User:Perey
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[edit] Basics
- Perey is short for Peregrine, the name I've used online since, oh, roughly 1996? 1997?
- Rapidly went from frequent reader to editor when my pedantic nature overcame the voice telling me not to add another distraction from uni.
- Interests: ...everything. Hence being on Wikipedia, you know. Pedantic grammar and spelling policing a speciality. Fantasy fiction, computing, religion, and science are among the top categories.
[edit] Wikipedia opinions
- This list will be added to as things come to mind.
[edit] Commonwealth vs American spellings
As an Australian, I favour Commonwealth spelling. But I'm generally all for a balance of power on Wikipedia. Individual articles should be consistently one or the other, except where specific instances call for a change within an article. I revert edits made to Americanise (and, I suppose, Briticise, if I ever came across one) an article without any justification (like consistency).
[edit] Expert review
I've been thinking about the reliability problem of Wikipedia, and I think expert review is the best chance we have for making subjects reliable. My means would look something like this:
- Wikiprojects or similar would be responsible for identifying experts (based on verifying the identity of an editor, and verifying their expert-ness; this is weak point A).
- Experts are given some sort of identification and privileges (which may simply be the right to greater weight in discussion of disputes).
- Repeat for a large number of experts; experts, like the rest of us, are prone to their biases, prejudices, and misconceptions. They're just less likely (we hope) to be stupid or malicious.
[edit] Links that I want to keep handy
Special:Contributions/218.214.12.19 (Sometimes I forget to log in...)
de:Figuren aus Mittelerde (Edited this anonymously when I randomly decided to cross the lines to the German Wikipedia one day, and saw an error. No, I don't speak German. They'd just put wrong information on the Quenya roots of Ilúvatar... no, sorry guys, Quenya for father/vater isn't "vatar".)
[edit] Currently working on...
Nothing in particular. I used to watch my watchlist like a hawk, but no longer.
[edit] Disclosure
I have a professional connection with Westnet. Though I have made edits to that article, doing so is in no way related to any professional duties I have or have had.
[edit] Things of interest
- Medieval: Total War. I'm sort of proud of my contributions to this page.
- Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. Wow. Talk about the Slashdot effect. Slashdot reports the release of ETF, includes a link to Wikipedia, and on comes a rampaging horde of vandals. Next thing I know, one of my pet pages is protected. 22:06, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
