User:Bolinstephen/Plans for Wikipedia

This page was created per the request of this user and is an important part of this user's Wikipedian education. Please to not delete it. LCpl Stephen Bolin, USMCtalk 06:32, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

This page is an answer to this prompt: "Write short article about what you plan to do for Wikipedia. Use terminology that you have learned."

Answer
As a new editor to Wikipedia, I don't really have big plans. At one time, I thought it would be great to edit Wikipedia and I can do so much and I will revolutionize Wikipedia. I know longer think that way anymore. While Wikipedia is always changing, there are many things that remain the same, and that is why I have come to love Wikipedia all the more. There are standards and rules and even rules about breaking rules. But more importantly Wikipedia has some fantastic editors that I will pale in comparison to. I realize that as much as I love Wikipedia and as much as I want to improve it, I only have a limited amount of time and there will not be very many more times that I will have the time or the motivation to do research for a page dealing with historical boy's clothing. But there are some awesome editors out there who have the time and the motivation to do this type of research and to them I will ever be grateful. Because of editor's like them Wikipedia is one step closer to having the entire sum of all human knowledge available at ones fingertips.

But I, have much humbler aspirations. Ever time I see a typo I will correct it. Ever time I see a grammatical and spelling error I will correct it(Except for my pet peeve of spelling civilizations civilisation—errr). I will patrol new pages and contribute where I can. I will expand stubs where I can and wikify articles that need to be wkified. I will add citations where they need to be added. I will revert spam when I see it and I will nominate those articles for deletion that meet the criteria. I wish I had bigger plans for Wikipedia, and I wish I had more knowledge to share, but right now I don't.

But just because I don't have huge plans for Wikipedia does not mean that good things will not come from me. Wikipedia does need users who will stay up in the wee hours of the night to write an artical about historical boy's clothing. But Wikipedia also needs those who are there with an attention to detail who are always willing to help where needed and fix whatever problems that user sees.