User:Grutness

James Dignan (User:Grutness) is less involved in Wikipedia than he used to be, owing to the over-officiousness of several users who have made this site no longer the enjoyable place it used to be. Whereas at one time it was a case of two steps forward, one step back - manageable, but annoying - it is now frequently one step forward, four or five steps back, with accompanying bitching, zealousness and self-glorifying bossiness. This is not what the site should be - it should be a community, with emphasis on the CO-, meaning together. I'm still around though, but doing more general editing than massive amounts of admin work.

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If you really must know something about me, I'm an admin, and have made just over 300,000 edits, started several thousand articles, and uploaded almost 1000 photos and diagrams either to Wikipedia or Wikicommons. I've been a Wikipedian since 2004. Three essays which I have written are used as guidelines on Wikipedia:


 * User:Grutness/Croughton-London rule of stubs
 * User:Grutness/One street per 50,000 people
 * User:Grutness/Stubbing how-to

I'm English by birth, my ancestry is Irish, Scottish, and English, and I live in New Zealand. More information about me can be found on these subpages:


 * User:Grutness/Grutness non-article
 * User:Grutness/More userboxes

If you're desperate to find out yet more (are you stalking me?) you can always check out the old, full version of this page:

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