User:Gordonofcartoon

User from way back: after long break, rejoined under fresh name initially to concentrate on art topics, but I take a broad interest here. Personally, I think generalism should be mandatory on Wikipedia because single-purpose accounts are so seldom anything but tendentious.

I also think Wikipedia would be improved by simplifying the conflict of interest system (I suggest that editing in COI areas should still be allowed, but with a simple and rapid veto mechanism of a topic ban if a consensus of uninvolved editors feels it appropriate).

I'd like to see far more awareness at admin and arbcom level of the problem of Wikipedia:Civil POV pushing, a form of low-level disruptive editing whose highly toxic long-term effects often go unrecognised, simply because on short-term examination there's nothing overt enough to merit action.

Note on e-mails

You can e-mail me; but any kind of threat may be posted publically for discussion. Wikipedia's privacy rules - WP:EMAIL#Abuse handling - don't exist to make behind-the-scenes harassment, aimed at altering content/discusion, impossible to report. By e-mailing me you accept that I am not bound by any kind of bogus agreements within the e-mail enjoining me to privacy.

Useful stuff

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Visual arts
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Contemporary Art#Things you can do
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Notability
• Category:Painter stubs
• Category:United Kingdom artist stubs

• WP:Competence
• WP:MARTIANS
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup
• Help:Merging and moving pages
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion
• Special:Linksearch
• Wikipedia:Don't include copies of primary sources
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias
• Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron
• Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace
• WP:COATRACK
• Wikipedia:Disruptive editing
• Wikipedia:Tendentious editing
• Wikipedia:Avoid peacock terms
• {{subst:uw-chat1|Article}}
• Template:Uw-npa1
• Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Homeopathy
• Wikipedia:Why Wikipedia cannot claim the earth is not flat
• Wikipedia:Advocacy

To do

The Silence of Dean Maitland