User:FrederalBacon

Welcome/About Me
Hello, I'm Fred. I'm a contributor to enwiki, and have been a registered editor here for over 15 years. In that time, I've taken some time away, for both family life, as well as work life. I am a male from the US, and have a wife and kids that take up a large amount of my time. In my professional life, I work in acute care medicine. As such, I typically do not edit articles to do with medical issues, but not out of concern for COI, but more that I don't like bringing my work into my hobby. I'm here to avoid my job, not talk about it more.

On Wiki, I spend a lot of time on the backend, working specifically on vandalism. I also spend a lot of time on noticeboards talk pages. To assist in vandalism issues, I hold rollback, pending change, and new page patroller rights. I also use Huggle and Twinkle, sometimes simultaneously, to work through pages both on and off my watch list, to watch for COI and other issues.

My name is not actually Fred, by the way, it's actually not anything close to my name, but that is a nickname that I have managed to get through some friends of mine, and it's stuck.

Talk/Noticeboard Conduct
I tend to spend a lot of time on talk and noticeboards, due to my more background role. I want to establish three things.


 * 1) I try to be civil and apply policy and guidelines as much as I can, but I'm human. If I make a mistake, overstep, or do something otherwise in contrary to normal community social norms, just drop a message on my talk. I'm reasonable, if you're not a jerk about it. Just talk to me.
 * 2) I try to use gender neutral pronouns (they/them) as much as possible, however, I'm prone to an unconscious overuse of male pronouns, as I am male. If I misgender, be assured, it's not intentional, and I apologize.
 * 3) I stick my nose where it doesn't belong. That's how I learn more about the process here. I don't respond, but I read pretty much everything on ANI and COIN.

Wiki Thoughts
Go ahead, vandalize should be required reading as you make an account, or as a "See here before Editing" on IP edits - Maybe if we explained how pointless it was to EVERYONE, maybe we'd have a little less blatant vandalism, damn it.

Back 09/10 when I was a teen editing Wiki, I had a desire to be an admin. I thought it was the next step. Now, I'm not so sure. I really like being able to report things to the admins, I'm not sure I want to be the one of those getting the report

The easiest way to avoid letting your own feelings for an article subject become involved is to pick an article subject you actually dislike.

WP:YWAB should be upgraded to guideline status. It shouldn't be a mystery that we don't like pseudoscience, and while we are committed to covering it in a neutral way, you can't expect editors to treat pseudoscience with the same level of import as true science.

The more I see the AE, ANI, block, sanction, etc history during the Trump presidency, the happier I am that I was on a wikibreak during that time, as I am sure my then hot-heatedness would have had my name in some of those discussions. I hope to be a more calming force this time around on Wiki.

I feel like the existence of the dispute resolution process on Wikipedia typically prolongs and escalates conflicts that should be handled on an article talk.

Editing under the influence should be required. I feel like Wikipedia would be significantly better if everyone smoked before they got on to edit. Less contention.

ENWIKI ANI: Where editors who have a content dispute go when removing their unsourced material substantially, personally offends them.

Talk page discussion before most changes should be mandatory. WP:BOLD is disruptive on most articles.

Andrew Tate and Kyle Rittenhouse
I am an involved editor in both of these pages. I am working to increase the information from reliable sources for the Andrew Tate article, considering the fact that it has consistently been a Top 25 article for over a month, and has been really lacking in content until a couple weeks ago. On the Rittenhouse article, I am offering input to the editors there on POV issues the article inherently has. I have discovered I enjoy working on controversial BLPs, and I find it to be way less contentious than on other articles, for some reason.