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I've been editing Misplaced Pages, off and on, since 2006.
Did you like my edit? If you think I've messed up, give me a shout and I'll further explain my thinking.
WIKIPEDIA
I do my research. I'm not perfect, but I never commit to anything without thinking first whether I know enough to make my point. I use Talk pages as much as I article-edit. I dislike 'edit-count chasers' - they do nothing for quality IMO, and I've seen them create work. Misplaced Pages needs to SLOW DOWN! It will develop twice as fast if it did. When I read someone's made xx thousand edits, I'm immediately worried they won't properly read my comments!
I usually get a little put off by Misplaced Pages to be honest - so if I am making a contribution, it will be more often than not because I am very serious about it.
Misplaced Pages says Be Bold, and usually I am. I can probably lack a few graces sometimes, it's not that I'm strictly impolite. If I've got something to say, and I'm in, I'll say it. I am very logical, but am passionate too.
I like to see the funny side, but my humour can sometimes be a little dry.
ABOUT ME
I am a 37-year-old carer for someone with Alzheimer's Disease, and have developed a stong interest in AD over the last few years. I am also a graphic designer with publishing and copy experience (in prose).
I am a socialist. That seems to mean something a little different in the USA - so if you are American, try not to hold it against me! I am decent, honest, fair and open-minded. I'm Welsh too, by the way.
Matt
(yes, I plumbed for my name.)
PERSONAL NOTES
Coatrack, Core issues, Galloway, Pratchett FA, Alzheimers, Obamas, UK nationality, Respect, Morning Star
WP (not confetti)
WP:No Point of View - Undue Weight (Policy) - Always a good referring point.
WP:No Original Research (Policy)
WP:Misplaced Pages is not a News report (Policy)
WP:POV Fork (Policy) - Covers how side articles should not be created to cover information that cannot find consensus in the main article.
WP:Coatrack (essay) - Covers how side issues should not be used to camouflage any biased reasons for a side article’s existence (or continual existence).
WP:Let the facts speak for themselves (Policy) - Advises against over-description of facts that are already simple, well-covered and conclusive.
WP:Neutrality and Verifiability (Policy) - Shows how an abundance of passable citations cannot negate certain neutrality issues.
WP:Notability is not temporary (Guideline) - Shows how past importance and/or the possibility of future importance does not amount to Notability.
WP:Assume Good Faith (Guideline) - How it shows ‘bad faith’ to negatively read (or misread) semantic, imperfect, miswritten or unclear details in someone’s comment - when it is reasonable to assume a positive meaning. Also - paranoia, and grouping people together.
WP:Don't ba a fanatic - 6 decent points
Gaming/Disruption:
WP:Gaming the system (Guideline) - lists how people can use various policies to actually force through their own bias, inc;
WP:Refusal to 'get the point' (Guideline) - ‘Bad faith’ editors who ignore disproven points, repeating their chosen tacks.
WP:Playing policies against each other (Guideline) – Being addressed over a specific policy breach, and retorting with other policy.
WP:Wikilawyering (Guideline) - Putting letter before spirit of law, carefully misinterpreting policy, and using formal terms inappropriately.
WP:Stonewalling (Guideline) – Using gaming tactics to block or hold back something from occurring (consensus, a point being understood, a resolution, an event etc).