User:CaptainEek

CaptainEek sails the high seas of Wikipedia, hunting for good prose and other booty – such as well sourced articles. Though they hold the title of Cap'n, they know how important it is to keep a ship...well ship shape and clean. Thus they serve as a mop wielding deck swabbie, as well as on the Y'aaarbitration Committee. They often come across the scourge of the seas: vandalism – yet they know they have nothing to fear when the compass of Wiki is in their hand. They try their best to keep out of edit wars, as ships react poorly to both gunfire and needless reversions. Like Ishmael they too hunt a white whale: the elusive WikiCup. When not at the wheel of Wikipedia they make port on the shores of the United States and spend time being a land-lubbing law student. The "Captain of the Eeks" think Wikipedia is one of the most spectacular human innovations (or at least that it's pretty darn cool). They strongly believe in the mission "to create a free encyclopedia, in a variety of languages, presenting the sum of all human knowledge ."

My pronouns are she/they.

"Without civility, our lives would be as shaky as...as a Jimbo on a roof!" Civility, the opening song to the Wiki version of Fiddler on the Roof. Which is by far my favorite play.

Wikipedia: The only place in the world with elected janitors.

Wikipedia's processes have been frequently described as Kafkaesque. But having worked in the American legal system, I can guarantee you that by comparison Wikipedia is the paragon of efficiency and virtue. If you think ArbCom is Kafkaesque or inscrutable, I pray that you never have to go through an appellate procedure in an American court.

Captains desk

 * AfC Roulette They won't let me play craps here, so this is as close to gambling as you can get.
 * Rogue AfCs ''Not to be confused with Rouge admins
 * Category:Wikipedia suspected hoax articles To be regularly checked for untoward shenanigans
 * User:HostBot/Social media traffic report Experimental, also to be regularly checked for untoward shenanigans
 * Cyberbot's handy AFD sorter
 * Special:PendingChanges
 * Sandbox 2: Electric Boogaloo
 * Template:OD Outdent, for when conversations get wayyyy too many colons
 * Template:Jk – A Levivich special, for those banter filled times
 * Hemingway prose checker
 * Active user checker
 * User:Ian.thomson/Howto For AfC participants, an almost mandatory read
 * User:Ian.thomson/Guide To show to new users
 * TemplateCount for transclusion checking
 * User:Fluffernutter/c

Chest of infamy

 * Contrary to popular belief, I am not Captain America, nor is my name based off said illustrious Captain
 * Some Arbs go out for dinner...

My chest of booty!

 * Cactus wren Symbol question.svg Symbol support vote.svg Featured article star.svg
 * Townsend v. Sain Symbol neutral vote.svg
 * Klepetan and Malena Symbol question.svg
 * Bouteloua chondrosioidesSymbol neutral vote.svg
 * Bouteloua eludens Symbol neutral vote.svg
 * Bouteloua repens Symbol neutral vote.svg
 * Bouteloua radicosa Symbol neutral vote.svg
 * Bouteloua parryi Symbol neutral vote.svg
 * Bouteloua simplex Symbol neutral vote.svg
 * White-browed tit-warbler Symbol question.svg
 * Vermilion flycatcher Symbol question.svgSymbol support vote.svgFeatured article star.svg
 * Callaghan MacCarty, 3rd Earl of Clancarty Symbol question.svg
 * Naval armour Symbol neutral vote.svg
 * Yeoman Warders Club Symbol neutral vote.svgSymbol question.svg
 * Thomas Raymond HowellSymbol neutral vote.svg
 * Climate change and birdsSymbol neutral vote.svg
 * Giant pumpkin Symbol question.svg
 * Lia radiological accident Symbol neutral vote.svgSymbol question.svg (Made TIL on Reddit, 200k+ views) (also hit the news after Australia had a little nuclear oopsie, 60k+ views)
 * Gallic Wars Symbol support vote.svgSymbol question.svg
 * Echinocereus websterianus Symbol neutral vote.svg
 * Ever-Tite Roofing Corp. v. GreenSymbol neutral vote.svg
 * Dr. Miles Medical Co. v. John D. Park & Sons Co.Symbol neutral vote.svg
 * Walnut Grove Dam Symbol neutral vote.svgSymbol question.svg (8,372 DYK views)
 * S. H. M. Byers Symbol neutral vote.svgSymbol question.svg

Treasure we be seekin

 * Talk:American Civil War/Featured article push/archive 1
 * Curve-billed thrasher
 * Category:Native birds of the Southwestern United States
 * Wound response in plants
 * Pennoyer v. Neff
 * Bird articles de-stubbed: 4

Records of my infamous deeds
I was interviewed by the New York Times in 2023, and here's what they had to say about me, in the context of AI on Wikipedia: When I asked [Eek], who has more than 24,000 edits to her credit, why she spends her free time — typically 10 to 20 hours a week — editing Wikipedia, she said she believed in sharing knowledge. “Plus, I’m just a big nerd,” she said. We were speaking by Zoom, late in the evening, and it was a conversation that had little resemblance to other long evenings of dialogue I’d had with ChatGPT. Some of [Eek]’s work spoke to her personal interests in nature and birds, like an entry she wrote on the vermilion flycatcher, which got about 21,000 page views in the past 12 months. She also told me she works regularly on the Wikipedia entry on the American Civil War, which had 4.84 million views over the same period. Her goal was to continue to work toward completeness and greater accuracy in that Civil War article so that it achieves “featured” status on Wikipedia, a rare recognition (usually marked by a star) of an article’s quality that is awarded by Wikipedia’s editors to about 0.1 percent of English-language entries. “My calculations in the past are, you know, more than 10 million people read my work in a year,” [Eek] said, “so it’s an honor to have people reading all that.

“We are going to have to create processes, we are going to have to have hard conversations,” she said, about the ethics of using A.I. to create Wikipedia articles. When I asked her whether chatbots would soon eliminate her opportunities for volunteer work, she replied, “I don’t ever — maybe not never, but certainly not in this century do I see robots fully replacing humans on Wikipedia.”

I wasn’t as sure. The allure of a chatbot conversation, despite its factual shortcomings, already seemed too irresistible and too enchanting to too many millions of people. In fact, my own hours spent with ChatGPT had chipped away at my own neutral point of view — not because the informational exchange was so rigorous and detailed (it wasn’t), but because the interaction was so captivating and effortless. Nevertheless, [Eek] was resolute. “I’m an optimist,” she said.

Awards in pursuit of the Most Highest Togneme
''Captains log: Though I have long since surpassed the rank of Novato, I keep the squirrel book around because, well, its quite funny, and reminds me of one of the strangest and most unbelievable events of my life, which involved an old lady (who you could tell me was one of the three fates of Greek mythology and I would believe you) telling me to "Beware the squirrel shaped things". Not "squirrels". "Squirrel shaped things." It was most bizarre.''

You are recipient no. 2440 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:12, 3 September 2020 (UTC) KevinL submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:


 * Ahoy, it's a delight to be able to nominate CaptainEek to be Editor of the Week. The Cap'n is one of the very most engaged, thoughtful, and fun editors I have had the privilege of working with. They're best known for being an arbitrator and an upstanding administrator, but what I find most impressive is how they've stuck with an impressive amount of content work through it all. CaptainEek has been the primary contributor for everything from Cactus wren and Vermilion flycatcher  to Gallic Wars  and Giant pumpkin. In addition to their many accolades, CaptainEek has a reputation for being creative, patient, and deeply kind. This nomination was seconded by Enterprisey


 * "Eek, thank you for all that, it must have taken some significant time" --Jimbo Wales