User:Rcandelori

Hi my name is Robert. I officially joined the Wikipedia community in May 2006 and have made more than 200 edits.

I am from Sydney Australia, but I have a rich and proud Italian heritage.

My goals for Wikipedia:

Reduce bias and foster objective analysis. This includes reducing the use of sources to promulgate or justify biased points of view - especially in controversial topics.
Reduce drive-by vandalism
Increase Australian content
Provide proper referencing to unsourced prose or opinions.
Reduce racism, sexism and homophobia.
Improve overall quality of articles, where possible.

Issues that Wikipedia webmasters need to address:

Instigating compulsory user registration in order to participate in the editing process. Driveby vandalism is a persistent problem that plagues Wikipedia articles, especially those of pre-eminence and of particular public interest. Regular users spend far too much time reverting vandalism - time that could otherwise be spent on improving the quality of Wikipedian content. Perceptibly, much vandalism originates from non-registered users - just look at the history of popular articles.

Some sort of system that allows articles to achieve a "complete" status. This is another source of vandalism as the inability to complete an article fosters drive-by vandals to add inappropriate rubbish to a perfectly written article. However, this could be greatly reduced with a registered-user-only edit system. Perhaps articles which achieve "featured" status would be limited to a certain number of edits per day and/or week so as to retain the consistency and excellence of the article.