User:Yaris678

This user has been on Wikipedia for 15 years, 10 months and 26 days. This user is a participant in WikiProject Alternative Views. This user is a participant in WikiProject Mathematics. This user uses STiki to patrol not-necessarily-that-recent edits. sock puppet. (→ Verify - info ) → I have met this user, verify!

Education: Mathematics BSc, University of Warwick
Occupation: Simulation Consultant
Location: UK

My Contributions

Many of my contributions are gnome-like. I like looking at the history of articles and seeing how they changed over time, which lead me to the idea of DiffDeck, which I presented at WikiConference UK 2012.

I sometimes use semi-automated anti-vandal tools, especially

, about one way that these tools could be improved.

I gave some

revamping the summary of new pages

instead. I watch this with interest.

I helped quite a bit with the essay giving

advice on using Wikipedia for mathematics self-study

I got quite involved in the pending changes trial, including helping to compile a list summarising peoples' comments. Of course, after that there was no consensus on what to do with PC, even in the short term. When a new, multi-phase RfC was started on the subject I got involved with bits, including writing most of the summary, which is what is now seen on that page.

My contributions across various Wikimedia projects include uploads to Commons and a few minor tweaks on the French-language Wikipedia.

Pages I like

Paul Graham

• Design of experiments
• Generalized linear model
  • Logistic regression
• Steiner chain
• Information-theoretic death
• WP:Wikipedia is not for things made up one day#The right way to get things you or your friends made up into Wikipedia
• WP:Don't abbreviate Wikipedia as Wiki
• M:Don't be a dick
• M:Wikipedia power structure
• User:Cacycle/wikEd
  • User:Cacycle/wikEdDiff
    • online wikEd-diff-tool
• user:js/diffs
• De:Benutzer:Schnark/js/diff/core
• User talk:Alex Smotrov/histcomb.js
• Wikipedia:Please clarify
• WP:NOTDEMOCRACY
  means we should ignore everyone who disagrees with them. No. It doesn't work like that.
• User:Tony1/How to improve your writing
• Wikipedia:Autoconfirmed article creation trial

Articles that could inform policy

The following articles could inform policy but they are all of a lowish quality. If they could all be brought up to

standards I think that would really help the Wikipedia project.

If someone wants to stick something else on this list... please... be my guest.

Article	Policy	Current rating
Opinion	WP:NPOV	Start
Primary sources	WP:PSTS	Start
Secondary sources	WP:PSTS	Not rated
Tertiary sources	WP:PSTS	Start

Conflict of interest

I have an (unpaid) association with Bright Club. I started the article on the subject and have made a number of edits to it, always trying to keep it neutral and well-sourced. My aim in my edits is always to put the interest of the encyclopedia first. Of course, if anyone has a reasonable disagreement with any edits I have made to it I will be happy to discuss it with them.