Antandrus
A user with 110,945 edits. Account created on 4 April 2004.
Nominated by Mindspillage
final (35/0/0) ending 03:50 8 April 2005
Very active Admin, focus on LTAs.
Zero interest in editing beyond patrolling and fallout from Admin work.
Early adopter. Classic capture/decline activity profile. Bottomed out since 2013. Peaked before Wikipedia did!
Huge user page is extraordinarily open, but he probably can't stomach updating it to reflect his current reality.
Perfect example of what kind of person drove Wikipedia to become a viral sensation......
I thought I knew more than I actually did. Finishing a doctorate can give you the idea you know more than you do.
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Back in 2004 you could just write what you knew in those vast empty spaces longing to be filled.
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I tell you it's exciting to see one's articles shoot to the top of Google rankings shortly after their creation. Not only do I find it exciting, but I increasingly find it to be my duty, as someone having a specific expertise, to put accurate, readable, and well-sourced information into that top Google position.
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Master's and doctorate are in music composition, with a minor in music theory; undergraduate majors in both music and geology; seven years of teaching undergraduate and graduate students
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After leaving academia, for reasons with which I will not bore you,
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Long ago I learned to recognize that glazed-over look of people who have listened politely for a moment too long, so now I have thankfully discovered Wikipedia. I am here because it gives me an outlet for everything I learned in school, and still love. Here I can share, and if other people can make use of what I write, that makes me happy.
Out of the big university, and being unenamored of a life of poverty and struggle as one of thousands of unemployable people with advanced degrees in a humanities field
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I would politely ask others to at least consider the depth of their knowledge before tackling detailed subjects around which their own experience is limited; but then who am I to tell other people what to do?
Faield extrovert academic constructs elaborate moral case for pissing away life on selfish and irresponsible endeavour. Once the delusion is laid bare, they are trapped. To leave would be to admit you were a fool all along. Find a new purpose protecting the fools you inspired.
Smart enough to know their current predicament.....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Antandrus/contribs
A long time ago I used to write stubs. No longer. If I can't write a reasonably complete article, a complete short summary, or at the very least a solid informative paragraph, I won't write it. Random paging is what did it for me: clicking "random page" has become almost useless, as often four or five pages in a row are articles with maybe one line of text and an infobox. It's embarrassing.
....but not so smart that they leave a sinking ship. Hasn't updated that page since 2016.
So cliche!
