User:Heavy Water

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I'm predominantly active at the English Wikinews nowadays. I find WP:ELNO violations and the use of Cite news instead of Cite web for news websites annoying.

What do I do here? A lot of different things: for a while, when I was a newbie, I just did content creation; then I focused on RC patrol for a while, and got rollback; nowadays, I participate at Redirects for discussion, copyedit, rewrite unsourced content with sources, and sometimes write content, patrol RC, participate in discussions...

Articles I created

 * - 2022 Minnesota Senate election
 * - 2022 Oregon Senate election
 * - Mike Pence classified documents incident
 * - Recovering America's Wildlife Act
 * - Honoring our PACT Act of 2022
 * - Nikki Budzinski
 * - Postal Service Reform Act of 2022
 * - 2023 Dallas mayoral election
 * DYK - Weather whiplash
 * - Aijalon Cordoza
 * - 162nd Virginia General Assembly
 * - CROWN Act of 2022
 * - Affordable Insulin Now Act
 * - Executive Order 14076
 * - Animals' Party

Off Planet Wikimedia
AP caption in a story about horseracing&mdash;nothing to do with beards here:

The Guardian:.

No sir! I am not related to the new general in Afghanistan. Yes sir! we have the same last name. Well no sir! I have not traced the general's genealogy to see if we are related.
This, plus obvious COI editing (well, renaming).

Devoted practitioner of headlinese
"Asia: Taiwan: Gays: Marriage is legal!"

Unfortunate side effects of gridlocked governments
Toilet paper running thin in New Jersey capital: All because of "fears some [paper] cups would be 'stolen' for home use."

Well, it does now...
"WHY THE FUCK DOES FIREFOX NOT HAVE A REOPEN CLOSED TAB BUTTON???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????"

Disappearing opponents
''Meyer won 43,833 votes (56.51%), while Jones received 33,735 votes (43.49%). Jones has not been heard from since.'' Is there suspicion of foul play? Additionally, there were 11,500 bytes of Matt Meyer's "Accomplishments".

Reflections on Mexican-American familial structure
I removed about 4,700 bytes that contained such things as ''Daughters looked to their Mothers' for guidance. In the Mexican American Patriarchal society; Mothers had trouble navigating the margins of tradition. Parents usually want what is best for their children'', that were cited with sociological research papers and, while valid, were misplaced and POV.

Largest woman?
''Tallest woman in history. at 9'2" 2200lbs she is not only tall huge and massive but so strong too. could pull 2 big horses at a time.''

Canned wine mogull
Gordon Murphy, [canned wine mogul| was in this disambiguation; what is a "mogull" and...canned wine?

July

 * July 2 - In Brasília, Distrito Federal, a man tries to separate of woman from aggressor and has his hand severed by a machete.

I think the victim was angry he didn't get more press coverage.

October

 * October 2 – First round of general election.
 * October 28 – Second round of general election.
 * Brazilians elect Traffic cone, independent candidate as president, with 77% of the vote, in the second round of the presidential election.

Apparently this editor is a time traveler.

The World's Most Cautious Sentence
Perhaps because the perception of George W. Bush having low intelligence was claimed by some political pundits as well as by politicians, the hoax report was assumed by some to be true.

Dead Upon Seeing the Questions (DUSQ)
''In B.s 1990 29 students gave the SLC exam for the first time in the history of Nepal. Among them 10 passed away with 2nd Division and rest 9 passed away with 3rd Division. As well as 10 students have failed and 5 of them don't appear the exam''

B.S., by the way, refers to the Bengali calendar; ignore the fact that when I removed this sentence it was only B.S. 1429 and therefore this IP was nearly 500 years ahead of schedule. I was piqued by the trivial statistics about the pass rate. And also that at least 19 students died during the test. Tragic.

A British Scaramucci
The modern use, refers to the length of a conservative Prime Minister in office, alternatively in the United States, refers to a heyday, a period when somebody was at the peak of their abilities, not necessarily in their youth.

Added hours after Liz Truss resigned.

Password Jokes
This has just devolved into jokes about passwords.

YOU get an indef, YOU get an indef...
''YOU get an indef, and YOU get an indef! OP blocked, reported user blocked. We're all blocked here.'' Started off with simple personal attacks from the reported, who was blocked, then double-blocked for username policy violations, and then the OP was blocked for sockpuppetry.

Away in a Manager
"secularisation in action": Werespielchequers, correcting my spelling of "General Manager" as "General Manger".

At least autocorrect was somewhat correct
From my home wiki: They include the following BRS that are in your userspace.