I design user interfaces for web applications by day, and I am an infrequent and occasional user at best. My personal experience as an editor to date has not been very encouraging. The article on Tyler Turkle that I helped edit has been deleted, the primary editorial criticism being that he is not notable enough. Perhaps in the future I will gather more citations and repost this article. In the meantime, a few words about a fictional hero...

Starting out on the biography of my hero, Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov, I find myself in some perplexity. Namely, that while I do call Alexei Fyodorovich my hero, still, I myself know that he is by no means a great man, so that I can foresee the inevitable questions, such as: What is notable about your Alexei Fyodorovich that you should choose him for your hero? What has he really done? To whom is he known, and for what? Why should I, the reader, spend my time studying the facts of his life?