User:Guy WF Loftus
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Guy WF Loftus in the real world is Guy Loftus, accountable, responsible and trollable, who became a Wikipedian latterly, having spent years admiring Wikipedia and making occasional small donations of money. I decided to not hide behind a spoof name to keep me honest with one foot firmly in the real world.
If I were to describe my wiki-tendencies, I am probably a WikiFairy because I love building timelines as coat-hangers for verifiable facts. A robust framework frees the writer to create abbreviated pen-portraits which are easy on the eye, with sequential narrative flows that drape comfortably over that framework. Biographies tend to accrete over time in Wikipedia, which can be messy: occasionally they need to be shaken down to get back to what is known and remove creeping speculation.
Above all, I am a geoscientist with a passion for knowledge sharing, so much so that I formed a limited company to create tools for sharing knowledge because in a world threatened by the human need to exploit finite resources, there comes a point in any commercial enterprise when sharing what you know is more advantageous to your business than concealing it.[1] Industry is becoming much more accessible to the concept, but to-date, remains resilient in denial. If free access to knowledge interests you, then read on…