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Sorry, I forgot to add a statement of my intentions -- may I please beg extenuation due to holiday-itis?
Wikipedia is a wonderfully collegial place, I am continually delighted by the success of the project. I stay out of edit wars, repairing only overt vandalism, and work quietly on my interests of art and geography. Stubs? Not many -- only in the heat of creeping tangentialism. Follow-up is usually swift as I have access to many online databases and foreign language sources and can synthesize (not merely rewrite or paraphrase) rapidly.
I have joined many other Wikipedians by making a financial donation to the project. Days when the system is out or partially down are tiresome days for me. The power of other's fully-developed work in wiki hyperlinks deeply enriches the experience of writing articles.
Lately I have been recruiting volunteer photographers worldwide. They understand the project terms, and are eager to cooperate. Most are professionals and know the rules of image rights and permissions, as do I from my day job as a researcher for a Fortune 10 firm. My goal is to illustrate the articles requesting images as well as my own articles on sculptors, painters and geography. Yes I know that the project is "not a collection of images" but do not worry, I am using balance and discretion on this side project.
I am requesting adminship so that I may chiefly clean up my own messes - for instance, expunging misnamed, malformed, or incorrectly cited or hastily "righted" images (to coin a barbarous phrase). But also to aid in protecting the project which I have the highest ideals for.
Everyday, as I talk or write to historians, archivists, curators and artists and researchers, I spread the word about the project.
You can count on me to use adminship sparingly, rationally and collegially.
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Sorry, I forgot to add a statement of my intentions -- may I please beg extenuation due to holiday-itis?
Wikipedia is a wonderfully collegial place, I am continually delighted by the success of the project. I stay out of edit wars, repairing only overt vandalism, and work quietly on my interests of art and geography. Stubs? Not many -- only in the heat of creeping tangentialism. Follow-up is usually swift as I have access to many online databases and foreign language sources and can synthesize (not merely rewrite or paraphrase) rapidly.
I have joined many other Wikipedians by making a financial donation to the project. Days when the system is out or partially down are tiresome days for me. The power of other's fully-developed work in wiki hyperlinks deeply enriches the experience of writing articles.
Lately I have been recruiting volunteer photographers worldwide. They understand the project terms, and are eager to cooperate. Most are professionals and know the rules of image rights and permissions, as do I from my day job as a researcher for a Fortune 10 firm. My goal is to illustrate the articles requesting images as well as my own articles on sculptors, painters and geography. Yes I know that the project is "not a collection of images" but do not worry, I am using balance and discretion on this side project.
I am requesting adminship so that I may chiefly clean up my own messes - for instance, expunging misnamed, malformed, or incorrectly cited or hastily "righted" images (to coin a barbarous phrase). But also to aid in protecting the project which I have the highest ideals for.
Everyday, as I talk or write to historians, archivists, curators and artists and researchers, I spread the word about the project.
You can count on me to use adminship sparingly, rationally and collegially.