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Hi, I'm Axl Matulić. How does one define oneself? I'm reminded of the episode in Babylon 5, "Comes the Inquisitor," in which a Vorlon inquisitor is never satisfied with Delenn's answers to his repeated question "Who are you?" Well....
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Background
I'm a scientist who has worked as an engineer for the past 25 (approx) years, mostly in the field of stealth technology. I don't contribute much to stealth topics on Wikipedia except to correct minor misconceptions written by those not versed in the field. Independently, on my own, I spent a year or so studying religions of the world and biology. Along the way I also got an MBA degree in addition to my B.S. in Physics.
I enjoy anime, role-playing games, educational topics, and especially travel. I'm American, but my mother is German, my father is Croatian, my spouse is Singaporean. I have traveled all over Europe and Eastern Europe, also Canada and Mexico, as well as Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and Southeast Asia (particularly Singapore as well as Malaysia and Thailand). I must say Croatia is one of the more beautiful countries I have ever seen, and Stockholm and Dubrovnik are the most beautiful cities I have visited. Unfortunately I have never set foot south of the equator (Singapore is the closest I've come), and hope to do that someday.
I also enjoy wine. Read my profile on the Wikipedia wine project.
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Third opinions
I enjoy offering third opinions in disputes between two editors who have reached an impasse. There's something satisfying about coming to an article I have no opinion about, studying the edit history and talk page discussion, and offering a neutral disinterested viewpoint in an attempt to resolve the dispute. I think the Wikipedia:Third opinion page is a great vehicle for dispute resolution, and more people should use it and participate. My third opinions:
- 2006
- 2006-10-26 Talk:Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen#Third opinion
- 2006-10-29 Talk:Augustus John#Vandalism
- 2006-10-30 Talk:Black Entertainment Television/Archive 1#Criticism Section
- 2006-11-03 Talk:Barbara Pierce Bush#Third opinion and Talk:Jenna Bush/Archive1#Third opinion
- 2006-11-07 Talk:ZDaemon#Clan activity
- 2006-11-08 Talk:Prophet (disambiguation)#Third opinion
- 2006-11-09 Wikipedia talk:Notability (web)/Archive 7#Suggestion Requested
- 2006-11-09 Talk:Tadeusz Kantor#Third opinion
- 2006-11-10 Talk:Singapore passport/Archive 1#Third opinion
- 2006-11-10 User talk:Fivetrees#Third opinion
- 2006-11-13 Talk:Fork in the road#Image removal
- 2006-11-15 Talk:Mike Mendoza#Third opinion
- 2006-11-16 Talk:Seven Bridges of Königsberg#Variations, Present state sections
- 2006-11-16 Talk:Muhammad al-Durrah/Archive 1#NPOV - responding to solicited help on lead and talk page discussion
- 2006-12-01 Talk:John Adams/Archive 1#Third opinion
- 2006-12-01 Talk:The Wedge (Australian TV series)#TV critics
- 2006-12-19 Talk:List of Adult Swim programs#Samurai Champloo's TV rating
- 2006-12-19 Talk:Herbert W. Armstrong/Archive 1#Third opinion - exhaustingly detailed opinion
- 2006-12-20 Talk:Benjamin Cohen#Disambiguation dispute
- 2006-12-22 User talk:Golich17 and User talk:Mlaroche opinion about capitalization guidelines in Wikipedia:Manual of style.
- 2006-12-27 Talk:The Indian Institute of Planning and Management/Archive 8#Third opinion
- 2007
- 2007-01-10 Talk:List of Avatar: The Last Airbender characters#Minor characters
- 2007-02-07 Talk:Joe Scarborough/Archive 02#The Aide
- 2007-04-23 Talk:Shadow people#Archives0#Images
- 2007-04-23 Talk:William M. Gray/Archive 1#WP:RS and WP:V with respect to the purportedly declined bet
- 2007-04-23 Talk:Video journalism#Third opinion
- 2007-04-25 User talk:Awiseman opinion (wrong, in hindsight) on removing anonymous IP talk page comments
- 2007-04-26 Talk:Jenna Haze#External links
- 2007-05-03 Talk:Teslascope#Deleted Further Reading
- 2007-05-14 Talk:Street light interference/Archive 1#Comments on new additions
- 2007-05-22 Talk:PSI Seminars#Third Opinion
- 2007-05-22 Talk:Census of Quirinius/Archive1#A Solution
- 2007-05-22 Talk:Elvira Arellano/Archive 2#Anchor Baby/Illegal Immigrants
- 2007-05-22 User talk:Reddi discussion on vague third opinion request
- 2007-05-30 Talk:Egyptians/Archive 2#Third opinion
- 2007-05-30 Talk:Alice Bailey/Archive 1#Third opinion
- 2007-05-30 Talk:Subtlety#Entremet as main entry (for now)
- 2007-06-05 Talk:Pro-pedophile activism/Archive 14#Third opinion
- 2007-06-06 Talk:The Ocean Hunter#Deletion of useful, relevant, and interesting information
- 2007-07-16 Talk:American Biographical Institute/Archive_1#A_new_reading
- 2007-08-02 Talk:Male pregnancy#Winston's speculation section
- 2007-08-02 Talk:Sicko/Archive 2#Third opinion
- 2007-08-14 Talk:Microformat/Archive 1#removal of the critique section of the article
- 2007-08-14 Talk:Monteverde#BANK RAID, 2005
- 2007-11-08 Talk:Toontown Online#Lack of Objectivity
- 2007-11-08 Talk:Bernhard Goetz#References should be main priority, not trivia
- 2007-11-08 Talk:Fernando Collor de Mello/Archive 3#WP:RS Third Opinion
- 2007-11-08 Talk:Nur Ali Elahi/Archive 1#Third opinion
- 2008
- 2008-02-12 Talk:Evolutionary approaches to depression#Concerns
- 2008-02-14 Talk:Rennie Davis#Category and template (quickest resolution ever)
- 2008-02-20 Talk:Second Amendment to the United States Constitution/Archive 7#POV tag
- 2008-02-21 Talk:American Leadership Project#Reasoning
- 2008-02-21 Talk:Ukrainians#Ukrainians vs. Sitizens of Ukraine
- 2008-02-26 Talk:Barack Obama presidential primary campaign, 2008/Archive 1#Third opinion - edit warring
- 2008-02-26 Talk:Barack Obama presidential primary campaign, 2008/Archive 1#Martin Text
- 2008-02-26 Talk:Mpemba effect/Archives/ 1#Scalar functionality
- 2008-03-24 Talk:WebCT#Page protected
- 2008-03-24 Talk:Mpemba effect/Archives/ 1#Recent view of the Mpemba effect
- 2008-03-28 Talk:Empire of Iuz#Context tag
- 2008-05-20 Talk:Albert Einstein/Archive 14#Bloomsbury Auctions link
- 2008-05-20 Talk:Jawaharlal Nehru/Archive 3#Coco Islands
- 2008-05-21 Talk:Rangers Strike#lists
- 2008-05-23 Talk:William Gaillard#Third opinion discussion
- 2008-05-23 Talk:Ted Kennedy/Archive 8#Prognosis?
- 2008-05-30 Talk:List of Tokyo Mew Mew characters/Archive 1#Images
- 2008-05-30 Talk:Webby Awards#Fourth opinions
- 2008-05-30 Talk:List of twelve-step groups/Archive 1#PornAddicts Anonymous
- 2008-06-24 User talk:Jetstream Rider opinion concerning Talk:Common misconceptions#Aerodynamic lift
- 2008-07-04 Talk:Tautology (rhetoric)#Constantly Deleted Pop Culture Quote
- 2008-07-25 Talk:Mousesports#Fate of the page
- 2008-07-31 Talk:tmpfile#Third opinion
- 2008-08-11 Talk:Noise (music)/Archive 1#Additonal uncited material
- 2008-08-11 Talk:Taser#Excited delirium as safety issue
- 2008-09-23 Talk:Reports of organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China/Archive2#Proposed merger with Organ harvesting in the People's Republic of China
- 2008-09-25 Talk:Peter Hallward#Blog exchange
- 2008-12-28 Talk:Walt_Disney_World_Monorail_System#Narration_section
- 2009
- 2009-01-07 Talk:Somalia/Archive 2#Era Notation
- 2009-01-10 Talk:Human rights in the United States/Archive 8#Waterboarding
- 2009-01-10 Talk:Evgenia Diordiychuk (I recommended deletion; article deleted; see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Evgenia Diordiychuk)
- 2009-01-30 Talk:One Foot in the Grave#This article deserves a geolink
- 2009-05-20 Talk:Brooklyn Law School#Rankings Controversy
- 2009-06-10 Talk:United States presidential election in California, 2008#Current Conflict over Format
- 2009-06-10 Talk:New England School of Law#Third Opinion
- 2009-06-10 Talk:West Herzegovina Canton#Infobox symbols
- 2009-06-10 Talk:IPhone/Archive 15#Call For Criticisms
- 2009-06-17 Wikipedia_talk:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes#"Television series broadcast nationally by a major network or produced by a major studio are notable."
- 2009-06-26 Talk:Audrey Tautou#Portrait
- 2009-06-26 Talk:App Store#Generic term?
- 2010
- 2010-02-12 Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (tables)/Archive 1#Moving
- 2010-03-10 Talk:Chesterfield,_Idaho#3rd Party Dispute.
- 2010-03-22 User talk:Walklooker#Third opinion regarding disputed edits on Trusted Computing
- 2010-04-23 Talk:Vitreous enamel#English variations
- 2010-06-11 Talk:Sharron_Angle#WikiProject_Scientology
- 2010-06-17 User_talk:Ivan_Štambuk#Leave the Cyrillic in the OCS page
- 2010-06-17 Talk:Second Amendment to the United States_Constitution/Archive 28#English Section - Possible Compromise — My opinion here marks the first time I am accused of being part of a 'cabal'. Now, where is this 'cabal' and how do I join?
- 2010-07-01 Talk:Declaration of Breda#Comment on terminology — Tough one.
- 2010-07-10 Talk:Michaëlle_Jean#Confederation_of...?
- 2010-07-14 Talk:Non-directional beacon#age and inaccuracy
- 2010-07-20 Talk:General list of masonic Grand Lodges#Linkfarm
- 2010-08-10 Talk:Telepresence#True Telepresence
- 2010-08-11 Talk:United States Senate#"World's Greatest Deliberative Body"
- 2010-09-09 Talk:Dove World Outreach Center#Restoring content
- 2010-09-15 Talk:Ain't and amn't#Split request
- Post-2010
Since becoming an admin in 2010, I noticed the dynamic of a third opinion discussion seems a bit different if you're an admin giving one, and I don't like to seem like I'm any more authoritative than anyone else due to that status, so I stopped participating. Once in a while I'll jump in, though.
- 2011-02-03 Talk:Agha Petros#removing big chunks
- 2011-03-04 Talk:Infantilism#Definition
- 2015-10-26 Talk:Olu_Dara#Third_Opinion
Articles of involvement
- Stevia — improved this article to pass as a Wikipedia:Good article.
- Zinfandel — contributed origins and California regions sections, brought to good article status.
- Chaptalization — attempting to bring to GA status.
- Master of Business Administration — regular contributor.
Articles I started
- Naugahide — my first-ever experimental edit that got merged into Naugahyde
- Sirrah (disambiguation)
- Plavac Mali
- Kastel (disambiguation)
- Advanced Enclosed Mast/Sensor
- Steviol glycoside
- Guy Montag Doe v. San Francisco Housing Authority
- Average Directional Movement Index
- Wine list
- Glider (furniture)
- Wikipedia:Notability (wine topics)
- Crock (disambiguation)
- Enrober
- Funding bias
- Sayyid Baraka
- Up-island spider
- Faux Faulkner contest
- True Strength Index
- Too Tough to Care
- Wilhelm Busch (disambiguation)
- Red Deer Cave people
- Just This Once
- Bitmessage
- Lycopi rhizoma
- Verrückt (disambiguation)
- Clarence N. Hickman
- The Train Is Coming
- ATM: Er Rak Error
My images
I am known as 'anachronist' elsewhere on the net, and on other Wiki projects.
On Commons
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Viognier grapevine
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Zinfandel grapes
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Sangiovese grapes
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Balloon plant detail
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"Karma Sangria", a cultivar of cactus dahlia
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Two bees foraging on a dahlia "party" flower
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Inaccessible section of the Berkeley Pier
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Unusual fortune cookie message
On Wikipedia
- Non-free images
- File:CupNoodle.jpg used in Cup Noodles
- File:Glide floss brands.jpg used in Oral-B Glide
- Free images
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Twin prong cork puller failure
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Jug wine refilling station
Miscellaneous accolades
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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar | |
I salute you for doing the best you can :) Mrpotatohead 2 (talk) 21:35, 5 May 2009 (UTC) |
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | |
Keep up the good work and keep smiling Mrpotatohead 2 (talk) 21:35, 5 May 2009 (UTC) |
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The Third Opinion Award | |
For diligent and faithful service to the Wikipedia community through your work at WP:3O. — TRANSPORTERMAN (TALK) 17:57, 1 March 2010 (UTC) |
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The Barnstar of Diplomacy | |
For contributing to the end of the edit warring on the Muhammad (PBUH) article. Thank you! Xact (talk) 15:11, 22 April 2011 (UTC) |
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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar |
I saw your post on another talk page for a blocked user and was happy to see that person took your advice The.thanker (talk) 01:49, 6 August 2011 (UTC) |
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Hello Amatulic! I hope you enjoy this cookie as an amicable greeting from a fellow Wikipedian, SwisterTwister talk 03:44, 9 September 2011 (UTC) |
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The Barnstar of Diligence |
Thank you Martinkv (talk) 11:22, 28 December 2011 (UTC) |
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The Civility Barnstar |
For helping to prevent edit wars Misconceptions2 (talk) 13:12, 12 March 2012 (UTC) |
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The Special Barnstar |
Thanks for your contributions! SwisterTwister talk 23:03, 18 May 2012 (UTC) |
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The Barnstar of Good Humor |
thanks Kikililly01 (talk) 19:14, 25 January 2013 (UTC) |