Formerly StartGrammarTime


Hi! I like to wander around Wikipedia reading interesting articles (and then almost inevitably editing them a little). You can often find me on pages relating to monarchies, especially pages of lesser-known royalty and their families, courts, and companions.

Whenever possible, I try to improve articles by doing some clean-up work - usually fixing grammar, typographical or formatting errors, or bringing errant alternate spellings into line with the rest of the article. I welcome any feedback on mistakes I've made. If I am unable to respond promptly to any messages, I apologize in advance; I live with chronic pain and often have to take short breaks from editing.

My particular interests include helping new editors, common misspellings, BLPs, rewriting tricky sentences to improve their clarity, fixing dead links and bare URLS, and cleaning up AI-generated text.

Reference material

Manual of StyleEarwig's Copyvio Detectorarticle revision searchtemplates for citation/sourcing problemsWikipedia Library

more specifically...

price conversion templateciting multiple book chaptersusing non-English words and phrasesnamed referencesfamily tree template

Editing (or, These Are A Few Of My Favourite Things (To Edit))

pending AfC submissions by category or lucky dipcopyvio cleanupunsourced articlescitations neededclarification requestsincomprehensible articlescopyedit requestsnew pages feedhelp requestedorphan articlesduplicated citationshidden IMDB links (name) (title)bare URLschatGPT URLs

Peacock words These words tend to pop up in articles with WP:NPOV, WP:PROMO and WP:COI issues. Links are to search results, for easy investigation:

solutionsvibrantcustomer focussignificant rolelasting impactrich historyboastsit's important to


Tip of the day...
"Where to begin?"

On Wikipedia, you can look things up by searching or browsing... If you know what topic you want, type it into Wikipedia's search box and press Enter

If you would like to explore Wikipedia's coverage, overall, or for a particular subject, browse these pages:

If you would like to edit Wikipedia, just click the [Edit] tab (to use VisualEditor which is a WYSIWYG editor) or click the [Edit source] tab to use the Wikipedia text editor. Both tabs are at the top of the desired page or page section.

To create a new article, type the name of the topic in the search box and press Enter. If a page doesn't already exist with that name, Wikipedia will let you create one. Follow the instructions on the screen. As an alternative, the Wikipedia Article Wizard helps you through the process of submitting a new article to Wikipedia. Redlinks are another way to create new articles. Mouse click on the red link and Wikipedia will let you create a new article with that name.

To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use {{totd3}}

Things I enjoy peeking at WP:PRWP:GANWP:FAC

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Subjects I'd like to write drafts for


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