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— Wikipedian —
PronounsHe/him
Country United States
HandednessRight
Education and employment
EmployerUndisclosed, but I don’t and have never edited for pay
EducationCurrent undergraduate
Hobbies, favourites and beliefs
PoliticsFocused on state and local issues
Account statistics
JoinedJune 24, 2021
First editUnsure, if you include IP edits
AutoconfirmedSeptember 20, 2021
Extended confirmedSeptember 11, 2022
Page moverNot yet requested
AdministratorWhy the hell would I want to become one?
Join the proud few. Become a Grand High Togneme Laureate today![a]
Wikipedia size & users (update)
English articles:6,804,173
Total wiki pages:60,301,372
Files914,923
Edits1,211,321,518
Average revisions:20.09
Total users:47,166,656
Active users[note 1]125,076
Total admins:864
UTC time: 21:19 on 2024-Mar-28
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Notes
  1. ^ Registered users who have performed an action in the last 30 days; the number of unregistered active users is not compiled
A map of the world showing how English Wikipedia is read not only in the core Anglosphere countries, but in post-colonial countries like Pakistan and Kenya.
English Wikipedia is utilized by readers of all backgrounds from all over the world, not just the cis-het young intellectual white males who make most of the edits.

STICKIED: read this article about WP's abuses of English and be enlightened [1]

"The safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in controversies involving not very nice people." -Justice Felix Frankfurter

About me edit

I'm here not to promote anything in particular, but because I get a kick out of knowing that, directly or indirectly, my aggregated edits have reached millions of readers. Honesty is always the best policy, isn’t it?

I'm a college student in California. I mostly make small mainspace edits to controversial and/or obscure articles.

I've gradually become more adventurous as I learn the ropes, and have been responsible for a respectable number of (mostly uncontroversial) AfDs. But I'm not a deletionist. At PROD, I’ve saved a number of clearly notable articles.

If you came here from a talk page edit

First of all, I don’t always subscribe to threads, so I frequently don’t respond promptly if not mentioned.

Also, be aware I that I don't always personally agree with the positions I set forth on talk pages. Most commonly, if I think there's a POV issue, I will, in my capacity as an EC editor, try to deal with it irrespective of my feelings.

For example, while on WP I have at times doggedly tried to curb excessive pro-Ukrainian bias and point out the existence of non-Western views of the so-called “non-aligned movement”, in real life, I'm involved in the émigré intellectual scene.

Unsurprisingly, I've considered becoming a public defender.

Current projects edit

I'm primarily a knight-errant exploring and patrolling the less traveled areas of WP. That said, here’s a partial list of specific ongoing tasks I'm working on:

  • Study the feasibility of making more portals
  • Replacing template-generated short descriptions with a more specific ones where possible
  • Standardizing short descriptions of biographies
  • Earning sufficient qualifications in order to eventually request page mover and other permissions.
  • Helping maintain certain medium-visibility pages relating to specific aspects of ongoing military conflicts.
  • Growing my watchlist.

I’m also quite curious about WP as a phenomenon. For instance, biographical notability can run in families—but not always just because of obvious socioeconomic privilege. Another facet, out of many, is how Wikipedia's processes interact with the real world.

Userboxes edit

Moved to a subpage for display reasons. Besides, I have too many of them; I use topicons for most of the really important ones.

What I think about ISW edit

In the words of a Ukrainian source: "В цілому варто відмітити хороший підхід до сюжетів про війну, безпосередньо на позиціях від бійців. Не від всяких Рьопке [de], ISW і британських розвідок, які прийшли на зміну британських вчених."

Notes edit

  1. ^ To become a Grand High Togneme Laureate, an editor needs to have accumulated 114,000 edits and 14 years of service.