User:Trebor Rowntree

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Trebor Rowntree is taking a short wikibreak and will be back on Wikipedia soon.


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Hi. I am from the UK, and fit the model of the average Wikipedian (10 out of the 10 points here).

I am somewhat of a pedant and so am a bit of a wikignome.

I can often be found on peer review, because I think it's a neglected but very useful part of article improvement. It's very discouraging to put a lot of effort into an article and receive no feedback. I make no claims to be good at this task, but I try my best - leave me a message if you want my input.

I agree that quality not quantity should be the focus at this time.

Current project: improving GoldenEye

[edit] Musings

It seems to me there are 3 main activities that are necessary to make Wikipedia good:

  1. Article creation and improvement - the obvious one is people working on articles, and this can be split into so many subcategories, but in essence it's the same thing. Peer review, featured articles, collaborations, Wikiprojects, etc. - they all aim to improve the quality of the articles. Without this, Wikipedia wouldn't be useful.
  2. Deletion - less glamorous work, but this is vital to keeping the rubbish out. Many of the pages which only just survive deletion will barely be visited, but the line's got to be drawn somewhere to decide what should and shouldn't be in an encyclopaedia. Without this, Wikipedia would become bloated with unnecessary and unimportant information.
  3. Dealing with vandalism - this not being my favourite activity, I am greatly indebted to those who work to prevent Wikipedia being vandalised. It's a necessary job to keep Wikipedia trusted, and proof that it's working (in my opinion) comes from the fact I've never come across a vandalised article when using Wikipedia to look something up.

It these 3 activities working in unison that means Wikipedia is useful now and will continue to improve (though I bet someone's going to mention a 4th that I've completely forgotten).

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