User:Dtasripin

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[edit] Myself, Userboxed

[edit] Myself, In Prose

[edit] The Basics

This user was born on November 16, 1981.

This user is a member of Wikipedia.

[edit] Wikipedia-related

This user finds copyright paranoia disruptive.

Content contributed by this user is released into the public domain.

This user reserves the right to completely screw up his or her edits.

This user believes that only articles need reflect a NPOV, and that displaying political, religious, or other beliefs using userboxes and user categories should not be banned.

This user supports userboxes .

This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox.

This user contributes using Adobe Photoshop

This user contributes using Microsoft Windows 98.

[edit] Ideology

[edit] International Politix

This user opposes monarchism.

This user supports Hugo Chávez.

This user supports the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist).

This user supports the independence of Palestine.

This user supports independence for Puerto Rico.

This user supports the Zapatista Army of National Liberation.

[edit] Reason

This user is an atheist.

This user understands biological evolution.

This user believes that the Flying Spaghetti Monster is as likely as creationism.

This user is vehemently against Xenuphobia.

This user is not the Messiah! He is a very naughty boy!

[edit] USA Domestic Politics

This user believes that George W. Bush's edits to the constitution need to be reverted.

This user says, "Who you calling an 'illegal immigrant', Pilgrim?!"

[edit] Music

This user enjoys rock music.

This user enjoys hip hop music.

This user enjoys jazz music.

This user thinks The Beatles are overrated.

[edit] Misc.

This user eats bagels.

This user loves Labrador Retrievers.

This user supports the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.

This user advocates the use of more cowbell.

[edit] Introductions

Dtasripin is short for Daniel Tasripin.

At present, residing in New York City, in the neighborhood of Bedford Park in the borough of The Bronx. I'm of mixed race: white-ethnic Americans (Jewish and French) on the mother's side and half Asian (Indonesian) on the other.

I am currently an undergraduate student at Hunter College of the City University of New York. I am finishing up a degree in Political Science, with a minor in Urban Studies. I'm an employee a union that shall go unnamed (you can ask me privately) and I'm also an occasional volunteer for the Indypendent (the newspaper put out by NYC Indymedia).

On Wikipedia, I mostly take an interest in editing articles related to 20th Century Indonesia and contemporary New York City, New York. You could say that on Wikipedia, I edit both locally and globally.

[edit] My Wikipedia-related interests

I would say a main goal of mine is to bring up the level of general scholarship and quality of articles related to Indonesia. It's one of the world's most populous countries, but (at least in the United States) one of the least well known.

To complicate matters, I have found that the truth is often surrounded by a bodyguard of lies, classified files, redacted memos, and bloody hands that have been washed. This is especially true of the period between the mid 1960s and early 1990s. Part of my hope, with Wikipedia, is having the historical lies and half-truths of the Suharto-era finally put to rest with the full truth coming out the winner.

This being the year (2005-06) which marks the 40th anniversaries of Suharto's various acts of butchery, that killed some 80,000-1,000,000 of his own people and started his dictatorial rule - I would hope that greater knowledge of what happened would persaude people to take a look at one of the 20th century's forgotten madmen.

On my other interest, contemporary New York - since I keep getting bugged by people on Mickey Mouse blogs - I'll keep my politics up front. I'm an unrepentant leftist, registered Democrat, but I don't get myself hung up too much on electoral politics.

One thing I hold on to, and that is (even though I think he was a messed up S.O.B.) the bit of truth in the late Sen. Daniel Moynihan's maxim: "Everyone's entitled to his own opinions, but not his own facts." I stick to NPOV, mostly because I think the truth (warts and all) is all the propaganda a good political cause should ever need.

[edit] Non-Wikipedia schtuff

My online time not spent pouring over research for Wikipedia entries is mostly spent either launching polemics or just cracking wise over on Plastic.com. User name is Clandestino. My karma's currently around the 1050 mark.

Offline, I'm mostly reading the novels of Pramoedya Ananta Toer and Naguib Mahfouz, or stuff on urban planning and politics.

[edit] My Contributions
[edit] Articles Created New York-related Bedford Park, Bronx, New York // G. Oliver Koppell Indonesia-related Wikipedia:Indonesia-related topics notice board // Template:History of Indonesia // Indonesian Civil War // Reformation (Indonesia) [edit] Articles I've Spent Time On New York-related New York gubernatorial election, 2006 // Norwood, Bronx, New York // George Pataki // Eliot Spitzer Indonesia-related History of Indonesia // Pramoedya Ananta Toer // Suharto // Sukarno Misc. Battle of Algiers // Keffiyeh [edit] To Be Done See User:Dtasripin/to do	[edit] Images I've Contributed Church of St. Philip Neri, at the Grand Concourse in the Bronx Image:Tracey Towers, Bedford Park, Bronx, NY.jpg The Tracey Towers, a Mitchell-Lama project in the Bronx Image:Memorial Mural in Bedford Park, Bronx, NY.jpg Hip-hop style graffiti mural on E. 203 Street, the Bronx. Artist unknown. Logo for History of Indonesia article series.