An ordinary user, editing what I feel like editing, writing about things that are missing, and trying to do good.

Why I'm Here

I've been editing Wikipedia since 2006 because I am committed to the project of creating an encyclopedic base of knowledge that reflects the full spectrum of what users want or need to know.

For this reason I advocate a broad definition of WP:NOTABILITY. I believe any person or entity having a sufficient relationship with the public that, say, a few people a week might ask Wikipedia "who are these guys?" should be presumptively treated as notable. That should be true even if they are not described at length in prose, so long as the source of knowledge about them is unimpeachable (i.e., underweight notability and overweight WP:RS). That is, as long as the article subject, their minions, and their sockpuppets keep a healthy distance from the article.

Since Wikipedia relies on all of us to keep things authoritative, I do occasionally play vandalism cop. WP:AGF for sure, but some people just aren't here to build an encyclopedia. I've recently focused on citations to blogs, which are sometimes appropriate (for example, for an otherwise notable author or school's blog), but more often appear to be attempts to farm clicks.

What really doesn't belong on Wikipedia? WP:LISTCRUFT and self-authored self-promotion.

Pages I've created