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Hello. I am the reincarnation of an editor from the early 2000s Wikipedia. I took a 15 year break from editing to have a career and a family. I didn’t want to revive the old account because it was too personally identifying, so I am born again.
I love Wikipedia and I'm continually astonished at how it persists in providing generally excellent reference material in spite of so many potential pitfalls.
Some goals of mine are:
- Provide original free-licensed images that will help illustrate articles.
- Offer sensible responses to RfCs.
- Do lots of wikignoming.
I also wrote the essay Wikipedia:Wikipedia will exist in the far future.
On presence
My real-world commitments sometimes necessitate me taking wikibreaks at short notice. Particular apologies to my mentees if I take a long time to respond to questions.
On mobile editing
I usually do my reading and editing 5-15 minutes at a time, in random moments of downtime, and nearly always on my phone - on which I prefer to use the desktop vector legacy (2010) setting. Yes, it's very fiddly - but quite doable. More on this subject: User:Cullen328/Smartphone_editing.
You know how you see people at the airport or bus stop waiting in a queue scrolling through social media apps? That's me, but with Wikipedia instead of Twitter.
On administrators
What I expect from administrators:
- Servant leadership.
- High standards of transparency and ethical behaviour.
- Skill in defusing drama.
What I don't expect from administrators:
- Perfection. RfA oppose votes that bring up one dumb thing said years ago are absurd.
- Participation in drama.
On contentious topics
- Tendentious point-scoring through labellingeverything.
- Picking winners between competing POVs of comparable weight.
- Opinion leaking into wikivoice.
- Fish who've spent so long in the water they don't know they're wet.
On self-preservation
“The atheist must have the sense to know that God exists only in the head of true believers, and the wisdom not to say so while in church.”