Map42892

map42892

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Country	United States
Education and employment
Occupation	Civil Attorney
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In linguistics, this user prefers descriptivism over prescriptivism. This editor puts the reader first. big wordsThis user opposes the use of esoteric, abstruse and recondite big words in Wikipedia articles when simple ones will do. whoThis user prefers using who for both the object and subject case. Who does it hurt to simplify things? What Gap?This user acknowledges that most notable figures are men, and so there is no gender bias on Wikipedia when it comes to which biographical articles are notable. man- kindRegarding gender, this user prefers the vernacular, not what is politically correct. theyThis user frequently uses the singular they for non-named subjects as it is a handy gender-neutral pronoun ("Each student should complete their own homework"), but views it as a clumsy and overly prescriptivist personal pronoun. "...,"For quotation marks, this user would rather use "American punctuation." A, B, and CThis user prefers the serial comma. tyop typoThis user is a member of the Wikipedia Typo Team. Wikipedia should attempt to achieve neutrality, Not advance the bias of sources. This user believes that sources from social sciences, such as sociology and the critical theories, involve ideas rarely provable as fact, and are therefore usually less reliable than other fields for purposes of Wikipedia. Bell HooksThis user believes that the use of all-lowercase names by intellectuals such as E. E. Cummings and Bell Hooks is awkward, elitist, and worth avoiding on Wikipedia.bell hooks This user participates in mooting. This user believes the world would be a happier, safer, and saner place without religion.

I'm a long-time user but infrequent Wikipedia editor. I tend to only edit when I see something that can readily confuse the reader or prevent them from obtaining sobered information, including WP:NPOV issues when it comes to information supported by quasi-journalistic sources, such as blogs and op-eds. Since joining Wikipedia, I've noticed a tendency for those sources to be used to portray information under an ideological or narrative-driven lens as a statement of objective fact, which risks negatively impacting readers' ability to simply gain information.

I am therefore a proponent of maximizing the use of WP:INTEXT whenever possible. Given the precipitous decline in journalism in general as a source of factual information about the world, I am in favor of a future on Wikipedia in which such sources are presumed generally unreliable until proven otherwise. That said, I always aim to make edits that comply with both the rules and spirit of Wikipedia.

I also often fix typos and syntax issues that I stumble upon.

I'm a proud expert on, and contributor to, the Bluebook legal citator!