User:Meadowlark

This user is an Australian.
G'day, mate!

This user uses AEST.
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01:10 PM / Mon 02 Jun 2025.

This editor is a WikiGnome.

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 Style • Earwig's Copyvio Detector • article revision search • templates for citation/sourcing problems • Wikipedia Library

more specifically...

price conversion template • citing multiple book chapters • using non-English words and phrases • named references

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

copyvio cleanup • unsourced articles • citations needed • clarification requests • incomprehensible articles • copyedit requests • new pages feed • help requested • orphan articles • duplicated citations • hidden IMDB links (name) (title)

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:

solutions • vibrant • customer focus • significant role • lasting impact • rich history • boasts • it's important to

Tip of the day...

Page history

If you want to compare the differences between two revisions of a page, click the history tab at the top of the page, then select two checkboxes to mark the revisions which you want to compare. Alternatively, click the (cur) link to see the differences between a revision and the current (most up-to-date) revision, or the (prev) link to see the differences between a revision and the previous one. You will see two columns of text next to each other, with any changes in red. You can also view the drafts on their own from that page, or change which versions you are comparing. Just be aware that changing templates and images are not recorded.

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