User:George Dance/backup of wikipedia user page

You can read my Wikipedia bio here.

Articles I've created
E.K. Brown, Sarah Anne Curzon, George Benson Johnston, Mary Jane Katzmann, Leo Kennedy, Kenneth Leslie, Miriam Mandel, Montreal Group, New Provinces (poetry anthology), John Reade, Theodore Goodridge Roberts, Joe Rosenblatt, W.W.E. Ross, Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics, Songs of the Great Dominion, James Wreford Watson, Wilfred Watson.

Articles I've adopted
Margaret Avison, Alfred Bailey, Earle Birney, Arthur S. Bourinot, William Wilfred Campbell, Bliss Carman, Confederation Poets, Isabella Valancy Crawford, The Double Hook, William Henry Drummond, Louis Dudek, Robert Finch (poet), Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, John Glassco, Susie Frances Harrison, Charles Heavysege, Anne Hébert, Robert Herrick, Pauline Johnson, Seaborn Jones (poet), Raymond Knister, Archibald Lampman, Dennis Lee (author), Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon, William Douw Lighthall, Dorothy Livesay, Wilson MacDonald, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Tom MacInnes, Andrew Macphail, Jay Macpherson, Charles Mair, Anne Marriott, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Morpeth, Ontario, P.K. Page, Marjorie Pickthall, E.J. Pratt, James Reaney, Charles G.D. Roberts, Christina Rossetti, Charles Sangster, Gino Santercole, Duncan Campbell Scott, Frederick George Scott,  Robert W. Service, Francis Joseph Sherman, A.J.M. Smith, The Song Fishermen, Songs of a Sourdough, Raymond Souster, Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer, Edith M. Thomas, Towards the Last Spike, Sheila Watson (writer), Elinor Wylie.

Dec. 2010
I use Wikipedia frequently in my research, and sometimes encounter typos, poor grammar, minor inaccuracies, or bad links. I became an editor so I could fix these things as I found them. I have no plans to write articles at this time (Dec. 2010).

March 2011
By March 2011 I had begun writing articles. I created a few from scratch, but not many. In the field I was looking at (Canadian poetry), there were very few important subjects or people not already covered. But I wasn't happy with a lot of the coverage; so I began 'adopting' articles: taking one on at a time to significantly revise it, adding more info, cites, etc.

May 2011
I've been reading that, since the first large influx of Wikipedia editors in 2006, the number of new editors leaving has jumped to near 50% - unlike all the other parameters, the number of editors is declining. Having run into some of that 2006 group, I can appreciate the problem more. Amazingly, i can't even write about it here without running the risk of one of them blocking or banning. I will say, though, in general terms, that having two classes of editor, one of whom has this kind of discretionary power over the other, looks like big reason for the problem.

The blocking story
Characters: Dirk Beetstra (March 2007) AD Boing! said Zebedee (November 2008) AD Spanglej (aka Span) (April 2009) JamesBWatson (December 2009) Ryan Vesey (May 2011) WhatamIdoing (June 2007)