Elevated roles: Unprivileged

I define "key position of trust" as a user group that itself grants at least one formally restrictive right:

  • abusefilter-modify
  • block
  • centralauth-lock
  • hideuser
  • globalblock
  • userrights (even if partial)
This user tries to do the right thing. If he makes a mistake, please let him know.
This user has extended confirmed rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify·CA)
This user is a reviewer on the English Wikibooks. (verify)
This user has been on Wikimedia Projects for 3 years, 9 months and 18 days.

Bio

Languages: en-N, ta-2, cs-1, sk-1

Wikis most active:

Hi! I'm Faster than Thunder, and I have been editing Wikimedia since I started 6th grade. Most of my edits are on English Wikipedia and Tamil Wikivoyage. Sometimes, you can see me rapidly warning vandals on Meta. I have written a few articles on English Wikipedia, such as Multivariate logistic regression. I have also expanded many articles on Tamil Wikivoyage, hoping that it eventually becomes its own wiki.

Outside of Wikimedia, I am a sci-fi writer.

I have never edited under another account, and I do not use an alternate account.

The Reverted tag on Meta looks funny!

"It supported the Irish Rebellion of 1798 but failed to create an Irish Republic."

Imagine if Griffpatch on Scratch deleted all his accounts and along with them, all the projects on his accounts! What funny scenario would that be!

How to deal with invalid titles

For each invalid character, follow the first applicable rule in the associated section below:

Initial lowercase letters

  • Leave them capitalized: aiAssist becomes AiAssist.

Forbidden characters except for colons

  • If all invalid non-brackets can be replaced with spaces to produce a satisfactory title, then this should be done.
  • Otherwise, replace them with the appropriate name of the character: C# becomes C sharp.
  • Use only ( and ) as brackets, even to replace < and >.

An invalid group of multiple valid characters

  • Separate characters with spaces: ~~~ becomes ~ ~ ~
  • Keep these groups of characters together whenever possible:
    • groups of alphanumeric and non-alphanumeric characters: %26%26%27 becomes % 26 % 26 % 27 with &&'% 26 % 26 % 27 (What it resolves to)
    • same type of non-alphanumeric characters: ..//.. becomes .. // ..

Underscores and spaces

  • Leave underscores and spaces truncated to a single space: By also the first and third rules for forbidden characters, <|°_°|> becomes ( ° ° )

Colons and Vertical bars (all cases)

  • If colons and/or vertical bars can be removed to produce a satisfactory title, then this should be done: :User:0000 becomes User 0000
  • series: part becomes Series – part: CR: The Finale becomes CR – The Finale
  • variable: value becomes variable. value, similar to list items: C: Plan Siege becomes C. Plan Siege
  • value: variable becomes value, variable: SS: Devastating Duo becomes SS, Devastating Duo
  • colon relationships like x:y become x/y

Long titles

  • Truncate the title to the first comma or period, replacing it with ....
  • Stop after one noun and one verb, leaving any other words in between: For example, stop at First plan multiple ideas...
  • Truncate to the first 8 syllables: TwentyOneThousandEightHundredSeventyOneAndSixtyOneThousandFiveHundredSixtyOneArePartAbsoluteFactorsOfBehemoth3000000... becomes TwentyOneThousandEightHundred...
  • In the case of long numbers:
    • Put them in mixed number form: 0.0000056305989268... becomes 1/177601
    • If the number is too long or the numerator and/or denominator of the fraction form is too long to remember (your discretion), locate it under scientific notation, preferably rounded to 16 digits from the nonzero digit: (256!) becomes 8.5781777534284265e506
    • In both above cases, other forms of the article title, such as longer forms, should redirect to the refactored title: 1/5431852955926725494993023946436402759183741202560931307599880429503709913611.8409923981997604e-75

Long articles

On ENWP:

Dominated pages

Tips for adminship (content projects only)

  • Alternate between:
    • editing articles until you dominate them until they make up 45% of your edit count among namespaces (main), User talk, and Project.
    • helping in admin-related areas until a non-mainspace namespace becomes your namespace with most edits.

Formula for Adminship readiness

Content projects: (1/40 * years on the site + (3 on Wikipedias, 10 on other wikis) * (edits + edits to administrative pages + user talk page edits / 4) / 40000) * (1 + .1 for each actively used advanced right on any wiki + .25 for each other wiki one is already an administrator of)

Coordination projects and stewardship: (1/40 * years on Wikimedia + 2 * (edits (global) + local edits + edits to administrative pages (local) + user talk page edits / 4) / 120000) * (1 + .1 for each actively used advanced right on any wiki + .5 for each other wiki one is already an administrator of + .25 * (number of languages active in - 1))

English Wikipedia: 29.1% editing in mainspace only

Meta-Wiki: ?

My way of sanction times

Just to clarify, I am not an administrator anywhere.

  1. 24 hours
  2. 48 hours
  3. 72 hours
  4. 5 days
  5. 7 days
  6. 14 days
  7. 21 days
  8. 30 days
  9. 46 days
  10. 61 days
  11. 76 days
  12. 91 days
  13. 17 weeks
  14. 26 weeks
  15. 39 weeks
  16. 52 weeks
  17. 78 weeks
  18. 24 months
  19. 36 months
  20. 60 months