User:Neutrality

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My favorite policies, proposed policies, and semi-policies

• Be bold!
• The joy of editing: perfection not required
• Don't bite the newcomers
• Don't disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point

Current projects:

• Florida Governors – I’m attempting to make quality biographies—not stubs—of all governors since statehood.
• WikiProject Holidays
• WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court Cases
• WikiProject Vermont
• Maine Senator Weekly Write-up (MSWW)
• Categorizing stubs
• Categorizing U.S. Government images by agency

"Omit needless words.
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell."
— William Strunk, Jr.

Hello! My name is Neutrality (real name: Ben; read more about me at User:Neutrality/about). I have been a Wikipedian since I was first welcomed here by Meelar on May 15, 2004. On October 12, I became the 300th active administrator and member of the top sekrit sysop kabal. ("Wiki-janitor" is the term I prefer). On December 18, I became an Arbitrator-elect following the December 2004 elections. My term began on January 1.

My primary interests, include American politics and government, European and Asian history, world geography, ethnic groups, and the social sciences. I also upload lots of images: Fair use images, mostly logos and book/album covers; public domain images, mostly works of the U.S. federal government; and my own photographs, released under the GFDL. These can be viewed at my growing gallery. I also have my workshop.

This page has been vandalized 32 times:

• Twice by 66.2.146.197, 152.163.100.5, 203.26.24.212, "Punk3," and "Htf3."
• Once each by Rex071404, 200.61.5.20, 69.34.73.116, 205.188.116.7, 172.135.249.126, 66.9.199.124, 172.151.108.42, 217.234.189.11, 66.66.35.127, 66.99.246.226, 207.63.107.140, "Neutrality.," "Punk2," "Htf2" and 66.99.246.227, 66.208.207.146.
• Six times by Mr. Treason, using the IP address 64.12.116.7,
• I have been impersonated six times successively, by "Nuetrality," "Nuetraliti1," "Nuetraliti," "Neutrality.," "Neutralityx" and "Neutra¦ity."
• This page has been the subject of page-move vandalism six times.
• My favorite vandalism: [1]

I often seek out and fix links to redirects and links to disambiguation pages. I also categorize articles by using list of lists to find a list, and then checking to see if all articles are properly categorized. If they aren't, I make sure they are. Here's my to-do list and random junk.

I created the Deletion tools template and Featured tools template, seen below! Feel free to add either or both to your userspace by putting in {{Template:Deletiontools}} and {{Template:Featuredtools}}, respectively.