User:Vardion
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I am from Aotearoa (better known as New Zealand), and most of my edits probably reflect this. I generally work in the quieter areas of Wikipedia, and tend to avoid the more controversial articles. I also tend to focus on writing or expanding articles, rather than being active in the community. This is not a reflection of any unwillingness to engage — rather, it is simply a relection of the limits on my time.
My primary focus at present is on the politics of my country — this generally means its political parties, its politicians, and its elections. I am equally interested in modern and historical politics. I occasionally venture out into the politics of other nations, and into general political theory, but for the most part, I remain focused on my own country. As for my actual views on politics, I prefer not to state what they are — by keeping this information to myself, my edits can be judged on their merit (or lack thereof), rather than on someone's perception of me. If anyone is able to gather and present evidence of my political beliefs from my edits, I will have failed to achieve my goal of neutrality.
On occasion, I will work on other things. I am very slowly working my way through the Provinces of Vietnam, and am currently a participant in the WikiProject dealing with them. When some other topic catches my interest, I will sometimes leave my normal routine, but there is no particular pattern to this. Random examples of articles I have contributed to outside my normal activities include Zauditu, Konrad von Marburg, Escalade, Lars Porsena, Diego Deza, Quiritis, and Qashqai.
I have also made a number of GFDL maps for Wikipedia, which I hope may be useful for anyone needing a map template for their projects. The blank maps which I made (and which used to be found on this page) are now accessable, along with others, from the Wikipedia:Blank maps page.
I sometimes like to pretend that my mediocre knowledge of Chinese and Maori qualifies me as a speaker of those languages — I therefore have accounts at the Chinese and Maori versions of Wikipedia, and hope to gradually expand my activities there. (My Latin and French, learned in high school, have decayed to the point where I can no longer even pretend to speak them.)
Should you want to contact me for some reason, you can do so on my Talk page - I generally notice anything sent to me there.
Licensing
I agree to multi-license all my contributions as described below: Template:DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual