User:Walton22
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Hello there: I'm Walton22, an editor here at Wikipedia.
To date, I've created eight articles from scratch, being those for the Australian classical pianists Alexander Hmelnitsky, his son Igor Hmelnitsky, and Gabriella Pusner; the Australian jazz musicians Warren Daly, Tom O'Halloran and Steve Barry; and the Australian composers Vincent Plush and Ray Cook. I also substantially rebuilt the article for the Australian screen composer Simon Walker.
My interests include editing articles about the craft of music (such as Orchestration), as well as tweaking the biographies of composers, jazz musicians and other musical performers, such as film composer John Williams and Barbra Streisand. I also worked on the article Streisand effect including conveying Streisand's perspective on this trope as found in her autobiography.
As well as making some direct contributions to the article on the twentieth century composer William Walton (yes, my username is a hommage), focussing on his chamber and solo works, I also enjoyed collaborating there with the redoubtable editor Tim riley who had previously been instrumental in taking it to Featured Article status.
I also have an interest in urban localities. Sometimes it's just a matter of updating population and demographic information from census results. But in the case of Bonnet Bay, I took it from this (a stub with only three references) and expanded it to be a much more substantial article with twenty-four references. I added quite a few citations to Sydney Technical High School.
Some suggestions I made for Gustav Mahler did not achieve consensus with other editors, and I was happy to learn from their thoughtful explanations and withdraw these ideas; see the discussion at [1].
In dealing with editor colleagues, I believe in maintaining courtesy and warmth, apropos WP:AGF.
However, I have reservations about aspects of the culture that exists behind-the-scenes for editors here, which emerge from time to time, and if you don't see contributions from me ongoing, the following might be why.
I'm not sure I want to be a permanent part of a community in which thoughtful questions about how to navigate its defined regulatory space can themselves be found to be counter to regulations, as can happen with censures under WP:WIKILAWYERING. It is the essence of justice to be able to ventilate such things, and "lawyering" should never be proscribed or even discouraged, as that can add up to "It's illegal to question how the law might specifically apply here", surely a recursive twisting of justice.
As well, censuring on the basis of WP:BLUDGEON and WP:TEXTWALL is sometimes used to misdirect discussions away from what editors are saying to each other, to instead focus on relatively innocuous aspects of how they are saying it, effectively giving the opportunity to gratuitously shut down editors whose personal style just happens to be persistent or prolix.
The aforementioned policies, while likely well-intentioned, give too much opportunity for various degrees of what might amount to bullying if or when used tendentiously by certain editors and administrators, particularly in contentious areas.
 | This user has publicly declared that they have a conflict of interest regarding the Wikipedia article Mark Isaacs. |