From June 12, 2006 through May 25, 2015, I edited as SummerPhD, making roughly 90,000 edits.[1] I then managed to lose my password and was unable to prove my identity as I had not updated my email address. Through some browser gymnastics, I was able to login to my original account to add this note on October 20, 2016 to confirm the story.
Same ornery Lesbian Space PopeTM, new user name.
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If you are here because I left one or more notices of discretionary sanctions on an article, I am saying you edited a page that the sanctions apply to. I am not saying there was (or wasn't) a problem with your edit(s). I typically notify every editor I see editing one of several pages who has not been notified in the past 12 months -- including admins.
Editing on these pages and their talk pages tend to generate more heat than light and attract a disproportionate number of trolls and unstable extremists. The discretionary sanctions help keep this nonsense to a minimum, but only if editors are warned. The problem editors (and a few of the nonproblem editors) often feel "targeted" by the notices. It isn't necessarily about you, but if you are part of the problem, you've been notified.
I have repeatedly been accused of having one conflict of interest or another, many of which are noted above. I've been accused of being a Philadelphia cop, a representative of a choir in Australia, a relative of an obscure fringe food writer, a shill for Kraft foods and a whole lot more.
Like a lot of editors here, there are articles I clearly would have a conflict of interest editing to one degree or another. As a sometimes-author, there are countless topics I have tangential connections to.
As a rule, I strive to give a wide berth to anything I have been paid to research, study, write about or otherwise have a financial connection to. If I edit an article about Spacely Sprockets, you can bet I have never dealt closely with Mr. Spacely, his company, sprockets in general, Coswell Cogs, The Jetsons, any of the voice actors on the show or the company that made (makes?) the show in any professional context, nor do I personally know anyone fitting that description.
Yes, I have had occasion to call or talk to police on various occasions. I've been to Australia. I've met people touting various fringe ideas. I've eaten Kraft products. If any of those are conflicts of interest, no one over the age of 20 can edit anything on Wikipedia without declaring.
My work is or was cited in several articles. (I didn't put it there and have not edited those articles.) Someone floated an article about me, but it didn't last. We have enough articles that are little more than filmographies/discographies/bibliographies/CVs. No need to add mine, thanks. - SummerPhDv2.0 17:46, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
I know what you're thinking: "Summer, you've make like 14 bazillion edits (15 bazillion if we include "discussions" with editors begging to be blocked). Why only 25-30 new articles?" Well, the way I look at it, if we had 10,000 editors just like me, we'd have close to 300,000 articles about semi-obscure basketball/tennis stars, vaguely mobbed up restauranteurs and defunct aquariums. Isn't that what Wikipedia is all about?
An extensive history of unsourced/unexplained changes to song dates, often at a rapid pace, sometimes focusing on one artist at a time. Frequently involves artists/songs from the mid to late 1980s. Ignores talk requests and blocks.