User:MauriceYMichaud

Principally interested in federal and provincial/territorial elections in Canada since Confederation, and biographical information on individuals who have run for or have been elected to office. Wikipedia is but one of the many sources I have used to build a database on this topic over the years; in return, if some of those other sources expand on or correct what currently appears in Wikipedia, I believe that sharing my findings is the right thing to do.

Pet peeves on Wikipedia
 When someone edits an article to correct grammar, but in fact introduces a grammatical error.  I get annoyed by those who think that a run-on sentence is simply a sentence that is too long. (It's in fact a sentence that has two independent clauses that run together without proper punctuation or appropriate conjunctions.) My eyes bleed whenever people capitalize nouns with the belief that it makes those words more important, or as if nouns are capitalized as they always are in German. I cry a little bit as the realization that many have forgotten how to use semicolons and colons sinks in.  People who don't understand (or refuse to understand) what having a "neutral point of view" means.  Corollary: Bad faith edits. </ul> <li>The fact that anybody without an account on Wikipedia can edit anything (I'm looking at you, edits by anonymous IPs!).</li> <ul> <li>Exception: Useful good faith edits.</li> <li>I get really annoyed with partisans who either love or detest the federal Liberals and change the "PC" nominal abbrevation in a Canadian political figure's bio to "Lib," thinking that PC stands for "Progressive Conservative" when in fact it stands for "Privy Council."</li> <li>I fume when anyone can have the audicity to abbreviate the current federal Conservatives "PC."</li> </ul> <li>People who think Wikipedia is like LinkedIn, and leave messages in the Talk area thinking the subject of the article is going to respond to them.</li> <li>People who confuse "encyclopedia" and "news feed." Wikipedia is meant to be the former, not the latter. Biographies of living people should be amplified with a view on the long term.</li> </ol>