"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" — Evelyn Beatrice Hall, on Voltaire.
"There are people who have good sense. There are idiots. A consensus of idiots does not override good sense. Wikipedia is not a democracy." — Jimbo Wales[1]
"Everything I needed to know in life, I learned from Wikipedia." — me
I sincerely wish to be kind, congenial, gracious, and forgiving to everyone, although that is not always within my easy reach. I do a lot of extremely hard, high quality, high volume work; and I occasionally address Wikipedia's vandalism and abuse through processes of the Countervandalism Unit. It's almost nothing to the whole of Wikipedia but it's a lot to me, and yet I don't even seek it out. These activities which I intend for the neutral greater public good, will sometimes soak up my normal goofy friendliness, so I apologize in advance and sometimes in retrospect. If I legitimately step on someone's feelings (not their victim/entitlement/enabling mentality), I feel badly and try to address it. At the least, I try to be respectful and correct—however direct, literal, and terse it may sound. Sometimes if I'm not concisely direct, then the lid would come off and I'd be babbling verbosely. Additionally, I don't deal well with blatant stupidity, vandalism, busybodies, and neglect of policy and collegial principles. As a matter of countervandalism procedure, I may investigate the editing history of anyone with dubious behavior, and I may document it on the user's talk page either to benefit the offending user or the future investigating community.
Since my first edit on March 24, 2010, I spent years as a WikiGnome. Since February 2013, I have authored and reformed several high quality articles and I'm now also a hard core WikiPlatypus (a WikiDragon who also cares for others under my WikiGryphon wings). As an extreme researcher and completionist, I am learning every bit of tedious wikiminutia (technically, socially, and organizationally). I take delight in going to tremendous lengths to complete the templates and metadata, to correct every typo (spelling, grammar, formatting), and to concisely optimize every thought from all angles. I gleefully seek collaboration with other friendly editors even down to the 'thank' button, including any opportunity to mentor newer users. I'm dtm on #wikipedia-en on IRC.
I'm following the rabbit hole all the way down. My body is ready.
This user has been on Wikipedia for 15 years, 1 month and 9 days.
