Forever hoping that Justin Bieber never opens up a winery so that I won't have to deal with Bieber-related wine articles

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This user has been on Wikipedia for 18 years and 29 days.

This user is ranked about 538 on the list of Wikipedians by articles created.

Who am I? Well I am a wiki-oenophile who works mostly on wine articles as part of the Wine Project. My goal is to help improve the quality of Wikipedia's wine articles to where they become a worthwhile resource for wine beginners and enthusiast alike. It also wouldn't hurt to get the Project mentioned in Wine Spectator either.

As of January 1st, 2014, I have created 841 non-redirect articles nearly all wine related. If you add redirects that number jumps to 11,963. (Hey, wine grapes have a lot of synonyms :P) Some of my personal favorites among the articles I've created include:

Articles that I didn't originally create but have either completely rewrote or substantially edited include:

Notes from people smarter than me

• "”Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of the pleasures costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and him who receives, and thus, like mercy, it is twice blessed.”" - Erastus Wiman
• "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." - Carl Jung
• "Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever." - Aristophanes
• "Here's to the corkscrew - a useful key to unlock the storehouse of wit, the treasury of laughter, the front door of fellowship, and the gate of pleasant folly." - Percy French

Wine Newsletter Quick Links

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Wine/Newsletter
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Wine/Newsletter/Tip Room
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Wine/Newsletter/Sub-projects
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Wine/Newsletter/Wine Improvement Drive
• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Wine/Newsletter/Wine Improvement Drive
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Wine/Newsletter/Wiki-Winos

• Article Traffic tool
• stub counter
• User:West.andrew.g/Popular pages
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Wine/Popular pages

Other wine links

• User:Agne27/Top importance wine article comparisons

Other Interests

• Baseball
• Politics (Though I do try to avoid some of the bickering and contentious stuff on Wiki)
• History in general
• European Royal Families
• Christian Apologetics & Theology (In particular Lutheran History)

Possible annoying behaviors

• I'm a horrible typist and will make silly typos often. I try to catch what I can but I'm certain to miss a few.
• I'm not as up to snuff on wiki code to make things look as crisp and nice as they can. Feel free to clean up anything I do.
• I'm becoming more and more a stickler for sources. While I'll try not to dive off the cliff into overkill, I will poke my nose into a few things to request some source citations.

Thinking inside the box

Random labels This user drinks wine. This user prefers Belgian beer. This user is a female contributor. US This user uses American English. This user supports the fight against breast cancer. This user is of German ancestry. This user is of French ancestry. This user lives in the U.S. State of Washington. This user is interested in Lutheranism. This user is attracted to red hair. This user supports the ban on smoking in public places. This user prefers the world of sparkling wines. This user is a bibliophile. This user is old enough to know better! This user is in a same-sex marriage, domestic partnership or civil union.

My Wiki habits This user is a participant in WikiProject Wine. This user is a member of WikiProject Countering systemic bias. ANAL 2 This user rely's on others better grammar too fix there article's. This user is bold, but not reckless, in updating pages. [[redlink]] This editor adds useful red links to articles to encourage content creation. This user strives to maintain a policy of neutrality on controversial issues. This user finds copyright paranoia disruptive. This user believes that process is important on Wikipedia and is opposed to its circumvention. trivia This user hates trivia sections in articles. Flexible This user deals with edits, deletion, and creation of pages individually instead of unilaterally and encourages others to do so. -ist This user is not an -ist. They prefer to use common sense.

Philosophy Make articles, not wikidrama 1RR This user prefers discussing changes on the talk page rather than engaging in an edit war. This user believes that a user's edit count does not necessarily reflect on the value of their contributions to Wikipedia. man- kind Regarding gender, this user prefers the vernacular, not what is politically correct. <ref> This user would like to see everyone using inline citations. Please... ESFP This user's MBTI type is ESFP. This user supports the legalization of same-sex marriage. Chicago, Illinois This user thinks all U.S. city articles not following the "City, State" form should be moved back. no ads This user is against advertisements on Wikipedia. linkspam This user despises linkspam, and will terminate it on sight, as well as any other spam by the contributor.

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Things to do

• Dead Pages & Lonely *Pages-Because every Orphan needs a home
• New Pages-Add note to welcome new wikipedians and add stub tags where needed
• Clean Up Tags-Better then deletes

Stubs

• Wine Stubs
• Lutheran Stubs
• Missouri Stubs
• Theologian Stubs
• Theology Stubs
• Christian Text stubs
• Christianity Stubs

Wine Lists

To Do-- Work on categorizing and better organizing wine related articles.

• Wine List
• Wine Images
• Wine Terms
• Oenology Terms
• Wine Tasting
• Wine category
• Wine critics
• Wines by Country
• Wine Accesories
• US Wineries-need some notability guidelines
• Wine Styles & Wine Styles II-Merge categories
• Winemakers-needs notability guidelines
• Wine Regions
• Wine Companies

Wiki stuff

16 May 2024
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My views on the City, State debates at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (settlements)

Good Article Criteria

1. It is well written.

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

3. It is broad in its coverage.

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy

5. It is stable

6. It contains images, where possible, to illustrate the topic.

Some GA thoughts....

• On a good lead An important distinction between an encyclopedic article and a news or magazine article is that we don't need to "build anything up" for the reader-no suspense or plot development. Rather we lay everything out in the beginning and then go into more detail and development below. With a good lead, a reader should know the WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE and WHY of the article before they even get to the TOC.

DYKs

Articles that I have contributed to either by creation, expansion or nomination. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Wine/right panel for more wine-related DYKs

2007 (54 articles)

2008 (46 articles)

2009 (50 articles)

2010 (23 articles)

2011 (29 articles)

2012 (7 articles)

2013 (33 articles)

Other links

• User:Agne27/Wine To-do

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Wine/Newsletter

• User:Agne27/DYK count test page

• User:Agne27/Sandbox -- Portuguese wine

• User:Agne27/Sandbox2 -- Oxygen in winemaking

• User:Agne27/Sandbox3 -- History of Washington wine

• User:Agne27/Sandbox4 -- Côte-d'Or wine

• User:Agne27/Sandbox5 -- Torrontés

• User:Agne27/Sandbox6 -- Cold soak

• User:Agne27/Sandbox7 -- Maconnais

• User:Agne27/Sandbox8 -- Carignan

• User:Agne27/French wine project

• User:Agne27/Grape names

• User:Agne27/Napa

• User:Agne27/Muscat

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• Table making tool
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