Mel Etitis

{| width="80%" align="right" style="text-align:center; border:1px solid #ffc9c9; background-color:#FFFFF3;" |- padding:1em;padding-top:0.5em;" | |style="font-size: 85%"|This is a Wikipedia user page. If you find this page on any site other than Wikipedia, you are viewing a mirror site. Be aware that the page may be outdated, and that the user this page belongs to may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia itself. The original page is located at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/:. |} == Me == Now, there's not much point using a pseudonym if you then blurt out your mundane identity (where would that have got Batman?), but a couple of misunderstandings have occasionally arisen, which I ought to head off. First, despite my User name, I'm not Greek but English (half Irish, in fact, but born and brought up in England). I took the name ''Mel Etitis'' from some on-line dialogues on the philosophy of religion; the original Greek word has been distorted to make it look like a name, but it means something like "one who studies". Secondly, the character in the dialogues is female; I'm male. Not important, but some people get needlessly embarrassed if they find that someone they've been referring to as "she" turns out to be a he. Thirdly, despite my youthful appearance (both on the page and – you'll have to take my word for this – in real life) I'm not far off fifty; I'm a philosopher by profession, teaching in the University of Oxford, and spent many years teaching English as a Foreign Language, also in Oxford. Aside from all that, my interests are wide and varied, my musical, literary, and other tastes are eclectic, and some of them are represented in my contributions (though some are not, and some of my contributions are utterly unrelated to my tastes or interests). I'm an Wikipedia:Administrators, which means that I'm an ordinary editor who's been trusted with a few extra powers to help me do some largely tedious housekeeping jobs. Being an admin doesn't mean that I'm in any way above Wikipedia policy, and in fact brings with it extra responsbility — so if you think that I've behaved wrongly, let me know — but politely; it's most likely to be inadvertent, as is most wrongdoing here. (If I have a fault ("if"!), it's that I tend to respond badly to rudeness and agression.)

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== My contributions == I spend quite a bit of time Special:Randompage through the encyclopædia, tidying English and style, adding Wikipedia:Category and Wikipedia:Find or fix a stub, occasionally doing more extensive editing. It's not glamorous, but I think that it helps make the encyclopædia better and more readable. After a longish period of doing no more than this, both before and after I registered, I finally started making more substantial contributions to existing articles, and even adding new articles of my own. So far they are (or are planned to be):
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center" ! style="background:#cdcdcd;" align=center width="50%"| New articles ! style="background:#cdcdcd;" align=center width="50%"| Existing articles |- | valign="top" style="background:#e6e8fa"| *Music **Julia Biel (English jazz singer) **Ian Carr (Scottish jazz musician & composer) **James Carter (musician) (jazz musician) **Alice Coltrane (jazz musician) **Double clarinet **Nikki Iles (English jazz composer & musician) **Fran Landesman (lyricist & poet) **Tina May (English jazz singer) **Don Rendell (English jazz musician) **Clare Teal (English jazz singer) *Philosophy **Anton Wilhelm Amo (18th-century Ghanaian philosopher) **Anamnesis (Plato) **Arete (goddess) **Bachelor of Philosophy **Bagdad Caf� **Lady Anne Finch Conway (17th-century English philosopher) **Kwame Gyekye (Ghanaian philosopher) **Martha Klein (modern philosopher) **Retrodiction **Placide Tempels (Belgian missionary, influential in African philosophy) **Wang Ch'ung (philosopher) (1st-century C.E. Chinese philosopher) **Wang fu-zi (17th-century Chinese philosopher) **Kwasi Wiredu (Ghanaian philosopher) *Miscellaneous **1770, Queensland **Archaic period in Greece **Astronomical constant **Beauchamp-Feuillet notation **Thomas Bell (novelist) **Churchill, Oxfordshire **Coat of arms of Cyprus **Collection (Oxford Colleges) **Dumb Britain (Private Eye item) **Hosseiniye Ershad (institute in Tehran) **Israel Isidor Elyashev (1873–1924) **Javan (one of Noah's grandsons) **Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin **Maya (Egyptian official) **Past paper **The Red Balloon (1956 film) **Juliet Stevenson (English actress) **University of Ghana **Honeysuckle Weeks (English actress) **Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (I haven't included new Category pages here, of which I've created or revivified a few.) I've also created the following page, into which I plan to insert all the relevant free images from the Wikipedia archives: *Wikipedia:List of images/Places/Europe/United Kingdom/Counties/Oxfordshire I started a page designed for those who are contributing, or who want to contribute, to Wikipedia in a language other than their first or native language: *Wikipedia:Contributing to articles outside your native language Finally, I've up-loaded User:Mel Etitis/Photos. | valign="top" style="background:#e6e8fa"| Articles on which I've done significant work, up to and including complete rewriting: *Music **Bert Boeren (Dutch jazz trombonist) **Omara Portuondo (Cuban singer) **Guilherme Rodrigues (Portuguese jazz musician) *Philosophy (or related) **African philosophy (a continuing project) **al-Kindi (mediæval Arab philosopher) **Aspasia (hetaira, mistress of Pericles, inspiration of Plato) **Arete (excellence) **Creationism **Divine command theory **Euthyphro Dilemma **Feng Youlan (modern Chinese philosopher) **Paulin J. Hountondji (modern African philosopher) **Human **17th-century philosophy **Francisco Suarez (Spanish scholastic philosopher) **Victoria, Lady Welby (19th-century English philosopher) *Miscellaneous **Apostle spoon **Henry Heimlich (of the Heimlich manoeuver) **Andrey Illarionov (Russian politician) **The Lady of Shallott (Tennyson poem) **Siegfried Lenz (German writer) **Murmillo (gladiator) **Necktie#Ties as signs of membership **Olympia Academy (discussion group including Einstein) **Prison education **Kylie Tennant (Australian writer) **D. P. Tripathi **Tsubaki Sanjûrô (1961 film) Plans for significant work on existing articles: *Possible worlds *Theory of conduct *Will (philosophy) |} I score, incredibly, only 142 on the [http://people.ucsc.edu/~merphant/wikitest.html Wikipedia addiction test]. This labels me an addict, but only just. On the other hand, it'll definitely have gone up since the last time I dared to take it. I've made [http://kohl.wikimedia.org/~kate/cgi-bin/count_edits.cgi?user=Mel+Etitis&dbname=enwiki] edits since I registered on 29th December 2004. Good grief, that's over 2,500 edits a month; that addiction test isn't doing its job. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clare_Teal&diff=0&oldid=12797034 My 10,000th edit]: 25th April 2005. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ian_Carr&diff=0&oldid=15066349 My 15,000th edit]: 12th June 2005.) ==Thanks== [[Image:WMBarnstar.png|frame|right|I, User:Frazzydee, hereby award User:Mel Etitis this :Image:WMBarnstar.png for having an amazing 5-digit edit count, and an unbelievable average of 85.09 edits per day! Keep up the amazing work! Wikipedia will benefit for as long as you are ignorant of Real Life :-) Please don't lose yourself along the way- I hope that you will always remain as great a contributor as you are now.]]Thanks for the assistance. Also can you help me out in... wait you already did. I dont know how to classify this but I think this would be sufficcent for the random act of kindness barnstar. Congratulations. --User:Coolcat User talk:Coolcat 01:34, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC) --User:Coolcat User talk:Coolcat 04:14, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
==My attitudes to Wikipedia (an excuse for some moans)== My main attitude, of course, is the desire to help build this into an ever more useful reference work and information centre. I've some more specific thoughts, however: #Votes for deletion. There's a tendency on the part of some editors to see this as their most important task. Well, it ''is'' important, of course; removing what's inaccurate, misleading, or biased is as important as adding what's accurate, helpful, and neutral. On the other hand, an overzealous attitude can lead to the removal of genuinely useful material that's of minority interest. #*One frustratingly annoying habit is the appeal to Google — the unargued (and largely unchallenged) assumptions being, first, that any topic worth mentioning appears on the Web (and with a frequency that reflects its importance), and secondly, that Google is wholly accurate. The latter is relatively insignificant, but the former is breathtakingly and demonstrably false. #*The most significant area is people, though: whilst the smallest village in the U.S. has its own page, with full and tedious census details, let someone add an article about an academic, actor, writer, etc., who isn't widely known and acknowledged, and a pack of editors appear, yapping that the person isn't ‘notable’. Leave aside the inconsistency for a moment; many of those who are claimed to be non-notable by this Vfd-pack are known to and have affected more people than all the nay-sayers put together (one sometimes wonders if that isn't the problem). #*My approach, therefore, unless there's some genuine reason to delete, such as a prank article, is either not to get involved in such votes on people, or (if I can see a good argument against deletion) to vote to keep. #Voting in general. There's a disturbing tendency on the part of many editors to jump into a discussion, vote without reading any of the comments, and then leave. The main symptom is a terse comment that clearly ignores what's gone before, and even seems to have been made in ignorance of the object of the discussion (see, for example, [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3ACategories_for_deletion&diff=10642892&oldid=10642620 here], or the full, depressing debate [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3ARequested_moves&diff=0&oldid=10683014 here]). It can make the business of voting a farce. Some admins take comments into account, and presumably make allowances for this sort of blind (and therefore pretty irrelevant) voting, but some just mechanically tot up the numbers. #Admins. The vast majority of admins with whom I've had contact have been helpful, considerate, and professional in their approach. They're human, though, and occasionally one will develop a blind spot with regard to some issue, or a far from disinterested approach, and act against Wikipedia rules. What seems to happen then is that either their behavior is ignored by other admins, or (especially when the clamour of ordinary users is loud) they're subjected to a mild finger-wagging. If non-admins had behaved in the same way, they'd likely have been blocked from editing for a while — either generally or on a specific article or topic. Simple fairness demands the same treatment for the same behaviour — but given that admins are in fact expected to behave better than ordinary editors, it would seem right that they should be treated more strictly when they fall well short.
Now that I am an admin, I hold the same view, incidentally. ==Licence== I agree to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

Mel Etitis

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== Lady Abahai == that�s the same thing I would like to ask you? according to Wikipedia naming convention, it is perfectly fine to use titles for the persons name if it helps with the identification. what exactly is "Abahai" alone supposed to mean to the lay person? a car? a god? a person? Lady Abahai as the title reflects the content of the article much better, wouldn�t you agree? you can look it up under [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_%28names_and_titles%29#Other_non-royal_names] "Courtesy titles (also referred to as an honorific prefix)� such as Lord or Lady differ from full titles because unlike full titles they are included as part of the personal name, often from birth. As such, they should be included in the article title if a person if universally recognised with it and their name is unrecognisable without it. For example, the late nineteenth century British politician Lord Frederick Cavendish was always known by that form of name, never simply Frederick Cavendish. Using the latter form would produce a name that would be unrecognisable to anyone searching for a page on Cavendish. Similarly, Lady Gregory, the Irish playwright, is more recognisable to readers than Augusta Gregory." maybe we can find a way to work this out... looking forward to your comments, cheers User:Antares911 22:32, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC) :well see that�s the thing. what would the chinese name for "Lady" be in that case? i�ll give you an example. Lady Murasaki Shikibu is listed as Murasaki Shikibu. sometimes they call her Lady Murasaki Shikibu, which would be wrong though, since the Shikibu is already the title. but either the Shikibu is listed, or the Lady, you cannot simply call her Murasaki, just like Abahai. and i said, what i posted to you about the Wikipedia rules on naming "Lady" and "Sir". but it has to be reflected somehow in the heading. i�m trying to get the rules straight here because there is tons of confusion on non-european names and nobility and royalty, looking forward to your thoughts [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_%28names_and_titles%29#Royal_consorts_and_monarchs] cheers User:Antares911 00:10, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) == your welcome message == hey mel! I love your welcome message. imho, you should change it into a template dude, dude :) it's much easier to put something like than trying to find it in user pages :) User:Project2501a 23:30, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC) PS: Ever thought about archiving? ^_^ : Mel, what's the name of the template, please? i could only find the html code for it. thank you. User:Project2501a 23:54, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC) : {{User talk:Mel Etitis/Wel}}, User talk:Mel Etitis/Archive 1, User talk:Mel Etitis/Archive 2... But maybe it really is time for User talk:Mel Etitis/Archive 14.
Who I am? User:JRM. What the hell I'm doing here? Never mind that now. User:JRM � User talk:JRM 23:46, 2005 Jun 21 (UTC) :: so, the cabal IS TRUE! :D you're following me around telling me i shouldn't be here and i shouldn't be there! OMFG, RFC/RFAr! CABAL! CABAL! CABAL! You won't get away with it! *SURROUDS YOU WITH RED NULL POINTERS!* *rotfl* >:D User:Project2501a 23:54, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC) Heavens... my talk page has become an Ionesco play. User:Mel Etitis (Μελ_Ετητης)">User talk:Mel Etitis 23:57, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC) == mel, are you... == by any chance an alumnus of bls? or just interested? == Jihad article == Same problems again after article has been unprotected. Anon IPs/enviroknot persist certain disputed sections should be added. See edit history. Call to re-protect. Thanks.--User:Anonymous editor 00:05, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC) == RFM? == Hi there! By [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AAdministrators%27_noticeboard&diff=0&oldid=15621321], might I suggest that you and Grace request mediation? I believe there's some new mediation in the works, per 2005. Also there's WP:TINMC. As a side point, I agree with you on the EnviroKabong-is-a-sock issue. Yours, User:Radiant!User_talk:Radiant!>|<">meta:mergist 12:08, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC) == 3RR == Since I ran into you anyway... could you please take a quick look at the latest WP:AN/3RR entry? I'd block him myself except that I'm heavily involved in discussion with him. But he's rather persistent and it's getting annoying. Yours, User:Radiant!User_talk:Radiant!>|<">meta:mergist 12:10, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC) == Lady Abahai == hi there Mel Etitis, actually that was a typo-mistake, it should have been Lady Abahai, i tried to change it back but it was too late, sorry about that. in any case, can we agree on that? was is the procedure on renaming in that case? we go to the adminstrator? as far as I know, if a renaming is quite clear, then it can be done by the user, does not always have to be done by the administrator? User:Antares911 14:37, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) So long as there's no disagreement, and the renaming is in keeping with Wikipedia guidelines, anyone can do it — but, first, if there ''is'' disagreement (as in this case) the discussion should be concluded before either side unliaterally makes the move, and secondly, the move ''must'' be done properly. That includes checking what links to the old article-title, making sure that there are no double redirects, etc. User:Mel Etitis (Μελ_Ετητης)">User talk:Mel Etitis 14:41, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) ==Another look?== I am insvolved in a POV dispute with a rather odd user, who does not take bold editing gracefully, on Democratic peace theory (See: Talk:Democratic peace theory#Disputes. For example, he regards '''The People's Republic of China renounced her alliance with the Soviet Union in 1961, thereafter creating a third, much smaller bloc of her own.''' as a POV statement. Am I mad? Am I overreacting? I would appreciate it if you would come take a look. The present text of the page is the other guy's; I am preparing a clean text of what I want to say on the page elsewhere, but this is a lot of work. My past edits are mostly justified on the Talk page, and I have included a link to a version of the page I was much happier with. User:Pmanderson 17:13, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) :Thanks for having a look; if you are interested, I just posted my revision. The Rummel material needs to be shorted drastically, on both sides; but I don't see how to do that until the war ends. (I have made a request of Mediation, but nothing has happened yet, except Ultramarine arguing that only criticism in poli-sci journals counts. User:Pmanderson 19:41, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) ==ttc== please, when defending edits which label people "fringe scientists" without attributing or any basis in objective fact, please look at yourself in the mirror and say, "that was a good faith edit," without spitting up. User:Ungtss 18:18, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) == More Wikipedia abuse from Stephen Signorelli & Alexander Cain == http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Duggan The article was originally written by Alexander Cain under the "The Lone Stranger" trolling pseudonym, and edited by Stephen "TruthCrusader" Signorelli. The article is almost completely fictional (the Derek Duggan that wrestles for ACW-Utah actually *is* named "Derek Duggan" and is the son of "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan, and ACW-Utah is *not* a "backyard wrestling" promotion), and (like the article on ACW-Utah that was removed) was created specifically to insult and libel both myself and the Utah professional wrestling community. - User:Chadbryant 18:37, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) ==Impeccable judgement== Hi Mel: Just this very morning I was mediating upon how our impeccable judgement has led us to editing Thomas the Tank Engine articles.—User:TheoClarke User_talk:TheoClarke 19:03, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) :I did not mean to draw blood. Take one of these and come back in a week … —User:TheoClarke User_talk:TheoClarke 21:48, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) == re:Dorgon == I suggest that instead of smply reverting it back to checking you suggest what is wrong, without substatively changing the article the english seems perfectly acceptable to me having checked it several times. Mel Appreciate that you may want to have done it yourself, if you'd left a comment to that effect I would have left alone, I found the english to be quaint but readable, clearly YMMV, as a new user I'm still finding my way. --User:John-Nash 23:13, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) == Request == Iam Vaikunda Raja, a new editor to wikipedia.Being new Iam not so familier with the regulations. I was warned for vandalism,by you and Iam disappointed and the request from me is, kindly review my articles and give me hints to follow.- User:Vaikunda Raja

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