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JustDerek is an American genealogist, writer, editor, and erstwhile professional actor. Everything else he cares to reveal about himself can be gleaned hereafter.
Why he Wikipediates
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Growing up as the child of two English teachers had the effect of making JustDerek a persnickety copy editor. As a genealogist, the standard of proof required for publication in that field impressed upon him the crucial importance of accurate source citation and verifiability of reference materials.
The recent rise of social networking has, in JustDerek's opinion, led to an increasing number of people creating articles on themselves or their own projects or causes — presumably viewing Wikipedia as simply another web megaphone with which they may promote themselves, as they do on Facebook or Twitter. This trend has led JustDerek to keep handy for cutting-and-pasting purposes a few polite, pre-written discussion page messages about the Notability and What Wikipedia is Not policies.
Self-portrait in userboxes
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¶ | This user is a professional editor. |
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Editing Practices
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Wikipedia Community
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| This user employs a more formal style of writing in articles than in talk pages. |
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| This user has been on Wikipedia for 19 years, 8 months and 3 days. |
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| This user has made over 1,000 edits to Wikipedia. |
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’s | Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice. |
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A, B, and A and B | This user uses the serial comma unless its inclusion is confusing. |
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| This user values the quality of Wikipedia articles over the quantity and thus supports the merging of related content and deletion of articles that violate policies and guidelines. |
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Tastes/Preferences
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Genealogy
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Social & Political Conscience
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| This user owns one or more dogs. |
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| This user likes the taste of coffee, not cream / sugar / hazelnut / what have you. |
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| This user is of German ancestry. |
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This user is of Irish ancestry.
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| This user supports the inclusion of sex education in school systems. |
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| This user is of Dutch ancestry. |
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| This user is of French ancestry. |
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| This user has ancestors from Yorkshire, tha knows. |
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JustDerek's Quick Links for Wiki Editing
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