User:Withinfocus

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Hi, I'm Matt.

I'm the main editor at the Muggles' Guide and have gone on a quest to keep it organized. Don't confuse editor with contributor; most of my work is administrative and I'm usually removing poor content and replacing it with something more substantial and useful. I don't create that much new content and leave those duties to some of the other big contributors of the book. I try to move around Wikibooks and help out where I can with other projects but the Muggles' Guide usually consumes almost all of my book-writing edits here. Most recently this is my favorite page to watch Muggles' Guide edits.

I'm an administrator and bureaucrat here and mostly help with vandalism and page deletion, something that sneaks by often here; not nearly as many admins actively participate at Wikibooks compared to other projects. I don't handle vandalism all that much relatively and spend most of my administrative activity deleting useless and random pages as well as transwiki material. I'm more of a deletionist towards stubs and random page creation since I think that in order for a book to be cohesive, each page should be developed with the proper amount of effort and many pages sit here and get dusty. If a page shows at least some chance of development I will let it be as long as that development does not stagnate for long periods of time (and I mean pretty long, we're talking six+ months here). Some articles may contain inappropriate content from time to time and I think that content should be developed appropriately. Therefore, some censorship may be needed with sensitive material. Our project is about academic textbooks and we must think how textbooks would be developed (if at all) in all the subject areas we currently provide.

I often participate in policy discussions because I think it's an important part of creating the community. Wikibooks is in need of defined rules for actions here and we're slowly getting policies and guidelines put into action.

I believe that Wikibooks and Wikipedia have many similarities but also many differences. A lot of Wikipedia content travels over here after Wikipedia deletes it and I think we need to work together to better establish how we edit and participate in each other's projects. I think a user should have some establishment of activity here in order to have their content and arguments treated with full respect and weight. I say this because I think it's important to show that you understand "how it works" here and we can all benefit from some editing on each project in order to better understand the community.

Here is my testing page.

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