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— Wikipedian ♂ —
Nationality	American
Country	United States
Current location	Texas
Time zone	Central Time Zone
Joined	February 5, 2019
Signature	*Iamreallygoodatcheckers*^talk 16:04, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
Nickname	Checkers or Chex

Hello I'm Iamreallygoodatcheckers. I've been editing since February 2019.

What I do here

Improve articles and participate in discussions, RfC's regarding American and Texas politics, as well as other social topics
- I've created several articles about legislators in the Texas Senate and Texas House of Representatives
I edit BLP's often.
I also edit current and recent event articles
- I'm pretty active at WP:Close requests, adding requests and occasionally closing discussions.
Occasionally participate and close discussions at AfD. I also occasionally nominate/propose articles for deletion
Participate in discussions, typically about user conduct, at WP:AN and WP:ANI
Do some maintenance tag work
Occasionally review pending change requests and surf the recent changes for vandalism
Request page protections

Other things

I don't have any other accounts and never have had any.
I'm not being payed to edit and I'm not editing for a business, person, organization, etc.
I don't have any conflicts of interest.
If you want to email me please let me know in my talk page because it's not an email I typically check.

Userboxes

This user is a native speaker of the English language.

This user lives in the United States of America.

This user votes

This user is a
Texas Longhorn.

This user is interested in law.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 5 years, 2 months and 20 days.

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Texas.

This user is a participant in
WikiProject
U.S. Supreme Court cases.

This user participates in
WikiProject Biography.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Politics.

This user is a participant in
WikiProject United States courts and judges.

This user has pending changes reviewer rights on the English Wikipedia. ( verify)

This user has extended confirmed rights on the English Wikipedia. ( verify)

This user strives to maintain a policy of neutrality on controversial issues.

NPOV

This user gets quite annoyed when they see POV in the mainspace.

This user does not allow personal bias to interfere in any way with their actions within the encyclopedia.

This editor thinks WP:Soapbox overheats Wikipedia discussions.

This user knows civility is policy on Wikipedia and tries always to operate within behavioral guidelines.

→ In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas.

This user is a recent changes patroller.

This user prefers the Bold, Revert, Discuss cycle.

WP:RS

This user believes in using
Reliable Sources.

This user can be reached by email.

♂

This contributor to Wikipedia is male.

This user is proud to be an
American !

This user is really good at checkers.

This user is not an administrator on the English Wikipedia. ( verify)

This user is aware that, in the end, it's only Wikipedia.

This user is a Christian.

Barnstars that I have received :)

		The Closer's Barnstar
		For your thorough closing comments that seems to have left little reasons for challenges. Otr500 ( talk) 14:56, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

		The Peace Barnstar
		For continued handling of contentious areas in a helpful and civil manner, and especially for the ability to find and encourage solutions to disputes. -- Valjean ( talk) ( PING me) 16:16, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

	The Original Barnstar
	I really like your work, keep it going! Casint ( talk) 00:53, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

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Five pillars
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Content

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Conduct

P	Civility Consensus Harassment Vandalism Ignore all rules No personal attacks Ownership of content Edit warring Dispute resolution Sockpuppetry No legal threats Child protection Paid-contribution disclosure
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Deletion

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Enforcement

P	Administrators Banning Blocking Page protection

Editing

Editing policy

Article size Summary style Be bold Disambiguation Hatnotes Broad-concept article Understandability
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Project content

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P	Terms of Use List of policies Friendly space policy Licensing and copyright Privacy policy

List of all policies and guidelines
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Essays on building, editing, and deleting content

Philosophy	Article content Articles must be written All Five Pillars are equally important Avoid vague introductions Be a reliable source Civil POV pushing Cohesion Competence is required Concede lost arguments Dissent is not disloyalty Don't lie Don't search for objections Editing Wikipedia is like visiting a foreign country Editors will sometimes be wrong Eight simple rules for editing our encyclopedia Explanationism External criticism of Wikipedia Here to build an encyclopedia Leave it to the experienced Levels of competence Most ideas are bad Need Neutrality of sources Not editing because of Wikipedia restriction The one question Oversimplification Paradoxes Paraphrasing POV and OR from editors, sources, and fields Process is important Product, process, policy Purpose Reasonability rule Systemic bias There is no seniority Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia Tendentious editing The role of policies in collaborative anarchy The rules are principles Trifecta Wikipedia in brief Wikipedia is an encyclopedia Wikipedia is a community Wikipedia is not RationalWiki
Article construction	100K featured articles Abandoned stubs Acronym overkill Adding images improves the encyclopedia Advanced article editing Advanced text formatting Akin's Laws of Article Writing Alternatives to the "Expand" template Amnesia test A navbox on every page An unfinished house is a real problem Articles have a half-life Autosizing images Avoid mission statements Be neutral in form Beef up that first revision Blind men and an elephant BOLD, revert, discuss cycle Build content to endure Cherrypicking Chesterton's fence Children's lit, adult new readers, & large-print books Citation overkill Citation underkill Common-style fallacy Concept cloud Creating controversial content Criticisms of society may be consistent with NPOV and reliability Deprecated sources Dictionaries as sources Don't demolish the house while it's still being built Don't get hung up on minor details Don't hope the house will build itself Don't panic Don't "teach the controversy" Editing on mobile devices Editors are not mindreaders Encourage the newcomers Endorsements (commercial) Featured articles may have problems Formatting bilateral relations articles Formatting bilateral relations templates Fruit of the poisonous tree Give an article a chance How to write a featured article Identifying and using independent sources History sources Law sources Primary sources Science sources Style guides Tertiary sources Ignore STRONGNAT for date formats Inaccuracy Introduction to structurism Mine a source Merge Test Minors and persons judged incompetent "Murder of" articles Not every story/event/disaster needs a biography Not everything needs a navbox Not everything needs a template Nothing is in stone Obtain peer review comments Organizing disambiguation pages by subject area Permastub Potential, not just current state Presentism Principle of Some Astonishment The problem with elegant variation Pro and con lists Printability Pruning article revisions Publicists Put a little effort into it Restoring part of a reverted edit Robotic editing Sham consensus Source your plot summaries Specialized-style fallacy Stub Makers Run an edit-a-thon Temporary versions of articles Tertiary-source fallacy There are no shortcuts to neutrality There is no deadline There is a deadline The deadline is now Try not to leave it a stub Understanding Wikipedia's content standards Walled garden What an article should not include Wikipedia is a work in progress Wikipedia is not a reliable source Wikipedia is not being written in an organized fashion The world will not end tomorrow Write the article first Writing better articles
Writing article content	Avoid thread mode Copyediting reception sections Coup Don't throw more litter onto the pile Gender-neutral language Myth vs fiction Proseline Use our own words We shouldn't be able to figure out your opinions Write the article first Writing about women Writing better articles
Removing or deleting content	Adjectives in your recommendations AfD is not a war zone Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions Arguments to avoid in deletion reviews Arguments to avoid in image deletion discussions Arguments to make in deletion discussions Avoid repeated arguments Before commenting in a deletion discussion But there must be sources! Confusing arguments mean nothing Content removal Counting and sorting are not original research Delete or merge Delete the junk Deletion is not cleanup Does deletion help? Don't attack the nominator Don't confuse stub status with non-notability Don't overuse shortcuts to policy and guidelines to win your argument Follow the leader How to save an article proposed for deletion I just don't like it Identifying blatant advertising Identifying test edits Immunity Keep it concise Liar liar pants on fire Nothing Nothing is clear Overzealous deletion Relisting can be abusive Relist bias The Heymann Standard Unopposed AFD discussion Wikipedia is not Whack-A-Mole Why was the page I created deleted? What to do if your article gets tagged for speedy deletion When in doubt, hide it in the woodwork No Encyclopedic Use

Essays on civility

The basics	Accepting other users Apology Contributing to complicated discussions Divisiveness Don't retaliate Edit at your own pace Encouraging the newcomers Enjoy yourself Expect no thanks High-functioning autism and Asperger's editors How to be civil Maintaining a friendly space Negotiation Obsessive–compulsive disorder editors Please say please Relationships with academic editors Thank you Too long; didn't read Truce Unblock perspectives We are all Wikipedians here You have a right to remain silent
Philosophy	A weak personal attack is still wrong Advice for hotheads An uncivil environment is a poor environment Be the glue Beware of the tigers! Civility warnings Deletion as revenge Failure Forgive and forget It's not the end of the world Nobody cares Most people who disagree with you on content are not vandals Old-fashioned Wikipedian values Profanity, civility, and discussions Revert notification opt-out Shadowless Fists of Death! Staying cool when the editing gets hot The grey zone The last word There is no Divine Right of Editors Most ideas are bad Nothing is clear Reader The rules of polite discourse There is no common sense Two wrongs don't make a right Wikipedia clichés Wikipedia is not about winning Wikipedia should not be a monopoly Writing for the opponent
Dos	Assume good faith Assume the assumption of good faith Assume no clue Avoid personal remarks Avoid the word "vandal" Be excellent to one another Beyond civility Call a spade a spade Candor Deny recognition Desist Discussing cruft Drop the stick and back slowly away from the horse carcass Encourage full discussions Get over it How to lose Imagine others complexly Just drop it Keep it concise Keep it down to earth Mind your own business Say "MOBY" Mutual withdrawal Read before commenting Settle the process first
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WikiRelations	WikiBullying WikiCrime WikiHarassment WikiHate WikiLawyering WikiLove WikiPeace

Essays on notability

Humorous essays

About essays

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User essays on BLP
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User essays on deletion

User essays on dispute resolution

User essays on notability

Humorous essays
Assume the assumption of the assumption of the assumption of the assumption of bad faith Avoid headings Letters from the editors Nomination of Wikipedia for speedy deletion

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