Meadowlark

This user is an Australian.
G'day, mate!

This user uses AEST.
Their current time and date is
03:06 PM / Tue 21 Jul 2026.

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Hi! I like to wander around Wikipedia reading interesting articles (and then almost inevitably editing them a little). You can often find me on pages relating to monarchies, especially pages of lesser-known royalty and their families, courts, and companions.

Whenever possible, I try to improve articles by doing some clean-up work - usually fixing grammar, typographical or formatting errors, or bringing errant alternate spellings into line with the rest of the article. I welcome any feedback on mistakes I've made. If I am unable to respond promptly to any messages, I apologize in advance; I live with chronic pain and often have to take short breaks from editing.

My particular interests include helping new editors, common misspellings, BLPs, rewriting tricky sentences to improve their clarity, fixing dead links and bare URLS, and cleaning up AI-generated text.

Reference material

Manual of Style • Earwig's Copyvio Detector • article revision search • templates for citation/sourcing problems • Wikipedia Library

more specifically...

price conversion template • citing multiple book chapters • using non-English words and phrases • named references • family tree template

Editing (or, These Are A Few Of My Favourite Things (To Edit))

pending AfC submissions by category or lucky dip • copyvio cleanup • unsourced articles • citations needed • clarification requests • incomprehensible articles • copyedit requests • new pages feed • help requested • orphan articles • duplicated citations • hidden IMDB links (name) (title) • bare URLs • LLM filter • articles needing a rewrite

Peacock words These words tend to pop up in articles with WP:NPOV, WP:PROMO and WP:COI issues. Links are to search results, for easy investigation:

solutions • vibrant • customer focus • significant role • lasting impact • rich history • boasts • it's important to

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