User:RadManCF



I am an anal retentive Minnesotan of German, Norwegian, Scottish, English, and Irish descent (almost everyone in western Europe that ever wreaked havoc). One of my pet peeves is bad grammar, and so I engage in many minor edits. I have also recently begun patroling new pages and recent changes.[](bureaucracy is so satisfying).[][][]I am also a member of the welcoming committee(while bureaucracy is satisfying, I am not a vogon). Feel free to leave a message, I will answer on my talk page.

Some of my views on Wikipedia
I came to Wikipedia after initially being highly skeptical of the concept. I held the rather simplistic view that an information source relying on user generated content would be inherently unreliable. I found myself reading a few articles by accident, and found that the articles on subjects I was familiar with were generally correct. The observation of grammatical errors led me to try the edit button, and after awhile, I created an account. I am very conscious of the fact that many people consider Wikipedia to be inherently unreliable, which has led me to hold the following views:

Immediatism I feel that ensuring that all mainspace entries are of the highest writing quality and factual accuracy at all times is essential to the public perception of our project. If we fail to do this, it legitimizes the argument that user generated content is inherently unreliable.

Exclusionism I feel that by including excessive amounts of content about frivolous topics (e.g. articles about individual Pokemon, obscure fictional characters, etc.) feeds skepticism about our project, especially since there are several non frivolous and, IMO, highly important, topics that are covered very poorly here, like Blasting and Misanthropy. A causal reader could very well go from one of our articles on Pokemon, to the article on Blasting and be quite confused by the disparity in coverage.

some useful links

 * An unfinished house is a real problem
 * Don't hope the house will build itself
 * Immediatism
 * Wikipedia is not therapy
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 * WP:TROUT