FrederalBacon

FrederalBacon
Doing Well
— Wikipedian ♂ —
	If someone is swabbing you this way, tell them to stop
Name	CJ
Born	5 April; Michigan
Current location	United States
Family and friends
Marital status	Married
Education and employment
Occupation	EMT/MA
Hobbies, interests, and beliefs
Politics	Not an insurrectionist
Aliases	Fred
Interests
	Music, Medicine, Making sure my kids don't grow up to be dicks
Userboxes
	This user has been on Wikipedia for 18 years and 3 days.
	This user has rollback rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify)
	This user has pending changes reviewer rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify)
53%	This user has been a Wikipedian for 53.4% of his life.
	This user uses Huggle to deal with vandalism.
	This user is a member of the; Counter-Vandalism Unit.
	This user chats on the Wikimedia Community Discord server as FrederalBacon.
	This user supports NATO.
	This user hopes that war between NATO and Russia doesn't happen.
	This user wants Russia to be kicked out of the United Nations.
	This user is a former supporter of Donald Trump.
	This user seeks to eradicate; Trumpism; wherever it slithers.
	This user is a WikiElf.
	This user abstains from; all forms of cannabis.
	This user enjoys smoking cannabis.
	This user has beaten ClueBot NG to reverting vandalism.
	This user finds edit/revert wars disruptive.
vn-3	This user page has been vandalized 3 times.
	This user's Internet service provider is Comcast.
PRO	This user is personally pro-life but supports a woman's right to choose.
	This user survived an infection of; COVID-19.
	This user survived an infection of; COVID-19.

Status: Online

Welcome/About Me

Hello, I'm Fred. I'm a contributor to enwiki, and have been a registered editor here for over 15 years. In that time, I've taken some time away, for both family life, as well as work life. I am a male from the US, and have a wife and kids that take up a large amount of my time. In my professional life, I work in acute care medicine. As such, I typically do not edit articles to do with medical issues, but not out of concern for COI, but more that I don't like bringing my work into my hobby. I'm here to avoid my job, not talk about it more.

On Wiki, I spend a lot of time on the backend, working specifically on vandalism. I also spend a lot of time on noticeboards talk pages. To assist in vandalism issues, I hold rollback, pending change, and new page patroller rights. I also use Huggle and Twinkle, sometimes simultaneously, to work through pages both on and off my watch list, to watch for COI and other issues.

My name is not actually Fred, by the way, it's actually not anything close to my name, but that is a nickname that I have managed to get through some friends of mine, and it's stuck.

Talk/Noticeboard Conduct

I tend to spend a lot of time on talk and noticeboards, due to my more background role. I want to establish three things.

I try to be civil and apply policy and guidelines as much as I can, but I'm human. If I make a mistake, overstep, or do something otherwise in contrary to normal community social norms, just drop a message on my talk. I'm reasonable, if you're not a jerk about it. Just talk to me.
I try to use gender neutral pronouns (they/them) as much as possible, however, I'm prone to an unconscious overuse of male pronouns, as I am male. If I misgender, be assured, it's not intentional, and I apologize.
I stick my nose where it doesn't belong. That's how I learn more about the process here. I don't respond, but I read pretty much everything on ANI and COIN.

Wiki Thoughts

Wikipedia:Go ahead, vandalize should be required reading as you make an account, or as a "See here before Editing" on IP edits - Maybe if we explained how pointless it was to EVERYONE, maybe we'd have a little less blatant vandalism, damn it.

Back 09/10 when I was a teen editing Wiki, I had a desire to be an admin. I thought it was the next step. Now, I'm not so sure. I really like being able to report things to the admins, I'm not sure I want to be the one of those getting the report

The easiest way to avoid letting your own feelings for an article subject become involved is to pick an article subject you actually dislike.

WP:YWAB should be upgraded to guideline status. It shouldn't be a mystery that we don't like pseudoscience, and while we are committed to covering it in a neutral way, you can't expect editors to treat pseudoscience with the same level of import as true science.

The more I see the AE, ANI, block, sanction, etc history during the Trump presidency, the happier I am that I was on a wikibreak during that time, as I am sure my then hot-heatedness would have had my name in some of those discussions. I hope to be a more calming force this time around on Wiki.

I feel like the existence of the dispute resolution process on Wikipedia typically prolongs and escalates conflicts that should be handled on an article talk.

Editing under the influence should be required. I feel like Wikipedia would be significantly better if everyone smoked before they got on to edit. Less contention.

ENWIKI ANI: Where editors who have a content dispute go when removing their unsourced material substantially, personally offends them.

Talk page discussion before most changes should be mandatory. WP:BOLD is disruptive on most articles.

Andrew Tate and Kyle Rittenhouse

I am an involved editor in both of these pages. I am working to increase the information from reliable sources for the Andrew Tate article, considering the fact that it has consistently been a Top 25 article for over a month, and has been really lacking in content until a couple weeks ago. On the Rittenhouse article, I am offering input to the editors there on POV issues the article inherently has. I have discovered I enjoy working on controversial BLPs, and I find it to be way less contentious than on other articles, for some reason.

		The Teamwork Barnstar
		For your continued work on Andrew Tate, an article whose subject is highly controversial, and which is currently highly visited, being in the Top 25 Report for almost a month straight. Askarion ✉ 13:20, 24 August 2022 (UTC)