User:TheRazgriz

I have always believed that the first step an editor must go through to be effective is to accept and acknowledge their own bias. The second step is to accept that having a bias is not a negative, but mostly an expected outcome of having a passion for something. With our goal being to work together towards truth, working with bias in mind can help make bold edits that contribute to bettering the page, and help self-reflection when/if your edits are challenged.

Why did I finally make this account in 2024? Well, I was mostly curious if this username was taken already, but also I wanted to challenge myself further. For most of my IP User career, I focused on topics of History (various) and especially tried to work on pages/articles that were (very) rough translations from non-English sources to help improve grammar and (when required) challenge the source claims. As a user with a dedicated profile, while I still intend to passionately work on these pages still, I boldly venture into terra incognita, especially politics and current affairs, to challenge myself with more contentious and divisive content, and to not be afraid to put up a good fight in the name of truth...to challenge status quos if I have reason to believe there is a flaw in it, to boldly edit in the pursuit of greater understanding and to actually participate in Talk discussions that are likely to be heavily filled with unaddressed bias and users who may assume bad faith rather than good faith difference of opinion or perspective. Why? Am I looking for a fight, or for conflict for the sake of it? No. I aim to better myself, to better the quality of discussion and debate on topics full of passion and disagreement, and hopefully to better the quality of WP overall. That is why.

If you made it this far, congrats! You now get a special secret: I don't actually care about the silly ranks on the left of the page. I did legitimately "earn" both of them through all my years of uncounted thousands of edits (If I were serious, my best guess would be I "earned" the "rank" above the one I've chosen here), but I do not believe that experience as a WP editor is valid as any sense of authority on anything really, and I think this "service" system, while good intentioned, leads to a bit of misplaced sense of importance and authority over other editors. I include my "rank" mostly to keep certain editors from assuming (intentionally or otherwise) that they can attempt to bully me into accepting a position in a debate by trying to assert I lack some sort of "understanding" of the WP guidelines. My hope is that by dissuading other editors from "moving the goal posts" to focus on experience as a registered "Wikipedian", this will help keep discussion and debate on-topic and focused on what matters most.

Fun Fact: I am the last direct, Senior, Paternal-line descendant of a Holy Roman Imperial Knight. Within the Holy Roman Empire, these were the men who enjoyed "Imperial Immediacy", i.e. they answered only to the Emperor himself, as equals to the Kings of Bohemia or any of the many otherwise independent Dukes, Margraves, Counts, or Free City Mayors within the Empire. To learn more about the Holy Roman Empire, Imperial Knights, Free Imperial Cities, or the concept of Imperial Immediacy, click on the respective links. Enjoy the rabbit hole, Alice!

Things I can do to help WikiProject U.S. Congressedit list Ongoing: Upload [please add links to the senate rules for each of these committees.] Ongoing: Upload new district maps and incorporate them into articles (November 19, 2013) Ongoing: Apply {{US Congress party summary}} on all Congresses (February 20, 2018) Ongoing: Create edit notices for all articles. (February 15, 2010) Ongoing: Rate all articles that haven't been rated yet. (April 28, 2025)