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I joined Wikipedia in 2008, but began regularly editing in 2019. Though I am a chemist, I find myself working on a wide variety of topics. I would consider myself a gnome, but do add content and have started a handful of articles.
Most of my gnoming involves redirects; I create them often, participate frequently at Redirects for discussion to address problematic redirects, and add/update redirect categories. Directly related, I also find myself working on disambiguation issues and performing page moves to achieve consistency in article titles and apply naming conventions. The goal is to get users to the content they seek quickly and for articles to have logical and appropriate titles.
I also propose and perform page merges to combine closely related topics into a larger, more developed article where the added context means the whole is superior to its parts. Except in rare cases, I tend to favor initiating a merge proposal discussion just to check for objections prior to proceeding with a merge, and then closing the discussion myself prior to performing the merge, rather than performing a merge boldly. Merge discussions often have low participation and a large backlog, but I find that the procedures laid out at WP:MERGE are quite logical, if only more users would follow them. Overall, then, I consider myself a mergist; while no doubt there is always plenty of junk around that should be removed from the encyclopedia, I fail to understand users who think the best way to improve the encyclopedia is deletion of anything that they can argue violates their (often questionable) interpretation of some shred of policy. The solution instead is better navigation and organization.
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