Somewhere along the line, this editor became a "veteran" which means that this editor should know better. If doing wrong, this editor may be (virtually) whacked with a trout.
This editor believes that the Wikipedia Community is a collegial anarchy in which no one holds any authority which is not also held by everyone else. This editor is an eventualist and believes that there's no need to panic and that issues with articles can be resolved in due course. This editor believes that articles written over time in the main namespace will attract a broader variety of editors, helping to prevent group think and systemic bias. This editor endeavours to be kind and to appreciate kindness from others, and tries to follow the wiki way and the precepts of WP:DGAF. This editor seldom utilizes WP:BRD but fervently practices what editors mean when they say you have to follow BRD. While initially an exopedian, this editor has gradually become more involved with WikiProjects as a mesopedian (approx. 55% of edits to mainspace and 20% to projects). This editor generally contributes through cleanup tasks and assisting a small number of WikiProjects, while continuing to learn how The Project works.
This editor serves as a project coordinator of the WP:Guild of Copy Editors. This is not a distinction of any competency or authority, but indicates a designated volunteer who will perform maintenance and housekeeping for the user group. This editor is also a member of the WP:Typo Team (focusing on apostrophe-related typos) and WP:Canada (promoted its 10,000 Challenge and developed an award system for contributors).
This editor has received 90 barnstars and 130 other awards, and has given over 750 barnstars to deserving editors. This editor has written eighty-nine articles, one of which was good. This editor has three entries on the DYK leaderboard and is among the top 5,000 Wikipedians by edit count. This editor was named Editor of the Week across consecutive years.
Reidgreg's personal high-points as a Wikipedian include:
- Receiving my first barnstar. (diff)
- Having my first GA cited in a heated talk page discussion. (permalink)
- Learning that an article I expanded had received a quarter-million page views. (permalink)
- Subsequently having this article listed on In the news. (more)
- Learning that a new editor I'd encouraged had made contributions far exceeding my own. (diff)
- Leading the GOCE coordinator team and ending my term with an Eddy and a five-year high in recorded support.. (permalink)
- Completing a four-year streak (Nov 2016 – Sep 2020) of copy-editing drives without falling off the leaderboard.
- Getting DYKs listed for: April Fool's 2019 (more), Canada Day 2019 (more) and Canada Day 2021.
- Creating a small but humorous easter egg page on Wikipedia. (Can you find it linked on this page?)
- Finding that a paragraph I'd written was copied verbatim by an Internet news site, and getting them to credit Wikipedia and link to the article. (link)