Robert Clausen

Welcome to my user page!

My main editorial goal is to help with cleaning up, history, geography and stub articles.

Hi, maybe I won't spend hours a day on Wikipedia. As I don't have huge amounts of time to contribute, I won't spend a lot of time adding content. My interest is in improving articles which already exist and guarding against vandalism and tendentious editing.

SEE YOU!

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to be a Wikipedian.

This user maintains a strict policy advising against all personal attacks.

This user assumes good faith.

This user knows the difference between beauty and trash.

Because of real life, this user will be editing on and off.

This user believes that a user's edit count does not necessarily reflect on the value of their contributions to Wikipedia.

This user uses Wikipedia as a primary point of reference.

About me

NameThis user's name is Robert Clausen.

enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.

This user uses Google as a primary search engine.

This user uses Gmail as a primary email service.

This user is interested in their local history.

This user remembers using
a rotary dial telephone.

This user is old enough to remember what a typewriter is, and that's all you need to know.

Grammar

,This user fixes comma-splices; they are annoying.

.  TheThis user puts two spaces after a period.

A, B and CThis user prefers not to use the serial comma.

which & thatThis user knows how to use which and that correctly.

whomThis user insists upon using whom wherever it is called for, and fixes the errors of whomever they see.

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To make a "dummy edit" just make a slight non-rendering change to the page, fill out the edit summary with your short message including this tag: [[WP:dummy edit]] (include the four square brackets), and save your change. (Note that a null edit does not modify the wikitext and does not allow you to leave an edit summary.)

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• Correcting a previous edit summary
• Repairing insufficient attribution for copy-and-pasted Wikipedia content
• Addressing an accidental use of rollback
• Providing a note, from a user while logged-in, that notes an edit performed while logged out
• Sending brief messages regarding editing issues
• Providing proof of activity from time to time by a dormant but not dead user
• Prompting a bot to re-examine a page

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