User:Apelcini

Wikipedia user Apelcini is an editor and unpaid volunteer on the community-run internet encyclopedia Wikipedia. Apelcini's contributions are mostly in the form of the creation of new articles, particularly articles pertaining to unidentified decedents and formerly unidentified decedents. Apelcini is quoted as saying "and as such, it is my greatest wish that I never have a conflict of interest,". As of 17 February 2023, Apelcini has made 1,753 edits to Wikipedia and has created 11 new articles (not including multiple stubs). Apelcini is also reported as being interested in graffiti, ghost towns, Eastern Europe, cats, charts and graphs (see below), infrastructure in America, industrial disasters, paleozoology, and archaeology. Apelcini is afraid of plane crashes and rabies and hates cruise ships, the myth of the "good ol' days", the ocean, condescension towards rural folk, Indiana Jones, and conspiracy theories. Apelcini is currently working on a project regarding the racial gap in coverage of unidentified decedents, both in sources and on Wikipedia. There is a section regarding this project below.

Talk to me! I write and overhaul articles regularly, and I'm more than happy to work on an article that you wish existed or was vastly overhauled. You can see examples of past requests at Male Mona Lisa theories, Murders of Dean and Tina Clouse, Murder of Tammy Zywicki, and Chenega, Alaska. I do best writing about the likes and dislikes mentioned above, but I'll give most any subject a shot. Just don't ask me to write about math.

America's even silenter mass disaster: the racial gap in coverage of missing and unidentified
The problem of the missing and unidentified dead is often referred to as "America's silent mass disaster". In summer of 2022, I hoped to make a difference in this issue by writing Wikipedia articles centering unidentified decedents, pages that present the facts of this issue without sensationalizing the murder aspect. I've researched many different cases of unidentified decedents, several of which have moved me enough to create articles for them, such as Elizabeth Ann Roberts and Spokane Millie Doe. One case which has moved me significantly is the case of Bayonne Jane Doe, a teenaged girl murdered and left face down on a jughandle in Bayonne, New Jersey. Bayonne Jane Doe was found wearing socks with teddy bears printed on them, and this has always reminded me of a quote said in relation to the Tammy Jo Alexander case, "How could someone just throw away a child like that?". The similarities between the two cases have always struck me, but not as much as how when I wanted to write an article about Bayonne Jane Doe, I couldn't, because there was not sufficient coverage to prove notability. When trying to think of Wikipedia articles for missing and unidentified people of color, the only ones I could recall were Tempe Girl and Disappearance of Asha Degree. Now I'm on a mission to write pages for unidentified and formerly unidentified decedents of color to try and close the gap. Currently, I'm gathering a list of cases and checking to see which of those cases fit the criteria for Wikipedia notability. So far I've personally written Angela Toler, Smurfette Jane Doe, and Shirley Soosay

Ghost Townie
Growing up in the south, I was aware from a very young age about the ways that racism has shaped our settlements through redlining, sundown towns, and segregation. While reordering the list of ghost towns in Georgia, I wish it was surprising to find that Oscarville, one of Georgia's most infamous ghost towns with several sources of media coverage, was the only one on the list with no Wikipedia article until I found a source referencing an obscure town called Rollo. So I wrote the article for it myself.