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I have substantial experience working on the [[:en:Cyc|Cyc Project]], which makes me want representations that are consistent and inferentially powerful.  I am a big fan of both hard and soft argument constraints and similar consistency checks.  

==Bio==
I am a Bear of Very Little Brain.

You can find out more about me on my [[:en:User:Bovlb|enwiki page]].
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==Paid editing and conflict of interest==
I am a programmer, working on knowledge-based ontology-driven software for natural language understanding.  My employer is a consumer of Wikidata, and I am therefore keen to see Wikidata be useful, comprehensive, and accurate.  To this end, I am often able to contribute back corrections and enhancements.  I am making this disclosure because I understand that this borders on paid editing.  These contributions are general improvements within the spirit of the project and do not involve advocacy for any specific content, so I do not see any conflict of interest.
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== Deletion practice ==

I am somewhat of an inclusionist and would rather rescue items than delete them.  I do delete items, but usually only those that meet the following criteria:
* There is no evidence of notability whatsoever, no matter how weak or partial.
* There seems no prospect of the item creator adding such evidence.
* I cannot readily provide such evidence myself. 

A notable exception to this is previously-deleted items, where my default course is to enforce the prior decision.

== Useful links ==
* [[User:Bovlb/wd-notability]]: New notability tool
* [[User:Bovlb/item_rescue_workflow]]
* [[User:Bovlb/Don't underestimate ignorance]]
* [[Wikidata:Guide to appealing blocks]]
* [[Wikidata:Guide to requests for undeletion]]
* [[User:Bovlb/How to create an item on Wikidata so that it won't get deleted]]
* [[Wikidata:Self-promotion]]
* [[Wikidata:Respect]]
* [[User:Bovlb/Quality before quantity]]
* [[WD:MAINTAIN]]
* Useful template messages: [[User:Bovlb/creation block|<nowiki>{{subst:User:Bovlb/creation block}}</nowiki>]], [[User:Bovlb/notability staff|<nowiki>{{subst:User:Bovlb/notability staff}}</nowiki>]]
* [[User:Bovlb/pass the mop]]
* [[User:Bovlb/notability.js]]
* [[User:Bovlb/outreach.js]]
* [[User:Bovlb/queries]]
* [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:AbuseLog?wpSearchUser=&wpSearchPeriodStart=&wpSearchPeriodEnd=&wpSearchTitle=&wpSearchImpact=0&wpSearchAction=any&wpSearchActionTaken=&wpSearchGroup=0&wpSearchFilter=41%7C115%7C117%7C169%7C170%7C171%7C172%7C173%7C174%7C175%7C176%7C179%7C180%7C181%7C182%7C183%7C185%7C186%7C187%7C188%7C189%7C190%7C191%7C192%7C194%7C195%7C196%7C197%7C200%7C201%7C202%7C204%7C205%7C206%7C207%7C209%7C211%7C212%7C214%7C215%7C216%7C217%7C218%7C219%7C220%7C221%7C223%7C224%7C226%7C228%7C231%7C232%7C242%7C243%7C244%7C245%7C248%7C249%7C250%7C251%7C252%7C253%7C254%7C260%7C274%7C297%7C298%7C299%7C300%7C301%7C302 Selected abuse filters]; [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:AbuseLog?wpSearchFilter=225%7C288%7C289%7C296 Prolific IP creators]; [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:AbuseLog?wpSearchFilter=296 296 bulk creation message]
* [https://wd-deleted.toolforge.org/ wd-deleted], [[User:Bovlb/wd-deleted]]
* {{Q| Q21286810 }}
* [[User:Bovlb/recreated items]]
* https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/users/Bovlb - search for user in outreach dashboard
* [[User:Pasleim/notability]]
* [https://xtools.wmcloud.org/pages/www.wikidata.org XTools]
* [https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/ Wikipedia Library]

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