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User:Meadowlark

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Formerly StartGrammarTime


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 StyleEarwig's Copyvio Detectorarticle revision searchtemplates for citation/sourcing problemsWikipedia Library

more specifically...

price conversion templateciting multiple book chaptersusing non-English words and phrasesnamed references

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

pending AfC submissions by category or lucky dipcopyvio cleanupunsourced articlescitations neededclarification requestsincomprehensible articlescopyedit requestsnew pages feedhelp requestedorphan articlesduplicated citationshidden IMDB links (name) (title)bare URLschatGPT URLs

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:

solutionsvibrantcustomer focussignificant rolelasting impactrich historyboastsit's important to


Tip of the day...
Editing articles for web accessibility

Web accessibility is the goal of making web pages easier to navigate and read. While this is primarily intended to assist those with disabilities, it can be helpful to all readers.

While editing articles, keep in mind the goal of making Wikipedia web accessible. All users, regardless of ability, should be able to read, navigate, and contribute to Wikipedia easily.

The Accessibility section of Wikipedia's Manual of Style (MOS) is a valuable resource that provides helpful guidelines. In addition, Accessibility dos and do nots is a quick summary of the most important guidelines for editors.

WikiProject Accessibility is a group of editors promoting better access for disabled and other users. For more information, such as what you can do to help, see the main project page.

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Things I enjoy peeking at WP:PRWP:GANWP:FAC

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Subjects I'd like to write drafts for


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