I'm a long time Wikipedian with a shamefully small amount of edits, but I'm hoping to change that!
I've always generally been confident and sometimes trusted by others in my ability to review others work for grammar and tone which come pretty naturally to me. I for some reason particularly take pleasure in editing language to fit particular tones (in the writing style sense, I cannot differentiate phonemic tones for the life of me). Because of this I quite enjoy the process of rewording things into an encyclopedic style, including removing loaded language and bias from wording.
I'm also hoping to become a more active contributor to Simple English Wikipedia, since I find it important as a project and because I absolutely love simplifying wording down into widely digestible, minimalist and accessible language. I'm quite fond of the constructed language toki pona for the same reasons, which is a similar process taken to a further extreme, it's a lot of fun. (see mu)(or my wikipesija page here)
I'm usually pretty hesitant to contribute knowledge-wise because of my low confidence in my own research ability, although I should probably just acknowledge that impostor syndrome is a thing and there are far less hesitant and much more confidently wrong people out there, especially in an time with rampant unlabeled usage of generative AI.
I'm a prolific run on sentence writer, I use commas incredibly liberally and am generally afraid of the concept of full stops due to my extensive fear of finality.
I find myself forming beliefs on subjects I know little about based simply just on what others have said recently. I'll then reword many of their arguments as my own, which I can imagine is rather unhelpful in talk pages where contributing should only really be done if I feel have something new to add. (It's not my fault some of you are really persuasive!!)
I use an unnecessary amount of the word necessarily and unnecessarily even though I usually can't even usually remember how they're spelled.
Generally speaking I also use the word generally a lot.
I'm a serial procrastinator to a degree that's unnecessarily costly and actively disruptive to living normally, there's probably a word for that.
Homophones are always sneaking their weigh into my riding all the thyme, it sometimes takes me a while to catch them.
I'm sometimes an insomniac, if you see me making mobile edits at unnatural hours for UTC+9:30/UTC+10:30, you know what's up.
It would never come through somewhere as formal as this but anyone who has spoken to me in person would agree I swear like a sailor. This isn't necessarily a fault, but some would argue it devalues the language robbing us of appropriately vulgar words to yell when we stub our toes.
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