User:Sam Korn

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Hi -- I'm Sam Korn.

I've been around Wikipedia not quite forever -- since October 2004, in fact. I remember the excitement at breaking the Alexa top-100, the top-50 and then the top-20. Big deals at the time, ancient history now.

Over that time, I have accumulated various technical tools (I don't call them privileges, because that gives the wrong impression of their function): I am an administrator and I also have Oversight and CheckUser tools.^[1] If you need help or advice, I'll do my best to give it. _{N.B.: I am currently on Wikimedia's Ombudsman Commission, and therefore will not be doing CheckUser activities on the English Wikipedia for the rest of 2009.}

My current project is to write a satisfactory article on Herbert Hensley Henson, one of the most fascinating Anglican bishops of the twentieth century. One of his axioms was "always speak the truth, especially if your audience won't like it". I don't endorse this on Wikipedia, however -- here that attitude would be called trolling.

I don't like obsessing over the minutiae of policy -- Wikipedia is very much a kingdom of ends, not means.^[2] "Rules are made for the guidance of wise men and the strict observance of fools."^[3]

If you have a moment, I suggest you go and read Wikipedia:Ignore personal attacks and meatball:DefendEachOther. That's how to survive on Wikipedia. You may also like to read my take on BLP (evidently written before WP:LIVING pointed to an obscure guideline on the notability of plants).

I run two bots, Sambot and ImageTagBot, and develop the Pillar bot framework, in association with X!.

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