User:KF

Some of the texts he has started:

• Bachelor Mother
• Brief Encounter
• Dirty Weekend
• Dodge City
• Flirting with Disaster
• The Lady Vanishes
• Love and Kisses
• The Magic Christian
• Mildred Pierce
• Noises Off
• Notting Hill
• Percy
• A Shock to the System
• Sliver
• Suspicion
• The Sweet Hereafter
• Topkapi
• The Virgin Suicides
• The War of the Roses
• Where Angels Fear to Tread

• Remake

• Amongst Barbarians
• My Night with Reg
• The Shape of Things

• About a Boy
• American Psycho
• The British Museum Is Falling Down
• The Children of Men
• Democracy
• England, England
• A Friend of the Earth
• The Great Gatsby
• The History Man
• The Human Stain
• The Jealous God
• The Jungle
• King Solomon's Carpet
• The Poisoned Chocolates Case
• A Severed Head
• Sick Puppy
• Sister Carrie
• Sleeping Murder
• A Solitary Grief
• The Tie That Binds
• The Tortilla Curtain
• A Vicious Circle
• What Makes Sammy Run?
• The Woman Who Did

• Farce
• Crime fiction
• Whodunnit

• Adultery in literature
• Family life in literature
• Heroines in literature
• Losers in literature
• School and university in literature
• Tourism in literature

• Henry Adams
• T.C. Boyle
• James M. Cain
• Billy Cotton
• Amanda Craig
• Elisabeth of Austria
• Otto von Habsburg
• Carl Hiaasen
• Carl von Ossietzky
• Ludwig Quidde
• Günther Schifter
• Romy Schneider
• Robert H. Schuller
• Sherry Turkle
• Rachel Weisz

• Adams
• Allen
• Baker
• Miller
• Reed
• Russell
• Simpson
• Taylor
• Thompson
• Turner
• Weber

• CALL
• Gemütlichkeit
• Karoshi
• Kraut
• Latin verbs in English
• Matura
• Millennialism
• Point of no return
• Quality time
• Technology assessment
• Tertium comparationis
• Utopianism

• Leopoldstadt

• Routemaster

Some of the photos he has taken:

• Beard
• Noel Brookes
• Buckeye
• Crucifix
• Paisley (design)
• Pulpit
• Routemaster
• Tram

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity": I read this piece of advice some time ago on someone else's user page and, as this is Wikipedia territory, shamelessly copied it onto my own. I've been thinking about this sentence ever since, mainly in connexion with people I've come across in "real life". To me, it ties in with Kant's definition of Enlightenment. I'm still trying to figure out if it contradicts in any way his Categorical Imperative or his assertion that the world is highly cultivated and civilized but not yet moralized ("Idee zu einer allgemeinen Geschichte in weltbürgerlicher Absicht", Siebenter Satz).

In Wikipedia, I receive relatively few comments on my talk page. People who know better than I have pointed out possible copyright violations concerning two photos I uploaded (Sharon Tate's and Winona Ryder's). Apart from that, three of the pages I started have been modified in a way that I can no longer identify with them: Millennialism, Remake, and Losers in literature (now renamed List of anti-heroes). However, in all three cases these changes were thoroughly discussed before they were actually carried out, so I can live with that. Astonishingly, as of June 2003, I was the 83rd most active Wikipedian. I cannot deny a certain addiction to this project, but I'm not going to give away how I scored at the Wikipediholic test. --KF

It just occurred to me that I might add this little gem of a conversation before it is finally, once and for all, deleted. This is what happened:

(1) Some school kid surfed the net for information on Gregor Mendel and wrote some rubbish in a newly created page called Heinzendorf, allegedly Mendel's birthplace.

(2) On the Mendel page, which contains quite a number of inaccuracies, it said that Heinzendorf was a village in Austria. Accordingly, in the process of weeding, another user deleted the newbie experiment and replaced it with a stub whose text read: "Heinzendorf, Austria is mainly known as the birthplace ...".

(3) What followed then was communication via the talk page:

There is no Heinzendorf in Austria. See http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.m/m529936.htm;internal&action=_setlanguage.action?LANGUAGE=en . --KF 19:48 May 13, 2003 (UTC)

D'oh! -- John Owens

I was just going on the information from the Mendel page. However, was Austria a part of the Czech Republic at one time (as one page said after a google search)? -- Notheruser 19:59 May 13, 2003 (UTC)

The other way round of course. Ever come across the Habsburg empire? See also History of the Czech Republic. KF 20:27 May 13, 2003 (UTC)

Interesting history (sadly, I had never heard of the Habsburg empire). Thanks for the clarification. -- Notheruser 20:46 May 13, 2003 (UTC)

(4) Meanwhile, someone had moved the Heinzendorf page to Heinzendorf, Austria.

(5) Then they obviously read my comments and found out that Mendel's birthplace can be found today in the Czech Republic. So they renamed the page again. For half an hour or so, the page had the ominous title Heinzendorf, Czech Republic.

(6) Now how would you like it if someone created a page entitled Neuyork, Neuyork[?]? Or Londres[?]? So I moved the page to the current Czech name of the village, relying on an Austrian online encyclopaedia (see link above).

(7) I don't know anything about Mendel. I've never been to his birthplace. And I don't speak a word of Czech. Still the name Hyncie, Czech Republic looked weird to me. Only then, after extensively googling Mendel, did I find out that the actual name is Hyncice, Czech Republic. That, hopefully, would be the final move. Viribus unitis[?], we'd created a great article for Wikipedia. Now that's what I call professionalism. --KF 05:19 May 14, 2003 (UTC)