User talk:AtramentousAlabaster

Maintaining neutrality

I've noticed that, for whatever reason, I tend to edit pages that many consider politically contentious. Most of the time, when I find a page I want to edit, it's just because I'm doing research myself. I definitely have my own political opinions, but I try to maintain the neutrality of an article as much as possible. The most common reason you'll see my name in the history of a page is because I wanted to correct duplicate or poorly-written portions of a page. If you don't know what a misplaced modifier or a dangling modifier are, you soon will by reviewing my edits. In short, they're those sentences you have to read over because you're confused about what noun is doing what action. Most Wikipedians selected an article from the front page that was poorly written. Is the front page poorly written, or the article, or even the Wikipedian... er, is it Wikipediaite? We're getting off-topic here. Most Wikipedians selected a poorly-written article from the front page. Doesn't that sound better? Well, it should at least make more sense, nor require any re-reading.

In short, I don't (consciously) attempt to add my own political or personal biases; in fact, I try to be as neutral as possible. If you feel differently, please at least try and firstly give me the benefit of the doubt. I didn't come to a certain page to write about, for instance, how pomegranates are objectively the tastiest fruit, and whomever disagrees is terrible. I probably just stumbled on this page Wikipedia-surfing and wanted to fix that annoying run on sentence, and stick some natural pauses in with commas. Feels good! AtramentousAlabaster (talk) 05:32, 12 July 2022 (UTC)