User:Weeb Dingle
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Put myself through college as a newspaper editor; took magazine assignments when they appeared. Spent years as a book editor (fiction and how-to).
From those decades of experience, I am prone to come across as short-tempered. Mostly, that's inaccurate: I am long-used to being surrounded by skilled professionals of much experience who take pride in their craft. We don't see any need to sugarcoat when we spot each other's errors and, when disagreements arise (which they regularly do), we can be both passionate and erudite in making the respective cases, after which a winner is declared and the house stylebook is updated, problem solved.
Totally dig the Wikipedia core concept, and am increasingly irked (nettled, even) by rampant editorializing, corporate marketeering, fanatic fanboys and (of course) lousy basic language skills. Now semi-retired, I intend to spend a few minutes a week playing Whack-A-Mole around here.