User:Michael G. Lind

For a decade, I have been mainly active in the german sister project with 10 featured articles and 4 good articles to show for.

Sadly, multiple times I had to experience xenophobia at close quarters (for instance Britons were called "those Island apes"), more than once I was insulted personally and at various times my user page was vandalised - with german administrators seemingly unwilling to do anything about it. Ridiculous.

So I had a feeling the time had come to change horses and also write in the english wikipedia. After all, my main interest has always been British politics, 18th-20th century, so it was the logical step to do.

Note: I refuse to engage further in discussions; even though debate clubs are not foreign to me and I enjoy political discourse, in my observation, the discussion pages of all Wikipedias are usually used by opinionated, rude users who enjoy arguments and disputes, have memorised every rule on Wikipedia or just refer to "collaborative editing", but are able to contribute only very little or not at all to the main task itself – that is, expanding and improving articles. Most of the time, these users can't write proper articles for themselves, because they never bothered to read a book, mostly using Links to fan sites instead. Such figures make meaningful activity difficult to sometimes impossible.

• Castlereagh–Canning duel

• Richard Aldous