User:Socksage

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I am SockSage, amateur copy editor and internet rabbit hole aficionado. Greetings, Wikipedians. Welcome to my Userpage.

Humble Beginnings[edit]

One day, I discovered a minor typo in an article that I was reading, and I couldn't let it slide. On that day, I became a Wikipedia editor. For a while, that was all I did -- removing one byte here, adding another there. Now, however, I'm slowly turning into the kind of person who leafs through Norwegian newspaper archives to find references for articles that I have no personal interest in. I don't know what is happening to me.

My Editing Outlook[edit]

  1. Be kind and assume good faith.
  2. Consensus is unstable; content is ephemeral.
  3. Pedantry is ideal.
  4. De omnibus dubitandum.
  5. The burden of proof is on you.
  6. Everything in its right place.

Errare humanum est[edit]

To err is human, and so am I. I make honest mistakes in my quest for Wikipedia's perfection. I am happy to be contradicted and scrutinized, and I hope that other editors feel the same way. Let us put the encyclopedic project before our own egos.