User:Britishfinance
about me
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I am Britishfinance. I came to WP in early 2018 because I was sick of reading misleading taxation articles and had the time to see if I could fix them. Only after about 6 months did I finally grasp how to write in a WP-way (e.g. summarizing verifiable high quality independent secondary sources), and had to re-write most of my earlier stuff. I caught the bug and started doing WP articles on a wide range of subjects, and getting WP rights and tools. In June 2018, I came across the Section 110 SPV). Cosgrave's campaign was exposed and led to further articles on me [7] [8] [9]; some included tax experts who seemed to have no issues with the WP articles (E.g. Mark Gorman, Partner Anderson Tax Dublin). Eventually, the Washington Post reported on the affair: "Politicians, policymakers, and the legal-finance profession responded vigorously and tried to discredit the Wikipedia articles. But none of these critiques have challenged their substantive truth". One of these articles (which I overhauled, not created), Leprechaun economics, was cited by Paul Krugman (major high), while another of these articles (I also overhauled, not created), Double Irish arrangement, was cited by the Council on Foreign Relations as the "best source" for the topic.While stressful, it showed WP works; where the fact-base supports (e.g. quality independent secondary sources), so does the community. However, the IDA/reddit trolling on Irish tax-related articles will carry on. (POSTSCRIPTi: Even more surreal, the above appeared in the Irish Sunday Business Post; albeit with "IDA editing") (POSTSCRIPTii: The affair made it to The Signpost here) |
quick reference
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Recent changes Wikipedia:Template_messages/User_talk_namespace Editor Interaction Analyzer Wikipedia:Database reports Template:Ds/talk notice Wikipedia:User scripts/List Britishfinance scripts Comparison Tool Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gamaliel and others Beall's list of predatory journals Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ryszard Walkiewicz |
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Useful information
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Things I found valuable/insightful on WP:
- Wisdom on WP-behaviour, amazing read.
- WP:42)