User:Joy Stovall
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Too much about me
I've been a registered Wikipedian since May 2004, after reading about the project in a friend's LiveJournal. It didn't take long for an obsession to develop. I enjoy fixing grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors, which is what first got me hooked. Since then, I've moved back and forth among a lot of different areas: wikifying, cleaning out old vfd discussions, hitting the random page button and fixing what I can, sorting stubs into categories, and Recent Changes patrol. Now and then, I create a new article. So far, I've started 26 articles. The most unpleasant to research was Creeping eruption.
Wiki-specifics
I'm interested in Wikipedia for more than just the information that's available here, although I do love just browsing around different articles that you just aren't going to find anywhere else.
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I'm fascinated by the sense of community that exists here, and the myriad of interactions that go on among a lot of different people with many different opinions, here in this space where the click of an "Edit" button is all that's required to make a change. There are disagreements, but I believe most editors just want the best possible encyclopedia. We just disagree on what that means. One area of division and strife involves the question of what to include.
Three camps are well-known as the mergists, deletionists, and the inclusionists. I prefer to think of them as, respectively, the mergists, the purgists, and the splurgists.
Where I stand
I am a Mergist: there's room in this encyclopedia for an amazing amount of information, but, in Radiant!'s apt words, "information does not want to be alone." Three short related articles just don't provide as much context and continuity as one longer one.
Links to things I can never find, even though I use them a lot
Articles Created
Gardenia Miniature Schnauzer Virgin Gorda Snellen chart (featured in DYK) Powdery mildew Retinal detachment Anegada Little White House Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test (rescued from VFD) Chili powder Mythopoeic Society Up the Down Staircase Scratching post Norman Island Masking tape Little Sisters Jerry Clower Eddie Rabbitt Pemphigus Nummular dermatitis Angioma Seborrheic keratosis Creeping eruption Dermatofibroma Basal reader Car wash