User:Taking Out The Trash

Hello, welcome to my user page. I primarily do countervandalism work and new page patrol, including reviewing Articles for Creation submissions. My username is representative of the fact that large amounts of my work here are related to cleaning up/removing the "trash" that people insert (or attempt to insert) into Wikipedia for unknown reasons. This is my second account on Wikipedia, with my previous account being inactive since 2017 and subsequently vanished. This account is a clean start. I attempted to do some content work under my previous account, but just found that I wasn't any good at it. However, since that time I have started writing content again, not for Wikipedia but for a separate MediaWiki site that I'm running/managing. The tasks involved with running this site are the primary reason why I may not always be active on Wikipedia every day.

Userboxen en-US This user is a native speaker of American English. en-ca -2 This user has an intermediate understanding of Canadian English. en-gb -1 This user has a basic understanding of British English. This user has extended confirmed rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user has rollback rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user has pending changes reviewer rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user has page mover rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user has new page reviewer rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user is an articles for creation reviewer on the English Wikipedia. This user edited under a previous user name. This account is a clean start. 18,000+ This user has made over 18,000 contributions to Wikipedia Wiki-N This user is a native Wikipedia editor. This user lives in the United States of America. This user lives in the U.S. State of New Hampshire. This user is a railfan.

I am originally from Indianapolis, Indiana but I currently reside in New Hampshire, after also previously living in Boston, Massachusetts for several years.

I have one alternate account, User:Taking Trash Out that may be used to respond to urgent talk page messages when I can't get to my computer, as I try to avoid being logged in across multiple devices simultaneously for security reasons.