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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 someone boasts of x thousand edits, I'm immediately worried they won't properly read my comments.
I usually get 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 2 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)
Misplaced Pages is not a... News report
NPOV fork - Covers how side articles should not be created to cover information that cannot find consensus in the main article.
Coatrack - Covers how side issues should not be used to camouflage any biased reasons for a side article’s existence (or continual existence).
Let the facts speak for themselves - Advises against over-description of facts that are already simple, well-covered and conclusive.
Neutrality and Verifiability - Shows how an abundance of passable citations cannot negate certain neutrality issues.
Notability is not temporary - Shows how past importance and/or the possibility of future importance does not amount to Notability.
Assume Good Faith – 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.
Gaming the system - lists how people can use various policies to actually force through their own bias, inc;
Refusal to 'get the point' - ‘Bad faith’ editors who ignore disproven points, repeating their chosen tacks.
Playing policies against each other – Being addressed over a specific policy breach, and retorting with other policy.
Wikilawyering - Putting letter before spirit of law, carefully misinterpreting policy, and using formal terms inappropriately.
Stonewalling – Using gaming tactics to block or hold back something from occurring (consensus, a point being understood, a resolution, an event etc).