User:MrPersonHumanGuy
Remarks
If I had known about the Graphics Lab sooner, I wouldn't have brought up this Minecraft painting of Jean Picard at the Reference Desk back in 2022. Perhaps the fixer-uppers at the Graphics Lab would've been less inclined to use colorful metaphors.
In the middle of 2024, I edited Vāsudeva such that a couple of instances of "an historical" were changed to "a historical". When I was reverted, I decided to consult the help desk for advice on the matter, and I was told:
[F]ollow what the article's creator did and keep usage consistent within it.
With that advice in mind, I would use some historical revisions to successfully argue my case for "a historical" on the talk page.
When I feel safe doing so, I like to be bold and move drafts into the article mainspace instead of submitting them for review, which I am discouraged from doing in most cases by two factors:
- After a draft is submitted, it may take several days (or even weeks) for it to get reviewed. On the bright side, that potentially gives editors plenty of time to improve that draft while waiting.
- Submitting puts a draft at risk of being rejected (instead of declined) by a reviewer, even if tendentious resubmissions aren't really a problem.
Of course, there's the risk that the new article may be nominated for deletion. However, if the discussion ends in favor of deletion instead of re-draftification, I can always go ask the deleter to restore the article as a draft.[b]
In some cases, draftifying an article is the best way to remove it from the mainspace as opposed to deletion. If an article seems potentially unsuitable for the mainspace, instead of nominating it for deletion and waiting days or weeks for consensus to be formed,[c] I can just move it to its draftspace counterpart, tag the mainspace remnant for speedy deletion, and let the newly draftified page sit there. Draftification keeps pages' contents and revision histories publicly available, so it seems like a decent compromise.
I've found it inconvenient that, in order to make a request for comment, you have to be in an unsettled dispute with one or more editors, which means you have to pick a side and hope you've made the right choice so your actions don't seem foolish in hindsight. This means you can't use RfC to preemptively establish consensus on something that no one has fought eachother over yet.
I don't do web searches for sources, and I'm generally super hesitant to visit any because I prefer not to leave my digital footprints on so many different websites.[d] When making new articles, I like to stick with references that others have found and (in many but not all cases) added to articles to support claims.[e]
WP:TNT is WikiSpeak for "I'm too lazy to put in the effort to fix this article, I don't want other editors to worry about it, and I don't want our laziness to be the reason the problems are still there, so I'd rather force whoever worked on it to start from scratch again."
When I rephrase lengthy sentences so that they get straight to the point, I think of myself as vacuum-sealing information.
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| #WC | This user is a cunning linguist who can help you distinguish what is proper English. |
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- ^ I always thought it was fitting that a Chinese sign said that.
- ^ Case in point: Mr. Beat
- ^ Case in point: WP:AFD/Mir Yar Baloch
- ^ In the rare case where I really want to visit a source just to see what it says, I would just go to the WayBack machine.
- ^
Examples of cases in point:
- The sources in the very first revision to The Scale of the Universe were either salvaged from now-unavailable revisions to Draft:Cary and Michael Huang in 2022 or introduced by other contributors in this WT:BFDI discussion in December 2023.
- Most of the sources I added to Tuttle Twins came from this page; the rest were cited on Libertas Institute and Angel Studios. I made a source assessment table so I could reckon how safe it might be for me to convert the then-redirect into an article.
- Admittedly, the sources I added to MechWest are ones that were conveniently mentioned on the official YouTube channel's Posts.
- The sources I added when I converted the redirect The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic into an article came from this Wikiquote entry on Joseph Stalin.
- ^ a b c d e f g h A substantial amount of the content/information that I introduced was taken from one or more other pages.
- ^ a b c d e I technically didn't create the page itself.
- ^ a b A substantial amount of content/information on this article (that was not found elsewhere) was introduced by one or more other contributors.
- ^ a b c d A substantial amount of the content I introduced was primarily machine-translated from a foreign-language counterpart, with the translated results often being copyedited.
- ^
Given the article's biographical nature, I'm surprised that it took four months for it to get nominated for deletion due to poor sourcing.
The draft only contained sources and claims that were present in other Wikipedia articles, so I thought it would be worth the risk to move it into mainspace and wait to see if anyone else would find more sources or call for the article's removal.
- ^ Based on what I've read about the different colors on this historical revision, I conclude that the description of Whites best describes me.
- ^ I've always liked to think of myself as a "human Grammarly" with a "mental thesaurus". At the time I made this userbox, I wasn't quite conscious of what "cunning linguist" was a pun on.
- ^ Formerly a single article titled List of world map changes