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:
Nonprofit organizations - Finance & accounting - Middle East affairs - Political figures - Religious leaders
Stating the Obvious:
Most people die - Good is better than bad - Racism is wrong - No one is perfect - You cannot please everyone - Prisons suck
Helpful Editors:
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:
Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard
/info/en/?search=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 organization Wikipedia: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:Requests for comment
Wikipedia:Reliable sources#Self-published and questionable sources as sources on themselves
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
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
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:
Nonprofit organizations - Finance & accounting - Middle East affairs - Political figures - Religious leaders
Stating the Obvious:
Most people die - Good is better than bad - Racism is wrong - No one is perfect - You cannot please everyone - Prisons suck
Helpful Editors:
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:
Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard
/info/en/?search=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 organization Wikipedia: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:Requests for comment
Wikipedia:Reliable sources#Self-published and questionable sources as sources on themselves
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
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