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Country | United States |
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Occupation | Civil Attorney |
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!["A Young Girl Reading", an oil painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard depicting a young girl in a yellow dress sitting reading a book](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Fragonard%2C_The_Reader_crop2.jpg/45px-Fragonard%2C_The_Reader_crop2.jpg) | This editor puts the reader first. |
big words | This user opposes the use of esoteric, abstruse and recondite big words in Wikipedia articles when simple ones will do. |
who | This user prefers using who for both the object and subject case. Who does it hurt to simplify things? |
they | This user frequently uses the singular they for non-named subjects as it is a handy gender-neutral pronoun ("Each student should complete their own homework"), but views it as a clumsy and overly prescriptivist personal pronoun. |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Auguste_Comte.jpg/30px-Auguste_Comte.jpg) | This user believes that sources from social sciences, such as sociology and the critical theories, involve ideas rarely provable as fact, and are therefore usually less reliable than other fields for purposes of Wikipedia. |
Bell Hooks | This user believes that the use of all-lowercase names by intellectuals such as E. E. Cummings and Bell Hooks is awkward, elitist, and worth avoiding on Wikipedia. | bell hooks |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Non_aux_religions.png/45px-Non_aux_religions.png) | This user believes the world would be a happier, safer, and saner place without religion, and that the belief in a benevolent, omnipotent, and omnipresent god is a sign of psychological delusion, which brings the believer's credibility into question without violating the ad hominem fallacy. |
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I'm a long-time user but infrequent Wikipedia editor. I tend to only edit when I see something that can readily confuse the reader or prevent them from obtaining sobered information, including WP:NPOV issues when it comes to information supported by journalistic sources. Journalism is less reliable than ever, and since joining Wikipedia, I've noticed a tendency for those sources to portray information under an ideological or narrative-driven lens as a statement of objective fact, which risks negatively impacting readers' ability to simply gain information.
I am therefore a proponent of maximizing the use of WP:INTEXT whenever possible. Given the precipitous decline in journalism as a source of factual information about the world, I am in favor of a future on Wikipedia in which journalistic sources are presumed generally unreliable until proven otherwise.
I also often fix typos and syntax issues that I stumble upon.
I'm a proud expert on, and contributor to, the Bluebook legal citator!