User:Guylaen

I am not employed by the Wikimedia Foundation, but I am in the city of San Francisco roughly every month or so for Wikipedia-related activities. I have also been donating to the organization for as long as I have been an editor, and I encourage every editor to do the same, especially given the current controversial climate surrounding the tax-exempt status of the Foundation.

I am an active member of the Bay Area Wikipedians User Group (BAWUG), which has taken over the organizing of monthly Wikipedia meetups in the San Francisco Bay Area, and I have also attended occasional functions at the Cascadia Wikimedians User Group, in the Seattle region.

I've lived a lot of my life in the Pacific Northwest, but I am currently living in Monterey, California. I was born and raised on Whidbey Island. I've also spent time in Honolulu, Manhattan, Dongducheon, and Fort Leonard Wood.

I'm an aspiring spy fiction novelist.

I'm also big time into the work of the United Nations and talking about things instead of having wars, so you might see some work of mine on these subjects.

I'm pretty much trying to bring to light big characters and stories that the world needs to know, but aren't on wikipedia yet. I primarily write on English wikipedia.

I am primarily an article content creator and writer on Wikipedia. I value creation and inclusion of new content here, and I greatly value article improvement over deletion. When I have the time, I prefer to find sources for information rather than delete unsourced sentences. Like everyone on this website, I suppose, my interest waxes and wanes in certain topics and areas, however there are specific areas that I just keep coming back to; espionage, Cuba, and true cloak and dagger histories.

My work on wikipedia is mostly to bring attention to the world the stories and people I've come across in the world of cloak and dagger, intelligence and espionage - and the cops and robbers associated with them - that the world should know about.

I absolutely and wholeheartedly reject payment to edit or advocate on anyone's behalf. I understand that some companies are authorized by the Foundation to create articles, but I find the practice unusual and it kind of makes my skin crawl.

Disclaimer: Know that I esteem my editorial independence.

Even though:

• I have been the victim of well-over 30 data breaches
• I used to be employed by the United States Military
• I used to be employed by the government of Washington state
• I have been professionally associated in some form with current or former employees or elected officials of the governments of;

Somalia / Canada / China / Pakistan / India / Russia / Ukraine / United Kingdom / Nigeria / Australia / the United States of America / Mexico / Costa Rica / Eritrea / Taiwan / Hong Kong / Hungary / South Korea / Japan / France / The Vatican / Djibouti / Brazil / Italy / Malaysia