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Greetings and welcome to my Wikipedia.org user-page. My name is Henry W. Smith. I like islands and for this reason many of the contributions I perform on the Wikipedia.org encyclopedia involve islands. More specifically I am interested in islands located in the South Pacific Ocean, most of which are atolls.
- Wikipedia has too many rules. - While in the real world I love rules, the Internet environment makes the clueless anonymous masses think they can make a difference on something they deem important. This is dangerous (the internet can be dangerous).
- Wikipedia.org users use rules, guidelines and policies to get their way and feel important. All rules on this website should be seen as guidelines; take your pet peeves somewhere else.
- Wikipedia has too many users. - The aforementioned clueless masses need to be greatly pruned. Too often I find what I believe to be "non-encyclopedic" content intertwined in scholarly themed pages.
- Wikipedia has too many articles. - I am a big fan of traditional encyclopedias. These books often have neat diagrams accompanied with pretty prose. Although they can take decades to update and cost large amounts of money, even the most recent editions do not contain articles about Pokemon and lists of fictional penguins.
- GNU is not free. - Can I use your image for my big corporation advertisements? No? Then it is not free. Don't call it "free" unless it is licensed into the Public Domain.
- Wikipedia should be censored for minors. Pictures of penises and other such topics is not professional looking and may turn someone off to Wikipedia very quickly. A nice drawing or sketch is much preferred
- Censorship is a rather broad umbrella term. Just like communism, 100% no censorship is a grand idea, but it just doesn't work at that level. Being able to protest and march and speak as one pleases are good things not to censor. Having any book available to check-out at your local library is another good example. But where is the line drawn? In the United States, persons under the age of twenty-one cannot consume alcohol, and for most of the country, persons under the age of sixteen cannot operate automobiles on public streets and highways. Is this censorship? In the same country, pornography cannot be viewed and cigarettes cannot be smoked by persons under the age of eighteen. Although I do not consider the photograph in question as pornography, it is pretty darn close. As an umbrella term, "no censorship" can apply to anything. All rules and laws (Including the ones Wikipedia stands by) can be seen as censorship.
- All images are fair use. - No company cares if you have their logo on your website, as long as you are clearly not trying to look like that company's official website. As long as the source is cited and author credited, no sane person cares if you use their photography for a project such as the one located on Wikipedia.org.
- Any article on any company or business is a free advertisement for that company. If I see a traditional advertisement for a company I have never heard of before, their ad worked: I am now aware of their brand. If I see a Wikipedia article about a company I have never heard of before, the same effect is obtained.
- Perhaps you heard about that fellow who started a business that would write Wikipedia.org articles about your company if you pay him. This goes to show that companies realize the potential of such use of their copyrighted information and welcome it with open arms.
