User:Ravenswing

"But the biggest worry is that the great benefit of the open-source approach is also its great undoing. Its advantage is that anyone can contribute; the drawback is that sometimes just about anyone does. This leaves projects open to abuse, either by well-meaning dilettantes or intentional disrupters. Constant self-policing is required to ensure its quality."

-- The Economist, 3/18/2006

Hello! I'm a sixty-something paralegal living in western Massachusetts, once editing under my real name, which I eventually decided probably ought not be splashed all over the Web as much as it was. (Using 'Ravenswing' as a handle, something I've been doing for forty years now, likely isn't a whole lot more pseudonymous, but there we are.)

My Wikiactivity centers around hockey -- I'm a longtime statistician and sometime Society for International Hockey Research member, hockey journalist and sportscaster -- but I'm interested in everything from military history to politics to roleplaying games (and no, not in the console games that marketing departments insist on calling "RPGs").

And, to quote myself from a discussion here: "We're not out to write a mediocre encyclopedia here. This is a resource the whole world employs, and it is not merely our duty, but our privilege to get it right ... We should all be "elitists" on Wikipedia, and we should be proud to use the appellation."

Hockey is a marvellous game.

There's a great joy in playing it ...

An enormous thrill in watching it ...

May those of us who love it

Bear witness to fifty more years of it.

- the closing lines of Brian McFarlane's 50 Years Of Hockey, 1969