Be bold!

As a Wikipedia editor, I understand that my goal is the destruction of my purpose.

Some subpages

User:Vami_IV/Completionism
User:Vami_IV/Guide to CCI

Image: Schloss Favorite, by Julian Herzog

I AM This user has ASD. This user is anti-capitalist. This user lives in the U.S. State of Texas. This user is male. 22 This user is 22 years, 8 months, and 1 day old. This user has been on Wikipedia for 7 years and 1 month. en This user is a native speaker of the English language. es-1 Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel básico de español. This editor uses Harvard citations with Ucucha's HarvErrors

I HAVE This user received the Editor of the Week award. This user has been awarded an Imperial Triple Crown. 10 new biographies: Women in Red August 2018 achievements 10 new biographies: Women in Red September 2018 achievements

Pledges[edit]

I pledge to...

• ...be apolitical for the purposes of editing, building, and maintaining Wikipedia.
• ...write two articles about women for every one I create about anything else.
• ...prioritize the quality of our content over the quantity of our content.
• ...be civil, because of the harm others' incivility has caused me, and the harm my incivility has caused others.
  • ...but not to mince words.

Goals and projects[edit]

• Goal: Wikipedia:100,000 feature-quality articles
  • Also of interest to me: Template:Project missing articles

• Project: Get the Palace of Versailles to Featured.
• Project: Get the Fortified position of Liège to Good Article.
• Project: Get the Great Hanging at Gainesville to Good Article.
• Project: Keep my end of the bargain at this AfD
• Project: Get A Silent Voice (film) to Featured.

Toolbelt[edit]

• User:SuperHamster/CiteUnseen
• User:Moneytrees/CCI Sort
• User:Amalthea/CCI/Overview
• Template:FAC peer review sidebar
• Template:Project missing articles

In-progress reviews[edit]

I am open to requests for reviews, especially if they are military history topics and if you have been referred to me.

Thank you[edit]

to my off-wiki confederates, who have fed references to me or helped with translations.

1. Mamelsberg
2. HrcAK47
3. TacError
4. The volunteer fan translators of the Hololive community

Wisdom[edit]

1. Tony1's advice for writing
2. Antandrus's Observations
3. SuperHamster: "I'm proposing a new adage: the longer a response is proportional to the original post, the more ridiculous that response will be. If the response to an 80 word message is 500 words it ain't gonna be good."
4. Johnbod: "5 refs on a line is almost always a sure sign of trouble."
5. Tamzin: "The breadth of an SNG is directly proportional to the relevant topic's prevalence as a special interest among autistic people."
6. Abraham van Hellsing, Dracula: "We learn from failure, not from success!"

Women in Red[edit]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/The World Contest/Missing articles/Latin America and the Caribbean

My list of unreliable sources[edit]

General rule of thumb: The vocabulary of an author is critical. This may seem obvious, but really study it. Does a source describe an indigenous culture as "savages"? Are violent ruffians described as boot strap-pulling adventurers? Does your source glorify violence, or romanticize a conflict or area of one? Pay attention to these things. Especially if they paint over or outright ignore well-documented fact.

Very bad sources

1. Thomas Goodrich (War to the Knife, Scalp Dance, etc.). Pro-Confederate bias.
2. J. Evetts Haley. Pro-Confederate, racist. Manifest destiny cultist.
3. The Southern Historical Society, publisher of the Southern Historical Society Papers. Lost Cause mythology.
4. Samuel W. Mitcham, Confederate and Nazi apologist.
5. John Newman Edwards, Confederate.

Least-bad, still not great sources

1. Osprey Publishing puts out books that are beautifully illustrated, but they are general works of military history and specialize on the stuff of war. They have also previously published unreliable authors such as Gordon Williamson. Absolutely useable if the author is/authors are reliable, and superb for technical details and simple statements (i.e. "This unit was stationed over there at this time.").
2. Helion. See above; Helion is a less well-known Osprey.

My copypastas[edit]

Good Article

Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. My name is Vami, and I will be your reviewer. During this review I may make small edits such as spelling corrections, but I will only suggest substantive content changes in comments here. For responding to my comments, please use {{Done}}, {{Fixed}}, {{Added}}, {{Not Done}}, {{Doing}}, or {{Removed}}, followed by any comment you'd like to make. As my comments are addressed or rebutted, I will cross them out, and only my comments.<p>If I have demonstrated incompetence or caused offense, [[User talk:Vami_IV|please let me know]]. –~~~~

GA box

Good Article review progress box Criteria: 1a. prose () 1b. MoS () 2a. ref layout () 2b. cites WP:RS () 2c. no WP:OR () 2d. no WP:CV () 3a. broadness () 3b. focus () 4. neutral () 5. stable () 6a. free or tagged images () 6b. pics relevant () Note: this represents where the article stands relative to the Good Article criteria. Criteria marked are unassessed

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