Thanks for visiting my userpage! My name's Tony, and I'm an administrator, CheckUser, and oversighter on the English Wikipedia. These are just fancy ways of saying the community has given me a few extra buttons to help with issues relating to privacy. I also hold global renamer rights, but if you want help with that, it'd likely get done more quickly if you follow the instructions on this page.
At various points in my time on Wikipedia I’ve been involved in improving processes, creating content, working against abuse and harassment, and even making a few changes to our overall view on article creation. These days, unfortunately, I don’t have as much time for Wikipedia as I’d like, so I mainly concentrate the time I do have on CheckUser investigations and assisting in oversight matters as needed. If you need help in an article on history of religion, particularly Western Christianity or Islam, I’m happy to lend a hand though.
Despite the fact that most of my work now focuses behind the scenes, I’m a firm believer that we are fundamentally here to build an encyclopedia and that our content work is the reason for our existence. I view my work as an a functionary and administrator as assisting those who build the content to be able to do so in an environment and culture that is conducive to that. All that we do should be done with the question of what improves Wikipedia for the reader in mind, and I hope every edit or action I take works towards that goal.
WP:BLOCKNAZIS and WP:CRYRACIST: two sections of an essay that I wrote that deal with how Wikipedia should deal with neo-nazism, white supremacism, violent racism, and false accusations of the same.
User:TonyBallioni/Community loss-- Essay that deals with how we as a community handle people leaving our project, and I think is at least semi-coherent.
Wikipedia:Don't cite bite: an essay that points out when a newcomer tells someone that they're biting them, they know enough about Wikipedia not to be a newcomer.
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