English and Economics were my major to getting my B.A. Besides having been a full-time student, I am still interested in console gaming, watching mainstay cinema, basketball, street hockey, and being an avowed ebay enthusiast. As a prime user of Wikipedia, I find the the profit of information it gives me unparalleled. This is the greatest online expedient in the world, hence I for one feel obligated to correct what I can for the sake of bettering this tool for future and present users.
My primary objective is not in fabrication, but polishing and refining articles through the removal of verbiage/"verbage"(rhymes with garbage). Verbosity is one of the salient problems in e-literature and e-reference; many times users are inclined to use a wordy, jargon-rife explanation for an concept with the intent of sounding like an "expert", though the result is often a pedantic effort. As a student myself I am occasionally the culprit of this erroneous methodology. The art of being didactic requires the ability to render technical, difficult knowledge to the intuitive. A good article should not be so discursive as to force the reader to memorize volumous information, but should be effective in giving wisdom that can be paraphrased and imparted in many ways. Excessively lofty diction confuses more than facilitating the learning experience. The person of average intelligence will put down a written encyclopedia if it works to insult their vernacular, and make them feel unlearned. I also act as a de facto grammar technician and will exercise my shrewd language skillz as someone who is fairly comfortable in English (it's my concentration afterall).
I do not limit my interest in articles to one or two wiki-categories. Much like the six degrees of seperation between humans there is a similar inexplicable link between articles such that I may find myself paradoxically jumping from the article on The Big Crunch to the article on Cecil De Mille. I can tell you I make excursions into subjects such as canonical film, North American athletics, theoretical physics, contemporary music, literature and theatre, and adult comedy animation. Besides a number of articles I made for a certain mysterious Anglo-Saxon poet on a different account, I will rarely initiate an article page. I take particular interest in adult animation, and I will try to contribute to articles on programs from Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block.
