I've been here for ages, on and off. I like:

• Copy-editing for style. Less is more, terse beats flowery, euphemisms are bad, "In October of the following year..." --> "In October 1872..." Breathless prose is also bad. "Revealed". Elegant variation. Puffery, hagiography and fanspeak. We aim for a neutral encyclopedic tone here.
• Cliché. Duly, promptly, eventually, actually, simply. Adverbs (and adjectives) especially need to be used with care. Aforementioned. Notwithstanding. Unbeknownst. Subsequently. Ultimately. Additionally. In fact. Finally. Moreover. Individual, when used as a noun, to mean "person".21, 13 Penned and helmed. "Garnered critical acclaim".
• "Not only... but also..." should be used very sparingly. "Not only was Jesus the son of God, but he could also do miracles."
• "A number of..." Zero, pi and negative nine are perfectly respectable numbers. Do you mean "several"? Even better, give the actual number if it's known. See also this comment. Nine! Wow! "During the time that Melzi was ordering the material into chapters for publication, they were examined by a number of anatomists and artists, including Vasari, Cellini and Albrecht Dürer, who made a number of drawings from them." 18! On TFA as well...
• However, while, although. Use with great care; they may not mean what you think they mean. Don't write "but" when you mean "and".20!
• Managed to, decided to, proceeded to etc. It's better just to state what happened. If difficulties overcome or agency is important, describe it clearly rather than slyly implying it.
• Reducing overlinking. It's such fun to insert these lovely blue links. But with them too, less is more. The right number of judiciously targeted links is more effective. We used to see a lot of New York City, New York, United States. Links two and three really do nothing but distract.
• Sourcing. This has got better over the years, but is probably still the number one flaw in Wikipedia. It's possible to insert some garbage about a minor artist or a major road sourced to a blog and have it remain there for years. We need to be more vigilant, for biographies of living people, but also in general.
• Colloquial language. "Up to Glasgow", "down to London". Not only tonally wrong, but if a word can be removed without altering the meaning an iota, that's a word that shouldn't be there.
• Misuse, often hypercorrection, of the irrealis mood. In English this is used correctly in If I were you... and If I were younger but it has to imply unlikeliness or even implausibility. Less educated readers trying to write like more educated readers may have absorbed (wrongly) the idea that the rule is "after if, use were" and will produce sentences like If I were late for work, the company would deduct money from my pay. This is Not Good.
• Having lived in the States I am probably better than average at spotting UK/US usage issues.

I'm restricted in the time I can give to Wikipedia for various reasons, but if I can help you with anything, ping me on my talk page. I'm a serious and straightforward guy, and I'm not interested in communicating by edit summary. I try for a very short summary, and anything I need to say, I say to the right person in the right place, at the right time. Treating people with the respect they deserve is the only way to maintain a collegiate environment. Having had two teenage kids has really helped me in this regard.

The key thing in life is to check one's ego, don't sweat the little things, and be aware of what you're good at but also your blind spots and potential triggers. Few things are genuinely urgent, and nothing really matters all that much. At the end of the day, we all die, and the Universe itself is temporary.

I'm a talented copyeditor and enjoy reviewing and improving the work of others. My many years of participation and lived experience ought to give me wisdom and patience. We'll see how that goes. I've lived through a difficult time when I had to withdraw from editing for a while. Now I am back, not forever as there is no such thing, but probably for a while.

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	Good work on Fiona Watt, Theroadislong (talk) 19:00, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

On behalf of the FAR coordinators, thank you, John! Your work on Joan of Arc has allowed the article to retain its featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. I hereby award you this Featured Article Save Award, or FASA. You may display this FA star upon your userpage. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Nikkimaria (talk) 02:14, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

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		The Half Barnstar I'm going to look for a user named Jack next :) Z!t!@n«T@1k» 00:20, 30 August 2023 (UTC)