Wikipedia: Alan D

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I have dedicated myself to exploring the possibilites of using my wikipedia entry as a personal web page. If anyone in charge has objections to this, let me know and I'll desist.

Hi, my name is Alan Dershowitz. No, I'm not the famous Alan Dershowitz, I just have been using his name for about five years online now. The reasons for doing so have been lost to the veil of time, so I have crafted an alternate explanation: some Native Americans believe that by wearing the skin of an animal, you can steal its spirit. How's that?

On to Wikipedia: I have been doing this for a while now. I originally heard of wikipedia on Bomis.com. My interest was piqued, and I made a few contributions. But, it was a while before I understood the power of the Wiki, and now I am probably a permanent resident. This Wiki is a great thing! It may not have the authority of an the Encyclopedia Britannica, but what it lacks in credentials it gains in sheer content. We have all been shortchanged by the limits information is bound to by being put on paper. Also, just the vast amount of people working on it alone helps represent the intricacies of topics that only a couple of editors could never convey--or maybe weren't even aware of! Its for this last reason I love the wiki. Books provide general information on a topic, but Wiki allows the cumulative information of a thousand minds to create an uberwork that covers every subtlety and minor detail on a topic.

The power of Wiki comes from its ease of use. I would never have gotten as interested in this if it required a submission process like nupedia. I think the ability to let people casually enter topical information quickly is the sole factor in its success. If it was hard, most people just wouldn't care.

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Some entries I have made significant contributions on

Hi, if you get a minute, resurrect the original hillbilly stuff, and let's work it into a popular/folklore section, with maybe some discussion on how Hee Haw, Snuffy Smith or Li'l Abner may or may not have contributed such images of hillbillies in contemporary culture.