User:Iridescent/Me
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Me
While I'm a member of the inner cabal which exists to frustrate your legitimate need to post lengthy articles about your friend's band, images you've cut-and-pasted from the internet and links to your Myspace page, I don't actually generally do many adminny things, and still focus on writing new articles and cleaning up existing ones. My main areas are London and East Anglia's infrastructure, particularly railways, emergency services, A roads and the London Underground, and the UK indie & punk music scenes. I also contribute on the history and geography of London and the surrounding area. And occasionally on industrial processes if I think they look interesting. And other articles no-one ever reads.
I also periodically go on long stub sorting sprees, loiter on Articles for Deletion arguing the case for patently hopeless causes, do the thankless-but-necessary jobs of spellchecking, copy-editing & standardising headers and watch new pages for vandalism and nonsense. Occasionally I can be pestered into rewriting an article that's heading for deletion into keepable shape, particularly for those 'borderline notable' indie bands that some editors seem to take a delight in deleting.
I have, as far as I know, never contributed to a featured article, and probably never will, since I tend to work in that twilight-zone inhabited by relatively minor subjects which 95% of readers here will never have heard of. However, I've never had an article I've written or rewritten deleted yet (aside from one article which I nominated myself).
Roughly 75% of the people I come into contact with here seem to instantly decide they like me, while the other 25% passionately hate me. Most of that 25% seem to blame me for things other people have done. If I let that bother me, it would probably bother me. But I don't so it doesn't. Although it is the reason I don't give out my real name here (and you probably shouldn't either).
If you're trying to get hold of me and it's so secret it can't go on Wiki, stop and think if it's really necessary. If it is, you can reach me via that "Email this user" button on the side of your screen. You will never find me on IRC, which I consider one of the worst things ever to happen to Wikipedia.
And I fully intend to knock Twee pop into some kind of respectable shape by, oh, some point.
If you need access to a Wikipedia article that has been deleted, ask me. If it's not a copyright violation, libel, or personal information, and has not been deleted as a suspected WP:BLP violation, I will provide the text for you.
Note that using the text to recreate a deleted article automatically qualifies it for speedy deletion, and keeping deleted content hanging around in your userspace has gotten editors penalized before. But that's your problem.
