User:Patrick Welsh
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I am an academic by training, but not profession. My expertise is in Hegel and German Idealism. I am also competent in other select areas of so-called Continental philosophy.
Building upon the work of other editors – and with welcome collaboration and reviewer-input – I brought the article on G. W. F. Hegel up to GA status in September 2022. I am pleased to have since contributed as co-nominator to do the same for the Philosophy article in August 2023.
I started an overhaul of the Kant article, but got worn out before completing my projected edits. If you're reading this, there is a fair chance that you are qualified to help! You can find some notes here. I do intend to return to this, and I would love to have a collaborator. The same goes for Phenomenology and Martin Heidegger.
My current project is a sorely needed overhaul of the article on Irony. It gets an average of about 700 hits per day. Yet, since 2013, it has been virtually abandoned to the disorganized contributions of drive-by editors.
A few underappreciated Wikipedia guidelines about which I feel strongly:
- Lead follows body: Don't add stuff to the lead unless it is already sourced in the body. If you don't care enough about the article to follow this practice, you probably should not be editing the article at all.
- Lists: If you cannot contextualize information in prose, there is a strong chance it does not belong in the article. (See also this essay on the importance of explicitly stating the inclusion-criteria in cases where it is appropriate to use a list.)
- Oh yes, and everyone should read What Wikipedia is not, which is a policy too often ignored in many ways.
For those sensitive to such issues (thanks, you're awesome!), I use traditionally masculine pronouns. On Wikipedia, however, I am entirely indifferent between these and the gender-neutral they/them, which is my own default for other editors. Please, also, feel free to address me as Patrick or PJW.
Cheers,
Patrick J. Welsh (talk)
P.S.: I'm chronically prone to typos in my edit summaries. Sorry about this. I'm a native English-speaker and have no excuse or explanation. It just seems to happen all the time.
Recognition
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The Philosophy Barnstar | |
| Thank you for all of the work you've done rewriting Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, it's honestly an amazing and impressive amount of work you've put into improving it and making sure that everything is well-cited and balanced. - car chasm (talk) 19:36, 27 August 2022 (UTC) |
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The Original Barnstar | |
| Thanks for improving the article Philosophy! Your work is excellent. The person who loves reading (talk) 17:16, 7 August 2023 (UTC) |
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The Good Article Barnstar | |
| Thanks for improving a level-1 vital article to GA! Sadly, a much more generous offer expired just 3 months ago. The person who loves reading (talk) 17:16, 7 August 2023 (UTC) |
- Much congrats on fulfilling the rewards board challenge, Patrick! Feel free to consider me a co-sponsor of the GA barnstar. Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}} talk 03:36, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
Precious
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Thank you for quality articles around philosophy, especially Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and then Philosophy in collaboration and with higher ambition, for "I'm good at both structural and copy-level editing", - Patrick, you are an awesome Wikipedian!
You are recipient no. 2885 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:52, 7 October 2023 (UTC)
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The Reviewer Barnstar | |
| This award is given to PatrickJWelsh for collecting more than 50 points during the October 2023 NPP backlog drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to the drive! Hey man im josh (talk) 01:56, 1 November 2023 (UTC) |