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User:Macavity7

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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

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The usual combination of popular culture, literature, and sport. Specifically:

Wiki and Me

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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.