User:Saxifrage

Hi there.

I am a member of the Harmonious Editing Club and an administrator.

My use of the tools which the community has entrusted to me can and should be reviewed:
 * Blocks I've given
 * Pages I've deleted
 * Pages I've protected

A Handy Guide to My Biases
I hope that this will be useful to my fellow editors when considering my edits, particularly for those editors who have opposing views to my own. Calling me on biases that show in my edits (if they don't follow the NPOV guidelines) is helpful and appreciated, especially when done diplomatically and with sound arguments laying out what view of reality I'm missing. (Note that this isn't a call for me to adopt your bias whole-cloth, just to expand my awareness of other ways of seeing the world that I can integrate into my own and to help me keep my bias in check.)

I've split this into two sections: things that, due to my place in the world, have become "normal" to my mind, and things that are deliberately adopted as part of my point of view and/or belief system. If I don't think it's relevant to my endeavours at Wikipedia, I won't include it. However, these lists will expand as what meets that criterion changes.

Note that this section is not an invitation to make ad-hominem attacks on my edits and arguments. Everyone has bias, and I am no exception. By disclosing the bias I am aware of, I hope, among other things, to defuse that kind of ad-hominem attack as well as to prevent biases I don't hold from being ascribed to me.

Normalised parts of me
By no choice of my own, these are things that filter how I see the world:
 * male gender
 * Western world
 * capitalism
 * Canada
 * feminism
 * public and University education

Adopted biases
I am, by choice...
 * socialist
 * areligious/secular
 * non-monogamous
 * mildly anti-capitalist
 * mildly anti-communist
 * pacifist
 * anti-war
 * sex-positive

Editorial notes

 * Their is a perfectly good ungendered singular.
 * IPA is our dictionary key and spelling guide standard, but "rhymes with" and "proNUN" alongside the IPA increases utility with minimal clutter.

Habitual typos
I make a few inexplicable typos consistently, and they're ones that consistently fly under my radar and frustrate me to no end. If you find me writing and for an, not for no, or getting -ed and -es switched, please correct me (even in my Talk page comments). If you're not sure what I meant because it's not obvious whether it's a typo or not, drop me a note at my Talk page and I'll correct it. As for articles... I apologise profusely to any editors that have to clean up after me in advance. I've gotten to the point that I can only be amused and bemused by this, as it resists every attempt I make at noticing it when I do it.

I suspect that how inflectional morphemes and prepositions are processed by the brain contributes to this, since they're all ones that have been found to be processed at a very basic cognitive level.

Stubs I've started

 * VanDusen Botanical Garden
 * Flower child
 * Secretariat of the European Parliament
 * Canadian Intellectual Property Office
 * Hennin
 * MacTeX
 * xindy

Articles I've written or translated

 * Burg Maus (translated)
 * Claude Vermette (wrote)
 * Sainte-Adèle, Quebec (wrote)
 * Warzone (game) (rewrote)

One-time tasks
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 * Links cleanup
 * Short projects


 * Present link at Talk:Corporate identity, linking to argument at User talk:Shauny000
 * Fix links at The Faction War
 * Formatting of Template:Sailing dinghies and skiffs and Template:Keelboats worldwide


 * Middling projects


 * Write essay for conflict-of-interest writers (spammers, company employees, etc) on how Wikipedia works
 * Deal with Perchance it is not dead but sleepeth being used as a template
 * Sir Gregory Page-Turner reads like a copyvio: investigate


 * Large projects


 * Improve Fred Penner
 * Turn the MUCK redirect into a proper article. See TinyMUCK etc.
 * Turn collectible miniature game redirect into a proper article or add a section to miniature figure.
 * Fix up Tarkin to remove the and  tags
 * Overhaul Multimedia Container Format for style, voice, and references
 * Start /Collaborative roleplaying and move into article space
 * Write The Big Model and get attention for its improvement at the RPG wikiproject.
 * Do major cleanup of Virtual water - requires significant research
 * Write article about Charles Stuart, the English spy (ref: Private&Secret)

Ongoing tasks

 * Category:Wikipedia articles with nonstandard pronunciation