User:Daftation - Knowledge (XXG)

Not to be confused with Daft, DAFT, Daft Punk, or Daft Club.

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Knowledge (XXG) is extremely cool.
This single website is a main source of knowledge for 4.3 billion people!
And I am one out of 47 million Wikipedians,
a drop of water in this ocean,
This ocean of people dedicated to expanding this awesome base of human knowledge.

“I came to the idea of how fine it would be to think of an encyclopedia of an actual world, and then of an encyclopedia, a very rigorous one of course, of an imaginary world, where everything should be linked.”

— Jorge Luis Borges, Interview with Denis Dutton, 1977

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This user has been on Knowledge (XXG) for 2 years, 3 months and 27 days.

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This user is a proud resident native citizen of China.

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This user can contribute with a professional level of English.

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該用戶能以專業的中文進行交流。
该用户能以专业的中文进行交流。

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This user has created 8 articles on Knowledge (XXG).

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Favorite Modern Notable Figures on Knowledge (XXG), in no particular order
Maj. Gen. Yang Liwei, the first taikonaut Col. Yuri Gagarin, the first astronaut Laika, the first animal in orbit, a great astronaut who sacrificed herself for humanity Cpl. Wojtek, a bear soldier? Who drank beer and smoked? Lt. Cdr. Wang Wei, a great soldier and patriot Su Bingtian, the fastest Asian Pan Zhanle, the fastest freestyle swimmer Ding Junhui, my favourite snooker player Petr Cech, my favourite football player, a skillful keeper GM Ding Liren, the chess world champion, and a very humble man Frank Sinatra, the man with the best voice in history JJ Lin, my favorite Mandopop singer David Oistrakh, the greatest violinist H.E. Zhou Enlai, the people's premier Yuan Longping, the father of hybrid rice, who fed a billion people in China Sir Winston Churchill, the man who wouldn't surrender Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov, the man who saved the world Vasily Arkhipov, another man who saved the world Wu Guanzhong, the father of modern Chinese art John Rabe, the good Nazi, who saved thousands in the Rape of Nanking Iris Chang, a great activist who lost her life spreading awareness of japanese war crimes Jackie Chan, a great, humorous, dedicated actor and martial artist Cixin Liu, a great author and thinker Ip Man, a great martial artist

Favorite Modern Notable Figures
on Knowledge (XXG), in no particular order

Maj. Gen. Yang Liwei, the first taikonaut

Col. Yuri Gagarin, the first astronaut

Laika, the first animal in orbit, a great astronaut who sacrificed herself for humanity

Cpl. Wojtek, a bear soldier? Who drank beer and smoked?

Lt. Cdr. Wang Wei, a great soldier and patriot

Su Bingtian, the fastest Asian

Pan Zhanle, the fastest freestyle swimmer

Ding Junhui, my favourite snooker player

Petr Cech, my favourite football player, a skillful keeper

GM Ding Liren, the chess world champion, and a very humble man

Frank Sinatra, the man with the best voice in history

JJ Lin, my favorite Mandopop singer

David Oistrakh, the greatest violinist

H.E. Zhou Enlai, the people's premier

Yuan Longping, the father of hybrid rice, who fed a billion people in China

Sir Winston Churchill, the man who wouldn't surrender

Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov, the man who saved the world

Vasily Arkhipov, another man who saved the world

Wu Guanzhong, the father of modern Chinese art

John Rabe, the good Nazi, who saved thousands in the Rape of Nanking

Iris Chang, a great activist who lost her life spreading awareness of japanese war crimes

Jackie Chan, a great, humorous, dedicated actor and martial artist

Cixin Liu, a great author and thinker

Ip Man, a great martial artist

I bet people would laugh at the idea of a massive encyclopaedia completely written by random people contributing randomly on random topics from random places in random languages purely voluntarily. Well, we are in one now. We have created this linked encyclopaedia like what Jorge Luis Borges envisioned.

Yes, I'm still just a apprentice editor, and I still struggle to get my citations perfect and still have to search up code for text formatting, but I love Knowledge (XXG). The pure thought that I, just one of 8 billion, can contribute with my little bit of knowledge to this forest of wisdom, gives me a sense of accomplishment I cannot describe. Perhaps this is why I am slowly transforming into a Wikipediholic.

The name 'Daftation' comes from my Minecraft username I made around 5 years ago. My violin teacher used to call me daft all the time, and I thought I might make a tribute to him through my username. He left us with Leukemia in 2020.

Well, thanks for visiting my user page. I hope you are here not because I made a mistake. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to get in touch with me on my talk page. I will reply as soon as I see it.

Articles I Have Created

Firearms and Military Equipment

Architecture

Articles I Have Significantly Improved

List of outstanding historic buildings of Shanghai

My Story as a Wikipedian
I started writing Knowledge (XXG) articles about firearms. When I was young, I wanted to be a soldier, defending my people and my country. What fascinates me about firearms is their engineering beauty, not the death that comes with them. I am against war and all the terror it brings along with it. My first article was about the QSZ-11, and I wrote it because, like most first Wikipedians, I couldn't find an article about it. As my career path became clearer, I slowly realized that architecture is my real passion. I wrote my first architecture article on the Banque de l'Indochine Building, and it turned out to be my best article yet. My mum brought me to Barcelona when I was around 7. The stunning architecture of Gaudi and the aesthetically perfect city made me fall in love with architecture. It became my second dream job, after the common first-child dream job of being a police officer. I will continue to write more articles, and please improve them or delete them (if they are actually bad). I will find you if you delete them if there are no problems. Do whatever you want for the best cause of Knowledge (XXG). I write in British English only. Maybe Knowledge (XXG) should be spelt Wikipaedia. I love adding the Use British English template on the top of my articles. Now, please enjoy my blood, sweat, and tears by reading all my articles. You can't be bothered? At least read some of them...

My Story
as a Wikipedian

I started writing Knowledge (XXG) articles about firearms. When I was young, I wanted to be a soldier, defending my people and my country. What fascinates me about firearms is their engineering beauty, not the death that comes with them. I am against war and all the terror it brings along with it. My first article was about the QSZ-11, and I wrote it because, like most first Wikipedians, I couldn't find an article about it.

As my career path became clearer, I slowly realized that architecture is my real passion. I wrote my first architecture article on the Banque de l'Indochine Building, and it turned out to be my best article yet.

My mum brought me to Barcelona when I was around 7. The stunning architecture of Gaudi and the aesthetically perfect city made me fall in love with architecture. It became my second dream job, after the common first-child dream job of being a police officer.

I will continue to write more articles, and please improve them or delete them (if they are actually bad). I will find you if you delete them if there are no problems. Do whatever you want for the best cause of Knowledge (XXG).

I write in British English only. Maybe Knowledge (XXG) should be spelt Wikipaedia. I love adding the Use British English template on the top of my articles.

Now, please enjoy my blood, sweat, and tears by reading all my articles. You can't be bothered? At least read some of them...

Principles and Policies
(for my use)

v t e Awareness ribbons
List of ribbons
Green Blue Red White Black Yellow Orange Purple Periwinkle Brown Gray Pink Teal Turquoise Pink and blue Saint George Zebra print
Culture	ASCII ribbon campaign Blue Ribbon Online Free Speech Campaign Red Ribbon Week Self-injury Awareness Day White Ribbon Campaign Yellow Ribbon Campaign of Myanmar Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Program
See also	Pink Ribbons, Inc. Red Ribbon Express
Category

v t e Big History
Themes and subjects	Chronology of the universe Cosmic evolution Deep time Time scales Goldilocks principle Modernity
Eight thresholds	1: Creation - Big Bang and cosmogony 2: Stars - creation of stars 3: Elements - creation of chemical elements inside dying stars 4: Planets - formation of planets 5: Life - abiogenesis and evolution of life 6: Humans - development of Homo sapiens Stone Age 7: Agriculture - Agricultural Revolution 8: Modernity - modern era
Web-based education	Big History Project ChronoZoom
Notable people	Walter Alvarez Cynthia Stokes Brown Eric Chaisson David Christian Carl Sagan Fred Spier Graeme Snooks
Related	Big History (2013 series)

Knowledge (XXG) principles

Five pillars
Statement of our principles

Jimbo's statement
Historic principles

Simplified ruleset
Synopsis of our conventions

Wikimedia principles
Common to all projects
(in Meta-Wiki)

Principles
Other essays on Knowledge (XXG)'s principles

Knowledge (XXG) key policies and guidelines (?)

Five pillars
- Ignore all rules

Content (?)

P	Verifiability No original research Neutral point of view What Knowledge (XXG) is not Biographies of living persons Copyright (Copyright violations) Image use Article titles
G	Notability Autobiography Citing sources Reliable sources Medicine Do not include copies of lengthy primary sources Plagiarism Don't create hoaxes Fringe theories Patent nonsense External links

Conduct (?)

P	Civility Consensus Harassment Vandalism Ignore all rules No personal attacks Ownership of content Edit warring Dispute resolution Sockpuppetry No legal threats Child protection Paid-contribution disclosure
G	Assume good faith Conflict of interest Disruptive editing Do not disrupt Knowledge (XXG) to illustrate a point Etiquette Gaming the system Please do not bite the newcomers Courtesy vanishing Responding to threats of harm Talk page guidelines Signatures

Deletion (?)

P	Deletion policy Proposed deletion Biographies Criteria for speedy deletion Attack page Oversight Revision deletion

Enforcement (?)

P	Administrators Banning Blocking Page protection

Editing (?)

Editing policy

Article size Summary style Be bold Disambiguation Hatnotes Broad-concept article Understandability
Style	Manual of Style Contents Accessibility Dates and numbers Images Layout Lead section Linking Lists
Classification	Categories, lists, and navigation templates Categorization Template namespace

Project content (?)

G	Project namespace WikiProjects User pages User boxes Shortcuts Subpages

WMF (?)

P	Terms of Use List of policies Friendly space policy Licensing and copyright Privacy policy

List of all policies and guidelines
- P: List of policies
- G: List of guidelines
Summaries of values and principles

v t e Knowledge (XXG) community
For a listing of current collaborations, tasks, and news, see the Community portal. For a listing of ongoing discussions and current requests, see the Dashboard.
General community topics	Administration News The Signpost Goings-on In the media Meetups Mailing lists Wikipedians Statistics The Knowledge (XXG) Library Centralized discussion Village pump Idea lab Policy Proposals Technical Miscellaneous WMF Holidays Bots
Contents and grading	Requested articles Most-wanted articles Images needing articles Articles needing images Articles for creation WP:AFC/R WP:AFC/C Creation Help Vital articles Articles for improvement Peer review Good article nominations Featured article candidates Lists Pictures Topics Article translation Pages Main Page Errors
WikiProjects and collaborations	Directory Culture and the arts Geographical History and society Science, technology and engineering Knowledge (XXG) assistance and tasks Patrols Recent changes Counter-Vandalism Unit Accessibility Organizations category
Awards and feedback	Reward board Contests A nice cup of tea and a sit down Charitableness WikiLove Compliment before criticism Kindness Campaign Thanks!
Maintenance tasks	Task Center Open tasks Backlog Category Admin category Edit requests Category Database reports Category tracker Dusty articles Special pages New pages Recent changes Controversial issues
Administrators and noticeboards	Administrators' noticeboard Incidents Edit warring Vandalism Admin dashboard Admin requests Closure Page protection User permissions Sockpuppets Open proxies Revision deletion Oversight Request Usernames Changing Title blacklist OTRS Bureaucrats' Requests for adminship and bureaucratship Arbitration Committee Requests Enforcement
Content dispute resolution	Requests for comment Third opinion Dispute resolution noticeboard Biographies of living persons Conflict of interest External links Fringe theories Neutral point of view No original research Reliable sources
Other noticeboards and assistance	Regional notice boards Requests for help Category Asking questions Teahouse Help desk Reference desk Adopt-a-user Copyright assistance Copyright investigations Text problems Media questions Resource requests Mergers History mergers Moves Page importation Spam Blacklist Whitelist Bots Education General sanctions Editor sanctions Long-term abuse
Deletion discussions	Guide Admin Today Articles Templates Files Categories Redirects Miscellany Speedy Proposed BLP Review Undeletion Arguments to avoid Arguments to make Article Rescue
Elections and voting	Requests for comment (meta) Wikimedia Foundation elections WP Democracy Voting is not evil Milestones
Directories, indexes, and summaries	Departments Edit summary legend Editor's index Essays FAQs Glossary Abbreviations Help Manual of Style Simplified Rules Five pillars Policies Guidelines Shortcuts Templates Citation templates Tips Today Tools Wiki markup
Media Category Templates

Knowledge (XXG) essays (?)

Essays on building, editing, and deleting content

Philosophy	Article content Articles must be written All Five Pillars are equally important Avoid vague introductions Be a reliable source Civil POV pushing Cohesion Competence is required Concede lost arguments Dissent is not disloyalty Don't lie Don't search for objections Editing Knowledge (XXG) is like visiting a foreign country Editors will sometimes be wrong Eight simple rules for editing our encyclopedia Explanationism External criticism of Knowledge (XXG) Here to build an encyclopedia Leave it to the experienced Levels of competence Levels of consensus Most ideas are bad Need Neutrality of sources Not editing because of Knowledge (XXG) restriction The one question Oversimplification Paradoxes Paraphrasing POV and OR from editors, sources, and fields Process is important Product, process, policy Purpose Reasonability rule Systemic bias There is no seniority Ten Simple Rules for Editing Knowledge (XXG) Tendentious editing The role of policies in collaborative anarchy The rules are principles Trifecta We are absolutely here to right great wrongs Knowledge (XXG) in brief Knowledge (XXG) is an encyclopedia Knowledge (XXG) is a community Knowledge (XXG) is not RationalWiki
Article construction	100K featured articles Abandoned stubs Acronym overkill Adding images improves the encyclopedia Advanced article editing Advanced text formatting Akin's Laws of Article Writing Alternatives to the "Expand" template Amnesia test A navbox on every page An unfinished house is a real problem Articles have a half-life Autosizing images Avoid mission statements Be neutral in form Beef up that first revision Blind men and an elephant BOLD, revert, discuss cycle Build content to endure Cherrypicking Chesterton's fence Children's lit, adult new readers, & large-print books Citation overkill Citation underkill Common-style fallacy Concept cloud Creating controversial content Criticisms of society may be consistent with NPOV and reliability Deprecated sources Dictionaries as sources Don't demolish the house while it's still being built Don't get hung up on minor details Don't hope the house will build itself Don't panic Don't "teach the controversy" Editing on mobile devices Editors are not mindreaders Encourage the newcomers Endorsements (commercial) Featured articles may have problems Formatting bilateral relations articles Formatting bilateral relations templates Fruit of the poisonous tree Give an article a chance How to write a featured article Identifying and using independent sources History sources Law sources Primary sources Science sources Style guides Tertiary sources Ignore STRONGNAT for date formats Inaccuracy Introduction to structurism Mine a source Merge Test Minors and persons judged incompetent "Murder of" articles Not every story/event/disaster needs a biography Not everything needs a navbox Not everything needs a template Nothing is in stone Obtain peer review comments Organizing disambiguation pages by subject area Permastub Potential, not just current state Presentism Principle of Some Astonishment The problem with elegant variation Pro and con lists Printability Pruning article revisions Publicists Put a little effort into it Restoring part of a reverted edit Robotic editing Sham consensus Source your plot summaries Specialized-style fallacy Stub Makers Run an edit-a-thon Temporary versions of articles Tertiary-source fallacy There are no shortcuts to neutrality There is no deadline There is a deadline The deadline is now Try not to leave it a stub Understanding Knowledge (XXG)'s content standards Walled garden What an article should not include Knowledge (XXG) is a work in progress Knowledge (XXG) is not a reliable source Knowledge (XXG) is not being written in an organized fashion The world will not end tomorrow Write the article first Writing better articles
Writing article content	Avoid thread mode Copyediting reception sections Coup Don't throw more litter onto the pile Gender-neutral language Myth vs fiction Proseline Use our own words We shouldn't be able to figure out your opinions Write the article first Writing about women Writing better articles
Removing or deleting content	Adjectives in your recommendations AfD is not a war zone Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions Arguments to avoid in deletion reviews Arguments to avoid in image deletion discussions Arguments to make in deletion discussions Avoid repeated arguments Before commenting in a deletion discussion But there must be sources! Confusing arguments mean nothing Content removal Counting and sorting are not original research Delete or merge Delete the junk Deletion is not cleanup Does deletion help? Don't attack the nominator Don't confuse stub status with non-notability Don't overuse shortcuts to policy and guidelines to win your argument Follow the leader How the presumption of notability works How to save an article proposed for deletion I just don't like it Identifying blatant advertising Identifying test edits Immunity Keep it concise Liar liar pants on fire Nothing Nothing is clear Overzealous deletion Relisting can be abusive Relist bias The Heymann Standard Unopposed AFD discussion Knowledge (XXG) is not Whack-A-Mole Why was the page I created deleted? What to do if your article gets tagged for speedy deletion When in doubt, hide it in the woodwork No Encyclopedic Use

Essays on civility

The basics	Accepting other users Apology Contributing to complicated discussions Divisiveness Don't retaliate Editors' pronouns Edit at your own pace Encouraging the newcomers Enjoy yourself Expect no thanks High-functioning autism and Asperger's editors How to be civil Maintaining a friendly space Negotiation Obsessive–compulsive disorder editors Please say please Relationships with academic editors Thank you Too long; didn't read Truce Unblock perspectives We are all Wikipedians here You have a right to remain silent
Philosophy	A thank you never hurts A weak personal attack is still wrong Advice for hotheads An uncivil environment is a poor environment Be the glue Beware of the tigers! Civility warnings Deletion as revenge Failure Forgive and forget It's not the end of the world Nobody cares Most people who disagree with you on content are not vandals Old-fashioned Wikipedian values Profanity, civility, and discussions Revert notification opt-out Shadowless Fists of Death! Staying cool when the editing gets hot The grey zone The last word There is no Divine Right of Editors Most ideas are bad Nothing is clear Reader The rules of polite discourse There is no common sense Two wrongs don't make a right Knowledge (XXG) clichés Knowledge (XXG) is not about winning Knowledge (XXG) should not be a monopoly Writing for the opponent
Dos	Assume good faith Assume the assumption of good faith Assume no clue Avoid personal remarks Avoid the word "vandal" Be excellent to one another Beyond civility Call a spade a spade Candor Deny recognition Desist Discussing cruft Drop the stick and back slowly away from the horse carcass Encourage full discussions Get over it How to lose Imagine others complexly Just drop it Keep it concise Keep it down to earth Mind your own business Say "MOBY" Mutual withdrawal Read before commenting Settle the process first
Don'ts	ALPHABETTISPAGHETTI Knowledge (XXG):Because I can Civil POV pushing Cyberbullying Don't accuse someone of a personal attack for accusing of a personal attack Don't be a fanatic Don't be a jerk Don't be an ostrich Don't be ashamed Don't be a WikiBigot Don't be high-maintenance Don't be inconsiderate Don't be obnoxious Don't be prejudiced Don't be rude Don't be the Fun Police Don't bludgeon the process Don't call a spade a spade Don't call people by their real name Don't call the kettle black Don't call things cruft Don't come down like a ton of bricks Don't cry COI Don't demand that editors solve the problems they identify Don't drink the consensus Kool-Aid Don't eat the troll's food Don't fight fire with fire Don't give a fuck Don't help too much Don't ignore community consensus Don't knit beside the guillotine Don't make a smarmy valediction part of your signature Don't remind others of past misdeeds Don't shout Don't spite your face Don't take the bait Don't template the regulars Don't throw your toys out of the pram Do not insult the vandals Griefing Hate is disruptive Nationalist editing No angry mastodons just madmen No Nazis No racists No Confederates No queerphobia No, you can't have a pony Passive aggression POV railroad Superhatting There are no oracles There's no need to guess someone's preferred pronouns You can't squeeze blood from a turnip UPPERCASE
WikiRelations	WikiBullying WikiCrime WikiHarassment WikiHate WikiLawyering WikiLove WikiPeace

Essays on notability

Humorous essays

About essays

About essays	Essay guide Value of essays Difference between policies, guidelines and essays Don't cite essays as if they were policy Avoid writing redundant essays Finding an essay Quote your own essay
Policies and guidelines	About policies and guidelines Policies Guidelines How to contribute to Knowledge (XXG) guidance Policy writing is hard

v t e Unofficial summaries of Knowledge (XXG) rules
Knowledge (XXG) in brief Core content policies All policies, in brief Conflict of interest tips (see also Jimbo on paid advocacy) Medical editors' guide New editors' guide No personal attacks (attack the edit, not the user) Notability, reliable sources, and independent sources What Knowledge (XXG) is not Simplified Manual of Style

Tasks drafts in work and articles to improve and create
Drafts in Work This, or these, are, or is, my draft, or drafts, that I am currently working on. Please take a look and correct me on errors and make suggestions. If there's a '(in AfC)' next to them, or it, please help me by reviewing it. I always make articles with article wizard so reviewers can check my work. Draft:Hongkou Fire Station Artlicles I Want to Create I will get to these. One day. Capitol Theater Building, Shanghai Russel & Co. Building Qiantan Centre Hongkou Fire Station Artlicles I Want to Improve I will also get to these. One day. List of historic buildings in Shanghai Sino-Portuguese Joint Declaration Oriental Pearl Tower

Tasks
drafts in work and articles to improve and create

Drafts in Work

This, or these, are, or is, my draft, or drafts, that I am currently working on. Please take a look and correct me on errors and make suggestions. If there's a '(in AfC)' next to them, or it, please help me by reviewing it. I always make articles with article wizard so reviewers can check my work.

Draft:Hongkou Fire Station

Artlicles I Want to Create

I will get to these. One day.

Artlicles I Want to Improve

I will also get to these. One day.

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