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The sanity of this user is disputed. There. You don't believe me? Well, look at the rest of the page...
Hi! I am Montanabw, I really do live in Montana and I really do own horses—who graciously allow me to upload their images into Commons from time to time. On Wikipedia, I've been around for a while, and am glad to assist other editors as I can. In real life, I am a small-town lawyer in private practice, which explains why sometimes I am not around to answer questions quickly and other times seem to live online; my work ebbs and flows. I occasionally write about legal topics, but in general, I do enough legal writing in my work; I prefer to work on other topics here. I also write books and do other freelance writing off-wiki. I am not compensated for anything I write on Wikipedia.
I sometimes fullfill requests for photos of objects or locations in Montana, particularly for National Register of Historic Places listings in Montana. I take random images when I travel, too, so check out my contributions at Commons. I can also access documents in hardcopy at the Montana Historical Society. I choose not to use my real name on WP, but I've met a number of wikipedians off-wiki, helped facilitate some editathons in Montana, and I've been to a few WP-related events such as WikiConference North America/USA, so if you met me in real life, feel free to pop over to my talkpage and say hello!
This user has been on Wikipedia for 18 years, 4 months and 18 days.
It is approximately 12:42 AM where this user lives.
“The encyclopedia that anyone who understands the norms, socializes him or herself, dodges the impersonal wall of semi-automated rejection and still wants to voluntarily contribute his or her time and energy can edit."—from "The Decline of Wikipedia"
"To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they're doing fantastic work, I don't care if they're a high school kid or a Harvard professor; it's the work that matters."—Jimbo
"...force tends increasingly to fall into the hands of those who are enemies of civilization. The danger is profound and terrible; it cannot be waved aside with easy optimism. The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."—Bertrand Russell, May 10, 1933
"I want to say to everyone else, get stuffed, because women can do anything and we can beat the world."—Michelle Payne (after her win in the 2015 Melbourne Cup)[1]
Where "my" articles or my photos (mostly photos right now) that I have taken and uploaded on commons have appeared off-wiki (frequently without proper attribution even to Commons, arrgh):
This editor is a Looshpah Laureate of the Encyclopedia and is entitled to display this Book of All Knowledge with Secret Appendix, Free Errata Sheet, and Author's Signature.
This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than 15 years.