User:Jreferee

Wikipedia is built on us trusting each other and on human understanding and forgiveness of errors. -- Jimbo Wales March 2007.

The very act of citing WP:AGF may assume that the opponent is assuming bad faith. -- Brian0918 March 2006.

[edit] About me

Userboxes This user has been a major contributor to 20 articles featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page. 5,300+ This user has over 5,300 edits on English Wikipedia.

Hello! I'm Jreferee, an editor on Wikipedia since October 2006.

Why I'm here

I first encountered Wikipedia on the web when I was doing some research. Wikipedia seemed to come up first on my Google searches, so I decided to check it out. I first posted on October 12, 2006. By December 2006, I realized that Consensus and Assume Good Faith were behind Wikipedia's success.

I really enjoy Wikipedia because I feel that bringing difficult to obtain information to the Internet will make this world better. Receiving Assume Good Faith responses to my goof-ups reminds me of the good all around us and consensus makes me feel like part of a team. It is Consensus and Assume Good Faith that keeps me here.

Interests

Like others on Wikipedia, I am your basic philomath. I practice a belief that if it is out there, it is your goal to learn/know about it. I particularly enjoy working with biographies. I get a lot of satisfaction from working with Wikipedia biography articles, particularly those of living people.

What have I been doing lately?

I recently co-managed and participating in the month long WikiProject Biography Spring 2007 Assessment Drive. I spend significant time assessing biography articles to complete the WPBiography banner on biography article talk pages. I also spend time working the Biographies of living persons noticeboard, the Administrators' incidents noticeboard, providing my reasoning at Articles for deletion and Deletion review, providing comment at DYK discussion, and working with proposed DYK suggestions.

I sometimes check out Google's news on Wikipedia to determine which article may need my attention.

To help XfD closing admins, I spend time refactoring and/or providing nomination summaries to XfD discussions, examples of which include the Daniel Brandt AfD#13, the Conservapedia deletion review, the Barbara Schwarz AfD#4, the Dogme ELT deletion review, the Opportunity rover timeline for 2004 January deletion review, the Template:Ep TfD, the Vorarephilia AfD, the Deke Sharon AfD, and the Secret of Mana Theater (2) AfD.

If I see an XfD specifically addressing the closer's actions, I usually post a note on the closer's talk page giving them notification about the XfD (if no notification has been given). I usually review the old, open AfDs to see whether the addition of my reasoning will help an admin close the matter. I recently closed some XfDs, such as here and here per Non-administrators closing discussions, which resulted in this discussion.

I sometimes provide assistance at the Wikipedia:Village pump and comment on policy at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy).

Recently, I've been adding pin cites to process pages via span to make them more user friendly. See, for example, WP:U#People and WP:UP#Games.

What you might not know about me

• I successfully nominated the image appearing as the Showcase Picture for the London Portal for February 2007.
• I am a WikiProject Biography member
• I created and successfully nominated the WikiGnome personal user award
• I've developed a soft spot for living persons who edit their own Wikipedia biographies.
• I have a Tip of the day proposal pending.
• Durova and myself provided mediation work in connection with the Joyce Kilmer article.
• I was adopted by Daniel Olsen
• My RfA provided good, constructive opinions that will help me move forward.

My * Be Bold * actions

Here are some of my more noteworthy Be Bold tasks. (Diffs generally not provided since there would be too many.)

• After discovering that the overall Wikipedia hierarchy scheme for United States newspapers was lacking, I realized that the solution was to relied heavily on the article Newspaper to formulate the membership criteria for the lists. I then spent significant time dealing with numerous lists of newspapers in the United States, including creating and contributing to a variety of newspaper lists and developing a five-part scheme Template:U.S. Newspaper Footer within which U.S. newspaper lists may be placed.
• I provided detailed, structured content to and significantly expanded the Wikipedia:Did you know project page. I presently help maintain this project page.
• I provided detailed, structured content to and significantly expanded the WikiProject Biography Spring 2007 Assessment Drive project page. I presently help run this project.
• I provided detailed, structured content to and significantly expanded the April Fool's Main Page project so that future efforts on this project may avoid debating resolved issues.
• I added Example #2 to Example requests for image copyright permission
• I added a number of entries to November and December Wikipedia as a press source 2006 and posted the associated credits on the relevant article and user talk pages.
• I provided an overall Wikipedia hierarchy scheme to the more than 500 California agencies, departments, and commissions from what has been referred to as that states' "morass of bizarre and counterintuitive groupings."
• I spent a considerable amount of time straightening out the many uses of Vault in Wikipedia articles, including in the architectural sense.
• I wrote the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article for WikiProject Biography to help those new to writing Wikipedia biographies

My article inclusion criteria

"Wikipedia : neutral and unbiased compilation of previously written, verifiable facts."

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