User:Melecie

Wikipedia counter-vandal

heya, I'm Melecie! pronounced /ˈmɛˌlɛsɪ/ or /mɛˈlɛsɪ/, or even [meɾeɕi]. I focus on Recent Changes patrol, Teahouse hosting, answering mentorship questions and occasional bits of Wikignome activity. I don't focus on content creation as much (I have created zero articles in mainspace), I like to do the little things for more people in here. I've been considered a friendly guy^{[by whom?]} as well!

if you have a question about me or my reverts, please forward it to my talk page. if you have general questions, feel free to ask there as well, or direct it to the Teahouse. we won't bite, I promise!

outside Wikipedia, you can find me pretty much everywhere: I'm active in lots of YouTube comments sections, Reddit^a, Github, and probably lots of other sites. I sometimes use the names SoaPuffball (named after characters from YouTube shows Battle for Dream Island and Inanimate Insanity, neither of which have an article yet despite probably numerous amounts to create them with the former being salted), IridescentClairvoyancie (Iridescent and Clairvoyance, two words that I like, plus Diancie), and MelecieDiancie (which is the original, longer form of my current username). I am active in Discord using melecie, and while I don't use IRC often (I usually only login to report revision deletable stuff), I usually use Melecie.

I use UTC+8 (not stating which country though!) and may be active anytime between 0:00 and 14:00 UTC (8:00 and 10:00 UTC+8). I also have horribly consistent activity, which means I can be extremely active for a month only to lapse to ~25 in the next few.

happy editing!

• ^a do not be confused btw! /u/Melecie isn't me and a completely different person, I use /u/SoaPuffball

Mistakes

I'm just a human, which means I've definitely made mistakes. and besides, since Wikipedia is so complex, it can take the time for one to get the hang of everything here. some of these mistakes and dumb stuff include:

• starting off trying to answer Help Desk questions thinking that lots of time lurking in Wikipedia: pages is enough
• assuming good faith and tagging with "unsourced content" even with obvious vandalism and possible libel
• failing to place User:Melecie/talk header in its proper place: it went through UserMelecie/talk header and User:UserMelecie/talk header before that!
• placing {{Wikipedia:Teahouse/AfC Invitation}} to talk pages improperly not once, not twice, but ...idk multiple times, even a bot at one point (all due to me trying to get to the Watchlist through my phone, where a teahouse helper tab was on the way). I don't even participate in AfC!
• an edit summary of "I don't usualy" in mw:Reading/Web/Desktop Improvements/Fourth prototype testing: link
• after reporting an IP to AIV, said ip managed to find their way there and replaced it with a report of me. i tried to restore an old revision in what was probably my messiest revert ever, restoring bits already clerked and removed by the local helperbot, accidentally removing another report (fortunately got restored), and best of all someone else already removed the vandalism so it did absolutely nothing constructive.
• i have greeted people with "hello (user) and welcome to the Teahouse!"... on the Help Desk. i know this happened once, but i won't be surprised if this happened more times.
• the signature I have used for over a year had a broken color: tag which made it useless (which I thought worked because the link was purple like I expected it, but that's because I view my talk page and viewed links are purple), but had that tag worked, it would've made that link illegible!

Where the rabbit hole has led me

A random reading list of pages I found while browsing Wikipedia, reading Did You Know, or patrolling Recent Changes. most of them are not from that Wikipedia list, since everyone already knows about that.

• Marianne Moore — poet
• Cow Hell Swamp — swamp where cows get stuck
• Annie Moore (immigrant) — first person to pass through Ellis Island
• Goncharov (meme) — one of the mafia movies ever made... not
• Aaron Stark — almost school shooter turned gun control advocate
• Cher Ami — bird that became a hero during war
• Magibon — how to win YouTube by doing absolutely nothing
• Venetia Burney — the student who named Pluto
• AI effect — moving the artificial intelligence goalposts
• Hannah Glasse — cook and cookbook writer
• Desert of Maine — it's technically full of sand, so that means it's a desert!
• The Unsuccessful Self-Treatment of a Case of "Writer's Block" —
• Yaoi paddle — the bane of anime congoers
• Daddy, what did you do in the Great War? — I sent out war enlistment propaganda posters
• Shakespeare (programming language) — scriptwriting as programming

• Friendly Floatees spill — rubber duck armada
• 13 Lakes — lake lake lake lake lake lake lake lake lake lake lake lake lake
• A (For 100 Cars) — when car dependency becomes an art
• We have become a grandmother — when Margaret Thatcher made people grandmothers
• Indentation style — i thought programming had no style debates!
• Zeitpyramide — pyramid under construction, come back in 3183
• Pidakala War — DUNG FIIIIIGHT! doma, doma, doma doma doma!
• JSF--k — Brainf--k, but as legal JavaScript code and actually practical
• Sophie Wilson — pioneer in computer science
• Floriography — taking meanings of flowers... just a bit slightly further I think
• Death of Brittanie Cecil — 13yo hockey fan who died to a puck watching a game, leading to more safety precautions
• Comparison of programming languages (basic instructions) — just as it says on the tin
• Wyethia amplexicaulis — overgrazing flower
• Sara Josephine Baker — American doctor
• Otter 841 — grand theft surfboard

• Mechanical Turk — fake chess machine
• Mother of All Demos — the day that revolutionized computing
• Sweden Solar System — scale model spanning Sweden
• Play for 22 — college basketball game moved earlier to fulfill a wish from a player with terminal brain cancer
• Mum (sea lion) — the mother of all NZ sea lions
• Darwin Rocksitters Club — sitting on a rock for weeks straight (gone drunk)
• 3:16 game — a series of 316 coincidences that would make football data fans scream more than scorigami
• 1973 Concorde eclipse flight — the furthest people ever chased an eclipse
• Eclipse of Thales — the earliest predicted eclipse
• Galileo's middle finger — no he's not angry at the church for geocentrism
• SiegedSec — the gay furry hackers (no relation to gay cat hacker maia arson crimew)
• Thank God for Mississippi — there's always someone worse
• Jetpack man — unidentified flying Jetpack Joyride player
• Ravenswood standing stone — ancient stone in a modern road
• Erdős–Moser equation — can it be more complex than 1 + 2 = 3?

• Doctor Who missing episodes — lost media hunting is so fun even the BBC decided to join in
• Suriname at the 1960 Summer Olympics — accidentally slept through their first olympics (not their fault!)
• Diesel (donkey) — donkey of the elk herd
• Monumite — marmite shrine
• Gatekeeper (Fire Emblem) — a background character memed to popularity, and somehow wikinotability
• 100 gecs tree — tree featured in the cover of 1000 gecs
• Cindy Sherman — self-portrait photographer of some of the most expensive photographs of all time
• Bäckadräkten — swedish unisex folk costume
• Fast inverse square root — evil floating point bit level hacking
• Maisie's Galaxy — galaxy named after the discoverer's daughter

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