User:Bobrayner
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Hello!
- Be friendly! Feel free to chat on my talkpage. If you want help with anything, just ask me or ask the helpdesk.
- I rarely touch articles related to my work; If I write something good or bad, blame me, not my employers.
- If you want to see some barnstars and related bling, try here.
Some of the things I'm interested in:
- Updating, cleaning, & adding sourcesto various Africa, economics, industrial, history, & transport articles; especially ones which are lower on the quality ladder.
- Occasionally, I spend a couple of days investigating some long-term subtle vandalism, copyvio, hoaxes, or pov-pushing.
- Cleanup of pseudoscience, alt-med, and other fringe articles; working towards neutral coverage on subjects which often have few mainstream sources. Sometimes I try to do similar work for some of the more controversial bits of human geography in the Balkans, and of Ottoman history, and other areas with persistent neutrality problems - though it can be quite wearing.
- Occasionally, I hang around at places like AN/I, and various other noticeboards.
- Less often, I create new articles; about 280 so far. Some are a bit stubby, alas, as I can never find time to expand them - there are always other articles elsewhere with more pressing problems. FAs&c to other editors.
- Dispute resolution &c: I've previously worked on mediation cabal, though I'm more interested in disputes brought up on other noticeboards and project pages.
Biography, and CSB...
I created an account in 2004. I fancied working on a couple of high-profile articles, but soon found the talkpages awash with epic debates over a single word in the lede,
New editors: Assuming that wikipedia is going to be around for several more years, a large proportion of future content (and improvements to existing content) will be written by people who haven't even edited as of today; and who can guess how many of today's active editors will have got bored (or burnt out) by 2020 or 2030? So, if we want better quality in the long term, it's vitally important for the community to welcome good new editors (not just get rid of the bad ones), even though they might be disheartened when their first few edits are rejected.