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Re the old software architect malarkey, it really is a pity that I am a chartered engineer working as a software architect. It might make me somewhat pedantic when it comes to what words mean when professional institutions or legal draughters (draughtsmen? draughtswomen?) use them. Unfortunately sometimes nothing short of dynamite makes people see sense. (A bit of dynamite would certainly have had the engineer hoist with his own petard.) If you do want a software architect with letters after his name, I'll make a draft.
I edit Wikipedia because I have had the benefit of being from a working-class family where my intelligence was recognised. I went to state school, I went to university funded by the state, I didn't need loans or gifts from my parents, we were not a rich family either, we worked hard and got by. This is why I contribute to Wikipedia, so others can do the same. I will, and have done, and will do, dirty jobs to bring home the bacon. But if someone thinks they know better than I do, they better have a good reason for saying so. I speak five languages badly, I translate articles on Wikipedia. Like everyone else, I have this amazing variety of skills that I just somehow picked up along the way, so it is my pleasure to help someone else along their journey, I thought that is what is was all about. But if I am wrong I will be the first to admit it.
- Thank you for helping out so much! I really think that the pedantic user working to change these articles is being so zealous against order just out of misinformed passion. I take particular issue with the abuse of the tools of wikipedia (like marking all edits as minor, and the edit war), which gets me a little passionately protective of this platform. I'm really glad this has gone to discussion and the edit war has stopped. I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't be able to keep this up for long without help like yours.
