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Wikipedia editor (n.) Someone who will not leave a burning building until you show them the newspaper article documenting how many people were killed by the fire.
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| This editor is a volunteer, and is willing to write and maintain encyclopedia articles for free. |
| Content contributed by this user is released into the public domain. |
| This user has been a member of Wikipedia since 2007 April 27. |
| This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than ten years. |
| This user has been on Wikipedia for 17 years and 9 days. |
27% | This user has been a Wikipedian for 27.3% of his life. |
| This user believes that a user's edit count does not necessarily reflect on the value of their contributions to Wikipedia. |
Info box | This user believes that all articles should have an infobox. |
{{t|3}} | This user contributes to the template namespace with confidence. |
| This user tries to do the right thing. If he makes a mistake, please let him know. |
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This user is polite and expects others to act accordingly. |
| This user knows that it can be a challenge to keep AGF in mind. |
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This user wants to be your friend. |
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This user realizes one needs to have rhino skin to edit Wikipedia. And it makes them sad. |
| This user is willing to be slapped with a trout, should he need it. |
| Were this user to act in a foolish, trollish, or dickish way, they are open to being slapped with a large trout. |
| In an emergency, this user may be slapped with a trout. |
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This user strives to maintain a policy of neutrality in all articles. |
| This user strives to maintain a policy of neutrality on controversial issues. |
>:( | Vandals dislike this user. |
IP address | This user supports mandatory registration. |
| This user is old enough to remember what a typewriter is, and that's all you need to know. |
| This user remembers how to use a keypunch. |
| This user still remembers these. |
C:\>_ | This user uses DOS, or knows how to use it. |
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This user often uses the command line when operating his computer. |
USage decline | This user uses American English, but is appalled at its rapid and continuing deterioration. |
YOU | This user dies a little inside whenever they see the word you in an article. |
your you're | This user thinks that if your grammar is incorrect, then you're in need of help. |
their there they're | This user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they're worse than their own children at spelling! |
to too two | This user thinks that too many people have no idea how to use words that they should have learned in grade two. |
than then | This user understands the difference between using "than" and "then." |
its | This user understands the difference between its (of it) and it's (it is or it has). |
its & it's | This user understands the difference between its and it's. So should you. |
its it's | It's really not that hard to use each word in its proper manner. |
ain't nobody | This user hates seeing double negatives clutter up the English language. He wants to stomp it out no matter what it takes. |
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This user mourns the apparent death of the adverb, a loss that this user feels most serious. |
Pickyness Pickiness | This user changes the adjective ending "y" to "i" to form nouns with "-ness". |
…in. | Ending a sentence with a preposition is something that this user is okay with. |
who | This user prefers using who for both the object and subject case. Who does it hurt to simplify things? |
’s | Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice. |
’s | This user understands that apostrophe's apostrophes are for possession and contraction, not pluralization. |
, | This user's favorite punctuation is commas, guys, not exclamation points or whatever. |
; | This user knows how to use a semicolon correctly. |
: | This user has a favorite punctuation you might not have: colons. |
"…" | This user favours typewriter style quotation marks over typographic ones. |
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US vs. UK | This user uses "logical quotation marks". Forcing internal punctuation leads to factual errors. It's not a nationalistic style issue! |
10 | This user realizes that there are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who do not. |
ubx-2 | This user is an intermediate user of userboxes. |
| This user provides information using userboxes to contact other Wikipedians with similar interests. |
| This user has a sense of humour and shows it on their userpage. |
| This user has a sense of humour and shows it through the use of userboxes. |
3R | This user believes that you should Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. |
| This user is drug-free. |
| This user does not smoke. |
| This user does not smoke. |
2024-05-06 | This user uses ISO-8601 to express dates. |
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This user is an autodidact in a wide range of subjects that they never took in school or college. |
| This user is interested in science. | |
| This user is interested in physics. |
| This user has a keen interest in physics.
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| This user would like to know what a black hole looks like from inside, but doesn't want to investigate it personally. |
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This user believes the world would be a better place if everyone had access to a quality, free education. |
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This user believes in logic. |
Hanlon's Razor | This user never attributes to malice that which is best explained by stupidity. † |
Grossman Misquote | This user is aware that complex problems have simple, easy to understand wrong answers. |
Majority ≠ right |
This user recognizes that even if 300,000,000 people make the same mistake, it's still a mistake. |
| This user loves deadlines. He loves the whooshing sound they make as they go by. |
| This user thinks Sheldon is hilarious.2 |
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This user has set foot in 1 continents of the world. |
| This user has left the planet Earth 0 times. |
| This user often finds himself in a state of wonder at the vast range of David Bowie's artistic legacy. |
| This user finds the music of Skrillex to be breathtaking, and is glad he lived long enough to hear such things. |
| This user enjoys sampling cuisines from all over the world. |
| This user has eaten Vegemite and is thankfully still alive. |
| This user would likely die without eating the occasional curry. |
| This user loves a good cup of tea. |
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Good day.
I am not an expert in software, programming, astronomy, or any other topic on which I edit or contribute. I make no such claim(s) anywhere that I am aware of. If you find any text that can be (mis)interpreted to seem as if I make any such claim(s), then notify me immediately, and I will alter such text to be far clearer and harder to misinterpret. I am an enthusiastic autodidact, and former part-time newspaper reporter, and low-hour volunteer teacher, who can think, read, write, and edit. That is all. When I make errors, notify me, and I will fix them.
Starting in the late 1990s, for several years, I edited articles on a few open content websites, including Ward Cunningham's original WikiWikiWeb, some webrings on WebRing.com (before and during the Yahoo! years), and then the Open Directory Project (ODP or DMOZ, renamed Curlie in late 2017). Then I discovered Wikipedia, and edited anonymously for a few years before registering a username (if only there were means to get credit for anonymous edits!). On Wikipedia, I pursue mostly WikiGnome-ish activities. Sometimes I do a bit more. I hope that what I have done is of value to more than a few.
Almost all of my work is informed directly by the Wikipedia:Manual of Style (MoS). If I change something in an article, then it is usually backed by some rule, or at least principle, found therein. One could say that mostly I enforce the MoS, but such phrasing sounds too punitive. I prefer to think that I am teaching or educating other editors, while gently weeding and cultivating a garden a bit. If I am feeling a bit testy, than I view myself in a more janitorial role, as cleaning up a mess. On occasion, when grouchy, I encounter work which at first impression, moves me to interpret it as evidence of mental retardation or mild derangement.
Example: Internal Wiki links that are piped with identical text (a pet peeve of mine), of the form:
[[Title words|Title words]]
When I find myself being so uncharitable, I deliberately stop myself, and try to reinterpret the strangeness, perhaps as the effort of someone whose skills in English are vastly superior to my skills in their language. That usually puts me back in my place.