MNewnham

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I'm MNewnham. I'm a British citizen, living in Denver,Colorado. I've contributed substantially to the article on the Denver Art Museum, including many of the pictures through commons, as well as some of the Native American and Western artists exhibited there.

Most of my wiki time is spent down in Special:Deadendpages, and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion

Working with dead end pages

There are literally thousands and thousands of dead-end pages in Wikipedia, and over the last year I've probably edited about a thousand of them. Almost exclusively created by single-subject one-time wikipedians, they are generally of poor quality, and usually fail the most basic wikipedia style rules. As the dead end pages list works alphabetically and only shows the first 1000, pages with names higher than M can be years old. I categorize dead-end pages as follows:

The first 20% are non-notable subjects that are tagged immediately for deletion.
The next 10% are copyright violations that are tagged as copyvio
The next 5% are vandalized pages that are reverted.
The rest are composed of pages that may or may not be worthy of inclusion, but with subject pages ranging across science, the arts and politics, I neither have the time or background knowledge to make a judgment.

I therefore place basic broad links, categories and stubs on pages so that other wikipedians with an interest in a particular subject matter will pick them up and improve them.

If a page that I tag is not picked up by someone and changed, thats a failure in my process (except for redirects), and I may come back to it and add further categories.

I try to spend 5 minutes or less on each page, and I rarely verify the links or categories that I add to the page, they are just there to bring the page to someone elses attention. If you've come across a page that I've edited and think I've made a mistake with the categorization, please, just fix it. You don't need to tell me - I probably have no expertise in the subject matter anyway, but the fact that you have seen the page when it was languishing in dead-end pages means my work is done.