User:POVbrigand

I am not a native english speaker. I am not a native speaker of German either. I am not very versed in using wikipedia's tools. To give you an idea of how I work: I still code static HTML with an editor.

with my username "POVbrigand" I express my intent to adhere to NPOV and fight POV.

I had an old account that I barely used. I made only a handful of edits with it in 2009 and only 3 edits since then. It has been retired. I abandoned it because I use the same handle on many different internet stuff.

I have never used it parallel to my current account. It was abandoned before I started editing with my current account. The old account was a harmless, wikignome account. It had accumulated merely 1 page of edit history since mid 2004.

I have disclosed that account to Arbcom. "The older account was disclosed to ArbCom last year. There's no time overlap (ie the older account was abandoned several weeks before POVbrigand started editing); there are no overlapping article edits; and the previous account's block log is clean." User_talk:POVbrigand#Other_account

As mentioned above I have no intent to push POV on Cold Fusion. I am experienced enough with wikipedia that I fully understand that: 1) pushing POV won't work , 2) there is a world outside WP , 3) as soon as I turn my back, my precious work will be re-edited into oblivion. That is WP, I know that from experience and it doesn't bother me.

But while I am here I want to get some work done. I noticed that the article is in pretty bad form.

• it doesn't have a good structure
• it doesn't read well
• there are some flaws like references from 1989 to support a comment on events from 2010. That doesn't make sense, does it ?
• it could improve here and there on NPOV
• there is a reference nightmare (WP:CITEKILL)

That is no wonder, because cold fusion polarizes. And the result is a minced meat of an article.

What is fascinating for me is the sociological part of the Cold Fusion situation. Why is it so polarizing ?