User:Apocheir

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I've been editing since 2004, but my edits from then are embarrassing juvenilia, largely about bad '90s anime. This account is a

. (Also I don't remember the password to that account any longer and the email address associated with it no longer exists.)

My username is from Thomas Pynchon's novel V.

Selected pages

• DYK
  on 3 November 2013 (first DYK)
• Goldberg–Coxeter construction: DYK on 16 January 2018
• 2020 New York's 22nd congressional district election: DYK on 31 August 2021, promoted to good article on 21 January 2022 (first good article)
• Beaversprite: DYK on 18 April 2022
• Edward A. Hanna: DYK on 11 February 2023, promoted to good article on 16 June 2023
• Aleksandra Waliszewska: DYK on 5 April 2024

Todo

• Improve Sphere and Circle
• Continue going through local government articles and tagging ones that were clearly written by someone who works there only use primary sources or have other issues

Bookmarks

• WP:RSPSOURCES
• WP:NPPSOURCEGUIDE
• WP:NOCRIT
• Special:Diff
• Help:Searching § Parameters
• Copyvio detector

Quips

• The ideal Wikipedia article is simply a summary of published sources. Actual Wikipedia articles generally aren't.
• Wikipedia pages reach an equilibrium, not an ideal.
• A page's references are more important than a page's content.
• Systemic bias is more important than individual bias.
• There are more errors on this site than could be fixed in a lifetime, so pick your battles.
• Sometimes the vandals are on the right track.
• If you take the fanboys head-on, you'll lose.
• If someone is looking for a fight, don't give one to them.
• If I had worked with Larry Sanger, I'd also try to distance myself from him.