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been as motivated or encouraged to proactively engage in thoughtful conversation or research. Turns out that at this time, it seems
Knowledge has been a glue to keeping my mind intact, something I would have thought I would have confirmed prior to now. (I think my most recent retirement/absence was my ... 5th in the last 12 years?)
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Since starting to edit in 2012, my goal has been to help and improve
Knowledge in whatever ways I can with the knowledge I have. And yes, I soon after realized that Knowledge is a site where one editor's idea of an improvement can be another editor's idea of a disservice to the encyclopedia. I was a
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Also, I realized the response I had to an editor prior to my most recent "retirement" was a bit over-the-top; not saying I haven't been over-the-top in the past, but lately I had attempted to be a bit more self-conscious of having such reactions to others upon editing again in 2021 (after an editing
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After not editing
Knowledge for a while, I realized that my brain has not been as sharp. Apparently, taking the time to realize, propose, and make corrections to various aspects of Knowledge has been stimulating my brain quite a bit. I found that over the past month (June–July 2024), I just have not
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Hello. Steel1943 here. You may have seen me before ... editing something or making changes to
Knowledge at various times since 2012. I originally joined Knowledge so I could be part of whatever Knowledge was growing into; thus the reason though I did not perform my first edit until 2011 (2nd edit in
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So ... if you've known my editing tendencies on
Knowledge for a while, you may ask ... why does this editor keep leaving or retiring, then coming back? Well, I don't have a specific answer for you there for any of the previous instances, but I can tell you why I'm back this time (July 2024):
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absence that lasted over a year). After some self-reflection, I thought ... dang, I was trying to avoid going down this path again, but it happened.
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Anywho, not sure if you read all of that, but if you did, you have my thanks ... and let's get back to making
Knowledge the premier 💕!
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