User:JGorton

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What I'm Up To
Lawyering: I spend most of my time as an immigration lawyer.

Hobbies: Numismatics and literature.

Music: Umphrey's McGee, The Beatles, Phish, Queen, The Eagles, Kanye West, The New Deal and many more.

Wikipedia and Me
I believe Wikipedia is very valuable, even authoritative on some subjects. I worry that centralization and democratization of knowledge pose problems that we won't fully appreciate for many years but the problems of gentrifying knowledge are well known. I hope Wikipedia will be able to successfully balance accessibility with the richness of expert research and the depth of scholarly literature.

I'm not in a position to bring the weight of scholarly literature to Wikipedia, but I am a WikiGnome. My writing experience focuses on local rewrites to cut lard from articles and enhance local clarity.


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I would like to thank User:Jimbo Wales and everyone who helped developed his userspace page, which I am borrowing liberally from to make my own look pretty.




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