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==Calton Bolick==
Continues to abuse his power in Wiki. He is a mean-spirited vindictive person who lies.

Revision as of 07:32, 11 December 2006

"It's clean-up duty, mopping up after the dishonest, incompetent, and fanatical. Can't imagine why you'd have a problem with that."
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I'm a Westerner, living in Tokyo, Japan, where I work as a copy editor/rewriter for a large Japanese electronics company.

I first became aware of Misplaced Pages when I began using it to look up some technical terms, my being an English literature major screwing around with computers, not vice versa. Being of a copy editor bent, I noticed typos, misspellings, and generally screwy language occasionally, and after a while I realized that I could in fact edit them myself. So I did. Soon, I was hitting the random page button, just for my own amusement, and I got sucked in.

Trying to impart common sense into the clueless is a tough job, one which you do particularly well. . As such, you the very first of Raul's common sense bricks. Raul654 22:58, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Now, this has turned into a relaxing break from my required copy editing: I get to exercise my pedantic tendencies, without the responsibility of deadlines or deliverables. I've occasionally gotten a little deeper into things, and have written a few articles from scratch.

This whole project is infectious: hitting the random page button, I encounter whole swatches of text and knowledge areas requiring work, and I suddenly feel compelled to try to do something about it, even if I didn't have any particular interest in the subject to begin with. For example, I did a massive edit (for style, organization, and a general readability) for the submarine USS Trout (SS-202). I have no particular interest in the military, especially not the Navy, yet I found myself sucked into doing this. Same with entries on community colleges and Booker Prize winners.

So far I have added a few articles and stubs (and yes, I plan to expand the stubs if I can), but mostly it's janitorial work. As I told one troller:

It's clean-up duty, mopping up after the dishonest, incompetent, and fanatical. Can't imagine why you'd have a problem with that.

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