User:Donald Guy

I am a largely inactive Wikipedia editor, who nevertheless, thinks Wikipedia might be the height of human achievement.

I am was? also a software engineer / DevOps practitioner working largely with Elixir and (until recently) Kubernetes

You can find my activities on my github and links from there to elsewhere

Statement on Bias

Whereas I, unfortunately, have taken recently, after a period of inactivity/lurking, to a habit of participating in discussions on the talk pages of protected articles related to current events (and might also edit them in the future), I wished to make this pro-active/explicit statement of my known biases and/but lack of known conflicts of interest:

• I am an individual with ~left-of-centre values including upholding as a moral good the broader ideals of Human Rights (extending to notions of social justice and minority rights), multi-culturalism, and global cooperation

• I am an active ideological opponent of Trumpism and all forms of resurgent right wing extremism/authoritarianism and hyper-nationalism, which I think can be fairly characterized as neo-fascism.

I would probably not self-describe as an ideologue of any political or economic philosophy, but I have since graduating college grown generally more skeptical of capitalism and had growing (theoretical more than meaningfully practiced) sympathies with anarcho-collectivism and/or (somewhat incoherently) a mixed planned/market economy prioritizing the guaranteeing of basic needs AND anti-corruption measures / an open society.

• I am concerned about the use of Wikipedia articles as a tool for the shaping of propaganda narratives and spreading of misinformation

• I am not a paid nor volunteer operative of any political candidate, PAC, or other ideological-centered organization.

(Disclosure: I am the child of a former state representative elected under the auspices of the Democratic Party; my parent does not have direct influence nor I believe, as a rule, any knowledge of my activities on wikipedia.)

At the time of writing, I am (for an extended period) self-employed and/or unemployed, and if/when that changes, I do not anticipate allowing anyone to direct my activities on Wikipedia.

(and in the vanishingly likely event such a thing were to take place in the future, I would insist upon: confining such activities to a separate account and/or disclosing that information on the user page of any account(s) used for such)

• I do not co-ordinate my editing or discussion with anyone (though I might mention it casually as a thing going on in my life to a friend)

• I do make a best effort attempt to WP:AGF, act in good faith, abide by the ideas of WP:NPOV and other norms of the wikipedia community.

Nevertheless, in a discussion, I may be guilty, like a person (and one with ADHD at that) of digging in or becoming defensive of my position or proposal.

-- Donald Guy (talk) 03:58, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

Even more unnecessary addendum: whereas such current event related activities are related to Donald Trump, I would clarify: Donald is / has been since birth my legal and commonly used first name. This coincidence may influence my interests, but it did not influence my username (though it might influence a decision to change it to something else in future)