User:The Wordsmith

Welcome to my Userpage! Enjoy your stay.

About Me
I enjoy doing a number of things around the wiki. In January 2010 I became a Coordinator of the (now-defunct) Mediation Cabal, and in March 2010 I became an Administrator on the English Wikipedia. Currently most of my work on-wiki is in dispute resolution and enforcement, particularly in contentious areas and topics under Arbcom sanctions. I'm also trying to contribute to the cleanup and improvement of articles within my area of expertise, American politics. I am also well-known as a BLP hardliner, who believes that protecting living persons from unsourced and poorly sourced contentious material trumps all other policies and guidelines. I continue to uphold the spirit of the Mediation Cabal, even though it has long since been retired. I can often be found roaming around various topic areas and attempting to resolve disputes.

I have also been called a BLP Hardliner. Given my role in the 2010 Mass BLP Deletions and the creation of WP:BLPPROD, that's accurate. My position has not changed in recent years, I openly accept and embrace the label. BLP is our most important policy, and needs to be protected above all else.

Pages I have created
Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline

Pirate Party (United States)

Tiny Bubbles (song)

What Mediation Cabal is not

Content creation credits
Council on Religion and the Homosexual

Pirate Party (United States)

Doria Atlas

Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline

The Right Stuff (blog)

White Night Riots

Notability (events)

Images I have uploaded
All photographs were taken by me, uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, and licensed under CC-BY or CC-BY-SA, unless something different is specified.