user:Avraham

My philosophy in Wikipedia is "No data is better than garbage data." In statistics you know you cannot extrapolate too much from nothing; but given something, one is tempted to build complicated statistical models. Same with Wikipedia; I would rather have a smaller set of useful, verifiable (and verified), clean articles than a large set of borderline trash. This does not mean I prefer to throw out the baby with the bathwater; if an article is sufficiently notable, and has room for improvement, it should be kept. Unfortunately, in my experience, I have found that to be the exception, and not the rule. ` For every article like V. Kalyanasundaram, there are a hundred others that are blatant advertisement, or {{tl|db-bio}}'s.

One of my favorite wiki-pastimes is to find an article which is poorly referenced, and to update it with proper, and perhaps better, citations, like St. Petersburg paradox [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=St._Petersburg_paradox&diff=55999087&oldid=55207596] and Anti-Zionism [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anti-Zionism&diff=111368926&oldid=111119634].

I am also a very strong believer in having sources in articles, and quoting them. When an article is unsourced, by nature it is suspect. If it can point to a verifiable source, it is as if it says "Go ahead, check it out." We need more articles of the latter type. There are too many unsourced, or poorly sourced articles that people may take for real research on Wikipedia.

Every once in a while, I come up with an edit which I (and usually only I) find funny.

• [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Gadget850&diff=prev&oldid=195949771 My piece de resistance]
• [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3ASean_William%2FRfB&diff=202646864&oldid=202631831 Sean's RfB]
• [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk%3ARequests_for_adminship&action=historysubmit&diff=303346682&oldid=303344231 Mop-and-Flamethrower™]
• [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Bureaucrats%27_noticeboard&oldid=334751168#A_question_for_the_.27crats Channeling Shakespeare--badly]

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I used to be a checkuser and oversighter for the English Wikipedia, and served on Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Audit Subcommittee. However, due to real life, I find I have less time to volunteer, so I have returned those privileges. I remain an administrator and bureaucrat.

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• Recent renames: See [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=renameuser&user=Avraham&page=&year=&month=-1&tagfilter= Rename Log]

I was a steward of the Wikimedia Foundation between 2010 and 2018, and have served as an oversighter and sysop on the Wikimedia Commons and as a sysop on Meta. I served as a member of the Wikimedia ombudsman commission during 2014 and 2015. Due to real life demands on my time, I have returned all of those privileges. I remain a global renamer to support my continued role as a bureaucrat.

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