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I am a 21 year old who lives in the United Kingdom. My real name is Luke, and my main interests are mathematics, pedagogy, teaching, philosophy, religion, sport, and much much more. I would go so far to say I am interested in everything!

My username is a reference primarily to the film It's a Wonderful Life and to the more well know Louis Armstrong song What a Wonderful World. In my opinion both are masterpieces!

I encourage you to sign my guestbook <3

I always welcome good faith arguments, and especially if they end up teaching me something or changing my perspective. I will not disappoint with emotional or POV nonsense. I will bring the sources or I will shut up.^[a] Whether it is a grammatical mistake I made, something I wrote, or one of my opinions, I cannot stress enough that I welcome the feedback.

My first edit was made on this account on 19 October 2023. I was reading the page Abdominal thrusts out of curiosity while I was studying to refresh my lifeguarding qualification, and I noticed some inaccurate information which I fixed. A month later, I met Christine Jarvis at the pool I was swimming in. She mentioned that she used to be an Olympian, and so later that day I searched the event she competed in (Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre breaststroke). There was a missing information maintenance template on that page, which enticed me to make my second edit and first substantial edit – adding the semifinal results table. I continued making edits to swimming-related articles over the next few months. The first significant chunk of prose I wrote was the history section in butterfly stroke. The first article I destubbed was William Yorzyk, and the first article I created from scratch was Buddy Baarcke. After discovering Wikiproject Swimming, which was and still is pretty much inactive, I cleared out the ~4000 backlog of unassessed swimming articles. That is one of my biggest contributions to date!

My first attempt to write a Good Article (GA) was Sudoku Cube (see review). I was extremely lucky to get a quick review from an experienced editor (David Eppstein), who kindly explained why most of what I wrote was garbage mostly due to sourcing issues. The article was eventually BLARed. My second and much better attempt at writing a GA was Matthew Webb. I was once again extremely lucky to get a quick review from the experienced Rollinginhisgrave, who helped me bring it to GA over two successive reviews and a lot of changes.

Wanting to give back to the GA process, I then got into GA reviewing to try and make a bit of a dent in the backlog. My first GA review was of History of education in Wales before 1701, which Femke kindly helped out with. I have since gone on to review over 140 more GAs, and I'm proud of the contributions I have made toward cutting down the backlog of unreviewed nominations. I have also tried my best to welcome new editors to the project in the same way I was welcomed, and mentor people in the same way I was mentored. I also help with coordinating GA backlog drives.

After some reviewing, I started the biggest project I have completed on wiki thus far – my good topic containing an article on every swimming event at the 2024 Olympics (see it here). It took me around half a year and so many hours of work, and hence it is the contribution I am most proud of to date. Since then, I have continued to write other GAs and dabble in other GA-related processes like GAR.

In the future I will continue working in the GA project, but I also would like to work in the Featured Articles (FA) project, work in articles for creation and new pages patrol, and work on those high traffic core articles that often get neglected.

• User:Trappist the monk/HarvErrors – Shows errors and warnings with Harv and sfn references/footnotes
• User:Headbomb/unreliable – Highlights possibly unreliable references. Hovering over the highlighted references gives details, which can be used to further investigate the reliability of the source using WP:RSP and WP:RSN
• User:Phlsph7/HighlightUnreferencedPassages.js – Creates a toggle in the toolbar which highlights sentences at the end of a paragraph that do not have a reference after them

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This user wants to compile and preserve the sum of all human knowledge.

This user is a book lover.

This user is a swimmer.

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This user doesn't enjoy conflict, but he doesn't shy away from it if he deems it necessary.