Warrenmck

My current project on Wikipedia is trying to get some of the articles pertaining to linguistic macrofamilies up to a broader agreement scholarly consensus. To do this I'm hoping to build consensus among linguists editing here to try to fix up what has been a pretty large amount of poorly received theories being presented at face value.

My general approach to these pages is:

Remove large lists of etymologies
Clarify a family proposal's status among the larger linguistic community
Try to not overstate the influence of Russian school of linguistics without minimizing their contributions to linguistics
Nominate theories with practically no support or authorship beyond one person for AfDs
Rework a new macrofamily article which discusses multiple theories and methodological approaches to avoid scattering these macrofamily articles all over wikipedia without much linking to them (feel free to contribute to my draft in my sandbox

Note: I am not attempting to call all of the minority macrofamily proposals fringe theories, I do think the presentation of many of them on Wikipedia as a given does cross that line, but I do try to be careful.

Useful pages:

Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers (looking at you, FTN)
Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
Wikipedia:Fringe theories

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Photos:

This user primarily shoots film.

This user prefers medium format photography

Self:

This user is a linguist.

PLSC

This user is an expert in Planetary science.

This user has published peer-reviewed articles in academic journals.

Wiki:

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This user edited under a previous user name. This account is a clean start.

This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than 15 years.

Warrenmck opreating the 13-BMC synchrotron beamline at Argonne National Laboratory to probe the mysteries of a chondrite

I'm a mineral physicist and linguist who spends too much time on Wikipedia, so about 17 years ago I dove into editing. My recent project is adding in some good quality photos to Wikimedia Commons which fill gaps in the current inventory of photos and doing a substantial overhaul of the articles on Macrofamilies, specifically to bring the articles of proposed macrofamilies in line with their scholarly understanding. I enjoy linguistics edits, but feel free to tag me if there's an acute need in volcanology or planetary geology and I'll try to help!

My wikimedia uploads can be found here: User:Warrenmck/Gallery

Fun fact: On upon a time I edited Wikipedia to provide the first readily-accessible correct rendering of the orthography of Ea-nāṣir, which resulted in the correct spelling being utilized in essentially all memes post-edit. I consider this to be my largest cultural footprint and it's hilariously silly to me.

Sampling of Warrenmck's Uploads to Wikimedia

Self portrait at Advanced Photon Source (Digital)
Frame drum at Matho Monastery, Ladakh, India (Digital)
Statue of a Bodhisattva at Matho Monastery (Digital)
A jade Iceberg, off of tabular iceberg D28A (Digital)
Sunset after a storm in Waikīkī (Cinestill 50D)
Whalebone arch in Utqiaġvik (Ektar 100, medium format)