Hello, welcome to my page! I love Wikipedia and am a huge believer in its mission to provide free information to everyone. It requires humility and working with people you don't always agree with to make an article as NPOV as possible. Learning these conflict resolution techniques, assuming good faith, working towards a goal has made me better as a human, and I try to take these techniques with me in my daily life.
Working on articles is like being in a rock tumbler. Wikipedia has helped smooth rough edges which I'm grateful for. You will read my edit history and there are moments and comments I'm not proud of. I have made comments in anger. I have bitten the newcomer. I am sorry. I look forward to chipping off more rough edges!
Wikipedia Commitments
I am committed to assuming good faith.
I am committed to being approachable, particularly to new editors. I want to help if you are confused by something!
I am committed to seeking solutions that both sides agree are fair.
I am committed to accurately representing reliable secondary sources, even when I disagree with them.
Please don't hesitate to call me out on my talk page if you feel I'm falling short of these commitments.
Favorite Article
My favorite article to write was
Fukui cave. It was fascinating to learn about, and gratifying to plug a huge gap in human knowledge on Wikipedia.
"Prejudice against innovation is a typical characteristic of an Officer Corps which has grown up in a well-tried and proven system." —Field Marshal Erwin Romme
"I went to sea in Destroyers as a young man and it was fun . . . then we got radios." -Admiral Arleigh Burke
"[...] it is beneath the dignity of excellent men to waste their time in calculation when any peasant could do the work just as accurately with the aid of a machine." —Gottfried Leibniz