User:Mindspillage

Greetings! You've reached the user page of Mindspillage, otherwise known as Kat Walsh. Note: if you've ever encountered another "mindspillage", it's almost certainly me; a "Kat Walsh" encountered elsewhere may or may not be.

I'm a recent graduate of Stetson University in DeLand, Florida, with a B.A. in music and a minor in math, concentrating on discrete math and music theory. I am a bassoonist and contrabassoonist, libertarian, extropian transhumanist, INTP, quiz bowler, agnostic atheist, and geek. I want to be a freelance genius when I grow up, but I'm looking to be a career academic, playing bassoon on street corners and having people pay me to go away. (Don't ask me what I'm doing in the short term, though.) I love 20th century classical music, as you can tell from my contributions, and I am a stickler for correct spelling and punctuation, though sometimes I love commas and semicolons not wisely but too well. Other interests include cognitive science, logic, philosophy, science fiction, and categorization. Also, my significant other has finally gotten sucked in, after getting tired of me paraphrasing "sofixit" all the time when he asked me to go change something...

Thoughts

Occasionally I like to blather on about Wikipedia rather than do anything constructive...

• Use common sense: a meta-rule that goes hand-in-hand with meta:Don't be a dick and Wikipedia:Ignore all rules, and supersedes all others. It should be in the Wikipedia namespace as policy, but it would just turn into something that made no sense and was overrun with rules.
• On the use of admin rights: why I am conservative about using them, and you should be too.
• Disputes are never solved by escalating them: a few paragraphs I thought were nice until I reread Wikipedia:Civility and saw that Anthere had already said most of what I wanted to say already.
• How to win an argument, on meta, after long observation.
• meta:Polls are evil, after having been egged on by Kim Bruning to write something better than the sad stub that was there.

User:Seth Ilys/Trifecta I follow the one-revert rule as well as the the policy trifecta (shown neatly in a little box to the side, as arranged by its originator, Seth Ilys). I'm a strong believer in the simplified ruleset as a guide to almost any sticky situation. And I'm a strong believer in consensus and the supremacy and necessity of good judgment, over all.

Contact

You can email me by the sidebar link (which goes to mindspillage at gmail dot com), send an IM via AIM to LucidWaking, or leave me a message on my talk page. I am almost always in #wikipedia (as mindspillage when I'm around paying attention, and mind|wandering when I'm not). If you /msg me I'm likely to see it and return sooner. Also, as of 18 April 2005, I am an administrator. If you need admin assistance or just want the opinion of someone who ought to know what's going on, leave me a note. (As of 15 June 2005, I'm also staffing the help desk, handling some of the emails that come in from the "help/contact us" sidebar link.)

"The cultivated person's first duty is to always be prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia." —Umberto Eco

Articles I've started

Aaron Jay Kernis / Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do / Alvin Etler / Andrey Rimsky-Korsakov / Bassoon sonata / Cat and Girl / Closely related key / Daniel Dorff / Daniel Read / David Del Tredici / De Leon Springs State Park / Doctor Fun / Double reed / Extensional definition / Francisco Mignone / Frederick Fennell / Gordon Jacob / Intensional definition / Jan DeGaetani / Jean Françaix / John Barnes Chance / Jurriaan Andriessen / Keiko Abe / Lexical definition / Madeleine Dring / Miller Puckette / Multiphonic / Ostensive definition / Persuasive definition / Stipulative definition / Theoretical definition / Ruth Gipps / Vampire number / Vittorio Giannini / William Bergsma / Willson Osborne / meta:How to win an argument

Articles I've rewritten or added significant content to

Albert Szirmai / André Jolivet / Alexandre Tansman / Bassoon / Concert band / Contrabassoon / Daniel Gorenstein / Eugène Bozza / Gadsby / Handstand / Hugo Wolf / L. Neil Smith / Lili Boulanger / List of web comics / Luigi Dallapiccola / Modulation / National Institutes of Health / Old Folks at Home / Precising definition / Quintet / Rebecca Clarke / Robert M. Pirsig / Stetson University / The Mind's I / The Rite of Spring / Vincent Persichetti / Wind quintet / meta:Polls are evil

Current tasks

Trying to figure out what to do now that I've graduated. Clearing the VfD backlog, a Sisyphean task if ever there was one. Exploring the strange new world of the admin-only buttons and triple-checking the policy pages so I don't do anything massively stupid with them. Writing on meta-topics (how'd I get into that one?). Chipping away at the ever-more-pressing to-do list (and likely getting distracted by other shiny redlinks instead). Arranging music for double reed ensembles.

This page is not protected

You can edit it. Particularly if you want to fix typos and links, or if you feel inclined to exercise your mad layout skills, or maybe even give a testimonial. (Geogre asked for sonnets, which was a stroke of genius; alas, I am not so brazen as to steal the idea.) I don't own this page. (As it happens, there are pages elsewhere I do own, and I leave them dormant to work on Wikipedia instead.) I will exercise final judgment on which changes I keep, of course...

(If I protected this page, how could I get additions like the below?)

My mind, spillage.

My mind, wandering.

Constance, Dale, Fern--

women I will never know.

Poerty, the art form I will never be good at.

func(talk) 19:09, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Babel

Licensing

I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below: Template:DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual

Notes to self

Because I never remember my IP address when I need it, it is here, for my own reference: 24.165.233.150

• To-do list, which I may or may not use as a guide to what I'll work on next
• Sandbox, so I don't actually have to remember said IP address quite so often