User:Northernhenge

(He's putting Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout here so he can easily find it.)

When he was a more actively creative editor Northernhenge made an effort to take policies and guidelines into account though this is not his natural inclination. He might have sometimes referred to Biographies of living persons, Neutral point of view, No original research, Verifiability or What Wikipedia is not. He always intended to leave edit summaries but didn't always do so. He was particularly negligent with minor edits and talkpage edits. He probably still imagines that editors read their own talkpages in any case and that minor edits are self-explanatory but that's not really an excuse. Concerning NOR and literature review...

You can, but I believe in any case that a real encyclopaedic work consists of reproducing an existing synthesis of these analyses made by a good source, not trying to do it yourself by fishing for positive and negative criticism and choosing yourself quotes that are considered emblematic.

• In two-or-three words, drive-by tagging. If you have time to tag “Cleanup bare URLs”, you have time to clean them up. Don’t demand that other editors do things you can’t be bothered to do yourself. Also, they’re a problem for new editors. Someone sees a drive-by tag and feels good about applying what they think is a quick and effective fix, for example deleting text that could have been rephrased, or adding a reference to a YouTube video or Facebook page. They now also think they’re helping by adding their own drive-by tags in similar situations across Wikipedia. Drive-by tags take up other people’s time and mislead new editors. (See also the Tagging pages for problems essay.)

• Ownership of articles is a tricky one. We need enthusiasts but editing an "owned" article can be frustrating and drive editors away from the page and maybe Wikipedia itself. But how many articles would not exist if it wasn't for their !owners? To use some very old examples (he should move on really!), CLANNAD and Yodeling have probably illustrated both sides of the argument at one time or another.

• Don't get Northernhenge started on the whole Wiki Loves Monuments fiasco from quite a few years ago now. Essentially a mass-destruction of numerous editors’ hard work, just to standardise a load of pages to (wait for it…) enter a competition.

• Heimskringla
• And his favourite redlinks are... Sylvie Facon; Constance Pittard [fr]
• Mapping from geographic categories using kml template (and also should do more links to these maps).

This user has pending changes reviewer rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify)

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This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than 15 years (18 years, 5 months, and 4 days).

This editor is a Most Perfect Tutnum and is entitled to display this Book of Knowledge with Coffee Cup Stain and Cigarette Burn.

This user enjoys folk music.

• Northernhenge isn't quite sure what an edit count actually measures. (See also Editcountitis, AfD statistics and his edits in the wikipedia namespace.)

  When – despite this – he looks at his total number of edits, he includes his Commons edits on purpose, and other namespaces because he’s too lazy to think about which should be be included.

• Results from an API query
• He was seen for a while at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion and could have got hooked on Wikipedia:Categories for discussion or even Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links until WP:BUSYLIFE took over. Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Women looks important, given the gender imbalance here.
• Another place to while away the hours (articles with leads that are too short)
• He rarely creates articles.
• He's a pending changes reviewer and new pages reviewer who therefore visits Special:PendingChanges and Special:NewPagesFeed
• Recently discovered Category:Articles using duplicate arguments in template calls
• Other...
  • Lua looks interesting.
  • So does User:Nardog/RefRenamer
  • And Magic Words
  • And User:Certes/Reports

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