| This user has been on Misplaced Pages for 19 years and 1 day. |
i've been editing Wikipdia for a fairly long time, and my work has been mainly taken up with creating and improving Wine, Thailand, Worcestershire articles, and more recently, getting the county project up and running. Knowing that my research is fairly thorough, and that I'm able to write reasonably neutral prose, I had never really considered nominating anything for Good Article. The Malvern article because of its brilliant teamwork, was to be the exception, and it taught me that good, friendly, and motivated collaboration can turn almost any article into a potential GA, or even FA candidate. Although I spend quite a bit of time (in bursts) on the Misplaced Pages, my article space edit count is very low because:
- I concentrate on providing content and references for articles.
- I prepare my work and new creations in my sandbox before posting to article space.
- I spend a lot of time discussing improvements with other editors.
- Wherever possible, I group my edits to avoid cluttering edit history logs.
- I don't use automated tools to make thousands of changes per day without at least reading the offending articles.
- I don't believe high edit counts, bloated self-prommotion, and arrogance, are qualifications for barnstars or adminship.
- I believe untidy, immature, and messy user pages, especially of admins, are a sign of untidy, immature, and messy minds.
- I don't go out of my way to find fault and revert good faith editing errors - I put friendly comments on talk pages instead.
- I don't get involved in edit wars, especially when they are started by admins.
- I stay reasonably civil at most times, even in cases of condescending and WP:BITE behaviour by by admins.
- I know for a fact that some admins misuse their powers, but I know better than to argue with them.
- I don't waste my breath on adolescent admins who treat every mature, experienced editor like a newbie.
- WP:ANI almost always concludes in the favour of admins and self-appointed Misplaced Pages policemen.
I was once asked why I don't submit a WP:RfA. The answer was for all the reasons above.
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