Editing User:Vindicator4021 (section)

==Yapping time==

===What do you do on the wiki?===
I ''mostly'' edit existing wiki pages for grammar, spelling, formatting, and clarity. Might add onto a page or make one if I'm feeling particularly passionate about a topic. Despite how much I edit, I am <u>not</u> an admin, or a mod, or anything; I'm just some rando who likes editing pages. :P In fact, I'm pretty new to this. This is my first wiki editing account, and I don't think I've ever edited any other wikis anonymously in the past.

You also will notice that I may have one (usually minor) edit right after another sometimes. This is just because I almost always finish editing and then realize I forgot to do something minor on the page (i.e., put a period somewhere) and I'm a forgetful perfectionist who has to fix it immediately, lol. I know this does kind of bloat my edit count a bit, but it's not my intention to manipulate the leaderboard thing (I don't really care about being high up on it).

===Why'd you decide to start editing the wiki?===
Probably the same reason you likely visited or started editing: saw one of Louis Rossmann's videos where he mentioned it and wanted to help out. It wasn't until I kind of started editing in detail that I remembered that I sort of have skills and interests that would help a lot with this project.

===What kind of "skills and interests" do you have that would help?===
Almost ten years ago now, I edited articles and wrote a monthly editorial for my high school newspaper <small>(that nobody read except the Boomer teachers at the school, lol)</small>. Nonetheless, I enjoyed it so much that I'd wanted to pursue journalism in college. There are many (mostly personal) details to why that fell through that I won't get into, but the significant thing that I ''will'' mention is that I had some concerns with the integrity of the field that made me hesitant to get into it. Once again, without too many details, though my personal beliefs have shifted much in (almost) ten years, I'm not convinced that my younger self's concerns were totally unfounded.

I don't think I'd go as far as to call editing wiki articles "journalism", but editing and making wiki articles for a project like this really isn't much different from writing an unbiased news article, so it kind of satisfies the same interest for me. You need to try to follow a lot of the same base standards to make a good article: present the facts and let people come to their own conclusions without leading them in one particular direction. Also, research. <small>(So much research...)</small>

===How'd you come up with your username?===
Technically, a username generator on a password manager. Probably about a year or two ago, I made a "throwaway" account on another website, and needed a username. I usually click until I find something that I'll remember, and for that website, it came up with... "Vindicate". I just changed it to "Vindicator".

What's funny is that I use this pseudonym on many websites- with random number combinations on the end ("4021" does not mean anything). That was actually my intention here as well, just to maintain a vague sense of anonymity, but then I accidentally ended up making myself known from editing a lot and ending up on the "Top Contributors" page. Whoops! :P

===Why do you put so many links and comments on article discussions sometimes?===
I treat the article discussion pages a little bit like notes that anybody can read. Though, I will admit- I can be a little prone to going overboard at times. Come to think of it, when I was in school, I was the one in the group project who put a bunch of links in the Google Doc for everyone to potentially reference, so I guess it's a bit of a habit. I don't think it's necessarily bad to do it, but I do worry it crowds out the discussion page a bit too much. Again, I'm pretty new to all this, so I'm still finding a happy medium for it.