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Thank you for visiting my user page. Most of my early editing activities related to articles on Hong Kong, the city where I was privileged to live in more than a decade ago. Later I edited articles related to the COVID-19 pandemic; although, due to time constraints, in its later stages I largely limited myself to the article on the German government response. I sometimes also work on articles on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and human rights personalities in China.
Apart from the above, my edits are to some degree of a random nature, sometimes following down the stream of cross-links. These edits are often very minor – perhaps this is due to my skill in picking typos (although, alas, I have doubts whether this includes my own writing, so please be wary and edit further where necessary).
I wish everyone a rewarding experience on Wikipedia, be it as reader (who I much agree with others should be at the center of the whole project), author/editor, page patroller, administrator, or any union of these roles. At the same time, I hope that the project will withstand those who try to attack its real or perceived weaknesses. Besides the eternal shortage of editors, I am thinking here of the tasks posed by subtle or not-so-subtle errors, and other issues, that would have made it almost easier to write everything from scratch in the first place. (A Wikipedia page that I hadn't been aware of when I wrote the previous statements, WP:DINC, makes a similar observation as to the result stated here, though not about the reason.) I hasten to add that I believe this situation hardly, if ever, occurs with constructive edits, even if these may have language flaws.