User:DanKeshet
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Dan Keshet lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts Seattle, Washington, USA. His world-wide-web homepage is http://www.channel1.com/users/dkesh/ and his email address is dkesh, at sign, channel1.com
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Pet peeves:
- Using verbs like "seem" or "appear" in articles: (e.g. "it seems that...", "but that doesn't appear to be true..."). "Seeming" is a reflection on the perspective of the author, not on the reality of the world...
- Leaving "please insert more here...", or "would somebody who knows something about this help out?" in either the article or the summary field. We're at Wikipedia, you don't need to ask for help! The request adds nothing, but can take away from the flow of an article.
- Wow, this pet peeve is so 2002! DanKeshet 04:05, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)
Why I don't like most uses of the word "extremism"
- "Extremist" often implies that there is a linear scale that ties the "extremist" to the "moderate". So when you call baruch goldstein a "jewish extremist", does that mean that "jewish moderates" are like him, just not as radical or militant?
- Calling somebody extremist is highly ambiguous, because "extremism" is a term relative to others. Are we talking about "extreme" on the accepted political scale of here and now (wherever here is, whenever now is), or on the scale of their own milieu?
I've been eliminating and improving many uses of the words extremism and extremist.
Useful Links
- List of voting systems topics
- User:DanKeshet/monobook.js
- User:DanKeshet/monobook.css
- User:DanKeshet/Chomsky in Vietnam
Venezuela
I was doing a little research for the Venezuelan articles, before I decided that it was original and inappropriate, so I put it here in case it comes up:
Comparison of Venezuelan vital statistics from 1998 CIA factbook (http://www.umsl.edu/services/govdocs/wofact98/259.htm) and 2004 CIA World Factbook (http://www.indexmundi.com/venezuela/demographics_profile.html):
- Infant mortality: from 27.52 deaths/1,000 live births down to 22.99
- Literacy: 91.1% to 93.4%
- Life expectancy: 72.66 years to 74.06 years
Other statistics you'll find: birth rate down, fertility rate down, population growth down, net emigration down (all heading in the direction of the richer developed countries and Cuba).
Multi-licensing
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