User:Woozle

I originally created Issuepedia as a way of dealing with the confusion (shall we say) I and a lot of other people felt after the 2004 predidential election. How could a man be so clearly dishonest and still get elected? Or were we the ones who were wrong, and he actually wasn't that bad?

Issuepedia's first project, then, was to collect information relating to George W. Bush, his past performance, his views, the views of his party, the issues upon which I and my friends are at odds with his party, and so on. If we were right, this would make it clear to his supporters just what he was supporting. If we were wrong, it would become clear as the facts accumulated. This methodology could then be used to help resolve (or at least understand) all kinds of contentious issues.

Issuepedia was at that time (early 2005) living on another wiki (and was named "Encyclopinion", because the wiki's then-sysop didn't like the way "issuepedia" sounded), and unfortunately most of it got wiped out when that wiki's data was accidentally deleted. I have printouts of a few pages, but haven't had time to reconstruct them on this wiki. In fact, I haven't had much time at all to work on issuepedia, as evidenced by how sparse it is so far.

I seem to be picking up slowly, however, and I see no reason why it can't become the resource I originally envisioned.

My main home page is on The Hypertwins Wiki. Visit early and often.

• My Position Statement on a number of issues