User:PC-XT

This is my home user page. I also have a general one on meta:User:PC-XT. All projects I have joined can be seen with SULutil or CentralAuth. All my contributions on these projects can be seen with Luxo's tool. I have fun here. Thanks. :)

Hello
So, after using Wikipedia for years, I finally registered! Then, I had writer's block. :P So, I looked into userboxes... Now, I'm Type A. :S

Contribution summary
I believe a balance of creativity, organization, and pruning are necessary. Though I am involved in deletion, I don't consider myself a deletionist. I prefer helping to save things from deletion.

Sometimes, I do all on the same page, as with Troon F.C. seasons

Amusing edits

 * Special:Diff/599468956 and edits leading up to it (It looks like this is common enough to be automatically fixed by a bot: Special:Diff/591200695)
 * My favorite April Fools' Day edit for 2014
 * Spidersmilk gave me a link to this hoax edit about not drinking Lake Michigan.

What I've learned

 * Check for previous discussions that may look different before !voting
 * Preview talk messages before posting, even if they are relatively short, (not that all mistakes can be avoided, and I know I'll still forget to preview, sometimes, but I don't want to substitute a whole page of Lua into the middle of my reply. Haha. Escaping urls can also be a problem.)
 * Don't mess up the testcases! If something goes wrong, do a full revert to the last stable version and make sure the testcases are accurate before using them.
 * This is intended to be where I list lessons learned. There are more, but I'm too lazy to list them, now.

KIS
I like WP:Keep It Simple better... I like WP:Keep It Simple better than WP:Userboxes, but there are not enough of them. I found how to make some, and started:
 * User:PC-XT/KIS/BASIC
 * User:PC-XT/KIS/letter
 * User:PC-XT/KIS/sandbox
 * User:PC-XT/KIS/number
 * User:PC-XT/KIS/interest
 * User:PC-XT/KIS/math
 * User:PC-XT/KIS/color and some of the other color templates that hadn't been done yet (now being deleted as redundant :P)
 * User:PC-XT/KIS/editcount
 * User:PC-XT/KIS/Wikipedian for
 * User:PC-XT/KIS/Wikipedia related
 * User:PC-XT/KIS/contribs
 * User:PC-XT/KIS for testing and planning for the migration discussed at Templates_for_discussion/Log/2013_February_6.
 * merging the KIS barnstar forks back into the original (which I moved from )

Skill
The first language I knew of was TI-BASIC.

The first language I actually understood was DOS BATCH.

My secondary programming language was BASIC.

My tertiary programming language was 8086 machine code and assembler. I am more familiar with Intel syntax than AT&T.

I like scripting dynamic projects.

I used to make games in AppleScript, such as a variation of Hunt the Wumpus, and that learning question game. However, since my Mac broke, I've gotten rusty. :/

I also like compiling executables.

Even bytecode :P

I'm not as skilled in the following. I usually translate out of them.

I also might be able to use ActionScript, but never tried.

I don't like Visual Basic or .NET very much, though I sometimes encounter them.