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This user believes that every edit should have a summary .
Some of my philosophy, Horatio
I'm pretty much just here to work on an encyclopedia.
I believe edit summaries are an oft-missed opportunity for communication, and I use them pretty religiously . In fact, I rarely use my rollback privilege, because it leaves uninformative summaries.
I try to observe a one revert rule , except in obvious cases of repeated vandalism.
I think references are very important—otherwise, this isn't much of an encyclopedia. I like inline citations .
Articles I've put a lot of work into
Rosie the Riveter • Boston Latin School • Netflix Prize • Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
See my other edit stats .
Other things I work on
Developing Navibot . It finds missing disambiguation entries and adds them to the appropriate page—see below
Developing enwikipedia , a bot that announces featured Wikipedia content on Twitter
Cleaning up references and citations
Adding Persondata
Applying MOSDAB
Spam
Tools I use
Citation templates • Last 500 anon. edits • {{subst:unsigned2 }}
Bots etc.
I'm working on Navibot . It will find disambiguation entries, e.g.:
I'm also thinking of writing a formatting bot that would do stuff like this:
He died at Eisenach on May 14th 1565
But see discussion with idiosyncratic editor: User_talk:Johndburger#What_about_the_dates.3F
A "descriptor" bot (terrible name).
Find bare mentions of people in lists like "Notable graduates" or "Notable residents"
Formulate short descriptions from the corresponding article, using WP:Persondata and other heuristics
Add these descriptions to the bare mentions in the list
This approach could also be used when adding entries to disambiguation pages.
To do list