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I've been editing since 2004, but my edits from then are embarrassing juvenilia, largely about bad '90s anime. This account is a fresh start. (Also I don't remember the password to that account any longer and the email address associated with it no longer exists.)

I used to write more about math but now I mostly write about New York State and local topics.

My username is from Thomas Pynchon's novel V.

• Utica Zoo: DYK on 3 November 2013 (first DYK)
• Goldberg–Coxeter construction: DYK on 16 January 2018
• 2020 New York's 22nd congressional district election: DYK on 31 August 2021, promoted to good article on 21 January 2022 (first good article)
• Beaversprite: DYK on 18 April 2022
• Edward A. Hanna: DYK on 11 February 2023, promoted to good article on 16 June 2023
• Aleksandra Waliszewska: DYK on 5 April 2024
• Central New York Psychiatric Center: DYK on 14 May 2025, this one also involved untangling the shared history of half a dozen psychiatric hospitals and prisons in the area
• Sculpture Space (Utica): DYK on 19 June 2025
• 2025 New York corrections officers' strike: DYK on 9 July 2025
• 1979 New York prison guards' strike: 22 July 2025

• Rewrite Credibility theory
• Find 3D charts and replace them with {{pie chart}} and the like
• Continue going through local government articles and tagging ones that were clearly written by someone who works there only use primary sources or have other issues

• WP:RSPSOURCES
• WP:NPPSOURCEGUIDE
• WP:NOCRIT
• Special:Diff
• Help:Searching § Parameters
• Copyvio detector

• Document. Fucking. Everything.
• The ideal Wikipedia article is simply a summary of published sources. Actual Wikipedia articles generally aren't.
• Wikipedia pages reach an equilibrium, not an ideal.
• A page's references are more important than a page's content (especially with the ongoing decay of search engines).
• Systemic bias is more important than individual bias.
• There are more errors on this site than could be fixed in a lifetime, so pick your battles.
• Sometimes the vandals are on the right track.
• If you take the fanboys head-on, you'll lose.
• If someone is looking for a fight, don't give one to them.
• If I had worked with Larry Sanger, I'd also try to distance myself from him.