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My name is Andries Krugers Dagneaux. I am from the Netherlands. Interests are cult/cults, Hinduism, science (esp. physics), electronics (component level), chess. I am an avid but not the most accurate reader and I have to admit that my edits in Wikipedia have unfortunately occasionally reflected my reading habits.

Awards

Partial list of articles that I started

Partial list of articles to which I made major contributions

My contributions to Sathya Sai Baba led to a Wikipedia:arbitration in which I am one of the two adverseries. See Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Sathya_Sai_Baba. I am affiliated with the website of Dutch concerned former followers of Sathya Sai Baba.

Non-English language sources

Strictly confing ourselves to English language sources in the English Wikipedia cripples it. Using only Dutch if this negatively affects the quality of a work has never been acceptable in the scientific and scholarly traditions of the Netherlands. I volunteer to check references in German and Dutch languages upon request. Please join the Wikipedia:non-English languages reference check committee.

Trustworthy editors

I consider the follower contributors good editors whom I trust, though this does not mean that I agree with all their edits. (There are many other good editors at Wikipedia.)

Is Wikipedia a cult?

Please read this eye-opening new article that dissects Wikipedia's propaganda! User:Andries/Wikipedia:controversy Feel free to expand.

Favorite quotes

Re-reading sources

In my experience, it takes a lot of effort to write a good article. Sometimes I think I can rely on my memory of books that I read a while ago but later I find out then some inaccuracies have slipped in. So I really have to re-study the subject to write a good article.

Wikipedia:dispute resolution

I do not believe that Wikipedia:dispute resolution will be able to handle the great number of disputes. On a busy day I file three serious requests for comments. Still, I think that is good to follow the dispute resolution process even if this leads to the conclusion that it does not work. Then something should change.

Keeping Wikipedia maintainable is one of my concerns

Feel free to expand my essay User:Andries/Wikipedia:maintainability

Definitions

I do not like concepts for which no clear definitions can be given, like Fundamentalism, New Age and Anti-Cult Movement. I doubt whether they have any added value.

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Links

(copied from user explodingboy without asking)

Symbols

Useful information

(Special Character Stash shamelessly "borrowed" from Stan's page)

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WikiProject / Wikipedia:Wikipedia maintenance / *Ancient pages / Wikipedia:Current polls / Wikipedia:List of common misspellings

Recent Changes / Recent Changes by anon users

15 July, 15:45+2:00

(shamelessly copied from user Patrick)

• bullet
… ellipsis
′ prime = minutes = feet
″ double prime = seconds = inches
‾ overline = spacing overscore
⁄ fraction slash
← leftwards arrow
↑ upwards arrow
→ rightwards arrow
↓ downwards arrow
↔ left right arrow
∂ partial differential
∏ capital pi
∑ capital sigma
√ square root = radical sign
∞ infinity
∩ intersection = cap
∫ integral
≈ almost equal to = asymptotic to
≠ not equal to
≡ identical to
≤ less-than or equal to
≥ greater-than or equal to
.^.. therefore

A small esay about spelling

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer inwaht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt!

- Talotly aeswome! :) Scott P. 23:04, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
- I saw tihs serhomwre esle. - Bagel7 00:13, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

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 ==[[User:Andries/Major_contribution|Partial list of articles to which I made major contributions]]==
-My contributions to [[Sathya Sai Baba]] led to a [[Wikipedia:arbitration]] in which I am one of the two adverseries. See [[Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Sathya_Sai_Baba]]. I am affiliated with the website of Dutch concerned former followers of Sathya Sai Baba.
+My contributions to [[Sathya Sai Baba]] led to a [[Wikipedia:arbitration]] in which I am one of the two adverseries. See [[Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Sathya_Sai_Baba]]. I am affiliated with the [http://www.exbaba.com website of Dutch concerned former followers of Sathya Sai Baba].
 ==Non-English language sources==