User:Macavity7
I am a 22-year-old graduate with a BA/BCom from the University of New South Wales. I am from the South Coast of New South Wales, Australia, but I currently reside in Sydney. My studies encompassed a variety of subjects, including, but not limited to:
- Spanish
- Politics
- Marketing
- International business
However, you probably won't find me writing or editing many articles on any of those subjects. The first is too tricky and, well, thinky; the second is too controversial; and the latter two too dry.
Interests
[edit]The usual combination of popular culture, literature, and sport. Specifically:
- rock music (Rage Against the Machine, Pink Floyd, Guns N' Roses and many, many others
- film, especially what is loosely (and, in my opinion, unhelpfully) called "foreign cinema". Spanish language films are my very favourite
- books: at the moment, early to mid-20th century American literature (F. Scott Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, Nabokov, Raymond Chandler), but liable to change. I also have an appropriately enduring love affair with Love in the Time of Cholera
- Professional tennis. I used to be a massive Pat Rafter fan (still am, actually, but that is of limited use when following the ATP Tour in 2006).
Wiki and Me
[edit]I've used Wiki as a resource for quite a while now; it's my go-to place for when I need to know something that I dare not voice aloud, for fear of sounding ignorant (Examples of some of my actual Wiki queries: What is Brideshead Revisited? Is a shrimp cocktail a cocktail or food?) I've always been amazed at the breadth and depth of Wiki's collective wisdom, and I guess I wanted to do my bit to improve its accuracy, fluency, etc. What is there to say? I love Wiki. You love Wiki. Darn it if we don't all love Wiki.
I have acquainted myself with the basics of editing, via the sandbox, and have edited a couple of inaccuracies anonymously, and inserted a couple of comments into discussion pages. Now I'm going on the record. I don't have a set idea of what I'm going to do, but it will probably involve some combination of:
- cleanups for grammar, layout, etc, from the Projects list
- rigorously checking facts that don't quite seem to gel, from pages that interest me
- flagging pages for someone more knowledgeable to rewrite, " " " " " " "
Re the second and third points: I surf around Wiki randomly quite a bit, in lieu of looking for paid employment, so I see many pages. And I normally have a pretty good intuition for what sounds right. That is my modus operandi; I'm not generally a methodical person. But I hope it's useful anyway.