Learning, editing and publishing is a useful pursuit. I hope to add value to Wikipedia. I enjoy shortening wordy sentences and reorganizing articles. I enjoy interactions with pleasant editors. I do not like unkindness; this is not X (formerly known as Twitter).

9/26/23 - I just made my thousandth edit!

Topics that I follow:

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Nonprofit organizations - Finance & accounting - Middle East affairs - Political figures - Religious leaders

Stating the Obvious:

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Most people die - Good is better than bad - Racism is wrong - No one is perfect - You cannot please everyone - Prisons suck

Helpful Editors:

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User:DESiegel - helped by removing template message from an article I improved with secondary sources - Student Press Law Center

User:NatGertler - helped by patiently advising me on my talk page regarding punctuation and quotation marks on Wikipedia; Helped with figuring out dead links

My Reference List of WP:

The Teahouse

Wikipedia:List of policies

Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents

Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle

Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard

Wikipedia:List of policies and guidelines

Wikipedia:WikiProject Organizations

Template:Infobox organizationWikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources

Wikipedia:Neutral point of view#Due and undue weight

Wikipedia:Reliable sources#Biased or opinionated sources

Wikipedia:Consensus#Through editing

Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch#Contentious labels

Wikipedia:Assume good faith

Wikipedia:Requests for comment

Wikipedia:NPOV dispute

Wikipedia:Reliable sources#Self-published and questionable sources as sources on themselves

Wikipedia:Verifiability

Wikipedia:Verifiability#Exceptional claims require exceptional sources

Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Reliable sources

Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard - Use of Headlines

Wikipedia:Editing policy#Try to fix problems

Guide to "logical quotation" at MOS:LQ.

Citation Needed In wiki markup, you can question an uncited claim by inserting a simple [citation needed] tag, or a more comprehensive [citation needed]. Alternatively, [citation needed] and [citation needed] will produce the same result. These all display as:

Example: 87% of statistics are made up on the spot.[citation needed]

Ihaveadreamagain 19:53, 8 July 2020 (UTC) testing signature

If a claim in an article is questionable and not supported by a cited reliable source then it may be challenged by anyone. You can put a {{fact}} tag beside it to request a citation. If it is inaccurate information from a dubious source put a {{Verify credibility}} tag on it – or find correct information and reference it from a reliable source. You also may use {{Verify source}} or {{Failed verification}} tags on it, as appropriate. If the tag has remained there for several days, the unsupported claim should be safe to remove.

Things to do

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Wikipedia:Requests for comment/All


"If you see it as your mission to protect article content from anyone who doesn't care about Wikipedia policy, you are a good Wikipedia editor." WP:POVFIGHTER