User:Condensinguponitself

As to my user name, please don't read too much into it. When attempting to establish an account, I was quite frustrated. All the good user names seemed already to be taken! At the time, I was reading an old meteorological text and came across the phrase "congealing upon itself". I thought that so awkward, surely no one has already claimed it. But I was concerned I might not remember how to spell the first word, so I changed it to "condensing".

I am mostly a reader of Wikipedia, not an editor. When reading, I do like to dig deeper. In other words, I like citations. Sometimes I find that citations can be improved, and that is my main interest as an editor.

As I add citations, I try to resist the systemic bias in the source literature. (See Wikipedia:Systemic bias#External Factors) Although resisting cultural biases is very important, my focus is on the topics no one writes about. Specifically, the tendency to favor novelty over the ordinary. The tendency of writers to take certain things for granted.

I am a fan of historical archaeology, as its practitioners often do strive to write about the ordinary.

I am reluctant to start new pages. Presently, I think there is more need to merge existing pages than create new ones. Nevertheless, I did initiate Robert S. Munger with the goal of adding more balance to Wikipedia's coverage of cotton gins. Also, I created Consumer Product Information Database, otherwise known as Household Products Database, because it is used as a source in a large number of pages.