User:Jpk02141

Hi, I'm Paul.

Abilities
I'm a native and fluent speaker of English. I've served as a paid professional writer in the past, in the role of an industry analyst as an employee of U.S.-based industry analyst firms. This service occasionally involved editing draft reports being prepared by fellow analysts.

Editing Disclsoures
I am not a paid or unpaid professional writer or editor now, and do not expect to be in the foreseeable future. My previous service was limited to market analysis in the area of data warehousing. I will limit my contributions to the exclusion of that area. I have not been an industry analyst within the past five years, and have never been employed by a hardware or software vendor which offered products in my coverage area or which I discussed in published reports.

I am contributing content here purely in my personal capacity on my own initiative in areas on which I am not an expert, and know of no conflict of interest with the content I have contributed and will contribute.

National and Cultural Self-Interests re. the 2022 Conflict in Ukraine
I can't imagine it would even occur to me to disclose the information in this section if I were just posting about music notation and Doctor Who actors, but in anticipation of contributing content related to the 2022 conflict in Ukraine, I believe it may be helpful.

I am a natural-born citizen of the United States, as were both my parents. Based on DNA testing, my ancestry traces overwhelmingly to England and Scotland, and to Sweden and Denmark to a lesser degree.

Based on genealogical research, my earliest known emigrating ancestors were natural-born subjects of England and came to the United States from England in the seventeenth century. Two of my known ancestors participated in the Revolutionary War in combat activities against England. I identify as an American, and my allegiance is solely to the United States.

I have no known ancestry to Ukraine, the Russian Federation, the former U.S.S.R., or any part of them, nor have I ever traveled there, nor do I culturally identify with the native peoples of any of those areas. This is a long-winded way of saying that I don't have a specific self-interest in the outcome of the conflict, other than a general interest that liberty, peace, and self-determination should prevail.

I believe that general interest, however, is acutely implicated by the present Ukraine conflict because of the importance of the issues at stake, including the number of people affected by violence, the potential for evidence of the cultural identity and history of affected countries to be eliminated, the potential for non-combatants to die, the potential for conflict to spread, the potential for the employment of nuclear weaponry, and the participation of governments and residents of countries other than Ukraine and the Russian Federation in supplying materials and services to combatants and publishing information intended to influence the trajectory or outcome of the conflict.

Some may attempt to use Wikipedia to advocate, explicitly or implicitly, for one conclusion, deduction, opinion, or perspective over another. However, I will not. I will only contribute Wikipedia content that presents independently-verifiable factual information to educate the public to enable readers to reach independent conclusions.

Areas of Interest
Well, lots of little things, but the big areas, so far:
 * foreign policy—I majored in political science at a university in the United States, and am interested in the cycle between war and peace, at local, national, and global levels, and now, particularly the conflict occurring in Ukraine
 * music notation—I'm an amateur composer and have added minor content, most in 2015, about tempo markings, because I think they're cool; they straddle the barrier between artistry and algorithm
 * statistics—I always like talking about different statistical tests, when to use one but not the other, and when it doesn't matter; Spearman tests or Pearson tests, logit regression or probit regression, principal components analysis or multidimensional scaling, and on and on
 * up-and-coming actors—I like sci-fi/fantasy-related shows, like Doctor Who & Star Trek, and if I look up wikipedia pages for actors I see and find either that the actor does not have a Wikipedia page despite an established acting career, or has a Wikipedia page which isn't up to date with previous roles, I like creating pages or keeping them up to date
 * grammar—sometimes I'll wander upon a sentence worded so ghastly that it seems immoral not to improve it, or at least to try