User:Payday today
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Hello, My name is Payday today. I am interested in electrical engineering, psychology, politics, music, genealogy, photography, religion, science and technology, the American Civil War, and the history of electrical and electronic technology, radio, and television. I am interested in giving appropriate recognition to scientists and inventors whose contributions may have been obscured by the more famous or financially successful persons who used earlier work without crediting the person who developed the device or process.
At the same time, I wish to refute invalid claims that someone who tinkered with a device was the "true inventor" when their work did not verifiably influence the course of development of the device. Success has a thousand fathers. After someone developed the first usable and practical version of a device in the 19th century, it was common for competitors seeking to invalidate the patent to bring forth fraudulent claimants, complete with post-dated documents, lying witnesses, and prototypes supposedly decades old but in fact newly made. A thousand unreferenced websites validate a claim less than a public demonstration, a publication with details of the invention or discovery, or a patent application.
- I have worked to establish guidelines for the notability of bathing houses and have worked to establish guidelines for the notability of ammusement parks.
- Politically, I am of the philosophy that the government which governs best is the one which keeps its feet at all times off my neck. That may translate as Libertarian, Democrat, or Republican.
- I check random articles for references and note where they are lacking. Ditto for articles needing cleanup, or which appear to be original research, or which jump into obscure jargon without a general introduction which provides context.
- I am skeptical of pseudoscience and conspiracy theories.
- I contribute to the Reference Desk for Science, Humanities, and Miscellaneous.
- I revert vandalism and welcome newcomers.
- I look at most every AfD and often add references which make an article more worthy of keeping, but will delete those which are in need of it.
- I just can't help it, I'm addicted to Wikipedia!