| Name: | Solipsist |
| Location: | Cambridge, United Kingdom |
| Age: | Middle |
| Gender: | Male |
| On wikipedia since: | March 2004 |
| Interests: | Editor of the gaps and illustrating articles. |
| Also available at: | commons:User:Solipsist |
I previously had a list of subject areas in which I might have some knowledge, but I've noticed that although I have a science/engineering/computing background I haven't actually edited many articles in the technical domain. This is largely because those areas are already well served by many other Wikipedians. Instead I've ended up finding gaps in coverage and writing articles to fill them. Typically this seems to be in the areas of art, architecture, and biography. Quite often, if I've found a good free image that needs a home, I might end up writing a short article to give it somewhere to go. At the tail end, I might be tempted to expand or rewrite an article that I happen on using the Random Page link.
Declaration of POV
- I'm an rationalist, but sometimes find religions interesting
- I'm a skeptic and oppose pseudoscience.
- I'm a liberal, but somewhat jaded towards politics
- I'm a mild deletionist
- I'll add other biases as I think of them
Everyone has his/her own biases, and in general it is as well to be aware of them in yourself, so you can balance them out.
To an extent, I use writing Wikipedia articles as an aid to researching and learning about new things. At the moment this covers articles on 20C British artists and architecture. I'm no expert, but these are areas that I've been casually studying over the last 5 – 6 years.