User:John24601

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Welcome to my user page. My name is John, and I live in the United Kingdom. I am a Nurse and First aid trainer. I am also in the process of applying to Medical school. Feel free to drop me a note on my talk page or send me an email

Opinions & Values on Wikipedia
I can be quite picky about what should and should not go into an article. In particular, my pet hates are "how-to" sections, disclaimers, trivia/cruft, and blatant editor opinion&analysis/original research.

I'm considered pedantic by some because I like to see work well referenced: in particular those "facts" which are deeply bedded in an article and taken for granted from one edit to the next, as they so often turn out to be incorrect. WP:V says we should cite any material likely to be challenged: that is exactly the kind of material people are likely to cite anyway, we don't need reminding - it's the rest we need to pay attention to.

I'm not a fan of episode synopsis pages for TV shows. I've been involved in writing/editing them in the past, but now they just annoy me. I'm not sure they're encyclopaedic per WP:NOT, but I fear it'd be mission impossible to get rid of them all.

My contribution to wikipedia
In addition I am the creator of the First aid wikiproject, which has been somewhat neglected of late, but which I'm hoping to get back to soon.

I am periodically active on WP:AfD. I also trawl through random pages trying to make small improvements: mostly stylistic edits, I also tag articles which need serious improvement.

Future plans

 * Break out of medical related articles into the wider world!
 * Kick-start the First Aid wikiproject back into action
 * Start vigorously searching for appropriate references for pages I'm involved in