== WBFAN and reviewing == 

 Awadewit, thank you very much for the flattering offer to exchange reviews.  I am rather torn, to tell you the truth; it's a long story, but I have tried for a while to avoid much in the way of editing on WP outside article space.  I'm loath to pick up any obligations.  However, I am an admirer of your writing, and would always like to know when you have something nominated.  I think I'd like to leave it that we can notify each other if we would like another pair of eyes, but there's no obligation there.  I just don't think I could be sure to always give your articles the attention they deserve.  For your current Featured Topic, for example, I have considered supporting, but feel I really should go and read all of each of those articles first, which I have not yet done; I'd feel hypocritical about supporting on faith.  However I see you're gathering lots of support votes, so I am sure it will pass quite quickly. 

 As for WP:WBFAN, yes, I've noticed how many top editors are no longer active.  It is depressing.  That's related to why I try to work in article space  I realized a while back that although I do enjoy other areas of WP, from vandal-fighting to AfD to the Village Pump, they are all infinite time sinks, and that I need to have some metric I can use to establish the value of my time on WP so I can make sure I don't feel I'm wasting that time.  WBFAN is an easy proxy for that, though in fact the way I got started on writing a lot of FAs was because I realized I could treat FAs like term papers: I mostly write them on subjects I don't know very well, but am interested in; that forces me to really study the sources and retain the information properly.  It's helping me with my history reading by making my time on WP more like a college class.  WBFAN is just a pleasant metric I can use, rather like a GPA, I suppose, to track my progress.  If I had no such external value for my contributions I think I would quit too, before too long. 

 Thanks again for the offer, and as I said, please ask me when you would like a review  I won't always respond, but I will if I have time and feel I can say something useful.