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[[Image:AK47ofTruth.png|thumb|center|300px|Busting intellectual caps into the minds of fools, trolls, vandals, right-wing nuts, racists, fascists, thin-skinnned Randroids, doddering liberals, and self-appointed censors on Wikipedia with a (strictly metaphorical) '''AK-47 of Truth''' since [[23 May]] [[2005]]]]
|style="text-align:center; font-family:sans-serif; font-size:16pt;"|'''''An Open Message to the Honchos Who Keep Screwing with Userboxes'''''
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|style="padding:5px; font-family:roman; font-size:10pt; text-align:center;"|(WARNING! An ''actual opinion'' from the author/owner of the userpage here may be aired. I take no responsibility for your thin-skinnedness and inability to take criticism. You don't like it? That is '''''your''''' problem. You're about to leave a rude message just stop using Wikipedia? Think before you say that Mr. Admin/Arbitrator/Bureaucrat: as easy as it would be for me to walk away from the project, it'd be ten times easier for you (and your fellow honchos) to quit your ego-tripping and just resign from the position of power which you are about to abuse.)
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|style="padding:5px; font-family:roman; font-size:12pt;"|To the self-appointed censors who have taken it upon themselves to act in a unprincipled, POV-pushing, anti-democratic, anti-Wikipedian crusade to clean out any vestige of "divisive" opinions from Wikipedia by wiping out the userboxes:
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|style="padding:5px; font-family:roman; font-size:12pt"|Just stop it already. You are acting in a way that is narrow-minded, one-sided, hypocritical, pedantic, high-handed, dirty-dealing, foolish ''and worst of all'' '''''dead wrong'''''.
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|style="padding:5px; font-family:roman; font-size:12pt;"|It is not userboxes but ''you'' who are the ones who have divided the Wikipedia community, because  ''you'' are the ones who have vandalized scores of Wikipedia userpages - and in doing so, betrayed a contempt for Wikipedians who have did what needed to be done and merely want a little bit in return. 
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|style="padding:5px; font-family:roman; font-size:12pt;"|''You'' are the ones who have opened the doors to outright POV-pushing and edit warring ''en masse'', because of a few thin-skinned people who are willing to sacrifice freedom of debate to score a temporary victory for themselves.
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|style="padding:5px; font-family:roman; font-size:12pt;"|In other words: stop letting that shiny badge, secret decoder ring, or whatever is being given out to you honchos upon selection by Jimbo get to your head. Wikipedia is a volunteer project, but it is not a plantation. People put you into those positions because they trusted that you would use authority wisely. Before you act like an overseer, remember you're dealing with ''actual people'' who have ''actual opinions'', and who volunteer their research and other contributions to the main space, and expect a little bit of space for themselves. 
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|style="padding:5px; font-family:roman; font-size:12pt;"|So just stop it with the anti-userbox wars. Wikipedia is a volunteer driven project; the editors, to a large extent, ''are'' the encyclopedia. When you piss off the volunteers, then guess what - ''you're'' the ones making this place "unencyclopedic".  
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|style="padding:5px; font-family:roman; font-size:10pt;text-align:right;"|Sincerely
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|style="padding:5px; font-family:roman; font-size:10pt;text-align:right;"|--[[User:Dtasripin|Daniel]] 05:51, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
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=='''Visual Stimuli'''==
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=='''Me and My Work'''==
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===Photos I've Contributed===
[[Image:St Philip Neri church, Bedford Park, Bronx, NY.jpg|thumb|center|150px|Church of St. Philip Neri, at the Grand Concourse in the Bronx]]
[[Image:Tracey Towers, Bedford Park, Bronx, NY.jpg|thumb|150px|center|The Tracey Towers, a Mitchell-Lama project in the Bronx]]
[[Image:Memorial_Mural_in_Bedford_Park%2C_Bronx%2C_NY.jpg|thumb|150px|center|[[Hip-hop]] style [[graffiti]] mural on E. 203 Street, the Bronx. Artist unknown.]]
===Graphics I've Made===
[[Image:Historyofindonesia.png|thumb|center|Logo for [[History of Indonesia]] article series.]]
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===Introductions===
Dtasripin is short for Daniel Tasripin.

At present, residing in New York City, in the neighborhood of [[Bedford Park]] in the borough of [[The Bronx]]. I'm of mixed race: white-ethnic Americans (Jewish and French) on the mother's side and half Asian (Indonesian) on the other.

I am an undergraduate student at [[Hunter College]] of the [[City University of New York]]. Working on a degree in Political Science, with a minor in Urban Studies. Also, a volunteer for the Indypendent (the newspaper put out by NYC [[Indymedia]]).

On Wikipedia, I mostly take an interest in editing articles related to 20th Century [[Indonesia]] and contemporary [[New York City, New York]]. You could say that on Wikipedia, I edit both locally and globally.

===My Wikipedia-related interests===
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[[History of Indonesia]]<br>
[[Suharto]]<br>
[[Indonesian Civil War]]<br>
[[New Order (Indonesia)]]<br>
[[Indonesian Revolution of 1998]]}}
I would say a main goal of mine is to bring up the level of general scholarship and quality of articles related to Indonesia. It's one of the world's most populous countries, but (at least in the United States) one of the least well known. 

To complicate matters, I have found that the truth is often surrounded by a bodyguard of lies, classified files, redacted memos, and bloody hands that have been washed. This is especially true of the period between the mid 1960s and early 1990s. Part of my hope, with Wikipedia, is having the historical lies and half-truths of the Suharto-era finally put to rest with the full truth coming out the winner. 

This being the year (2005-06) which marks the 40th anniversaries of Suharto's various acts of butchery, that killed some 80,000-1,000,000 of his own people and started his dictatorial rule - I would hope that greater knowledge of what happened would persaude people to take a look at one of the 20th century's forgotten madmen.

On my other interest, contemporary New York - since I keep getting bugged by people on Mickey Mouse blogs - I'll keep my politics up front. I'm an unrepentant leftist, registered Democrat, but I don't get myself hung up too much on electoral politics. 

One thing I hold on to, and that is (even though I think he was a messed up S.O.B.) the bit of truth in the late Sen. [[Daniel Moynihan]]'s maxim: "Everyone's entitled to his own opinions, but not his own facts." I stick to NPOV, mostly because I think the truth (warts and all) is all the propaganda a good political cause should ever need.

===Non-Wikipedia schtuff===
My online time not spent pouring over research for Wikipedia entries is mostly spent either launching polemics or just cracking wise over on [[Plastic.com]]. User name is Clandestino. My karma's currently around the 1050 mark. 

Offline, I'm mostly reading the novels of [[Pramoedya Ananta Toer]] and [[Naguib Mahfouz]], or stuff on urban planning and politics.

==='''Work I've Done'''===

===Created===
* '''New York-related:''' [[Bedford Park, Bronx, New York]]. [[G. Oliver Koppell]].
* '''Indonesia-related:''' [[Wikipedia:Indonesia-related topics notice board]]. [[Template:History of Indonesia]]. [[Indonesian Civil War]]. [[Reformation (Indonesia)]].

===Major Editing Done===
* '''New York-related:''' [[Norwood, Bronx, New York]]. [[George Pataki]]. [[Eliot Spitzer]]. [[New York gubernatorial election, 2006]].
* '''Indonesia-related:''' [[Sukarno]]. [[Suharto]]. [[History of Indonesia]]. [[Pramoedya Ananta Toer]].
* '''Misc.:''' [[Battle of Algiers]]. [[Keffiyeh]].

===To Be Done===
See [[User:Dtasripin/to do]]
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