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So you saw a thread on Reddit, claiming I am a paid government shill. My 15 minutes of non-fame I guess. Please do ask me anything you want to know; I am happy to personally deny the charges, that come from someone who may not understand how to use or interpret the Wikipedia tools they found, and help you understand how and why Mr. Reddit got it wrong.
And yes, there typically are about half a dozen top editors working on just about everything I edit here, whether medical, Venezuela, or as part of the articles I follow as a result of having served as a delegate for many years for Wikipedia's featured article process. There are also typically dozens to hundreds of others, doing a bit of this and that, but the quality articles on Wikipedia are usually shepherded by very few editors, doing all the work. There aren't enough editors in any area, and there are almost always just a few editors holding down the fort.
Although I have never showcased my Featured article work, or my barnstars (as you see on the userpages of many Wikipedians), now that I wear a false tag that has been spread thoughout the internet, I may have to put together some information about who I really am. We'll see.
SandyGeorgia—the famously inefficient editor who got dinged for taking ten edits to do what another editor can do in one.
Seasons
Gothic Seasons Greetings | ||
Wishing you all the best for x-mass and miss you as always. Thought what happened to you this year was shocking, but not surprising, and I notice, frankly, that karma has come around. Keep on fighting the good fight my dear. Ceoil (talk) 19:12, 16 December 2018 (UTC) |
Happy Saturnalia
Happy Saturnalia | ||
Wishing you and yours a Happy Holiday Season, from the horse and bishop person. May the year ahead be productive and troll-free. Ealdgyth - Talk 17:07, 18 December 2018 (UTC) |
Greetings and Salutations
- To SandyGeorgia:
- Hello!
- Congratulations!
- You have been included in my first, and possibly only, Very Early Christmas List!
- As an earnest fellow believer in Santa Claus, and possibly in Our Redeemer Liveth as well, you may wonder how you got on this list.
- I have no idea!
- That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
- Unless I tracked down the connection in our user talk archives, in which case you know who you are!
- Or not.
- All the best for you and yours this Christmas 2018 and New Year 2019!
- – Athaenara jingles all the way 02:17, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
Best wishes
Season's Greetings | ||
Wishing everybody a Happy Holiday Season, and all best wishes for the New Year! Adoration of the Shepherds (Cariani) is my Wiki-Christmas card to all for this year. Johnbod (talk) 10:26, 23 December 2018 (UTC) |
Happy Holidays
Season's greetings! | |
I hope this holiday season is festive and fulfilling and filled with love and kindness, and that 2019 will be safe, successful and rewarding...keep hope alive....Modernist (talk) 12:48, 24 December 2018 (UTC) |
Austral season's greetings
Austral season's greetings | |
Tuck into this! We've made about three of these in the last few days for various festivities. Supermarkets are stuffed with cheap berries. Season's greetings! Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 22:16, 24 December 2018 (UTC) |
Xmas
Seasonal Greetings
Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2019! | |
Hello SandyGeorgia, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2019. Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages. |
BEER
A beer on me! | ||
I only came upon the problem when I stumbled upon a weird transclusion. You identified the issue and immediately addressed it. Good Catch! Mannanan51 (talk) 19:27, 3 May 2019 (UTC) |
- oh boy, that beer is going down fast ! Could not come at a better time :) Great work there, best regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:42, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
15 minutes of non-fame (Paid Editing)
... of non-fame. "Controlling the narrative: Six editors account for the overwhelming majority of edits to Wikipedia articles covering current events in Venezuela" on reddit.
- Posted to AN for more eyes: [1] SandyGeorgia (Talk) 10:20, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
Some information about my edits:
- Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/archive55#FAC delegate resignation (a bit about who I am)
- The paid editing thing needs to be dealt with right away; that dog won't hunt anywhere, because I've been around too long and know too many editors, and have too much of a consistent editing pattern (where I end up with a high edit count on every article I touch, because of how I edit) for anyone of substance to believe it. Besides that. It is false. (And creepy, cruddy and disgusting.)
- From being the Featured article candidate delegate and heavily involved at Featured article reviews, if you look at any article I edit, you will find I have gazillions of cleanup edits, even in the cases where I add little content. I clean up citations. I clean up MOS stuff. I do gobs of little edits. It's because I am used to working on articles written at the featured article level, and I hate working on crap articles, so I clean them up. People with an edit counting obsession are going to come to false conclusions about my edits quickly if they use the editcount tools.
- Here's an example: Samuel Johnson. I can't remember for how many years I've watched that article and maintained the small things. I am the top editor in edit count by a long distance, even though I have only 6% of authorship.[2] Every article I touch is similar, because I do so much repetitive cleanup work.
- A factor in the Venezuelan presidential crisis suite of articles is that we have had to constantly split articles (as the grow too large) into smaller sub-articles. When you split or merge an article by copy-pasting text, you end up with 100% credit for the authorship, even if you wrote none of it. Best example of that is an article I hardly edit, Censorship and media control during the Venezuelan presidential crisis. I show as having 73% of the content in nine edits;[3] that's because I copied the text from the main article to there when we split it, so it looks like "my" article, even though I wrote almost none of it. The tools don't give the information that Mr. Reddit thinks they do.
- I am fluent in Spanish (for listening, reading and speaking, but not for writing), but a native English speaker. Some of the Venezuela editors sometimes need help with grammar cleanup, so that also adds to my editcount. I strongly deny that any of the Venzuelan editors are paid; that stuff is too easy to recognize. I busted a Venezuelan paid editor once, rather spectacularly, at ANI. (Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive867#User:FergusM1970)
That doesn't mean I am naive to the topic of paid editing in Venezuelan articles. When Hugo Chavez was alive, it was a widely and well known fact that he controlled the entire suite of Venezuela articles, and attempts to recruit Wikipedia editors happened. I know. Personally. It's why I stopped editing the topic for many years, only coming back when I heard of the January 2019 crisis. No one was complaining when a blatant and pronounced pro-Chavez bias dominated the suite because Chavez was media savvy and put his best people on the job. I am completely unaware of any such effort during the 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis, and considering the approaches I used to get, I think if there were a current effort to control the content on Wikipedia, I would have been approached. My observation is that we are dealing with a small group of editors, like me, who either by birth or other life circumstances, are familiar with Venezuela.
- Have I mentioned that Mr. Reddit has an edit counting problem while having no knowledge of the tool he is using? Yes, I edit like a banshee, and yes, in spite of my infamous number of typos, I can generate that much content without being paid for it. I should be paid in typos. I wonder if Mr. Reddit even knows how to look at actual edits.
- If you've come by to find out more about me, I hope you'll read Featured article Tourette syndrome, dementia with Lewy bodies, or a little gem like bespoke, which was a fun rescue with Johnbod from Articles for deletion. Ima Hogg was pretty much everyone's favorite April Fools FA collaboration; I didn't do most of the work there (that was Karanacs), but I corralled everyone at WP:FAC into working on it, and we had a blast with the main page blurb on April 1, 2008. I am proud that together with other Venezuelan editors, we have kept 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis readable during the three grueling months it has been on the mainpage. (I am not a mainpage follower, but I am pretty sure that being subjected to an onslaught of edits from mainpage exposure for three months is highly unusual.) After my brush with internet Reddit fame, I doubt I will stay involved there. May be time to write another neuropsych article, since I gained so much experience dealing with psychopathologies while the article was mainpaged.
- I am proud of the work I headed up here: {{FCDW}}
- This post from old friend Tim, a medical editor, always tickles my funny bone:
- Who is Sandy Georgia? - "Sandy is a complicated person in real life. She passes her time in simple surroundings, trying to deflect the worship of those who know her and use her gifts to help others. She has been hunted as a fugitive, cursed as a tomb-robber, and is renowned as a lover and duelist. She is a worshiped as a God in Honduras, but is an outlaw in Peru. No living man knows her real name, as she only whispers it into the ears of those she is about to kill. All love her and hate her, she is SandyGeorgia." -- Tim Vickers 17:19, 3 December 2007 (UTC) [4] [5]
- That's about all I can think of to share publicly about myself. Except one last thing. You couldn't pay me to be a PR shill for the Trump administration. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 03:30, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep up the good work. Wow - 845 views a day for Bespoke! Johnbod (talk) 03:38, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- Wow, I had no idea ... can't believe people read a topic like that! Cool beans, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 03:52, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep up the good work. Wow - 845 views a day for Bespoke! Johnbod (talk) 03:38, 5 May 2019 (UTC)