User:Blackwarrior
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I was born in DeRidder, Louisiana and was raised in several cities in Louisiana, California, Arizona, and Texas. I currently reside in Shreveport, Louisiana.
I served six years in the United States Air Force: one year of technical training at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, three years as an ICBM combat crew member on the LGM-118A_Peacekeeper weapon system at F.E._Warren_Air_Force_Base, Wyoming, and two years instructing B-52 Stratofortress crewmembers at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana.
I am more-or-less neolibertarian, in political terms. I support a vigorous and engaged foreign policy, and recognize that there are some issues in which the federal government should be involved. For the most part, however, I believe that government should not interfere in religion, commerce, industry, or personal relationships (or any combinations thereof).
I have little patience for people who perceive everything from a purely emotional point-of-view. I can be extremely abrupt and abrasive with such people, as I find it very hard to relate to them. I have emotions, but they don't control me.
I have religious views, but they are mine alone, and not open to discussion or change. I harbor a strong dislike for religious activists who attempt to exert control over people who do not share their beliefs through any method, but I am equally contemptuous of those who belittle the adherents of any religion. If you don't agree with the tenets of a religion, that is your choice. However, chastising others who do is obnoxious and boorish.
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I am a member of WikiProject Florida, and a large portion of my editing is related to Florida-related topics.
I am an infobox fanatic; I strongly believe that articles for which a standardized infobox template exists should include them from the very first edit. I have created quite a few stub articles on Florida radio stations, some with only a few sentences of text. All of them contain the radio station infobox, however.
The other activity which occupies much of my time here is user categorization discussions. Although I personally have very few user categories (by personal choice), I recognize that for many people, they can be useful when one needs assistance for a particular project, or has a question about an issue. However, the creation of frivolous categories, or overly narrowly-focused categories, or inappropriate (soapboxing) categories, or simple miscategorization (adding a category to the wrong parent category) degrades the usefulness of user categories. I may appear to be strongly deletionist at UCFD, but only because most of the categories that are nominated for discussion are categories of questionable utility; clearly relevant categories are seldom targeted for discussion because their value is self-evident.