User:NatGertler
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Am I important? I'll have you know that I'm a former editor at Wikipedia!
Yes, I am Nat Gertler the writer, as well as the publisher of About Comics.
I didn't tend to add substantial new information to pages. Generally, I corrected errors, reworded for clarity, noted where the source cited doesn't actually state the claim made, add things missing from lists... those sort of little polishes. I edited at times on comics topics, and posted under my own name so that no one can accuse me of hiding a conflict of interest (a conflict I try to avoid, although I couldn't resist adding an info box to Mister U.S..) On the rare occasions when I started new pages, it was generally quite stubby -- my motivation is not "I know a lot about this", but "this is really something that should have a page"; my hope is that more knowledgeable folks will find the stub and fertilize it. Stubs I created:
- Jack Hamm
- Geoffrey Farrow
- Oreo Collins
- God hates figs
- John Smid
- Gathering Storm (advertisement) (which gets an asterisk because it was formed primarily from text excised from another article, text writ primarily by others)
- J.T. Ready
- Brad Rader
- Chris Samnee
- Committee to Boycott Nixon's Memoirs
- Wikipedia:GONNADONATE
- There's... Johnny!
- Joe Lane (cartoonist)
- Public Interest Legal Foundation
- RIP Medical Debt
- Hal Sherman
- Jackie Kannon (more than a stub, but still needs more work.)
- and I worked on but did not complete User:NatGertler/marriage, intending to install in one of the same-sex marriage articles, and User:NatGertler/GoogleCount and User:NatGertler/BLPSimpsons as essays.
Work in progress
Here's the guy I'd like to nominate as the patron saint of Wikipedia editors: "...Philitas studied false arguments and erroneous word-usage so intensely that he wasted away and starved to death..."
Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
My Peanuts COI
In the past, I have edited articles having to do with the comic strip
Wikipedia: Do not turn Wikipedia into Strip Wikipedia
The game of Nomic is primarily designed as a set of rules in which players can change the rules of the game, including the conditions for winning. It is an article of faith among the Nomic community that a game of Nomic is never more than three good rule changes away from becoming Strip Nomic.
In many ways, Wikipedia is like Nomic. While it is not at heart (originally) a game, it is nonetheless built around a system of policies that include within themselves the ability to change those policies. As such, it may be tempting for some editors to attempt to modify policy with the goal of turning Wikipedia into Strip Wikipedia. For a variety of reasons, this is not a good idea, and should not be pursued, in much the same way as one should not
The page which I feel justifies the existence of Wikipedia all by itself...
...is this one.