User:Reidgreg

This editor is a "senior editor" which means that this editor should know better. If doing wrong, this editor may be (virtually) whacked with a trout.

This editor believes that the Wikipedia Community is a collegial anarchy in which no one holds any authority which is not also held by everyone else. This editor is an eventualist and believes that there's no need to panic and that issues with articles can be resolved in due course. This editor believes that systemic bias may be overcome when articles are written over time by a broad variety of editors. However, this editor dislikes edit conflicts and tends to sandbox fully developed articles (in part to qualify articles for WP:DYK). This editor endeavours to be kind and to appreciate kindness from others, and tries to follow the wiki way and the precepts of WP:DGAF. This editor seldom utilizes WP:BRD but fervently practices what editors mean when they say you have to follow BRD. While initially an exopedian, this editor has gradually become more involved with WikiProjects as a mesopedian (approx. 55% of edits to mainspace and 20% to projects). This editor generally contributes through cleanup tasks and assisting a small number of WikiProjects, while continuing to learn how The Project works.

This editor is a member of the WP:Guild of Copy Editors (served as a coordinator from Jan 2018 to Jun 2020), and is also a member of the WP:Typo Team (focusing on apostrophe-related typos) and WP:Canada (promoted its 10,000 Challenge and developed an award system for contributors). This editor has also participated in editing events with Women in Red, WP Military history, Wikimedia Ukraine, and Good Article review drives, and answers Third Opinion requests.

This editor has received 118 barnstars and 130 other awards, and has given over 900 barnstars to deserving editors. This editor has written eighty-nine articles, one of which is featured. This editor has three entries on the DYK leaderboard and is among the top 5,000 Wikipedians by edit count. This editor was named Editor of the Week across consecutive years.


 * Receiving my first barnstar.
 * Having my first GA cited in a heated talk page discussion.
 * Subsequently receiving a Four Award and successfully nominating the article at Today's Featured Article for the event's 10th anniversary.
 * Learning that an article I expanded had received a quarter-million page views. (|Bruce_McArthur permalink)
 * Subsequently having this article listed on In the news. (more)
 * Learning that a new editor I'd encouraged had made contributions far exceeding my own.
 * Leading the GOCE coordinator team and ending my term with an Eddy and a five-year high in recorded support.
 * Completing a four-year streak (Nov 2016 – Sep 2020) of copy-editing drives without falling off the leaderboard.
 * Successfully nominating special-occasion DYKs: April Fool's 2019 (more), Canada Day 2019 (more), 2021 (more) , 2023 (more) and 2024 (more) , Canadian Police and Peace Officers' Memorial Day 2021 (more) , 10th La Poutine Week (more) , 20th Free Comic Book Day (more) , and Refugee Rights Day (more).
 * Completing a series of articles for the first 19 editions of the Canadian Comedy Awards after revamping the main article.
 * Creating a small but humorous easter egg page on Wikipedia. (Can you find it linked on this page?)
 * Finding that a paragraph I'd written was copied verbatim by an Internet news site, and getting them to credit Wikipedia and link to the article. (link)