User:Slyguy
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Greetings, fellow Wikipedians! I am Andrew Boulton, aka Slyguy on Wikipedia. Thanks for stopping by.
Current project (starting October 30, 2006):
Adding names to Wikipedia's list of people by name. One might think that this task can be done more quickly with a bot, but there are so many messy situations that a bot would not handle satisfactorily. For instance, there are people who are commonly known by one name or more than two. Also, it would be difficult to program the bot to determine the occupation(s) to include in the entry. So, here I am, using part of my spare time to plug away at it manually.
Wikipedia's list of names is useful, and it was fortunate that it survived the last deletion vote. Here's hoping it will never face another one again!
If you have a problem with one of my corrections (for instance, the occupation I give for an individual), feel free to correct it. If you have a problem with many of my corrections and my general methods, please tell me, I would appreciate hearing what you have to say.
In some of my edits I omit the nationality of the person added. There are two possible reasons for this:
A. There is no definitive information given in the WP article as to the person's nationality. (I have a broad definition of "definitive information" and it may include place of birth, or inclusion in a nationality-referencing category.)
B. Multiple or ambiguous nationalities are given in the WP article, and one does not sufficiently dominate over the other so as to choose that one. (For an instance of one nationality "dominating" over another, John Turner was born in Britain, but he only lived in Britain for about two years until his family moved to Canada. He then became a Canadian citizen. Combined with the fact that he was Canada's prime minister, clearly his Canadian nationality is dominant.)
Researching the person's nationality and editing the article accordingly, could be added as a side project, but I choose not to do so at this time. If you would like to do this, then by all means, be my guest.
