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{{User:Nihiltres/Nav}} <br />▼<div style="margin-right:1.5em; margin-top:0.4em; width:252px; float:left;"><div style="border:1px solid #A7D7F9;">[[Image:Hieronymus Bosch 021.jpg|250px |right|A section from Hieronymus Bosch's ''The Garden of Earthly Delights''.]] </div>▼
<center style="font-size:85%;">This section from the left panel of [[Hieronymus Bosch]]'s ''[[The Garden of Earthly Delights]]'' represents me.<center></div>
I am '''Nihiltres''' ({{pron-en|nɪˈhɪlˌtɹɛs}}; {{respell|ni|HIL|tres}}), a Wikipedian. I've been around since April 2005, and I've been an administrator since a [[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Nihiltres|nomination]] in May 2007. I tend to be somewhat of a [[Wikipedia:WikiGnome|wikignome]], but I do a variety of tasks, including [[Wikipedia:Deletion policy|deletion]], [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links|resolving ambiguous links]], [[Help:Template|template editing]], copyediting, helping out users, [[WP:SCREENCAST|screencasts]], [[meta:OTRS|answering emails sent to Wikipedia]], and more. I like to dabble. My pseudonym is arbitrary: it is [[Latin]] for "nothingthree" ({{lang|la|''nihil''}} → "nothing", {{lang|la|''tres''}} → "three") and does not imply anything whatsoever. I come from [[Pointe-Claire, Quebec|Pointe-Claire]], [[Quebec]], which is on the island of [[Montreal]] in [[Canada]].
To contact me online, try one of the following:
*[[Twitter]]: I'm [http://www.twitter.com/wikinihiltres @wikinihiltres] on Twitter.
*Talk page: <span class="plainlinks">[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Nihiltres&action=edit§ion=new Start a new section on my talk page!]</span>
*[[Wikipedia:IRC channels|IRC]]: I'm Nihiltres on [[Freenode]] IRC, and I tend to hang around in the #wikipedia, #wikipedia-en, and #wikipedia-en-admins chat channels.
I am '''Nihiltres''' <span title="I'm not an expert with IPA, so this might be horribly wrong. NIH-HILL-TREHS.">({{pron-en|nɪˈhɪlˌtɹɛs}}, {{respell|ni|HIL|tres}})</span>, a Wikipedian. I am an [[Wikipedia:Administrators|administrator]], and have been since a [[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Nihiltres|nomination]] in May 2007. I do a fair amount of work as an administrator, primarily deleting pages tagged for [[Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion|speedy deletion]] or [[Wikipedia:Proposed deletion|proposed deletion]]. Aside from my administrative help, I do a bunch of work with templates, cleanup, and occasionally writing articles. I also volunteer answering emails as part of the Wikimedia [[meta:OTRS|OTRS]] team. I'm often on IRC in the [irc://chat.freenode.net:8001/wikipedia #wikipedia], [irc://chat.freenode.net:8001/wikipedia-en #wikipedia-en], and [irc://chat.freenode.net:8001/wikipedia-en-admins #wikipedia-en-admins] [[Wikipedia:IRC channels|IRC channels]], so you can talk to me there if I'm available.
*Email: [[Special:EmailUser/Nihiltres|Email me]] through Wikipedia!
<h3 style="text-align:center;">About me</h3>
[[Image:Hieronymus Bosch 016.jpg|250px|left|A section from Hieronymus Bosch's ''The Garden of Earthly Delights''.]]
I am a science student living in [[Pointe-Claire, Quebec|Pointe Claire]], on the [[island of Montreal]]. As I am a student, it's possible to guess at my age: I would discourage people from doing so, because I wish to be ageless on Wikipedia, being judged instead on the quality of my contributions and the cogency of arguments which I put forth.
It should generally be assumed that people are inherently biased—as such, I reason that it would be appropriate to disclose these biases. In terms of political standpoint, I tend to be reasonably liberal: according to the [http://www.politicalcompass.org/ political compass test], I scored as {{nowrap|−4.92}} on an economic scale of left versus right, and {{nowrap|−5.25}} on a social scale of libertarianism versus authoritarianism. In terms of spirituality, I am ''nominally'' a Protestant, though I abandoned those beliefs a number of years ago and now am largely agnostic, with some [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] leanings. I therefore follow [[the Five Precepts]] and some other tenets of Buddhism, but am otherwise agnostic. Although I am generally accepting of people's religious beliefs, I personally greatly dislike dogma, especially those which can be categorized as pseudoscience, although I acknowledge that any argument involving an omnipotent being is necessarily [[Inductive reasoning|inductive]] in nature.
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<h3 style="text-align:center;">My username</h3>
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{{User fr-3}}<br />
{{User la-1}}<br />
{{User t|5|c}}<br />
{{User:Nihiltres/Userboxes/TI-BASIC|3}}<br />
{{User vb-2}}<br />
{{User Ascript-2}}<br />
{{User js-1}}<br />
{{User flute-2}}<br />
{{User wikipedia/RC Patrol}}<br />
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{{User WikiProject Novels}}<br />
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My pseudonym is arbitrary: it is [[Latin]] for "nothingthree" ({{lang|la|''nihil''}} → "nothing", {{lang|la|''tres''}} → "three") and does not imply anything whatsoever. Several Wikipedians have at various times questioned me as to its meaning, usually making connections to [[nihilism]]. I am not a nihilist, though I do at times value a nihilistic or, similarly, minimalist point of view for its philosophical clarity.
In reality, it was an interesting compromise: I originally wanted to be {{lang|la|''Nemo''}}, [[Latin]] for "nobody", but the famous captain of [[Jules Verne]]'s story ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]'' had ruined the obscurity of the word for me. Further, I tried "Nihil", but that was taken. I dislike numbers in names, but adding a number as text sounded fine, so I added one of my favourite numbers, three, in the same Latin as my alternate "Nihil", to form my now [[wikt:epidemic|epidemic]] username, Nihiltres.
The strangest connection that has been made with my username to another topic is the "-tres" to [[Moltres]], whose name happens to have similarly borrowed "tres" from Latin, though through [[Spanish language|Spanish]].
I tend to use the same username across the internet, Nihiltres, but occasionally I am known as '''Shade''', a name I will sometimes prefer when it is, rarely, available.
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<h3 style="text-align:center;">Userspace</h3>
▲[[Image:Hieronymus Bosch 021.jpg|250px|right|A section from Hieronymus Bosch's ''The Garden of Earthly Delights''.]]
In my userspace I have a number of useful pages:
*[[/Sandbox|My sandbox]], which I use for experimentation and development of things not yet ready or inappropriate for the article or template namespaces. Feel free to edit it, as long as you are constructive.
**An archive of a rewrite of the [[Shade's Children]] article I made using the sandbox: [[User:Nihiltres/Sandbox/Shade's Children archive]]
*A number of [[Wikipedia:Userboxes|userboxes]]:
**[[User:Nihiltres/Userboxes/Friendly]]
**[[User:Nihiltres/Userboxes/TI-BASIC]]
**[[User:Nihiltres/Userboxes/Super contrib meta]]
*Other subpages:
**[[User:Nihiltres/Click-to-ImageMap]], a now unnecessary script written in AppleScript that converted implementations of {{[[Template:click|click]]}} to the better [[mw:Extension:ImageMap|ImageMap]] format. I used it while {{[[Template:click|click]]}} was still a CSS hack that impaired usability. {{[[Template:Click|Click]]}} has since been converted to use ImageMap itself, as a method of bypassing the limitations of ImageMap was implemented by the developers.
**''[[User:Nihiltres/ImageMap how-to]]'' is now a redirect to the page to which it was moved, [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-03-03/Tutorial]]. That page is a tutorial explaining how to use the ImageMap feature.
*Pages which govern the appearance of my userspace:
**[[User:Nihiltres/Header]] controls the appearance of my talk page
**[[User:Nihiltres/Archived]] controls the appearance of my user talk archives.
**[[User:Nihiltres/Nav]] controls the navigation box which appears on many of my subpages.
*My user skin customization pages:
**[[User:Nihiltres/vector.js]], which contains a number of various scripts which enhance my user experience by altering the interface slightly.
***[[User:Nihiltres/vector-ipod.js]], special scripts called through the monobook.js page if I'm using my iPod Touch and the Vector skin.
***[[User:Nihiltres/vector-ipod.css]], special styling called through the monobook.js page if I'm using my iPod Touch and the Vector skin.
**[[User:Nihiltres/vector.css]], which fine-tunes the interface appearance for my personal preference, including some minor changes to colour.
**[[User:Nihiltres/monobook.js]], the equivalent of the vector.js page while I use the Monobook skin. It implements a couple other changes:
***[[User:Nihiltres/monobook-ipod.js]], special scripts called through the monobook.js page if I'm using my iPod Touch and the Monobook skin.
***[[User:Nihiltres/monobook-ipod.css]], special styling called through the monobook.js page if I'm using my iPod Touch and the Monobook skin.
**[[User:Nihiltres/monobook.css]], the equivalent of the vector.css page while I use the Monobook skin.
I will update this section as needed if more content is created. If you like the layout or design of my userpage, ask me and I'll create something similar for you.
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