User:Whole Sight

Who I am
It is with some dismay that I read in How Wikipedia Works that it's often better to stay anonymous as a Wikipedia contributor - even if one's contributions are, as in my case, minimal. I'd prefer to give my real name but am holding off until I have a better feel for whether that would make sense.

Beyond that, I'm a fairly experienced nonfiction writer & editor in a bunch of different fields - mostly I have helped (either as editor or co-author) with books on investing, business, and card games. I have a background in journalism as well, though I don't do much journalism these days.

My interests and contributions
I read a lot of psychology textbooks, especially behavioral psychology. I'm also interested in organizational psychology, including conflict resolution in the workplace. A pretty big fan of watching tennis, more ATP than WTA. Let's see, what else? I guess my contributions, slim as they are, speak to that: I just checked my own history and find that back in 2008, I had a talk concern about notability for Nonviolent Communication. And in 2011, while reading a tennis blog, I stumbled across a link to what proved to be a bogus Wikipedia article on a made-up tennis player - planted by someone associated with an ad agency, and intended to promote a brand of KSwiss sneaker. I flagged the article & it was deleted, which I found gratifying.

Other than that, in early 2012 I initially recommended "Keep" on the delete discussion page for an article on the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science. ACBS sponsors a particular kind of behavioral psychology that I find interesting; however, later on in the discussion, I changed my stance and agreed that deletion made sense, based strictly on Wikipedia standards for notability. My revised take was that you can have a great organization, but if no one has written about it specifically in a magazine or newspaper article or other third-party venue, then it's not yet "notable." Ironically, however, on Jan. 30, 2012 a master editor ruled that the "Delete" motion was not sufficiently supported (i.e. that there was after all sufficient notability) and that the article would therefore be kept. Just shows how much I have to learn about Wikipedia!

FYI, while we're on the subject of psychology, other schools of behavioral psychology that interest me are Functional analytic psychotherapy and Dialectical behavior therapy. I'm also interested in just plain old Radical behaviorism, a.k.a. behavior analysis.

There's lots more, but at least this is a start for anyone interested in learning more about me & why I show up now & then on a talk page or what have you.