1zero6 (talk) 06:08, 15 June 2020 (UTC) |
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|rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:middle;" | 100px |rowspan="2" | |style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar |
| style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Thanks for working to help keep the encyclopedia free from non-constructive edits! LizardJr8 (talk) 23:59, 17 January 2021 (UTC) |
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|rowspan="2" style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 5px;" | 100px |style="font-size: x-large; padding: 3px 3px 0 3px; height: 1.5em;" | The Original Barnstar |
| style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | ThadeusOfNazereth: We appreciate your attention to detail on out Point La Vista Cape article which examines the biography of land occupation Timucua Natives to 20th Century in Jax, FL. We'll keep trying to strengthen the Citation Section. Thanks for the helping hand. PointLaVista (talk) 18:06, 19 January 2021 (UTC) |
{{The Patroller's Barnstar|For reviewing at least 100 articles during the drive. Thank you for reviewing or re-reviewing 139 articles, which helped contribute to an overall 1276-article reduction in the backlog during the drive. (t · c) buidhe 12:27, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
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|rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:middle;" | {{#ifeq:{{{2}}}|alt|100px| 100px}} |rowspan="2" | |style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
| style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | This award is given to {{BASEPAGENAME}} for collecting more than 25 points doing reviews and re-reviews, in the October NPP backlog reduction drive. Thank you for your contributions. Zippybonzo | Talk (he|him) 09:01, 30 October 2022 (UTC) |
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| {{User:Timeshifter/Userboxes/Uyghur genocide denial}}{{User:Life in General/Userboxes/PhansiApartheid}}{{User interest human rights}} |
| {{User:Warsaw Radio Mast/Userboxes/NoQAnon}}{{User:Sir Richardson/Userboxes/user Anti-prohibition}}{{User:Wintran/Userboxes/Immigration}} |
| {{User Death Penalty}}{{User:Yozzer66/userboxes/No to euthanasia}}{{User supports Indigenous rights}} |
| {{User:AdorableRuffian/Userboxes/NoTorture}}{{User:UBX/User anti-transhumanist}}{{User no hate children}} |
| {{User:Wustenfuchs/Userboxes/Anti-nationalist}}{{Template:User republican}}{{User:Mangokeylime/Userboxes/YouthRights}} |
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| {{User:Liance/Userboxes/AfC}}{{User structurist}}{{User:Goyston/usesencyc}} |
| {{User:Pythoncoder/Userboxes/User scripts}}{{User:UBX/RW and TW}} |
| {{User everyone}}{{User web archive}}{{User inline citations}} |
| {{User edit war positive}}{{User Redirectionist}}{{User:DASonnenfeld/UBX}} |
| {{User:UBX/RightToWikipedia}}{{User:SteveStrummer/Template:Citation-Integrity}}{{User:Redthoreau/POV}} |
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| {{User:Tcr25/Userbox/User SCP fave|7999}}{{User:Strdst grl/ubx/PercyJackson}}{{User:Pjjasnica/Userboxes/Twilight}} |
| {{User:Tragedent/Userbox/Catwoman}}{{User:Bluedenim/Spider-Man}}{{User:DrJimothyCatface/Userboxes/Ramona Flowers}} |
| {{User:Rubywine/Theatre}}{{User:ThatSpiderByte/ub/folkpunk}}{{User:White Arabian Filly/Grand Ole Opry}} |
| {{User:Urdna/Lost}}{{User:UBX/Twin Peaks7}}{{User:UBX/Stargate SG1 fan}} |
| {{User:UBX/Amazing Race}}{{User:Diriector Doc/Ubx/LEGO Masters}}{{User:UBX/Survivor}} |
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|{{User:MelecieDiancie/Userboxes/Newspaper feature}}{{User:UBX/NFL-Broncos}}{{User:Koavf/Userboxes/ChristianUniversalist}} |
| {{User:Etamni/Userboxes/FormerMbrCAP}}{{User:UBX/WPD}}{{User:Technical-restriction-time/Userboxes/Trans-inclu GE support}} |
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| {{User teacher secondary school}}{{User:Katangais/Userboxes/User AmeriCorps}} {{Template:User INFJ}} |
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On the WMF
{{Quote frame|So here's my take; do with it what you will. Fundraising needs to be regular to be effective. Annual pledge drives are necessary not because WMF (or any other organization that runs on donations) are broke; rather there needs to be a regular, dependable stream of income that allows the budgeting and planning process to work efficiently. It's a rather short-sighted (and stupid, IMHO) way to run an organization to only seek income when they are on the verge of bankruptcy; living "paycheck to paycheck" is a bad way for individuals to survive, and doubly so for complex organizations. It doesn't matter how much money the organization has in savings, or how much it spends, it matters that income is regular and predictable. Running savings down to near zero, and then asking for a handout is not the way any organization should run. Fundraising is not done because WMF needs money NOW, it is done because WMF needs money in a predictable manner so as to be able to plan and organize and budget and all of that. The specific wording of the banners aside, much of the anger and vitriol towards WMF seems to be that they are fundraising at all, most of it is centered on the notion that WMF is "swimming in cash" (irrelevant to the need for steady income as a good organizational practice) or that they aren't spending the money they have wisely (which may be a reason to not donate one's self, but seems like rather rude to extend that into blocking the organization from getting any income). It would be helpful to separate the discussions so that we can get the difference between "I don't like the wordings of these banners and think we need to change them" and "I don't think WMF should be seeking donations". The former is a reasonable discussion to have. The latter is unreasonable.|User:Jayron32|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2022_November_29#Fundraising_meta-question%3A_a_Groundhog_Day_feeling Fundraising meta-question: a Groundhog Day feeling]|WP:Help Desk}}
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