User:FishUtah
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Hi. I commonly contribute to topics related to Utah and northern Arizona (especially rural areas). I also sometimes post on other topics that I find interesting, such as national parks, wildlife, and some popular media topics.
I have generally classify myself as a WikiGnome. However I recently have exhibited some un-gnome like tendencies on Later Day Saint related topics, as I have found it difficult to work on those topic's without clearly identifying who I am, and interacting more readily with members of the "WikiProject Latter Day Saint movement".
I do some of my edits here at Wikipedia without actually logging in to this account, since that isn't required for most tasks, and I usually prefer the anonymity. This preference seems to trouble some editors, but I have my reasons -- see this series of posts for a relevant discussion on this topic. As long as I'm not vandalizing (which would never be my intent), I think I should be allowed to continue on contributing this way without animosity/enmity directed at me. Besides, any admin can fairly easily find out which IP addresses I've used if they need to, since I try to always login from this account at least once from the IP's I use, though I may not do this if I'm not on my home ISP.
I use IP's from my home ISP serially, so once I've moved on to another IP you won't see any more contributions from me on the older ones. If questioned, I try to acknowledge which IP address I am currently using (but I have occasionally lost track of which ones I have used in the past) by posting a talk message from this account to that IP talk page, but that doesn't mean I won't feel inclined to move on to another IP address it that is the one I'm currently using.
Unfortunately I have found in my own experience so far here at Wikipedia that a shoot first and ask questions later wild-west posse mentality is more common than I think is warranted. Perhaps if/when I see significant improvements with this I will feel more comfortable with using this registered account for most of my edits, instead of also contributing an anon IP, but for now there is just too much hostility and contention for me to want much of a role as a "community member".
I also find that I often do not do edit summaries; I acknowledge this failing, and I know that this is generally consider bad form, but at least I try to do my best my edits themselves.
