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Hello there, I'm BDD. You may remember me from other places on the web, usually with a similar name. Maybe not. I'm pretty sure there are some other BDDs out there that aren't me. I also don't think I've created an account under the name for several years now. I'm currently working as an academic librarian.

I am also a proud brother of the [[Alpha Epsilon Pi]] fraternity, though I am not Jewish. I am in Greek in both senses, as I have Greek ancestors. From [[Sparta]]. (Well, more like the [[Peloponnesia]]n countryside. <s>I'm reasonably certain</s> I like to think I'm descended from King [[Leonidas]], so I loved the [[Battle of Thermopylae]] ''before'' it was [[300 (film)|cool]].)

==My Wikipedia philosophies==
'''''My Wikipedia Motto''''': I formerly doubted the adage "You learn something new every day," when reflecting on some days before falling asleep. Then I found Wikipedia, and I have never had that problem since.

You know how sometimes people will ask you what musical album you would want to have with you if stranded on a desert island? If every single Internet page but one had to be annihilated, I would choose to save Wikipedia. Sure, we're not perfect. But Wikipedia is still a largely reliable and highly inclusive effort that any encyclopedia or online project should very much envy. To me, Wikipedia represents everything good about the internet.

I used to have a section called '''BDD's Five Pillars of Wikipedia''', but I've removed it because most of the opinions expressed therein were dumb. Really, I'm just proud that I had five pillars before the [[Wikipedia:Five pillars|official ones]], and I'd like to maintain a personal delusion that this official establishment was inspired by me and not, say, [[Five Pillars of Islam|Islam]]. If you really want to read them, dive into the history of this page.

===Contrarian opinions===
*I will always say ''lede'', not ''lead'' to refer to an article's introduction. "Lead" is an ambiguous term—"lede," while less familiar to some people, is not.
*I will always say ''vote'', not ''!vote'', in AFDs and other functions of Wikipedia governance. For the confused: we ''do'' vote on Wikipedia. It's just that those votes don't work the way they do in a true democracy. ([[User:MZMcBride/Memes#!vote|cf.]])
*Bring back Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense! It was funny, and it's good for Wikipedians to have a sense of humor.
*Notability can absolutely be temporary. If Wikipedia had been around since 1900, we'd be bloated with trivialities and ephemera—the memes of yesteryear—which currently wouldn't meet notability guidelines due to a dearth of sources. Sure, it's [[WP:CRYSTAL]] to some extent to predict which little phenomena will have lasting significance, but I think considering future importance can be useful as one piece of the puzzle.
*[[WP:USPLACE]] is a monstrosity. The AP Stylebook is a convenient yardstick, but not very useful for Wikipedia. An AP article with a ''Boise'' byline doesn't want to dedicate any prose space to explaining that the story is in Idaho, but state information is almost immediately given on any given city article, as it should be. [[WP:COMMONNAME]] and lack of ambiguity should lead many US city names to drop the state qualifiers. Note that our friendly neighbors to the north have a much more sensible naming convention in [[WP:CANSTYLE]]. That said, I recognize USPLACE as the product of consensus and begrudgingly accept in in that sense.
*[[WP:FAUNA]] is a big ol' mess, and consistency is badly needed in the capitalization of animal species. I prefer strict adherence to [[WP:NCCAPS]], but I'd much prefer consistent uppercasing to the status quo. A potential compromise might be to allow for capitalization in text but not in the title, or perhaps even vice versa. Either way, current conventions are only [[WP:LOCALCONSENSUS]] and [[WP:PJ]]'s simple statement that "WikiProjects... may not impose their preferences on articles." (cf. [[WP:SSF]])

==Pages started==
''or significantly expanded in their infancy (not counting dabs or categories part of a set structure); <nowiki>*</nowiki> indicates a DYK article''
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*[[Gene Nichol]]
*[[J. Hamilton Lewis]]
*[[NASCAR Hall of Fame]]
*[[Richmond Times-Dispatch]]
*[[William R. Brody]]
*[[Library consortium]]
*[[List of Liberty University people]]
*[[Self-deportation]]<nowiki>*</nowiki>
*[[:Category:OCLC]]
*[[John Daly (soccer coach)]]<nowiki>*</nowiki>
*[[The Fenians]]
*[[Pro-Life (politician)]]<nowiki>*</nowiki>
*[[Wikipedia:Merge what?]]
*[[Steven Amstrup]]<nowiki>*</nowiki>
*[[:Template:RMnac]]
*[[List of breweries in Idaho]]
*[[Solnitsata]]
*[[Garbo (film)]]
*[[Ingo Wellenreuther]]
*[[School Fire]]
*[[Kim Wyman]]<nowiki>*</nowiki>
*"[[Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head]]"
*"[[007 (Shanty Town)]]"<nowiki>*</nowiki>
*[[:Category:Lists of things named after politicians]]
*[[Normal (New Girl)]]<nowiki>*</nowiki>
*[[Ex Libris Group]]
*''[[Extra Virginity]]''<nowiki>*</nowiki>
*''[[Messor pergandei]]''
*[[Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting conspiracy theories]]
*"[[Big Strong Man]]"
*[[Donna Hilley]]
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==The pride and joy of my life: my FIFA 09 "Spurs Galacticos" team==
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{{Fs player|no= 2|nat=ESP|pos=MF|name=[[Jesús Navas]]}}
{{Fs player|no= 3|nat=WAL|pos=DF|name=[[Gareth Bale]]}}
{{Fs player|no= 4|nat=PER|pos=MF|name=[[Juan Manuel Vargas]]}}
{{Fs player|no= 5|nat=ENG|pos=MF|name=[[David Bentley]]}}
{{Fs player|no= 6|nat=ARG|pos=MF|name=[[Lionel Messi]]}}
{{Fs player|no= 7|nat=ENG|pos=MF|name=[[Aaron Lennon]]}}
{{Fs player|no= 8|nat=BRA|pos=MF|name=[[Diego Ribas da Cunha|Diego]]}}
{{Fs player|no= 9|nat=RUS|pos=FW|name=[[Roman Pavlyuchenko]]}}
{{Fs player|no=10|nat=BRA|pos=MF|name=[[Anderson Luís de Abreu Oliveira|Anderson]]}}
{{Fs player|no=11|nat=GER|pos=GK|name=[[Markus Pröll]]}}
{{Fs player|no=12|nat=ESP|pos=MF|name=[[Cesc Fàbregas]]}}
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{{Fs player|no=13|nat=SER|pos=DF|name=[[Nemanja Vidić]]}}
{{Fs player|no=14|nat=CRO|pos=MF|name=[[Luka Modrić]]}}
{{Fs player|no=15|nat=SCO|pos=DF|name=[[Alan Hutton]]|other=[[Captain (association football)|captain]]}}
{{Fs player|no=16|nat=IRL|pos=MF|name=[[Damien Duff]]}}
{{Fs player|no=17|nat=MEX|pos=FW|name=[[Giovani dos Santos]]}}
{{Fs player|no=18|nat=ESP|pos=DF|name=[[Sergio Ramos]]}}
{{Fs player|no=20|nat=BRA|pos=DF|name=[[David Luiz]]}}
{{Fs player|no=22|nat=CRO|pos=DF|name=[[Vedran Ćorluka]]}}
{{Fs player|no=24|nat=FRA|pos=GK|name=[[Steve Mandanda]]}}
{{Fs player|no=25|nat=ENG|pos=FW|name=[[Jermain Defoe]]}}
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==Brewing thoughts==
===Working thoughts on US czars===
I think there's a great deal of difference between a person in a formal office with an area of expertise and an informal advisor without Senate confirmation. The latter are "czars" in a meaningful sense; use of the term to describe the former crosses into the realms of buzzwords, pejoratives, or just attempted cleverness.

===Articles which should be created===
*[[Food fraud]] (partially from [[Counterfeit consumer goods#Food]])
*[[Sharia in the United States]]
*[[Money economy]] (what happens after a [[natural economy]]; I guess this is so ubiquitous no one thought to describe it)
*[[List of mountains in Spain]] <small>can draw from [[List of mountains in Catalonia]], [[List of mountains in Aragon]], and [[List of mountains in the Valencian Community]], or translate from [[:es:Anexo:Montañas de España]]</small>
*[[List of Idaho Vandals bowl games]]
*[[Smoking in bars]]
*[[List of songs recorded by The Pogues]]
*[[Jim Ruel]] (draft at [[User:BDD/Jim Ruel]])
*[[List of College of William & Mary buildings]] <small>[[List of Texas Tech University buildings]] a good model</small>
*[[List of people from Richmond, Virginia]] <small>from [[:Category:People from Richmond, Virginia]]</small>
*[[Mission (olive)]]

===Articles which should be merged===
*[[Frequent flyer program (Guantanamo)]] <small>([[Guantanamo Bay detention camp]] is the logical destination, but it's pretty bloated; something like [[Torture at Guantanamo Bay]] is a good idea but bound to be controversial; [[Enhanced interrogation techniques]] could work, and may just be a euphemistic alternative to that proposal, but it's rather large too.)</small>
*[[Bus transport in Queensland#Infrastructure]]
*[[Mr Bennet]] should be merged into [[Bennet family]] <small>(Depending on the result of the latter's ongoing translation from the equivalent French article, redirection alone may be sufficient.)</small>

===Articles which should be worked on===
*[[Caligula (play)]]
*[[Democrat In Name Only]]
*[[List of University of Idaho people]]
*[[William & Mary Hall]]
*[[Iranians in Germany]]
*''[[How the Other Half Lives]]''
*[[List of Information Schools]]
*[[List of breweries in the United States]]
*[[Warsteiner]]
*[[Thomas Hardy's Wessex]]
*[[Wildfires in Washington state]]
*[[One-person library]]
*[[Monument Avenue]]
*[[List of mayors of Richmond, Virginia]]

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