User:Carom
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Hello and welcome! I've been active on Wikipedia since July of 2006, and hopefully I'll be around for sometime to come. Most of my editing falls under the scope of the Military history WikiProject, where I'm also an assistant coordinator (since February 2007). In general, my editing consists a lot of mindless, unglamourous tasks such as reverting vandalism, adding categories, tagging and assessing articles, providing translations, and participating in various review/feedback processes. My major constructive projects right now are the maintainance of two portals, those for World War I and World War II, and I would like to develop a number of other portals when time allows. I've also been involved with the Biography WikiProject, mostly assessing articles, but I have also done a small amount of article creation/improvement. Recently, I joined the LGBT WikiProject, although I haven't begun serious editing on articles in that scope. My main interests in this area are ones of theory, particularly those in the realm of popular culture.
I'm also becoming active on the WikiMedia Commons, under the same username. My activity there has (so far) been confined to uploading my own photographs, although that may change. While I'm interested in becoming involved in other sister projects (particularly WikiBooks and WikiSource), there are only so many hours ina day, so they may have to wait a little while.
In real life, I'm a 23 year old Assistant Librarian in the US state of Illinois, although I don't have an advanced degree (or any degree, for that matter) in library science. I do have a bachelor's degree in history from Washington University in Saint Louis, and I will be beginning a master's program in that field in the fall of 2007 at the University of Connecticut. Although I've lived in the United States almost my entire life, I am originally from the United Kingdom (for what it's worth). I grew up near Chicago, and attended college in Saint Louis, so I'm looking forward to living in a different part of the United States for a little while.
I don't really have well-defined wiki-philosophies, and, although I tend towards inclusionism and eventualism, I've found that I don't stick to either one particularly closely. Ultimately, some subjects do not warrant inclusion, and in some cases, immediate needs have to be satisfied, regardless of the effect on the long term. However, in general, I find that it is better to include things than not, and that solutions should be geared to the long-term benefit of the encyclopedia.
