User:Wer900

Wer900's Userbox Wikipedia-related userboxes This user is a member of the Guild of Copy Editors. This user participates in WikiProject Astronomy. This user helps out newcomers. This user fights vandalism using the STiki anti-vandalism tool. This user has participated in 1 Backlog Elimination Drive with the Guild of Copy Editors. This user has been on Wikipedia for 12 years, 11 months and 12 days. This user has a SHA-512 committed identity. See this userbox's invocation. This editor is a Journeyman Editor and is entitled to display this Service Badge. This user is a member of WikiProject Futures studies. This user has been to the end of Wikipedia. Have you? It is approximately 10:35 AM where this user lives. Awards and honors (greatly appreciated, but I must renounce all of these honors) This editor has been awarded the Original Barnstar   This editor has been awarded Shrike's Nectarine Pie This editor has been awarded the Special Barnstar   This editor has been awarded the Writer's Barnstar   This editor has been awarded a planet About me This user is interested in astronomy. This user agrees that Pluto is not a planet but also thinks the IAU's definition is a mess. IAU This user would like to know what a black hole looks like from inside, but doesn't want to investigate it personally. This user believes in a solid oblate spheroid Earth, not a flat or hollow one. 2012 This user thinks that all predictions about the world ending in 2012 are inaccurate. This user accepts evolution as a biological fact. This user supports a deep reform of the United Nations. This user wants a World Federation composed of Independent Nation States.. This user is religious. This user prays. This user is sick and tired of religion being scapegoated for any and all of the world's problems. This user accepts all Religious and Scientific claims as viable forms of explaining the Universe, but just thinks they are at different levels of Understanding This user believes in tolerance for all viewpoints except intolerance. This user believes the First Amendment was written to protect freedom of religion, not abolish it.   This user wants ZERO net carbon emissions from human activity.† This user supports universal health care. This user supports jury nullification.‡ This user opposes racism and admires Martin Luther King Jr. This user believes that the death penalty should never be used.* God This user believes in God. This user is a citizen of the United States of America.

Welcome to the humble abode of Wer900. You may have come here actively seeking information about me, or just happened to be interested by the link in my signature. Here, like every other user on Wikipedia, I display statistics about myself and centralize works in progress and personal opinions before bringing them into mainspace.

I write articles about astronomy, and aside from copyediting and using automated tools like Reflinks, I very rarely edit articles which are not related to astronomy. An exception to this is my article "Potential cultural impact of extraterrestrial contact," which is somewhat related to astronomy (indirectly through SETI) and has just recently been honored as a Good Article. In particular, my articles tend to center on extrasolar planet systems, which, while they often meet Wikipedia's notability criteria, are ignored in favor of current events, popular culture, developments in other areas of science like biology and (non-astro)physics. In addition to my "Cultural impact of extraterrestrial contact" article, another work of mine, on the 2012 National Reconnaissance Office space telescope donation to NASA, deals with the intersection between politics and astronomy, although a very much different intersection than the former article.