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Hi. I'm VeryVerily, aka VV. Welcome to my user page!

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Thanks to all who offered various kinds of support during my recent ordeal. I know there are good people out there who understand what's really going on. Alas, you are not in charge. VeryVerily 12:41, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Coming soon: Statement for 2005.

Me

"We give in; we call it neutrality. A joke with no punchline." - Alan Parsons Project

I have been a contributing Wikipedian since August 6, 2003 and am a certifiable Wikipediholic. I am now one of Wikipedia's most prolific editors, recently ranked in the top 100 Wikipedians by number of edits, despite having been here less than half as long as many users.

Much of my editing to Wikipedia is copyediting, standardization, and other such work. It is too easy when one starts reading about a subject to notice niggling problems and start fixing them. Of late I've had an interest in trimming unneeded verbiage, which often distracts more than it details. I also often work on cleaning up poor or biased writing, in particular on political articles which tend to be magnets for troublesome writing and even outright polemics. I have also contributed substantial new material to many articles and started new ones; at some point I intend to assemble a list of some of those here.

Of late I've been placed under enormous pressure by a handful of users repeatedly introducing bias and misinformation into political articles which I watch, and am at risk of sanction for my good-faith efforts to fight this off. Any words of support would be appreciated, although I doubt the authorities will take note.

Notes

• /Conflicting Wikipedia philosophies
• /Proposed policy changes
• /Contributions graph
• /Requests for assistance (inactive proposal)
• /Licensing - I strongly support multi-licensing (see also)
• My ArbCom candidacy statement - election ended December 18, 2004

Tools for preventing edit wars

Here are a few templates I developed to help defuse or minimize conflicts on the 'pedia:

• Template:Flux (see /Flux) - this template deleted without my knowledge.
• Wikipedia:Non-admin protection
• Wikipedia:Two versions

Amusement

This is a new section and so is a little deficient at the moment.

• A wiki paradox?