User:Pathawi

Userboxes This user knows that Black Lives Matter. This user recognizes the Palestinian right of return.‡ This user hails from San Francisco. This user lives in Chicago This user lives in Aswan.

We can work it out.

I'm a graduate student in linguistic anthropology. I have particular interests in

• Islam
• northeast African languages
• early structuralist linguistics
• avant-garde poetics

I'm very knowledgeable about homelessness and homeless policy in the United States. If you need to refer to me with a third-person pronoun, do what you like. If I were to write about myself in the third-person, I would use he-set pronouns.

I am a pending changes reviewer. While the policy is fairly clear on reviewing pending changes, reality can sometimes be a little messier: We're trying to combat vandalism, which means that the context is a little different from that of normal editing in which we assume good faith. I check sources before accepting pending changes. I usually include comments when I reject a change to explain my reasoning. If you made a good faith edit & I rejected it, check the history. If you make the edit again, you can explain why I'm wrong in your edit comment; if it's a bigger issue, you can start a conversation on the talk page.

• Ethnologue should not be considered a reliable source. (But it is, unfortunately, generally accepted as one for Wikipedia [1], & sloppiness in academic publishing means that it's likely to remain one.) In fact, the quality of Ethnologue for relatively poorly documented languages is astonishingly bad.
• Most user-made maps are WP:OR (& frequently bad R), & should be deleted.
• 90% of editing of lead paragraphs is of no value or of negative value. 90% of editors who only edit lead paragraphs & infoboxes are doing more harm than good.