User:Bob Hu

Here are some articles that I have created or made significant contributions to:

• Sydney Technical High School
• Medician_stars (the content of the article was later merged into the Galilean moons
  article)
• Tatiana Kosintseva
• Nadezhda Kosintseva
• A Girl Like Me (documentary)
• Longwall mining
• Throwing knife
• Treaty of Vienna
• Isabell Masters
• Tidal flow
• Price point
• Appeal to spite
• Great Stop of the Exchequer

I've been reading and making minor edits to Wikipedia since around June 2005 but had been procrastinating over actaully making an account. In the end I was motivated to get an account when I experienced a situation where the I.P. I was using was banned due to someone else's vandalism.

While I accept that there are many cases where articles should be merged it is not always necessary to be militantly obsessed with cleaniness. If it is a useful subtopic that can stand alone then let it stand. The deletion and merging of articles also tends to break links from other parts of the web, which is frustrating for casual users.

The following abstract is taken from a published study found at this source: http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/cpb.2007.0225

Abstract

Wikipedia is an online, free access, volunteer-contributed encyclopedia. This article focuses on the Wikipedians' (Wikipedia users) personality characteristics, studying Wikipedians' conceptions of Real-Me and BFI dimensions. To survey these aspects, we posted links to two online web questionnaires; one was targeted at Wikipedians and the second to non-Wikipedia users. One hundred and thirty-nine subjects participated in the study, of which 69 were active Wikipedia members. It was found that Wikipedia members locate their real me on the Internet more frequently as compared to non-Wikipedia members. Variance analysis revealed significant differences between Wikipedia members and non-Wikipedia members in agreeableness, openness, and conscientiousness, which were lower for the Wikipedia members. An interaction was found between Wikipedia membership and gender: introverted women were more likely to be Wikipedia members as compared with extroverted women. The results of this study are discussed with special emphasis on the understanding of the motivators of Wikipedia members.