User:Ikuzaf/WikiCV

Lacrimosus is a male human Wikipedian from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. He works for a white collar trade union. He liked the pseudo-article style of User:Korath's user page so much, he decided to flatter in the form of imitation.

Activities

Lacrimosus spends most of his time in Wikipedia editing articles about Australia, particularly Australian politics. He started WikiProject:Brisbane and is currently working through Brisbane railway stations, an enterprise started by others but continued by him. His acquisition of a shiny digital camera meant he has bemused many passers-by photographing apparently inconsequential objects for use in Wikipedia. His dearth of photography skills has so far seen a small amount of images actually uploaded, but in the fullness of time that might even change.

Other Wiki Accounts

Lacrimosus has an account on meta: m:User:Lacrimosus, an account on the Wikimedia Commons, and an account on Wikiquote.

Contributions

Lacrimosus has started the following articles:

Brisbane

All railway lines, nearly all railway stations.

Fiction

Politics and Journalism

Queensland state electorate articles

Student Politics

Other contributions

Articles he has rewritten/contributed to substantially include: Michael Ahern (Australian politician) Australian constitutional crisis of 1975, Brisbane, Chemical Brothers, Flag of Australia, Vince Gair, Invader Zim, John Kerr, William Kidston, Mark Latham, Liberalism in Australia, metalanguage, MV Tampa, Palookaville, Protectionist Party, Road to Perdition, Robert Philp, shaggy dog story, standing ovation, The Rocks, Universal Student Unionism, and others.

Images Uploaded

To see all images uploaded by Lacrimosus, see User:Lacrimosus/Image Gallery.

Edit History

See Lacrimosus' current edit count.

Lacrimosus was welcomed as a member of the Wikipedia community by UtherSRG on 10 June 2004. The article to which he made his first logged-in edit, on 5 June, (Mark Latham) [1], was also the first article containing substantial contributions by him to become featured, on 15th September 2004.

Lacrimosus made his 2000th edit on 15 March 2005 [2].

Personal/Editing Quirks

Biases

As mentioned on his user pages, Lacrimosus' theoretical biases are primarily his Roman Catholicism, his membership of the ALP, and his Australian viewpoint.

Lacrimosus is a member of the Association of Deletionist Wikipedians. However, he does have respect the inclusionist POV, and feels they have a part to play on Wikipedia. He hopes that inclusionists understand that deletionists aren't bad people, really; ultimately, they are just as admiring of the Wiki concept as inclusionists, they simply have different ways of expressing it.

He used to hang around VfD a bit. Back in the old days.

Editing Practices

Lacrimosus follows Australian spelling conventions, and prefers the date formatting 1st January, because he says First of January in speech. He dislikes long sentences.

He strives for factual accuracy, and asks that any errors be brought to his attention. His spelling is generally okay, but his main difficulty is usually words with doubled letters.

He is probably not all that confrontationist in his editing, though of course he could always stand to be a bit nicer. Like most Wikipedians, he occasionally falls into the trap of vociferously backing other contributors who he knows and respects against others whom he does not, which could potentially lead to allegations of cabalism.

He is interested to see that deletionist tendencies and a strong anti-troll attitude seem to be disproportionately common among Australian editors.