User:Bitten Peach
| — Wikipedian ♂ — | |
| Name | Silenusias |
|---|---|
| Born | 6 May 1978 |
| Name in real life | Orson |
| Pronouns | He/Him |
| Country |  United States |
| Current location | Illinois |
| Languages | English (various dialects) |
| Time zone | UTC |
| Ethnicity | Miscellaneous Pale |
| Race | Sileni |
| Height | 174 cm |
| Weight | ~170 kg |
| Sexuality | Happy |
| Alignment | Chaotic Good |
| Family and friends | |
| Marital status | Married |
| Spouse | 1 |
| Children | 2 Furbabies |
| Education and employment | |
| Occupation | Product Owner |
| Education | Uni (no degree) |
| Hobbies, interests, and beliefs | |
| Hobbies | Cooking, writing bad fiction, Civ VI & similar |
| Religion | Dionysian Heretic |
| Politics | Far Left in a Far Right World |
| Aliases | Papposilenus |
| Books | Fiction, History, Fictional History and Historical Fiction |
| Music | American Mid- to Late-20th Century |
| Interests | |
Truth; Myriad aspects of religions and irreligion, including their history and origins; Meme contagion theory. | |
| Account statistics | |
| Joined | 20 November 2024 |
| First edit | 29 December 2004 |
Truth Matters
Before you ask, yes, the name is a metaphor, and no, I am not of the culture from which the metaphor was appropriated.
I am a long-time editor of Wikipedia. I started in 2004, primarily as a grammar and vernacular freak. So why did I create a brand-new account after two decades?
I am a devotee of English dialects and (on talk pages) dialectics as well. Reasoned, civil, consensus-building conversation is important to me. I had great success in moving arguments out of the shouting matches and into a consensual discussions. That often put me afoul of the type of editor who prefer to bully and savage others instead of using any sort of reasoned dialogue, and they get brutal when consensus does not fall their way.
I was willing to handle that during the deletionist/inclusionist conflicts, the early Wikiwars (foreskins, Jesus, gays, cults, colonial names, etc.), and the tectonic move from "cabals are evil / there is no cabal" to "there are cabals and Wikipedia needs them." Over time, the abusers have thriven by chasing off those who were unwilling to fight. I was not going to be one of them, and I became very active in forums like AfD, RfC and policy spaces, again with notable success
In the last few years, in parallel to the ascendency of the authoritarian-right culture warriors, abusive editors have been emboldened by their success and are become far more aggressive. In that same span of time, I have gotten too old to put up with it. One too many abusers got one smidgeon too vicious, and I flat gave up. You might say that I was twice bitten, thrice shy, hence leading me to the metaphor I use as a display name.