Any one of these issues is a reputation risk; combined these are concerns about our long-term safety and viability:

1. Scams over undisclosed paid editing.
2. Deprecated mainstream media, with the rise of content creators, all of varying degrees of reliability.
3. Attacks by the extremely wealthy, reactionary, and powerful, who look upon our very existence as a repository of information and truth as dangerous.
4. Backlog of 15 years of 70,000 unsourced articles, especially geographical stubs. This hurts our credibility and vandalism sneaks in. (CS46 did serious harm.)

• See Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-01-15/In the media.

• Add different sides of opinions, to make an article more neutral; for example, I edited Participation trophy to add opinions (justifications and criticisms) and citations to make the article comply WP:NPOV. Each citation doesn't have to be neutral, but the article overall has to be so. Not every opinion is equal or worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia, but a survey of opinion is usually appropriate.

This is an assorted list of things done and to do.

My WP:AfD stats list is [1].

My articles created in the past 30 days is here: [2].

At the end of 2013, I softened up, after an off-wiki email exchange with another editor. By the end of 2014, I retired. My block log is here: [3]. Regarding user names, I did not block them unless they were already reported to WP:UAA, see [4], or are seriously obnoxious.

• Regarding the issue of my supposed consensus-violating inclusionism at RFA and AFD, I did the research to confirm or to deny it, see User_talk:Bearian#My_recent_record.2C_for_the_record. I am not much more inclusionist than the average Wikipedian. For the period May 1 to 11, 2011, I was in line with the consensus on WP:RFA exactly 100 % of the time, and on WP:AfD a bit over 92 % of the time. As of May 2017, I was more deletionist, but still in line at about 95 % of the time. As of August 2024, I have voted about 68 % for deletion, 19 % to keep, and 23 % other options or merely commenting, and in line with the majority 95 % of the time.

• I have had 406.8 edits per recent page patrolled, per User:Snottywong/Patrollers. Bearian (talk) 19:28, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

• I have sometimes made edits from IP User talk:24.97.138.94. Bearian (talk) 20:04, 9 March 2010 (UTC) See Special:Contributions/24.97.138.94. Bearian (talk) 15:15, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

• I attended the frist Wiknic on August 11, 2007.

Images from the NYC Wiknic:

• I attended the NYC Wikiconference 2009 and met Jimbo Wales.
• I attended two chapter meetings, one at Columbia University and one at new York University, around 2009-2011.
• I attended the June 25, 2011 Wiknic at Norman's Landscape, with my fiancee'.
• I attended the Art + Feminism Wikithon on early 2017 at MoMA.
• Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/May_2020.
• Wikimania NYC in 2023 and 2025, and smaller gatherings.

• RfA declined first on 8/9/07 at [5] and [6], and declined for the time being, but said "I'll consider" on 8/30/07 at [7].

• I retired as an admin in December 2014.

• Please do not edit this; it has expired; this is for reference only: Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Bearian.