User:Ambi
I'll be a candidate in the elections for the nine places on the Arbitration Committee that will be taking place throughout the first two weeks of December. You can see my statement here and endorsements by others here. I'd appreciate any support I can get when the actual vote comes around, and if you have any questions or concerns about what you could expect from my term if elected, please do ask.
I have been told that my user page is vague. So indeed, this must be remedied. Well, to a degree anyway.
So, my name's Rebecca. Or Beck, if you want. Either is fine. I'm Australian. I like Canadians. I'm currently celebrating the end of thirteen years of schooling, and spending my summer writing articles here, before I take off to university in February (hopefully doing law, but I won't know that until December). (Not that being at university will cut back my wikipediholicism much either...)
I've been a Wikipedian since July 2003, and sysop since July 2004, but have only been active since early 2004. I occasionally edit on Simple (http://simple.wikipedia.org). I'm also, in theory, a sysop at WikiSource (http://sources.wikipedia.org) but quit the project in May 2004 over new, messy categorisation policies. In total, I've made over 2200 edits, as of July 2004. In addition to my work here, I'm also a meta editor (think sysop) at the Open Encyclopedia Project, or Open Site.
My interests, as far as Wikipedia is concerned, involve improving Wikipedia's coverage of Melbourne, specifically concerning landmarks, major streets, and the public transport system. I've also taken a bit of interest in public transport in other cities, namely Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Tbilisi. I've also contributed a number of photographs to the project, such as those for the stations on the Alamein line in Melbourne.
I'm also quite interested in politics, specifically those in Australia and Georgia, with a lesser interest in those in the Balkans and United States. I'm particularly interested in the concept of unrecognised countries, such as Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transnistria, Nagorno-Karabakh, Somaliland and Puntland. In this way, I've spent quite a bit of time building up articles on some of the leaders of Abkhazia, which was quite a challenge, due to a lack of available information.
My newest project concerns the sport of netball. While the main article isn't too bad, the sport is still sadly neglected, despite being one of the most popular sports for women in the western world. I've started on putting together articles for all the teams in the Commonwealth Bank Trophy, and plan to eventually create articles on all the national teams.
I've also spent quite a bit of time maintaining and overhauling the articles related to the Pulitzer Prize.
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