User:Pathawi

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th-2ผู้ใช้คนนี้สามารถใช้ภาษาไทย ได้ในระดับปานกลาง.
ar-3
هذا المستخدم يستطيع المساهمة بالعربية بمستوى متقدم.
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We can work it out.

I'm a graduate student in linguistic anthropology. I have particular interests in

  • Islam
  • northeast African languages
  • early structuralist linguistics
  • avant-garde poetics

I'm very knowledgeable about homelessness and homeless policy in the United States. If you need to refer to me with a third-person pronoun, do what you like. If I were to write about myself in the third-person, I would use he-set pronouns.

Pending Changes

I am a

assume good faith
. I check sources before accepting pending changes. I usually include comments when I reject a change to explain my reasoning. If you made a good faith edit & I rejected it, check the history. If you make the edit again, you can explain why I'm wrong in your edit comment; if it's a bigger issue, you can start a conversation on the talk page.

Deviant Opinions

  • Ethnologue should not be considered a reliable source. (But it is, unfortunately, generally accepted as one for Wikipedia [1], & sloppiness in academic publishing means that it's likely to remain one.) In fact, the quality of Ethnologue for relatively poorly documented languages is astonishingly bad.
  • Most user-made maps are
    WP:OR
    (& frequently bad R), & should be deleted.
  • 90% of editing of lead paragraphs is of no value or of negative value. 90% of editors who only edit lead paragraphs & infoboxes are doing more harm than good.