User:JFG/sandbox/Misc

Deeds
From my request for NPP rights:
 * Insertcleverphrasehere kindly invited me to NPP last year. I considered it but was intimidated by the big huge flowchart. Now there's a simpler one, I feel like giving it a try. I have been a page mover since this permission was unbundled (honoured to have been the first grantee). My participation at move requests and move reviews helped me get a feel for the nuances of closing discussions in the face of diverging opinions within policy. I'm also a template editor. I have grown a reputation of fairness in sometimes acrimonious editing domains (ouch, politics!) Here's hoping I can spend some more distracting time on the wiki, as if I did not spend half my life here already. — JFG talk 22:41, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

Queen Anne of Romania
To get a feel for my style when dealing with BLP, please read my close of the move request for Queen Anne of Romania right after she died: some people pointed out she had never been a queen (which is technically correct, as she had married a deposed king), while others insisted that she deserved her title because that's how most people had been calling her for decades. The close was further endorsed at move review.

Skyhook
I have also occasionally participated in discussions to rein in abusive if well-meaning editors, for example pushing their own "scientific" OR or bitterly defending their personal essays (non-rotating skyhooks, complete with legal threats, quantum field of magnet). In that context, I have sometimes helped remove copyvios that had been sneaked into otherwise legitimate articles and had lingered there unsuspected for years.

Noobs
I enjoy helping sincere newbies up the ladder of our byzantine policies, guidelines and culture. For recent examples, see User talk:JFG, User talk:JFG or User talk:JFG