User:Castorquinn

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Castor Quinn This user is a wikignome. This user is a wikifairy. merge This user is a Wikipedia mergist. This user believes that process is important on Wikipedia and is opposed to its circumvention. vanity This user supports the removal of Vanity pages with extreme prejudice. This user comes from Australia. This user's time zone is GMT+10. en-5 This user is able to contribute with a professional level of English. au-N This user is a native speaker of Australian English. IR This user uses Irish English. OED This user uses Oxford spelling. !? This user is a punctuation stickler. ipa-5 This user absolutely understands the International Phonetic Alphabet. bash This user is a bash scripter. re-3 This user is an advanced regular expression programmer. prog-2 This user is an intermediate programmer.

[edit] Activities on Wikipedia

After fiddling around here for a little while I've determined that the best contribution I can bring to the project is as proof reader and editor. I read many Wikipedia entries each day, and so can randomly correct spelling, grammar or formatting oversights or errors, as well as improve style, clarity and readability of entries. In some cases I can also improve the phrasing of information to present a more neutral, useful or accurate presentation. It's not my intention to add many new entries to Wikipedia, except to add stubs for entries that are noticable by their absence.

If you come across an article that requires major clean-up, or if you create an information dump and want someone to help by tidying and organising the page, you can let me know on my talk page and I'll happily dig in.

I will also keep an eye on proposals for deletions and mergers in accordance with my Wikipedia philosophy (below).

[edit] Wikipedia Philosophy

I'm happy to see some degree of less encyclopaedic entries - such as profiles for major fictional characters, planets from science fiction works, pop- and cyber-culture terms, ideas and events, and things of that ilk - but I don't support the infinite fractioning of creating a page for every definable term, however minor, and don't approve of reams of speculation, except where such speculation is an integral and academic aspect of the definition. I believe WikiProjects can be set up for this kind of thing and that inclusion in the main Wikipedia reduces the quality and usefulness of the project.