User:Curb Safe Charmer
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Nationality | British | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current location | Jersey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Languages | English, French | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current time | 20:15 BST [refresh] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Personality type | INTJ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Joined | 15 February 2007 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First edit | March 25, 2007 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Autoconfirmed | 26 March 2007 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
New page reviewer | 16 August 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rollbacker | 19 October 2021 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Edit count | 72,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hi, I am Curb Safe Charmer. My username is an anagram, in case you're wondering!
Organising information has been an interest of mine since I was eight years old when I volunteered in my primary school's library, helping make sure all the books were in the right order according to the Dewey Decimal Classification system.
As a boy I enjoyed the original Batman TV series filmed in the 1960s. In particular I was fascinated by the Batcomputer. Batman could ask it anything, and a few moments later it would spit out the answer on a piece of paper. How did the computer 'know' all of that information? I guessed that at some point, a person must have fed the computer with information, some how. I didn't know anyone who did that for a job but it seemed like a really interesting thing to do. I gave up plans to be a doctor when I grew up, and instead wanted to be someone who inputted and organised the knowledge in a big computer system.
As a teenager, I became fascinated by computers, but when my friends were playing computer games I was more interested in databases.
It is not surprising that as an adult I spend time here, helping to build and curate the world's largest online encyclopedia.
What I do here
[edit]Wikipedia is 99% run by volunteers. I benefit a great deal from Wikipedia and feel I have something to offer in return. My main area of volunteering is Articles for creation where I help sift through new articles and consider whether or not they should be added to Wikipedia, based on my knowledge of the project's policies and guidelines.
Unfortunately, some people try to use Wikipedia as free advertising for themselves, their business, organisation or cause. It is not always easy to tell what is promotion and therefore not permitted, and what is acceptable. Some editors go to great lengths to dress up their promo article as being encyclopaedic. The references they give may be to news articles that are substantially based on a press release, for example. So far I have saved a couple of thousand inappropriate articles from being added to Wikipedia.
A particular frustration that I have is when people who work in public relations, marketing or SEO do not realise that they have to disclose the paid nature of their editing, as part of Wikipedia's terms of use, which they accept every time they save a change to a page.
My AfC stats
Overall AfC stats
Most active reviewers
At the same time, and this is a part of the work that I really like, even though strictly it is not part of the Articles for Creation role, is when I have come across a few articles which have real potential but needed some help, and I have worked with the author to improve their draft so that it is accepted into Wikipedia. The best buzz is from the articles that I've helped with reaching 'Good Article' status.
Deletion
[edit]When I come across an article that at first glance looks like it doesn't belong in Wikipedia, I will often set about editing it, such as running ReFill, trimming citations, removing spurious content and tagging issues such as citations that fail verification. Once the article is a bit more concise and readable, if it still looks like there aren't three good sources providing significant coverage then I'll go ahead and tag it for speedy deletion, propose it for deletion or nominate it for deletion. Hopefully the work I've put in will make it much easier for other editors to carry out their review and quickly come to the same conclusion. This process does result in a lot of my edits (about 30%) being deleted, though.
- Articles I have nominated for speedy deletion - there are many because I tend to do my AfC reviews from the back of the queue where I encounter a lot of 'quick fail' drafts
- Articles I have proposed for deletion
- AfD !vote stats - I tend to contribute to discussions about biographies and companies.
Articles for Creation
[edit]3+ months | There are 2,597 pending submissions pending AfC submissions. |
reFill
[edit]In March 2021 I responded to a request for help (T278211) and became a maintainer of reFill, a tool for expanding bare references. I since found the learning curve too steep to maintain the codebase, but contribute to the project in other ways.
Article creation
[edit]Some of the articles I've created:
- Saint Helier Harbour, the main harbour in Jersey
- Nukhba (Hamas unit), Palestinian terrorist group
- VALL-E, artificial intelligence system (stub)
- Feudalism in the Channel Islands
- Mount Bingham, hill in Jersey
- Disaster victim identification (stub)
- Mike Bracken, leader in digital government
- The American Jewish World, newspaper in Minnesota (stub)
- Pierre Horsfall, Jersey politician (stub)
- Robert MacRae, Jersey lawyer (stub)
- Google Lighthouse, web development software
- Timothy Le Cocq, Jersey lawyer (stub)
- STS Lord Nelson, tall ship
- GOV.UK Verify, identity system
- Jean Martell, Cognac merchant (translated from French Wikipedia article)
- Colin de Mowbray, yachtsman
- MSDAIPP, component of Windows (stub)
- Microsoft Sort, vintage Microsoft product
Some of the articles I've also substantially contributed to:
- Wikipedia good article contributors
- Wikipedia Articles for Creation reviewers
- Wikipedia new page reviewers
- Wikipedians who use reFill
- WikiProject Spam participants
- WikiProject Citation cleanup participants
- Wikipedians interested in Jersey
- WikiProject Jersey participants
- Wikipedians in Jersey
- Jersey Wikipedians
- British Wikipedians
- Members of the Fifteen Year Society of Wikipedia editors
- Wikipedia Did you know contributors
- Wikipedians who contribute to ITN
- User en-N
- User fr-2
- User de-1
- Wikipedians in the Article Rescue Squadron
- WikiProject Biography participants
- WikiProject Companies participants
- WikiProject Wikify participants
- WikiProject YouTube participants
- WikiProject COVID-19 participants
- Wikipedians who have access to Newspapers.com
- Wikipedians who have access to American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Wikipedians who have access to American Speech–Language–Hearing Association
- Wikipedians who have access to the American Psychiatric Association
- Wikipedians who have access to the American Psychological Association
- Wikipedians who have access to Alexander Street
- Wikipedians who have access to Al Manhal
- Wikipedians who have access to Ancestry.com
- Wikipedians who have access to Annual Reviews (publisher)
- Wikipedians who have access to The BMJ
- Wikipedians who have access to Brill Publishers
- Wikipedians who have access to Central and Eastern European Online Library
- Wikipedians who have access to Cairn.info
- Wikipedians who have access to Cambridge University Press
- Wikipedians who have access to Cochrane (organisation)
- Wikipedians who have access to De Gruyter
- Wikipedians who have access to EBSCOhost
- Wikipedians who have access to Edinburgh University Press
- Wikipedians who have access to EDP Sciences
- Wikipedians who have access to ScienceDirect
- Wikipedians who have access to Fold3
- Wikipedians who have access to Foreign Affairs
- Wikipedians who have access to Future Science Group
- Wikipedians who have access to Gale (publisher)
- Wikipedians who have access to HeinOnline
- Wikipedians who have access to JSTOR
- Wikipedians who have access to Loeb Classical Library
- Wikipedians who have access to Newspaperarchive.com
- Wikipedians who have access to Nomos Publishing House
- Wikipedians who have access to Oxford University Press
- Wikipedians who have access to Springer Nature
- Wikipedians who have access to Project MUSE
- Wikipedians who have access to Taylor & Francis
- Wikipedians who have access to Sabinet
- Wikipedians who have access to Women Writers Online
- Wikipedians who have access to World Scientific
- Wikipedians who have access to World Bank
- Wikipedians who have access to Érudit
- Wikipedians who have access to The New York Times
- Wikipedians interested in Ukraine
- Wikipedians interested in helping with GLAM projects
- Male Wikipedians
- Wikipedian sailors
- Wikipedians who use AutoWikiBrowser
- Wikipedians seeking to adopt in Adopt-a-user