User:Risker

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My editing philosophy: Our readers do not care one whit who adds information to articles; they care only that the information is correct.

Milestones First stub - 1973(song) First article - James Blunt: Return to Kosovo First GA - James Blunt (Major rewrite and re-referencing). on February 15, 2008. First FA - Jacques Plante, in collaboration with Maxim. on March 31, 2008. 5000th edit - This shows up as my 5000th edit (March 23, 2008), although another 275 edits of mine had been deleted by that time. My RFA

[edit] What I've been doing around here

First off, I'm a copy editor at heart - not much of an article creator, but I've received good reviews on my work enhancing the prose and research of others. Collaboration is, in my mind, the best feature of Wikipedia. My editing tastes are eclectic, and I can bounce around all over the place. I've spent time managing vandalism and spam in Kim Kardashian, vandalism and BLP issues in Richard Gere and Richard Simmons, and assisted in the development of a factual article on the Essjay controversy (the latter of which has since undergone further revisions about which I am not entirely happy, but heck, it's a wiki). I have mild deletionist tendencies, particularly when it comes to biographical articles of people known mainly for one event. If I add an article to the list of articles for deletion, I'm likely to check out other articles there, and add my opinions about a few of them; if I think there's the possibility of salvaging them, I'll do a bit of cleanup or add links or other references.

When I have the urge to contribute, but nothing in particular that I want to work on, I will do recent changes patrol or new page patrol or just hit the random article button. Especially in my earlier days, sometimes I just wouldn't bother logging in and would roam about the encyclopedia, reading and copy editing. I still do that from time to time, to keep me in touch with what it is like to be an anonymous editor - much to my dismay, I have had minor revisions (spelling and grammar corrections, for example) reverted without comment. I have never been blocked as an IP or when logged in, nor received a credible warning.

[edit] Some articles I have copy-edited

Bezhin Meadow - during (successful) FAC
Hockey Hall of Fame - during (successful) FAC
Kannada literature in the Vijayanagara Empire - in preparation for (successful) FAC
Diorama (album) - during (successful) FAC
Prince's Palace of Monaco - light copy-edit and partial re-referencing in preparation for main page appearance
Michael Gomez - in preparation for FAC
Adelaide Rams - during peer review
Jeffrey Reodica - cleanup of old article including re-referencing
Robert Kardashian - cleanup of old article including re-referencing
Kannada literature - in preparation for a second FAC
William Wardell - for some reason it was on my watchlist, popped up, and obviously needed a cleanup

You'll find Risker's law and Avi's corollary on Raul's laws of Wikipedia. Thanks, Avi - March 25, 2008

I am m:User:Risker on meta, and also on Commons and en:Wiktionary. I'm also Risker on the road - an account I use when I am on insecure computers; it just has a watchlist, and I don't normally use it to edit anything. I am also Risker checklist, which is an account specifically created to carry a separate watchlist of stable non-BLP articles unrelated to those I usually edit, to make vandalism patrol a little easier. I hope not to do too many edits on that account.

I have useful stuff here.

Wikipedia:Image copyright tags/Public domain

My editing guide is Tony1's guide to writing brilliant prose. This is chock full of ways to improve prose; it might not replace a copy editor, but it will help just about anyone on their way to being a topnotch writer.

[edit] And now, a word from my sponsors

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar For your kind thoughts of me with regard to a new editor with a similar screen name, and the unexpected and thoughtful comments about me you made at the Request for Comment on that editor's user name. Smee 08:34, 18 April 2007 (UTC)	The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar For your exceptional (and much needed) explanation of the Giano/!!/Durova issue to me. It's cast things in a new light. Thankyou. Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry 04:48, 3 December 2007 (UTC)	The Copyeditor's Barnstar For all your excellent help with Hockey Hall of Fame. -- Scorpion0422 00:22, 18 February 2008 (UTC)	The Copyeditor's Barnstar For your excellent contribution to Kannada literature article.Dineshkannambadi (talk) 03:19, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
The Minor Barnstar Copyediting is a laborious underrated part of Wikipedia and I award this for Risker's efforts in a request he didn't necessarily have to do. Thanks again.  The Windler talk  05:03, 27 April 2008 (UTC)	The Medaglia Reale for all your help at Prince's Palace of Monaco and elsewhere. Giano (talk) 20:39, 29 April 2008 (UTC)	The Socratic Barnstar For your eloquent and collected arguments concerning the article assessment of William Melmoth, I award you the Socratic Barnstar. Contributions like yours are a pleasure to read. Kafka Liz (talk) 00:30, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

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