User:Bobby Cohn

At a Glance This user has been on Wikipedia for 5 years, 2 months and 25 days. This user has contributed to 2 good articles on Wikipedia. @ This user can be reached by email. On Wikipedia This editor is a Senior Editor III and is entitled to display this Rhodium Editor Star. This user has been awarded some barnstars and other awards. This user has reviewed 4 Good Article nominations on Wikipedia. This user has written or expanded 4 articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page. This user has rollback rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user has pending changes reviewer rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user has new page reviewer rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user has page mover rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user has temporary account IP viewer rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user is a participant in WikiProject Articles for creation. You can help! This user has spent $29.36 accessing sources for the purpose of writing content for Wikipedia. This user has access to The Wikipedia Library. About Me This user is a Wikipedian in Canada. This user contributes while listening to music he shares. ADD This user has ADD. DYS This user is dyslexic. ; This user, who enjoys writing by nature and therefore naturally found his way to Wikipedia, has a tendency to compose long, meandering sentences that often include multiple dependent clauses, at least one semicolon, and occasional em dashes which—while they might later require editing for clarity or brevity—do at least ensure that all the intended content has, somehow, found its way into the project. After all, everything can be copy-edited later. MSc This user has a Master's of Science degree in Environmental microbiology. BSc(H) This user has a Bachelor's of Science (Honours) degree in Biochemistry. This user is an advocate of open research and open access. Languages en-ca This user is a native speaker of Canadian English. fr-3 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau avancé de français.

Hey, I'm User:Bobby Cohn. If you need to get in touch with me, my preferred method of contact is on my talk page. If you came here for an inquiry about a specific article, I invite you to start a discussion on that article's talk page, and invite me to discuss on my talk page.

I try and keep an eye on my watchlist but there's a lot in there. If you're waiting for a response from me on a project page and I've been active elsewhere on Wikipedia, consider leaving a message on my talk page politely reminding me and point to the discussion. Worst case scenario, I'll drop you a {{Read}} reply.

I originally thought that I would edit in topics related to my day job. That didn't last long, and I instead found myself writing about topics that I came across that interested me. I find Wiki-crastinating to be quite enjoyable and I like the idea of contributing to a large project doing something good. I'm quite fond of the knowledge I come across while editing Wikipedia. "[I]s there any task you can't make longer by stopping to smell the trivia?"^[1]

I'm a member of WP:NPP and WP:WPAFC; I like contributing to new articles in a way that brings them inline to our WP:MOS that assist other editors who may be less familiar with markup or our styles and bureaucracies, but whose contributions are just as valuable. I also participate in discussions on talk pages about current events or topics in the news. I've also been seen patrolling the recent changes page for unnecessary but good faith edits or vandalism from IP address. In the future, I'd love to begin adding high quality photos to the Commons.

The community has entrusted me with some advance permissions to assist me with some of my typical tasks. The Wiki Education Program, likely quoting someone else, said with great power comes great responsibility.^[2] As such, I use these tools to help out in other areas of the project I'm not involved in. My editing philosophy says:

1. We're here to build an encyclopedia.
2. In pursuit of such goal, your main priorities are:
   1. Writing,
   2. Aiding good or salvageable work by others so that their writing may be kept.
3. Do your work in such a way that it creates as little work that requires the attention or intervention of others.^[3]
4. Use skills and tools that you have at your disposal to aid in:
   1. Preserving or improving writings by other editors,
   2. Closing and cleaning up some of the bureaucracy necessary in a large-scale collaborative project that is Wikipedia.^[4]
5. Be nice while doing the above. If you find yourself struggling to be nice, consider walking away.

I think biting the newbies is one of the worst things we can do as a project; we should assist future long-term editors for the benefit of the project. I'm a big believer in the assume good faith policy. I also think that vandals are obviously not here to improve the project and should be smitten [wikt] down on sight.

“	As a Wikipedia editor, I understand that my goal is the destruction of my purpose.	”
— Vami IV

Editing can be a tireless and thankless job. Sometimes I'll edit for the fun of it. Sometimes I'll really put my mind to a topic, and want to see an article flourish. If I list an article here, it's most likely because I'd like to come back to it and continue to improve it.

Some articles that I'm currently working on

• /sandbox/Meads v. Meads, Alberta trial court case
• /sandbox/Women Are Persons!, a pair of monuments in Ottawa and Calgary
• /sandbox/List of birds of Algonquin Provincial Park

Articles I'd like to expand or bring into GA standing

• Bon Echo Provincial Park
• Bois Blanc Island (Ontario)
• Sterilization (microbiology)
• Paul Rand

Discussions that I've taken part in and am keeping an eye on

• Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Emoji redirects

• ... that some railings in London have kinks (example pictured), indicating their original use as stretchers? (21 February 2025)
• ... that the release of the top-level domain .zip was condemned by cyber-security experts? (31 December 2024)
• ... that Manhood was Josh Hawley's second book to be published by Regnery, after he was dropped by Simon & Schuster for his support of attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election? (7 November 2024)
• ... that when delivering his speech "The boys of Pointe du Hoc" on the 40th anniversary of the Normandy landings, Ronald Reagan addressed 62 veteran service members present on D-Day? (6 August 2024)

I've previously written articles on a variety of topics. I have written some articles from scratch and I have greatly improved and expanded others from a previous state. I also take pride in guiding new editors that have created their first Articles for Creation draft and adapting their work and preparing it for the mainspace, if I think the work shows promise or the subject is particularly notable. I've done that in a few instances shown here.

I look for these regularly. It's helpful for me to have a quick link here when guiding new editors to them. If you also find them useful, then that's awesome.

• User:Deepfriedokra/del
• User:GorillaWarfare/Namedrefs
• User:Timtrent/Reviewing
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