User:Perey
Other projects
[edit]I've contributed to English Wiktionary, English Wikibooks, English Wikisource, and probably others, and have non-trivial userpages on Commons and Simple English Wikipedia.
Basics
[edit]- Perey is short for Peregrine, the name I've used online since, oh, roughly 1996? 1997?
- Rapidly went from frequent reader to editor when my pedantic nature overcame the voice telling me not to add another distraction from uni.
- Interests: ...everything. Hence being on Wikipedia, you know. Pedantic grammar and spelling policing a speciality. Fantasy fiction, computing, religion, and science are among the top categories.
Wikipedia opinions
[edit]- This list will be added to as things come to mind.
Commonwealth vs American spellings
[edit]As an Australian, I favour Commonwealth spelling. But I'm generally all for a balance of power on Wikipedia. Individual articles should be consistently one or the other, except where specific instances call for a change within an article. I revert edits made to Americanise (and, I suppose, Briticise, if I ever came across one) an article without any justification (like consistency).
Actually, I'd like to see Angr's Unified English Spelling adopted, but hey...
Expert review
[edit]I've been thinking about the reliability problem of Wikipedia, and I think expert review is the best chance we have for making subjects reliable. My means would look something like this:
- Wikiprojects or similar would be responsible for identifying experts (based on verifying the identity of an editor, and verifying their expert-ness; this is weak point A).
- Experts are given some sort of identification and privileges (which may simply be the right to greater weight in discussion of disputes).
- Repeat for a large number of experts; experts, like the rest of us, are prone to their biases, prejudices, and misconceptions. They're just less likely (we hope) to be stupid or malicious.
Currently working on...
[edit]Nothing in particular. I used to watch my watchlist like a hawk, but no longer.
Disclosure
[edit]I have had a past professional connection with Westnet. Though I have made edits to that article, doing so was and is in no way related to any professional duties I had.