User:Loganberry
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[edit] Recent absence from Wikipedia
I feel uncomfortably self-important writing this, but it saves anyone who's interested asking: yes, the wikibreak box has indeed disappeared for the reason that I feel able to resume editing. I'm likely still to be rather irregular, and to stick to my Worcestershire cricket bios and to bits and pieces of copyediting and such elsewhere. It is nice to be back, though.
[edit] What I write
I particularly enjoy writing biographical articles on cricketers. Thanks to WikiProject Cricket we do now have at least a stub on every Test cricketer, but my very (very!) long-term aim is to have something on every man to have played county cricket for Worcestershire. However, as it took an age to get an article on all the captains it's an ambitious target to say the least!
I'm also interested in motorsport, particularly hillclimbing; as well as articles of local interest (eg Bewdley). I'm a fur (see furry fandom), so keep an eye on related articles, but don't do very much editing on that subject at the moment. When I have bits and pieces of spare time I try to help with grammar and spelling, especially making translated text flow better and using correct punctuation. Correcting it's to its takes up more time than it ought to!
[edit] Wikiphilosophy
I would characterise myself as a generally enthusiastic but fairly limited editor. I make too many minor but silly mistakes (generally spotted immediately, but even so) to want to be an administrator, despite having made several thousand edits: I try hard, but I don't think I could stand back and coolly reflect enough to do that job. Besides, I don't really want to spend my time on administration: I want to spend it on writing and improving articles. In that connection, I occasionally worry slightly that Wikipedia is becoming too much of a collection of talking shops, and too little of a project to write an encyclopedia.
I'm generally inclusionist, but with a range of prejudices like everybody else: for example, I don't really like the idea that every high school on Earth seems to be be eligible, even though many are only notable very locally, whereas some much more well-known commercial companies are not. Boring Business Systems, which is known to anyone who's typed "boring" into Google, was a good example: that did indeed fail the appropriate notability standards (WP:CORP), so the deletion was correct, but if we applied the same tough standards of notability to schools then so would about 95% of those!
[edit] Whinges
(American English speakers please note that this word is supposed to have a G in it!)
There are lots of things I could whinge about, but many of them are simply the result of inexperienced editors making mistakes in good faith, and I've done enough of that in my time!
[edit] Article names
Two things I really wish would improve are the tendency of some editors to put quotes around new article names (eg "Example article title"), and the lack of attention to correct capitalisation - which matters in the second and subsequent words. There are too many Forename surnames around.
[edit] Trivia sections
These are an absolute pain nine times out of ten, and almost never make an article look better. If a fact is notable and can be sourced, then it can and should be incorporated into the article proper; if it isn't, then it shouldn't be in the article at all. Far too often trivia sections are being used as a dumping-ground for "cool stuff". This is rapidly becoming an exception to my generally inclusionist sympathies.
[edit] Useful things
- DEFAULTSORT is very handy, but remember it isn't actually a template, even though its syntax is very (confusingly) close to one. It's a magic word, so use {{DEFAULTSORT:Surname, Forename}} with a colon, not a pipe symbol. The Charles Gregory article uses this.
- You can use {{reflist|2}} to indicate a two-column list of footnotes, rather than messing around with the old "div" method.
[edit] Multilicensing
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