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The Bracha L. Ettinger article, and my new Wikipedia hero
[edit]Equinox, I just stumbled (unfortunately) upon the Bracha L. Ettinger article, and...well, what can I say? If your memory extends back to Jan 2022, which is when you commented on the talk page there, I need say no more.
I just added another topic to that page, piggybacking on the sentiments expressed by several bemused editors in reaction to that rather...unusual article, although none was more articulate than yourself. ("Still the most embarassing article on Wikipedia." Screw Shakespeare, you are the true bard.)
And so here I am, stopping by to visit your page. I read your self-description, and fell in love, so to speak. (My wife of 30 years falls into a different category.) As with you, the large majority of my edits are of the basic grammar and readibility type. Unlike you, perhaps, I once, in a previous life, put in serious effort to try and inject a modicum of balance, or even sanity, into some of the lunacy-filled articles one occasionally sees around these parts; eventually I was harassed into (mostly) silence. If the gods of Wikipedia have concluded that criticism of AOC is absolutely unacceptable but criticism of God appropriate, who am I to argue? Clearly I lack the wisdom to truly understand such matters.
The fact that I am not a digital native, and possess only the most rudimentary understanding of the basic editing rules of Wikipedia, has not been to my advantage. As such I have become somewhat accustomed to having my edits all too often reverted without a hint of sense or objectivity. Indeed, in my former life, I routinely had my editing rights suspended by those who have been graced with far more wisdom and knowledge than I could ever hope to acquire. Which is why, these years, I usually limit myself to fixing spelling and grammatical errors. It seems we share an aversion to such matters, without which there is no adequate explanation for spending time on such trivial pursuits, particulary since a significant percentage of even the seemingly most benign corrections find the attention of some pissed-off editor somewhere, who finds good cause to revert 23 spelling corrections in one fell swoop because...well, I don't know why, as I simply lack the wisdom to keep up, as noted above.
All the best. Hope I'm still around to read any potential response, and have not yet been summarily dismissed from the honor and privilege of remaining an editor of this most august, electronic publication.