User:CSGinger14

Hi all. Feel free to look around my profile, promise there's a lot of interesting info to be found! I would greatly appreciate your taking a look at this sectio…

User:CSGinger14

Hi all. Feel free to look around my profile, promise there's a lot of interesting info to be found! I would greatly appreciate your taking a look at this section in talk and comment on it if you have relevant experience or pertinent views. Otherwise, if there's anything you need, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page! All the best.

Bio (Please read!)

Hi everyone, I'm CSGinger14. I figure my departure from my original goals stated in February 2025 warrants a longer bio. I'm from the US State of Virginia, and have worked for a long time in campaign politics (though have since stopped), and am currently pursuing a degree in international history. I have a minor in French language studies and would love to expand the American and West-Hemispheric article base of fr.wikipedia.org to anyone that would be willing to assist me. I've also studied Swahili for 2 and a half years, and would be very interested in expanding the Swahili article base for anyone that could help me with template mechanisms, image attributions, etc. I'd also like to assist in building a more cohesive listing and detailing of charitable organizations in the United States, as well additions to and creation of pages on rights violations (abuses against the homeless[1][2][3] / at-risk youth isolation programs[4][5][6][7] / psych-ward insurance fraud[8][9] / etc.) that have occurred frequently in the United States in recent memory. I'd love any help anyone could provide, sourcing especially would be greatly appreciated.

You can find my Kiswahili Wikipedia User page here. I’ll add one for French soon as well.

Why I'm Here

I'm a student of every school my brain can get the slightest grasp on. I've been using Wikipedia for years, and by God has it saved me more times than I'm willing to admit. I owe an astonishing amount to this site, and I see this as my way of paying it forward. You can find me all across Wikipedia, but you'll find I'll be the most help assisting in topics related to current events, culture, history, anthropology, theology, geography, demography, sociology, psychology, environmental science, linguistics, politics, economics, ethnography, and earth science. I'll also occasionally add links and do fixes to a number of random articles at once, Link bridging and clean ups aren't usually followed by substantive additions to the article, but please let me know if I came across one and you'd like help with it.

One of my greatest blessings is an ability to quickly reason out the fundamental links between different sources of information within or between any number of topics, so long as I have a reasonable base understanding of the material; you hand me 2 sources, I'll give you 25. One of my principle goals in assisting with this project is to increase the access of all people to scholarship which I feel is needlessly restricted or hidden in the interests of profit, threatening the access of all to our species' knowledge on that topic in the future. Learning to find information on your own is a valuable skill, but I think we delude ourselves in thinking that anyone can garner that skill without first having learned where they need to look.[10][11]

Notice on politics and political bias

This page is not political, and I make a great effort to limit my bias in the pages I create or make additions to. My personal morality affects the perspective through which I look at an issue, but I'm not allegiant to any party or interest group, and I don't appreciate any accusations thereof. I believe that life and existence is suffering and the only way that we face that is if we make a real, genuine effort to love, respect, and care for everyone, regardless of who they are, what they believe, where they come from, how much wealth they have, or what mistakes they've made. In the realm of cosmic statistics, you are infinitely unique, but you could have been anyone, in any position. The fact that you aren't doesn't earn you any additional respect, right, or worth. That doesn't make everyone worthless, though. It makes everyone's life infinitely more meaningful. The only people that are truly irredeemable in life are those who never learn that ultimately, at some point, they should feel some sense of responsibility towards someone other than themselves. I don't mean this as an attack on anyone or their struggles. You deserve sympathy for them as much as anyone else. But that's exactly my point. You deserve sympathy for those struggles as much as anyone else.

I really will try to include all sides interests in the conversation. I say this because I tend to make very large and expansive edits at once. However, accurately representing all sides doesn't always leave an issue looking neutral. That isn't my fault, but if you feel that I've grossly misrepresented a conversation, please let me know. I will be happy to make additions if you yourself don't feel comfortable making edits outside of user-spaces, but I ask for reputable references that support those claims in advance.

Feel free to take a look around my profile. If there any groups you think I could be of assistance to, by all means let me know. Otherwise, my best wishes to all of you and hopes for the safety and well-being of you and your loved ones.

Let us hope not for a better world, but for better people within it. – Unknown

CSGinger14 (talk) 00:57, 11 May 2025 (UTC)

If You Need Assistance

If there's anything you'd like my assistance with, please leave it in my talk page, truly I'd love to help with anything that sparks your interest, so long as you can provide me with some beginners resources to start with. If you're a new user, don't worry about making the referencing perfect in source editor. My advice would be to use your own user page to craft an automatic or manual reference, then copy paste the information it generates for it in source editor into the talk page editing interface.

Guidelines and essays you'll see me frequently refer to

Principles I advocate (If you're still here this is the part you should read)

This will get a bit rude at times, I'll admit. But honestly I don't think that matters. I think the most critical belief I could express is that if you are more concerned with maintaining or having others maintain a polite image in the public sphere than with resisting the harm perpetuated by systemic issues present within the community, I do not believe than you are truly on the side of the movement you claim to be supporting. There is a fundamental difference between incivility and genuine communicative harm, and I firmly believe that this community is far too focused on pressing the former as its guiding example of worst practice.

  • Read discussions! This is not a job! There is nothing here that you are urgently pressed to attend to. Even if it's WP:COURTEOUS, other users are under no obligation to shorten their writing if it's necessary to express the nuance of their position. If you are interested enough in advocating your position somewhere to step in, especially if its to promote removal of someone else's content or **** on someone else's position without relevant explanation, you have a responsibility to engage fully, meaningfully, and sincerely with them thereafter. Your right to not be bothered does not outweigh the right of others to have their voices heard.
  • WP:PRESERVE / WP:CAUTIOUS / and WP:BUREAUCRACY: These aren't actually principles, they're site guidelines, but they're among the ones most commonly ignored by the more zealous page patrollers - if you don't rush to revise as many pages as you can in as short a time frame as possible, you open up the possibility of preserving a majority of the content deleted in a given day. The trade off is that somebody might get away with a WP:COATRACK for a few hours, or worse, an article might get created and left up for more than a day and a half on someone who's debatably WP:Run-of-the-mill. No need to ever consider the potential long-term ramifications of your actions. Focus on things being perfect right now, otherwise we might get something wrong on a page and engulf ourselves in a scandal from which our site of 7 million individual articles may never recover.
  • You and the 10 guys who happened to be around in the 24 hours before an article or discussion was WP:SNOWBALLED are not representative of global consensus. Global consensus is achieved when a months-long discussion draws in the input of hundreds of editors. I firmly believe that a vast proportion of non-article talk pages are dominated by deletionists, and many mainspace talks as well; thus I think it's unlikely you'll ever get a fair shake unless it's a long, drawn-out, and highly publicized discussion. This isn't to say that the silent majority is always in favor of inclusion. It is to say, though, that those advocating deletion of content benefit from already being in the room.
  • I do not appreciate condescension, and I've found that it's widespread here on the website. If you aren't willing to recognize that someone might not share your personal viewpoint on Wikipedia:Consensus, then you shouldn't be engaging in discussion at all, especially not if you're going to treat them like an irremediable fool for that fact. I imagine that's something that many of those I've clashed with in discussion would say about me. My response is: Say it to my face or don't bother. I'm not here to compete in a public relations contest. I consider it an act of disrespect to impede my or anyone else's work on the website not by challenging them on legitimate policy grounds, but by doing so incorrectly and thereafter refusing to acknowledge it, even condescendingly so, while maintaining an air of politeness that's equally condescending, turning a policy discussion into a question of whether or not their feelings were hurt, ultimately deciding the policy question for some reason as well. In such cases, I don't really feel the need to devote the entirety of my attention to ensuring that you feel better, especially when you make it very clear in neutral prose that you couldn't give less of a **** about how your actions affect me.
    • Read in full the policies you harass people with, you have been explicitly told not to act as a bureaucrat and you've chosen to do so anyway. You better have a damn good reason for it. Wisdom and experience are not adequate qualifiers, especially given the fact that edit counts and the amount of time one has been on the site are not in any way accurate or meaningful reflections of the quality of their contributions or their net impact, especially when considering indistinct factors such as scaring away newcomers, actively assisting in abuse by any entity through the omission of critically relevant information on them from the public mainspace (especially if the WP:UNDO had nothing to do with that slice of content, but rather the editor simply being incapable of taking the time to revise it separately), or even the combination of these two factors to prevent information that was at risk of being erased from existence entirely from ever being recorded ahead of time, because you couldn't be bothered to treat the newbies with respect
  • If you agree with me on this stuff go be loud about it somewhere. I'm tired of nothing ever getting done about this and everyone who calls it out individually being WP:GASLIT into thinking they're in the wrong. Many a potential long-term editor has been lost to a WP:BLUDGEON charge; we are not at war, and there is a fundamental difference between something that is rude and something that is hateful. Hatefulness is unacceptable, limited rudeness is a sometimes natural response to the behavior of those who know how to put on a good face to get what they want, even when it unfairly undermines and demeans others in the community whose hotheadedness can be easily exploited. That should not become the focus of the matter automatically, by design, when that can easily be used as a strategy to sway and determine policy outcomes. There is room for people to face harsh language and be grown ups about it. I don't think being a bit of a d*ck in limited instances outweighs consistent, careless, passive perpetuation of harm through one's actions while simultaneously presenting oneself as a picture of harmony, nicety, and grace. That often leads us to allow an extremely broad interpretation of WP:CIVILITY to take precedence over WP:REASON.

CSGinger14 (talk) 11:31, 24 July 2026 (UTC)

Subpages and drafts / essays

Outstanding tasks

Current work / tasks I'm waiting to hear back on

On list / when time | energy allows

Things I've noticed need to be done but wouldn't be able to get to for a while (Outside editors should inquire, I'd be happy to help find sourcing)

Long-term goals

Languages I'm considering learning

Please leave any published resources you've found useful if you know of them! Thanks in advance! Listed in order of how likely it is that I learn them

  1. Spanish
  2. Lingala
  3. Hausa
  4. Hindi/Urdu
  5. Bahasa Indonesia
  6. Burmese
  7. Turkish
  8. Persian
  9. Thai
  10. Kinyarwanda/Kirundi

Book Recommendations

I've compiled some of the books I've enjoyed / gotten the most out of thus far in life. This is not an endorsement of the views expressed in these books, simply a recognition that they provide a thought provoking view on the world or the people within it. I'll add more as time goes on, I remember the things I've read, or I finally go back and look through my library. I recommend that you only read the first paragraph or so of the linked articles. Don't spoil the endings, the context can wait, enjoy the content.

Fiction Recommendations:
(15+)
(All Ages / K-12 Instructional Reading)
Non-Fiction Recommendations (15+) (Main Focus - Human Geography / Sociology / Theology)

For anyone who comes along who is under the age of 16, I'd caution you that some of the topics discussed in these books can be quite upsetting and difficult to process and properly contextualize without the guidance or support of an adult. It is no less important that you learn about them, but I recommend taking it gradually alongside discussion with a parent or teacher. It's important to understand that these works raise questions that humans have grappled with for millennia. You are shared by billions in that struggle, and having care for those who were forced to suffer during their lifetimes, and more importantly those who still are, shows your capacity to love beyond yourself and that which pertains to yourself, which is an immeasurably important aspect of character to possess. No one person is expected to fix the world or the people in it on their own.

Young Adult / Pre-Teen (10-14) Education Non-Fiction Recommendations

For teachers / parents that view this page, I'm leaving a few resources with recommendations for history / science books that your students / kids might find engaging. They're a tad bit outdated, though for discussions of general history I suppose that doesn't really matter within a span of 20 years or so. Let me know if there are any others you've found helpful and I'll leave them below. Sharing these resources and providing students access to resources that truly interest them and immerse them in the material is how we ensure that the next generation actually moves forward, not back. Feel free to leave your own recommendations if you have them.

Questions to ponder

Tree with red apples in Barkedal, Lysekil Municipality, Sweden
  • If a tree falls in the forest, something always records its fall. It may not be heard, but we know that something is different. We see that tree as inhabiting a different state than a tree that's upright. It may die, it may live, either way, we consider it changed in some way. Arguably, it has changed. The ground around it is uprooted. The roots themselves are exposed. The dark, saturated earth beneath is seeing the sun for its first time in decades. Unfortunate plants and creatures may have been crushed in its path. Regardless, if it lives, the tree hasn't changed in any way that's really all that more meaningful than the slow, steady growth of its roots, leaves, and branches. Certainly it’s a more jarring transition, but who's to say it doesn't nonetheless accomplish its ends? The question, thus, has nothing to do with whether or not a tree falls in the forest. It's this one: Why do we know it fell? - 9 June 2025
The Golden Rule in world religions
  • "As a basic tenet, we have a responsibility to do well by others if we feel the same is due to us. If reason prevents us from accepting any objective moral principle, then that alone stands as a virtue that we have a real interest in following, even if only for our own benefit. In pursuing that benefit (and I'd hope, more broadly, in pursuing that benefit for others), you have an obligation to work to understand how others' circumstances, their perceptions, and their experience influence their conceptions of the world around them. The more power that you or your movement accrue, the more actual power you have to influence or decide those peoples' lives. You were not entrusted with that responsibility with abandon... - User:CSGinger14/Question to ponder 10 June 2025

Publishing companies that are particularly egregious

Am making a list of these to recommend to anyone writing a book or performing larger referencing purchases for Wikipedia, book companies that they might want to avoid if they're concerned about academic accessibility. Works published by these companies have been unnecessarily restricted from research databases that provide access to educational and philanthropic institutions.

Contributions (Please notify me before removing major edits)

Major contributions to pages as of April 2025 (Reads Bottom to Top). Personal contributions over 1,000 characters marked by *, over 2,000 by **, over 10,000 by ***, over 20,000 by ^:

Added = 95% - all of the additions my own

New Section = Information on topic mainly present prior to additions, new sections/headers simply created alongside additions

Heading = Additions to existing section

^ Verified accuracy of all 'headings' in "Contributions": No

Note*: Do not take this as gospel, the three bold sentences above are an effort to clarify the nature of my edits. Check the history of edits before assuming attributions. Additionally, this is a rough wager based on my memory, it is not verified accurate until I mark it so. For anyone for whom this is needed, this is not WP:OWN. Please do not think this is WP:OWN. If you assume nonetheless that it is WP:OWN, it is because you have not looked closely enough into the other commentary made available on this user page that would explain how and why it is not WP:OWN. I am just trying to facilitate communication between editors to ensure that pages are kept accurate and reliable. The point is, if you make this information available, it makes it easier for someone who wishes to add commentary on similar or additional issues to request it be done, to understand the nature of a users' edits without being forced to waste a significant amount of time doing broad review, or request commentary on pages they've created or edits they've performed of similar scholarship/specialty. For context, I only include new articles I've worked on in each section, old articles I consider maintenance / a pre-existing project.

July 2026

  1. Created: Science Bob** - Saw him on Kimmel and thought he had a sweet mission. Figured it might give him a leg up if he ever has to go grovel in front of a congressman or a network producer.

June 2026

  1. 24-hour news cycle*** - Moderate expansion, will update on this when it's finished (Headings: History [Added: Cultural Origins / CNN and the advent of cable television] / Critical assesment / Added: Psychological and societal effects)

May 2026

  1. Arabian Sea^^^^ - This has been a fun one. 2026 Wikipedia Core Contest Entry. (Added: A lot)

March 2026

  1. SubTropolis** - Added / expanded several sections, made corrections where needed. Nominated for GA status 5 April 2026 (New Section: [Origins] / Heading: [History] / Added: [Operations])
  2. Benjamin Duhamel** (Fr-Eng Translation)
  3. Femtogo*** (Fr-Eng Translation)
  4. Michel-Édouard Leclerc*** (Fr-Eng Translation) - Decided to do some translations to work on French
  5. (39436) 2162 T-3** (Fr-Eng Translation) - This had been sitting in my translations in progress for a while. If anyone wants to take the time to do the infobox it would be appreciated
  6. Kristi Noem* - Added summary of firing and its cause (New section: Senate hearings and ousting (since changed))

December 2025

May 2025

April 2025

Anyone who comes along and is interested in assisting me with some of these pages, please let me know. If you have sourcing for anything or would like help finding sourcing, please feel free to leave a message in my talk page. 

You should never not be thankful that someone's gone and proven you wrong
  1. ^ Swenson, Kyle; Morse, Dan; Weil, Martin; Gathright, Jenny; Silverman, Ellie; Clement, Scott; Guskin, Emily (2025-05-12). "After two years of increases, homelessness drops 9 percent in D.C." The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2025-05-12.
  2. ^ "DC moves quickly to clear out homeless encampments, connect displaced with services". WTOP News. 2025-03-08. Retrieved 2025-05-12.
  3. ^ Segraves, Mark; Reporter, News4; Valencia, Juliana; Reporter • •, News4 (2025-03-06). "DC gives some homeless camp residents 1 day to leave after Trump orders removal". NBC4 Washington. Retrieved 2025-05-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ "The wilderness 'therapy' that teens say feels like abuse: 'You are on guard at all times'". The Guardian. 2022-11-14. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2025-05-12.
  5. ^ "I survived a wilderness camp: 'It's not necessary to break a person's will'". The Guardian. 2022-11-15. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2025-05-12.
  6. ^ "The Troubled Teen Industry and Its Effects: An Oral History". Inquiry Journal. 2022-04-01. Retrieved 2025-05-12.
  7. ^ "Five Facts About the Troubled Teen Industry". www.americanbar.org. Retrieved 2025-05-12.
  8. ^ Silver-Greenberg, Jessica; Thomas, Katie (2024-09-01). "How a Leading Chain of Psychiatric Hospitals Traps Patients". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-05-12.
  9. ^ Silver-Greenberg, Jessica; Thomas, Katie (2024-10-18). "Veterans Dept. Investigating Acadia Healthcare for Insurance Fraud". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-05-12.
  10. ^ Ellis, Danika (2021-06-16). "It's Not Enough To Educate Yourself as an Ally. You Also Have To Teach". BOOK RIOT. Retrieved 2025-05-11.
  11. ^ I should note that I am not recommending* the use of libgen.li or sci-hub to access internationally published texts or research, as they provide free versions of otherwise copyrighted or paywalled materials which is illegal under American and international copyright law. The use of university or public resources (computers / wifi / software) to access these publications may be considered a civil or criminal offense in your jurisdiction, and thus I cannot recommend the use of these websites.
  12. ^ Carson, Rachel (1962). "Silent Spring" (PDF). Food and Agricultural Organization.
  13. ^ "Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.]". www.africa.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2025-05-23.
  14. ^ Hafez, N.; Ling, P. M. (2005-08-14). "How Philip Morris built Marlboro into a global brand for young adults: implications for international tobacco control". Tobacco Control. 14 (4): 262–271. doi:10.1136/tc.2005.011189. ISSN 1468-3318. PMC 1748078. PMID 16046690.
  15. ^ "Promotions on Newport and Marlboro Cigarette Packages: A National Study". COME BACK TO THIS CAUSE YOU HAD TO DO THIS MANUALLY AND YOU WERE TOO LAZY TO DO IT RIGHT IN THE MOMENT. 2016-09-09.
  16. ^ DeCicca, Philip; Kenkel, Donald; Liu, Feng; Somerville, Jason (2022-09-01). "Quantifying brand loyalty: Evidence from the cigarette market". Journal of Health Economics. 79: 102512. doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2021.102512. ISSN 1879-1646. PMC 8449822. PMID 34428632 – via PMC.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: article number as page number (link)
  17. ^ "A Maryland town backed Trump's cost-cutting pledge. Now it's a target". NPR. Retrieved 2025-05-06.
  18. ^ "Germany's Merz elected chancellor in second round vote". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 2025-05-06.
  19. ^ "Friedrich Merz wins on second ballot to become Germany's chancellor, hours after his historic defeat". AP News. 2025-05-06. Retrieved 2025-05-06.
  20. ^ "Merz fails to be elected Germany's chancellor in first parliament vote". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 2025-05-06.

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