Ben Best This user is proud to be aWikipedian. This user thinks you canlearn a lot byediting anencyclopedia. This user edits on Wikipedia under gender real name. This user has been on Wikipedia for20 years, 9 months and 15 days. This editor is aVeteran Editor and is entitled to display thisIron Editor Star. This user is one of the10000 most active English Wikipedians of all time. 10,000+ This user has madeover10,000 contributions to Wikipedia 67 This user has created 67 of Wikipedia's 7,080,882 articles. 90% Approximately 90% of this user's total edits have been mainspace edits. 1RR This user prefersdiscussing changes on the talk page rather than engaging in anedit war. 59 This user has visited59 of the205countries in theworld. 6 This user has set foot in6continents of the world. This user's time zone isUTC−05:00. This user is abibliophile. This user enjoys readingnon-fiction. This user enjoyswriting. This user has publishedpeer-reviewed articles inacademic journals. This user does notsmoke. C2H5OH-0 This user is anon-drinker. This user isdrug-free. BS This user has aBachelor of Science degree inPharmacy. BS This user has aBachelor of Science degree inPhysics and Computing Science. BA This user has aBachelor of Arts degree inAccounting and Finance. This user is a licensedaircraft pilot. APL This user can program inAPL. Java This user can program inJava. This user knows by heart the first40 digits in the decimal representation ofpi. ${\displaystyle \sum }$ This user isgreater than thesum of his userboxes. This user's entire personality can be summed up in a fewuserboxes. who/what?? This user is unique just like everyone else.

My interests arebiogerontology,cryonics,history,economics, andhealth (among many others). For nine years I was the President of theCryonics Institute, but I now work for theBiomedical Research and Longevity Society.

I use my real nameBen Best forUser:Benbest. I have createdUser:Ben Best as adoppelganger account to prevent someone else from taking it. If I had known better I would have started withUser:Ben Best from the beginning. These names are NOT being used forsockpuppetry or any other nefarious purpose. I have a biography atBen Best (Deleted 9 February 2020), which due to my prominence in thecryonics community I feel I was justified in starting. I have not edited theBen Best entry since June 2006, so as a result of many edits by others it is not in the form I would like it to be. I think there is value in my being able to provide information about myself that others do not have access to, but because other Wikipedians have strong feelings about Wikipedians editing biographies about themselves I have adopted a "hands off" policy toward editing theBen Best entry myself.

I admit that when I first got involved in Wikipedia that there was much self-promotion associated with my contributions. This has diminished considerably -- or perhaps I have done as much self-promotion as I want to do -- and I am increasingly interested in building this wonderful on-line encyclopedia. I believe that Wikipedia will become the greatest encyclopedia ever created and will leave all others in the dust. It is a terrific resource and I love the way everyone can become involved, warts (vandals) and all. I still have selfish motives, but it is usually the selfish satisfaction I get from having done a good job and feeling that I have made a worthwhile contribution to Wikipedia. I get satisfaction from improvements large and small: major re-writes, reverting acts of vandalism and spelling corrections. I have learned to lengthen my fuse when changes are made which anger me, and I think I am becoming better at negotiating with goodwill and avoiding "revert wars". Nonetheless, I still have not figured-out how one becomes aWikipedian involved inThe Wikipedia Community[1].

I have a few contributions inWiktionary, but I feel that this resource has a long way to go. I think it is harder for people to get motivated to create entries for Wiktionary, which is sad. But who has a special interest in words like "increase" and "embark"? I have created a number of new word entries in Wiktionary, but it is a massive undertaking to make that resource comparable to what we have with Wikipedia.

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