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I try to help out wiki as much as I can. Usually just small edits and vandalism reverts. I really enjoy finding, reverting and reporting vandalism. My edits and contributions may seem random because I LOVE the "Random article" button, but I make sure to research every article I edit. When I see a cite request I try my best to find one, when I see a POV statement I make sure to request a cite or remove it. Information you might think "everyone knows" still needs a cite, if anything it helps prevent hoaxes and they make an article more respectable. In my opinion a article for the most part can NOT have too many cites or inline links, and EVERY article needs at least a few references and cites to prevent original work being published on wiki. My personal goal is to try to make wikipedia as accurate, easy to use, and non-POV as possible.
I have a Serious Wikipediholism Problem, especially when it comes to tracking down vandalism, non-encyclopedic articles, and tagging pages with templates. I also try to keep an eye out for ideas to start new articles, but that's pretty damn hard since wikipedia has a article on just about everything you can think of.
I am always on the lookout for vandalism or other articles and statements that are not encyclopedic, Wikipedia is NOT a database for information on everything and everything that happens in the world, it needs to fit the notability guidelines for inclusion in wikipedia, or users like Me will tag and/or remove it.
A redirect is a page that has the sole purpose to automatically redirect readers to a differently named page; to take the reader where they really wanted to go. Redirects allow a topic to have more than one title. Redirects are used for synonyms, abbreviations (initialisms), acronyms, accented terms (diacritics), misspellings, typos, nicknames (pseudonyms), scientific names, etc.
To create a redirect for the term "Oof":
Type Oof in the search box, press ↵ Enter
Click on the redlink for Oof that it presents
In the edit window that appears, type #REDIRECT [[Foo]] on the first line to make it lead to the article Foo
Redirects should be organized in to categories too. Each redirect can have up to seven redirect categories. Categories go on the third line of the redirect. (Note: Plant has a subcategory within the category of scientific name; enter plant after a pipe).
Here are two examples of a redirect category using a category template:
{{R from birth name}}
{{R from scientific name|plant}}
Preview your new redirect before saving it. Make sure:
There is a big right-facing arrow to the left of the bolded name of your target page name.
That your target page is bolded in blue (if it is red, go back and double check your target name in the edit window).
That your redirect category has rendered properly and that the boilerplate it presents makes sense.
