JD Fan

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This user attends or attended Queen's University.

YThis user attends or attended Yale University

This user comes from Canada.

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PhDThis user has a Doctor of Philosophy degree.

This user enjoys skiing.

My background includes five years as a magazine editor - a job which I very much enjoyed. Wikipedia offers an outlet for my continuing interest in writing. In line with my interests in music, these articles have mostly been on women singer/songwriters, with a focus on new or emerging talent - particularly, but not exclusively, from Canada.

Recently, I have also been following women's gymnastics competitions, and doing edits on articles for some of the competitors, as I am amazed at what they can do, and I admire their courage, discipline, and strength, as well as their ability to keep up with their studies while training 20 or 30 hours a week. Many of them have also shown impressive resilience in the face of injuries. They are excellent role models all around, and they deserve recognition.

I enjoy working in the Wikipedia community, and have found other Wikipedians to be mostly helpful and supportive. I am always happy to see others making useful additions and edits to the articles.

At times, I have been discouraged by the deletion process, which I see as bureaucratic and rule-bound. My view is that if articles find readers, they should stay in - let the public decide, rather than applying a complex set of notability criteria. The deletion process makes it risky and unrewarding to invest time and effort in articles on new and emerging talent, so I have stepped back from this, focusing mostly on maintaining a limited set of established articles.

JD Fan (talk) 07:31, 28 July 2015 (UTC)