User:Patrick Welsh
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I am an academic by training, but not profession. My expertise is in
Building upon the work of other editors – and with welcome collaboration and reviewer-input – I brought the article on
I started an overhaul of the
My current project is a sorely needed overhaul of the article on Irony. It gets an average of about 700 hits per day. Yet, since 2013, it has been virtually abandoned to the disorganized contributions of drive-by editors.
A few underappreciated Wikipedia guidelines about which I feel strongly:
- Lead follows body: Don't add stuff to the lead unless it is already sourced in the body. If you don't care enough about the article to follow this practice, you probably should not be editing the article at all.
- Lists: If you cannot contextualize information in prose, there is a strong chance it does not belong in the article. For instance, I have never seen a "Further reading" section I could imagine being of use to anyone.
For those sensitive to such issues (thanks, you're awesome!), I use traditionally masculine pronouns. On Wikipedia, however, I am entirely indifferent between these and the gender-neutral they/them, which is my own default for other editors. Please, also, feel free to address me as Patrick or PJW.
Cheers,
P.S.: I'm chronically prone to typos in my edit summaries. Sorry about this. I'm a native English-speaker and have no excuse or explanation. It just seems to happen all the time.