Userboxes This user participates in WikiProject Newspapers. This user participates in WikiProject Journalism. A, B, and C A, B and C This user opposes the use of the Oxford comma. he she it he This user contends that English already has a gender-neutral third-person singular pronoun that is pronounced and spelled the same way as the masculine. ag This user identifies as androgynous.

My actual name is Francis Freeman, but I use the nickname Rand on Wikimedia projects and elsewhere online. I primarily edit topics related to journalism, newspapers and other publications.

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For one-on-one matters you may email me here, where I will respond quicker than if you post on my talk page.

I have a blog.

• Peter Tyrrell (rewrote, expanded and added the image)
• Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan (rewrote in near-entirety and expanded)
• Brain injury (expanded)
• Thomas J. Monaghan (politician) (expanded)
• Raine v. OpenAI (expanded)
• Doncaster Gazette (created)
• St. Croix Avis (created)
• The Marion Star (expanded)
• Brush-Moore Newspapers (expanded)
• Opinion journalism (wrote practically the entirety of)

• Translating fr:Octave Béliard from French to English

• Journalism ethics and standards
• Media ethics
• Robert Capa
• Cullen Murphy
• Birmingham Press Club
• The Washington Herald

• Get every article in the {{Journalism sidebar}} up to B-class

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	Thank you for helping update and add short descriptions to Wikipedia articles. With your help, we have cleared the WikiProject's top 3000 list for June 2025, for the fifth month in a row! Your work has made Wikipedia better. Keep it up! LR.127 (talk) 02:01, 2 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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(replacing Yapperbot) SodiumBot (botop|talk) 20:30, 15 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, RandFreeman, I'm Chironic. I just created a NEW account because somehow I was blocked out of my two old accounts, "Chaimon" and "ChaiMontg." {I'm a regular donor, too!} Can you tell me if there is a way to 'merge' these old accounts with my new one. so that my previous edits and contributions can be saved as part of the new account?

Thank you! --Chaironic (talk) 18:00, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Because of technical limitations you unfortunately cannot merge multiple accounts. As an alternative, though, you could explain on your new account's userpage that you used to be Chaimon and ChaiMontg but lost access to those accounts. randFreeman 18:06, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I feared that would be the case. Thank you for letting me know! Chaironic (talk) 18:19, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I had occasionally browsed the talk sections of wiki articles before I made an account to edit. I have noticed that there is a distinct style that people use when speaking in the talk sections, is this covered in the MOS or more of a formality? --CountMomo (talk) 14:49, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If you mean talk pages of articles, then no, talk page messages are not covered in the MOS. People talk like they do on talk pages because they're already in a much less casual environment than social media and forums. Although, there are an information page (WP:Talk page layout) about how talk pages should be formatted and a list of abbreviations (WP:SHORTCUTS) that editors might use in discussions. randFreeman 14:57, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! CountMomo (talk) 15:05, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello,

On the Shawnee page under "Language" I was not able to fix the links to references after correcting some grammar. Can you please assist and advise?

Thank you,

Rosie --Nannyrosie (talk) 05:56, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Fixed. If you copied the text on the page into another text editor, proofread it there and then pasted it back into the Wikipedia interface, that was why the references disappeared. Citations aren't automatically included by their corresponding numbers; they are made by templates like this one. WP:Citing sources may be of use. If you edit with the source editor, you can copy the citation contents (everything between, and including, the <ref> and </ref> tags) and paste them back in their original places after you finish proofreading. Hope this helps! randFreeman 06:36, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Rand! Thank you so much! This is very helpful! While I have you here, I noticed that the page titled “Yowani Choctaws” appears to use an incorrect pluralized form in the title. For an article about the Yowani Choctaw, the grammatically standard form is “Yowani Choctaw,” consistent with titles such as “Choctaw” and “Cherokee,” which are not pluralized with an “s” in article titles. Would you consider moving/retitling the page from “Yowani Choctaws” to “Yowani Choctaw” for consistency and correct usage? I've posted this in the "Uncontroversial Renaming/Move" section with a request for anyone who might be able to assist. I thought I would ask you as well. Any help there would be appreciated as I saw the error and was not able to correct it myself. I'll be reading up on the info you gave me tonight. Thank you again! Nannyrosie (talk) 06:52, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done. randFreeman 06:56, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

When I tried to learn about editing and participating in the Wikipedia community a few years ago I never heard from my mentor a single time. I appreciate your help and attentiveness very much! I'm inspired to give this a real go! Time to study up! Happy Holidays! Happy New Year! Nannyrosie (talk) 07:05, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No problem! Happy holidays to you as well. randFreeman 07:06, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

How to upload image --Jagdish(Mandyal) Rajput (talk) 07:56, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You can go to Special:Upload and follow the instructions there. After uploading the image you can add it to a page by inserting the code [[File:InsertFileNameHere|thumb|InsertCaptionHere]]. randFreeman 08:01, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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