User:StartGrammarTime
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Hi! I like to wander around Wikipedia reading interesting articles (and then almost inevitably editing them a little). You can often find me on pages relating to monarchies, especially pages of lesser-known royalty and their families, courts, and companions.
Whenever possible, I try to improve articles by doing some clean-up work - usually fixing grammar, typographical or formatting errors, or bringing errant alternate spellings into line with the rest of the article. I welcome any feedback on mistakes I've made. If I am unable to respond promptly to any messages, I apologize in advance; I live with chronic pain and often have to take short breaks from editing.
My particular interests include helping new editors, common misspellings, BLPs, rewriting tricky sentences to improve their clarity, and fixing dead links and bare URLS.
Reference Material
Manual of Style • Earwig's Copyvio Detector • article revision search • templates for citation/sourcing problems • Wikipedia Library • price conversion template
Editing (or, These Are A Few Of My Favourite Things (To Edit))
edit requests • unreferenced BLPs • citations needed • clarification requests • copyedit requests • new pages feed • help requested
Tip of the day...
Article size
What is an appropriate length for a Wikipedia article? This is discussed at Article length. An article can be as long as 10,000 words or more, if there are enough sources on the topic to provide for that much content. Undoubtedly there are articles that reach 20,000 words. The recommended maximum length is around 100kB of text. There is no standard for minimum length, an acceptable stub article could be as short as three or four sentences. If you look at the menu on the right-hand side of any page on Wikipedia, there is a link to Page information. Clicking on that link shows lots of information about the page including its total size as well as how often it has been viewed. There is also this tool - you just copy and paste the text into there, and it counts it for you. – – To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd3}}
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Things I enjoy peeking at WP:PR • WP:GAN • WP:FAC
Drafts in progress
[Kinver Rock Houses]
[Tom Thum]
Draft:The Ambassador (Israeli TV series)
Max Fishman