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Hi! I'm Rich.

I've been here since 2005!

I spent a lot of time illustrating articles with CC photos from Flickr and government documents. I also started quite a few articles about neuroscience, computer science and pharmacology.

The largest article I started is Hyperloop, my favorite article I started is Scutoid.

These days, I mostly make small changes. It appears I have inadvertently developed a new mission to protect and restore information which people often try to sneakily remove for their own personal and professional benefit.

If you are not an expert on a topic, do not make negative changes to an article. You are destroying Wikipedia. I really cannot stress this enough, if you are a person who goes around trying to drive-by delete articles that other people have written on topics that you know nothing about, you should rethink what you do with your life. I don't see it as being any different than defacing public art.

Fun fact: I am literally the reason why WP:BLACKLOCK exists, due to my contributions to Texas Instruments signing key controversy.

This user is a member of the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians.

The motto of the AIW is conservata veritate, which translates to "with the preserved truth".
This motto reflects the inclusionist desire to change Wikipedia only when no knowledge would be lost as a result.

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