User:Salmon of Knowledge

Userboxes This user tries to do the right thing. If they make a mistake, please let them know. This user has been on Wikipedia for 4 months and 18 days. en This user is a native speaker of the English language. This user believes in civility and assuming good faith.

Hello! I'm the Salmon of Knowledge. I created my account on June 26, 2026, in search of an outlet for my writing. Since then, I've made thousands of edits, helped promote one article to good article status, and am currently drafting an article. On the English Wikipedia, I have the extended confirmed, rollbacker, and pending changes reviewer permissions, which I was granted on July 26, July 16, and July 21, 2026, respectively. I'm a native speaker of the English language and am most comfortable with American English.

Most of my work is in counter-vandalism. I use the JavaScript tools Interceptor to catch disruptive edits when they're made and Twinkle to address those I had missed. Otherwise, I make incremental edits to articles I arrive at in passing. These edits may involve, among other things, copy editing, finding citations, and other maintenance work. At times, I attempt to improve a specific article, usually with the good or featured article criteria as a benchmark. After I meet that benchmark, I resolve on watching the page for some period of time. Infrequently, I try to create entirely new articles. The majority of them won't relate to a shared area but will rather be on topics I failed to find an existing article for. Finally, you'll sometimes see me participate in discussions pertaining to such matters as article content, dispute resolution, and helping users. Here, I try my best to be as helpful and civil as I can.

On that note, I consider civility, charity, and compassion important virtues of mine. On civility, I strive to maintain a basic degree of courtesy with everyone I interact with. I consider myself obligated to uphold that courtesy despite what circumstances arise. On charity, I strive to always assume good faith, regardless of the certainty of that assumption. From experience, disputes are more easily resolved when you don't heed such suspicions about your interlocutor. On compassion, I strive to be as generous to others as I can. Doing so successfully can reimburse you with far more generosity than that which you would've acted with. I extend these three virtues not only to my conduct on Wikipedia, but in life. Consequently, I try to uphold each of them at all times; if I ever fail to do so, I'd consider that a personal failure of mine.

To contact me, you can send me a message on my talk page. If you have a question directed at me, concern regarding an action of mine, or notice informing me of something, I encourage you to bring it up on that page, where I'll try to be as receptive as possible. If I indeed failed to uphold one of the aforementioned virtues, I especially encourage you to contact me about it, as I'm always looking to improve based on feedback, and learning from mistakes is a particularly effective way to do so. Depending on when you message me, I'll likely respond within 72 hours, but I usually respond much sooner.