User:Avraham

Editing
My philosophy in Wikipedia is "No data is better than garbage data." In statistics you know you cannot extrapolate too much from nothing; but given something, one is tempted to build complicated statistical models. Same with Wikipedia; I would rather have a smaller set of useful, verifiable (and verified), clean articles than a large set of borderline trash. This does not mean I prefer to throw out the baby with the bathwater; if an article is sufficiently notable, and has room for improvement, it should be kept. Unfortunately, in my experience, I have found that to be the exception, and not the rule. ` For every article like V. Kalyanasundaram, there are a hundred others that are blatant advertisement, or db-bio's.

Updating references
One of my favorite wiki-pastimes is to find an article which is poorly referenced, and to update it with proper, and perhaps better, citations, like St. Petersburg paradox and Anti-Zionism.

Humorous edits
Every once in a while, I come up with an edit which I (and usually only I) find funny.
 * My piece de resistance
 * Sean's RfB
 * Mop-and-Flamethrower™
 * Channeling Shakespeare--badly

English Wikipedia administration-related
I used to be a checkuser and oversighter for the English Wikipedia, and served on Arbitration Committee/Audit Subcommittee. However, due to real life, I find I have less time to volunteer, so I have returned those privileges. I remain an administrator and bureaucrat.

Bureaucrat activity

 * Recent renames: See Rename Log

Cross-wiki support
I was a steward of the Wikimedia Foundation between 2010 and 2018, and have served as an oversighter and sysop on the Wikimedia Commons and as a sysop on Meta. I served as a member of the Wikimedia ombudsman commission during 2014 and 2015. Due to real life demands on my time, I have returned all of those privileges. I remain a global renamer to support my continued role as a bureaucrat.