When you become an administrator, your user talk page gets a lot more interesting.
WP:Assume good faith can be a valuable approach in many circumstances of life, not just Wikipedia.
Use "page preview" before saving an edit.
Use the "thank" feature often.
It's amazing how often a controversial situation can be resolved by a simple rewording.
Check an article's history before proposing it for deletion.
Look for a plausible redirect in lieu of deletion.
Check new articles for copyright violations.
On Wikipedia, it's important to know when to stop arguing with people, and simply let them be wrong. (credit toUser:Atsme)
Wikipedia guidelines are like scripture: somewhere in the labyrinthine network of rules, you can find support for any position. (originally byUser:S Marshall[2], now borrowed fromUser:Fences and windows)
Wit and wisdom seen about town, good enough to share
On Wikipedia I mainly work on articles related toSan Diego, particularly things having to do with San Diego history and San Diego neighborhoods. I also function as aWikignome, cleaning up or proofreading articles that I come across. And I occasionally "rescue" an article which had been nominated for deletion, by adding sources to prove notability, or by rewriting to meet Wikipedia standards. Others who want to do this kind of thing could look for "unreferenced biographies of living persons" atCategory:Unreferenced BLPs.
I've been hanging around Wikipedia off and on since 2006. I began editing in earnest in June 2009, when I saw articles about theSan Diego Yacht Club andMarine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego that contained blatant errors of fact. I corrected those errors, and was hooked. Fourteen short years later, I have become one of the1,000 most active Wikipedians. Actually #896 last time I looked, but who's counting? 0;-D (That's my personal smilie: an angelic grin.)
InJanuary 2015 the Wikipedia community decided it was high time I got down to work and handed me amop. I enjoyed being an administrator, but I handed back the mop in April 2024.
"The Celebrity Source," renamed and refocused toRita Tateel
and 409 others, primarily articles which had been tagged as "unreferenced BLP" (unreferenced biography of a living person) - a tag which can result in their deletion.
Stanford University Libraries (The way the hook was written, it appeared to be aboutJane Stanford rather than about the libraries. The library article got only 566 views, while the Jane Stanford article got 5,400.)
Sandy Cornish, (8,548 views) - my most-viewed DYK ever, and another for the record book - or is it?
Staten Island boat graveyard (14,387 views on the first day, and actually 26,549 counting the two days) - OK, now I suspect the new page view stats really ARE inflating the counts)
Royce Williams - my most-viewed DYK ever, it ran for parts of two days, August 22-23, totaling72,836 108,630 views on the two days.[4] (Oops, my mistake - I forgot to add the two days together.)
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