| Wikipedia press enquiries: Email me directly (wp@davidgerard.co.uk, which forwards to dgerard@gmail.com). My phone (press enquiries only please!) is +44 (0) 7733 223 584, though it usually goes to message and reception is awful weekday daytime. You may care to ask Wikimedia UK or the Foundation office as well (+1-415-839-6885), in case I'm not available and someone else on their list is. See also the Foundation press room. Read the Press Kit. Contacting me otherwise: Put it on the article talk page in the first instance, my talk page in the second. If you email me stuff that would normally go on a talk page, I'll likely ignore it. (I've also erroneously deleted such mail as spam before.) I'm DavidGerard on irc.freenode.net, though online hardly ever. You probably shouldn't phone with stuff that can be emailed — if it's phone-call urgent but requires a computer to act upon, email is the way. If you're inadvertently affected by a block I've made, do of course email. (Direct address: wp@davidgerard.co.uk.) Collateral damage is bad. In Soviet Vikipedia, job finds YOU! These are as well as writing and editing articles. If you are accused of being in the Cabal, count how many Wikipedia jobs you have. If it's ten or more, you are. "On Wikipedia, the reward for a job well done is another three jobs" — me. When a new task comes up, people look for someone they already already know could do it. Whine about something long enough and you'll probably get the job you didn't want fixing it. This is a feature, not a bug. I think. "It may not be what your job or wife need, but you should have thought of that before you demonstrated sanity" — Snowspinner Practical process on Wikipedia: WP:PRO. Comments, opinions, additions and rewrites most welcomed. Text recovery: Uncontroversial deleted text is available for the asking. See Wikipedia:Deletion review/Content review. Expertise and deletion: If you can verify for me that you are a subject expert in a subject considered notable enough to include on Wikipedia, I will, on your say-so, close any deletion debate as "keep" within your field of expertise, and will undelete any articles within your field that you say are notable. I'll even help copyedit them to make it clearer why they should stay. A note on deletions: Almost all of what appears on AFD does in fact deserve as quick, painful and messy a death as can be achieved. If you think you're an inclusionist, do Special:Newpages patrol some time. Oh My Goodness. Also, if I'm on IRC these days, it's probably for a reason other than Deletion 101 discussions. Talk page, please. I also recommend WP:PROD. I also have a sock puppet of my very own: User:Querulous, my favourite example user. | | I am the first Google hit on my own name, recently outranking the Dutch painter. I work as a sysadmin, mostly Solaris and Linux. I'm from Australia and live in Walthamstow, London with my wife and girlfriend and baby daughter and a couple of teenagers and a couple of cats. My wife foolishly directed me here and I became an instant addict. Like Barney Gumble having that first beer. My life has been spent filling my head with unbelievable quantities of trivia and rubbish. Here's a chance to get some of it out. As a recovering editor, I can't see a grammatical or spelling error without my red-pencil hand twitching. Wikipedia provides tremendous opportunity in this field. I must write more articles: And not hang around project pages so much. And so must you. Ideas from SuggestBot (requests). My scratchpad (for the terminally bored or work-avoidant). The Problem With Music. Wikipedia 1.0: I can't tell you how envious I am of de:. Go to WP:1.0 and also join WP:100K. WikiProject Scientology: started by me, Xenu help me. (I'm apparently what passes for an expert.) NPOV is pretty much a new approach to Web-based writing about Scientology. The "Fix Crappy Prose" Challenge: I'd like everyone reading this who thinks they're a pretty good writer to middle-click "Random article" twenty times and rewrite any crappy prose without sacrificing facts. Do this at least once a week. Detail and accuracy beat eloquence when the choice arises, but that does not justify crappy prose. If you're feeling particularly strong and have a fresh pack of Gudangs and a bottle of whisky to hand, there's a Metric Shitload of stuff on Category:Articles that need to be wikified that can only be fixed by hard editorial slog. My personal style guide: We're writing articles for someone who knows nothing about a topic but needs to get up to speed really quickly. You have ten seconds. I sometimes picture my reader as a very bright ten- to twelve-year-old. Someone with a good reading age, but who knows nothing yet. Were you used to devouring encyclopaedias as a kid? Feature brag: I've scored in two FA classifications (Computing and Religion and belief). Some of these have been defeatured. I don't care. Hey kid, your first puff of Wikicrack's free: Wikipedia meetups: It's amazing what a difference it makes to your view of Wikipedia to meet your fellow editors and have a drink with them. I attend the London ones on occasion. Reuse my stuff: All my article text is multilicensed under any cc-by-sa license. This only applies to my work in the main article space, not talk pages, Wikipedia: space pages or whatever. It does apply to images created by me and uploaded by me to Wikimedia. |
