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About me

  • I am one of Wikipedia's administrators. If you have questions, comments, or concerns about my actions as an administrator, please do not be reluctant to raise them with me. I promise to listen carefully and try to address the problem. Feedback really is a gift (as the saying goes) and even if not completely correct, it's rarely wrong.
  • Previously, I was a checkuser and later an arbitrator on the English Wikipedia. These days, I am also active within the global Wikimedia community, where I am a privacy ombudsperson, and you can also contact me on my user talk page at Meta-Wiki.
  • I am from the UK. I write in Scottish English (one of the forms of British English).

My frequently-used pages

Ombuds Commission: Ombuds-wiki – m:Ombuds commission

Recent changes: Real-Time Recent Changes (RTRC)

AfC: Category:Pending AfC submissions – detailed reviewing instructions

Referencing: Software and tools

FA: Good v Featured – Ten rules

FAC: Reviewer advice – Reviewer advice

FAR

URFA

Featured article process contributions

Participation in the featured article process is an excellent way to contribute to high-quality content in a supportive capacity. By carefully choosing the articles reviewed, it can also be a good way to improve personal general knowledge and your own writing abilities. The process is welcoming to new reviewers and advice is linked in the section above at 'FA', 'FAC', and 'FAR'.

Statistics

Action Count
Edits 55296
Deletions 3368
Revision deletions 116
Suppressions 460
Protections 7951
User blocks 2524
Checks 5370
User unblocks 161
Permission modifications 123
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My recent article edits

18 February 2025

15 February 2025

14 February 2025

13 February 2025

12 February 2025

11 February 2025

Useful observations about our community

  1. Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers means "Treat newcomers with kindness and patience". Many experienced editors use patience but omit the kindness. Wikipedia is a complex website with a steep learning curve. Someone vandalising or writing draft articles about their business is a potentially new editor entitled to the anti-biting policy's benefit. Kindness could require assuming that apparently disruptive edits are an effort to "see how this works". Even if the aggregate effect of this policy is the less efficient disposal of disruptive users, we pay this price for treating newcomers with kindness.
  2. "I know you may have been taught it's polite to use honorifics, but that isn't necessary on the English Wikipedia. No one will think you're rude if you don't call them sir/ma'am, and doing so risks calling women 'sir'."
    – Valereee (talk · contribs), 15:23, 25 January 2025 (UTC)
  3. "Egoboo is… the pleasure received from public recognition of voluntary work."
    – From our article on the term, which I discovered from Newyorkbrad (talk · contribs), 22:01, 6 February 2025 (UTC).
  4. "When I am asked why I have volunteered my time for so long, my answer is simple: I believe in our project. I believe in our vision, that of a world in which every person has free access to the sum of all human knowledge. I believe that our work makes the world a better place every day, and as long as I believe that I will dedicate my time and energy to this project."
    – L235 (talk · contribs), 03:40, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
  5. [At the top of a retired user's talk page] "Please use the space below to tell me why you hate my redirects and templates."
    – Gurch (talk · contribs), 2018
  6. "Wikipedia would grind to a halt in hours if every editor with a mental illness went on strike."
    – Tamzin (talk · contribs) at User:Tamzin/On mental health.
  7. "[Why do I…] keep leaving or retiring, then coming back? … After not editing Wikipedia for a while, I realized that my brain has not been as sharp. Apparently, taking the time to [propose] and make corrections to various aspects of Wikipedia has been stimulating my brain quite a bit. I found that over the past month…, I just have not been as motivated or encouraged to proactively engage in thoughtful conversation or research. …[I]t seems Wikipedia has been a glue… keeping my mind intact".
    – Steel1943 (talk · contribs), 2025
  • MakeRef at Wikimedia Toolforge: generate the right form of citation for a reference, useful for avoiding the need to read Template:Citation/doc, which is surely from one of the circles of hell.
  • IPA is another probable component of the circles of hell, and https://ipa-reader.com will read out any IPA pronunciation fragment for English and the other major western languages.
  • https://www.cereproc.com, the website for proprietary software, provides a free "voice demo" tool that supports Gaelic pronunciation. From the first slide on the carousel on the homepage, select "Gaelic" as the language and Scottish Gaelic as the voice, then type or paste the Gaelic word or sentence to have it read back accurately.
  • https://dsl.ac.uk is a Scots language dictionary, useful (among many uses) for dealing with works of pre-Union Scotland.

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