User:MKoltnow

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Wikieditor who began editing on November 12, 2006. If I disappear for days (weeks) at a time, I am assigned in the field for work, and don't have time/net.access/energy to do much editing. Leave a note on my talk page and I'll get back to you soon.

My main subjects of interest are transportation systems, from airlines and railroads to highways. I particularly appreciate that wikipedia has such rich histories of these things. People can understand why the present is what it is by learning about the past. I like NPOV because I think people can be free to draw their own conclusions from facts.

I also try to add minor edits to spelling and grammar in order to increase readability. I edit date references frequently. I think that too many links clutter a page. So although I link dates to allow user-specified date preferences to work, I remove links to years alone, unless the link is needed for context. Editors can be bold in updating facts when new data become available.

I am concerned about overall quality at our encyclopedia. Many articles degrade into fancruft or endless lists. I'm doing my part to improve passenger rail articles. I'm also trying to fight spam and vandalism. Although an encyclopedia full of stubs would be terrible, articles which go on for pages and pages are not useful either. Sometimes they invite linkspammers. Sometimes I'll edit for quality over quantity.

I had to do some recent-changes/new article patrolling to get my 5000th edit in on 31 December 2007.

[edit] Awards

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		For your continued work on reverting vandalism on Wikipedia, and reporting of vandal users I am proud to award you with the RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar Xtreme racer 04:30, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Good Humor
		For not only reporting an inappropriate username, but also knowing what a spoonerism is, I, Lucid award you this Barnstar of Good Humour. lucid 20:26, 21 August 2007 (UTC)