User:AlliterativeAnchovies

As a kid, I would spend hours reading and exploring Wikipedia - I only ever edited once during that time, a decade-ish ago (I don't remember exactly what it was, but I remember it was related to the character Gaara in Naruto...). Relatively recently, I started reading the talk pages of popular articles; this got me interested in actually contributing to this site.

I doubt I will be very active, but every now and then I'll probably pick a stub article and see if I can develop it a bit further, to give others a jumping off point to turn it into an article of quality. I expect that my edits will likely center around outer space, although there's no particular reason for this (in real life I have no relation to space research) except that it feels good to pick a field. I like the process of learning about a new topic while reading through sources to eventually incorporate into a Wikipedia article, and I really hate the feeling of stepping on other peoples' toes (whether or not that feeling is warranted), which is why I'll probably stick to stub articles that have not been edited recently.

The first article I chose to edit was Aeolis Mensae, because it was one of the first things that came up in the Mars project's list of low-importance stubs. Because of this, I'm a bit partial to it; I will probably revisit it every now and then. My favorite planet is Mercury, but I'll probably focus on Moon/Mars because those projects have created a convenient infrastructure for determining where edits are needed (whereas the Solar System project also has a convenient structure, but is very broad in scope).

Interactions with me
I'm usually a very introverted person, and aim to be mostly invisible. However, if I notice that you corrected a mistake of mine in one of the articles I edited, I'll usually send a 'thanks' for the edit and try to learn from your fix :)

Goals
I want to maintain the rover total distance graphs.

I want to improve the coverage of all the Martian mensae.

I’m working on a way to automatically compare notability of science-related articles. (To check which stubs should be expanded first)

Articles I've made non-negligible contributions to
My bar for "non-negligible" will probably get higher over time as I edit more articles. I'm purposefully not linking most of these pages, since I don't really want my user page to show up when people look at what pages are linking to them (especially because I mostly edit stubs, so my user page might feasibly be the only one linking there).


 * 1) Aeolis Mensae
 * 2) Lunar Terrane
 * 3) Elysium volcanic province
 * 4) Timeline of Mars 2020
 * 5) Hecates Tholus
 * 6) Cyclic steps (I created this!)