User:PaleoNeonate



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Etymology

 * Paleo (old, ancient)
 * Neonate (baby, weeks old)

I have chosen this nickname because I have been around Wikipedia a long time, then suddenly decided to create an account, and a number of general WP procedures were still very new to me at account creation time. I only use this name on the WMF projects.

Background
I am a male born in the seventies in Canada. I am not notable. Although I long resisted creating an account, I have made edits to Wikipedia on and off since January 2005. This account was finally created on February 2017.

My specialty is computer science but I rarely edit in the area. Favorite sports are swimming, soccer and taekwondo. Amateur-level interests include: music, biology (and evolution), medicine, geology, paleontology, archaeology, anthropology, cosmology, physics, climatology, environmentalism and religion (from the perspectives of anthropology, sociology, neurology and literature).

I was raised as a fundamentalist creationist but have grown out of it over time through education, research, critical thinking and knowledge; I am now an agnostic who has ceased to believe in the supernatural. I'm also a regular reader of the science reference desk.

I compose and produce recordings. I like fusion jazz, smooth jazz, flamenco, Indian, Turkish, world music, various forms of electronic music and religious music, mostly instrumental. I have some interest in the history and fabrication of instruments. Music is the art through which I can feel and express my "spirituality" today.

Venues
Note: parts of this section may be outdated and likely to be rewritten.

As I find that most articles I could think of already exist, I have decided to create an account, and to as time permits use the following categories to find articles to improve (provided for myself and others who may find them useful):

Also see

 * Category:Articles_to_be_merged_after_an_Articles_for_deletion_discussion
 * Category:All_articles_to_be_merged
 * Category:Articles_to_be_merged
 * Category:All_stub_articles
 * Category:All_articles_to_be_expanded
 * Category:Stale_userspace_drafts
 * Category:G13_eligible_AfC_submissions
 * Category:Copy_to_Wikimedia_Commons
 * User:MusikBot/StaleDrafts/Report
 * Articles_for_creation
 * Requested_articles
 * Today's_articles_for_improvement
 * Community_portal
 * Backlog
 * Cleanup_resources
 * Drafts and WikiProject_Abandoned_Drafts
 * Category:Pages_where_post-expand_include_size_is_exceeded
 * Village_pump_(technical)
 * WikiProject_Mammals/Missing_mammal_species
 * Village_pump_(technical)
 * WikiProject_Mammals/Missing_mammal_species
 * User:PaleoNeonate/Procedures - An attempt to logically and shortly condense dispute resolution procedures
 * User:PaleoNeonate/common.css - Custom CSS, less contrast for normal use, more contrast for diffs
 * WikiProject Jehovah's Witnesses/FAQ - A work-in-progress FAQ draft for JW-related talk pages
 * User:PaleoNeonate/sandbox_permlinks - Possibly useful permanent links to sandbox revisions
 * - A custom award utility template I wrote
 * User:PaleoNeonate/Userboxes/NBox - Custom user box, humor or statement
 * User:PaleoNeonate/Userboxes/Science - Custom user box, science related
 * User:PaleoNeonate/Userboxes/WikiProphet - Custom user box, humor
 * User:PaleoNeonate/Userboxes/ManInBlack - Custom user box, humor
 * User:PaleoNeonate/Userboxes/SPIKitz - Custom user box, humor
 * User:PaleoNeonate/Userboxes/Einstein - Custom user box, humor, based on editor quote
 * User:PaleoNeonate/Userboxes/Brainwashing - Custom user box, based on editor quote
 * User:PaleoNeonate/Userboxes/CigaretteSmokingMan - Custom user box, humor
 * User:PaleoNeonate/Userboxes/InterracialRelationship - Custom user box, sexuality
 * User:PaleoNeonate/Userboxes/CounterPropagandaUnit - Humor, adapted from box at User:Morton devonshire/Head
 * User:PaleoNeonate/Userboxes/DevonshireSchoolOfPropaganda - Humor, inspired from text at User:Morton devonshire/Alex doesn't live here anymore
 * User:PaleoNeonate/Userboxes/MomsAgainstMomsAgainstScience
 * User:PaleoNeonate/Userboxes/WikiSatan
 * User:PaleoNeonate/OfPaidEditingAndCOI - Opinion essay on paid editing and conflict of interest
 * User:PaleoNeonate/Pitfalls - An essay on pseudoscience
 * Teahouse - can also be useful to bring attention to draft articles and assist.
 * AfD Log (today) - I sometimes lurk here to vote or comment on debates, but also discover work-in-progress articles of new editors needing assistance.
 * WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives

Wikiproject Skepticism tasks

 * Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Skepticism/Skeptic_watchlists
 * Special:RecentChangesLinked/User:Hob_Gadling/List_of_pseudoscience_pages
 * Category:WikiProject Skepticism
 * Category:WikiProject Skepticism articles
 * WikiProject_Skepticism/Article_alerts
 * User:InceptionBot/NewPageSearch/Skepticism/log
 * User:AlexNewArtBot/SkepticismSearchResult
 * Fringe theories noticeboard

Useful links

 * Special:NewPages — New pages
 * WP:IW — Inter-Wiki linking
 * Lat — Page/Portal/etc link
 * sl — Search link
 * ph — History link
 * diff / Special:Diff/id — Diff link
 * oldid / Special:Permalink/id — Permanent link
 * fullurl | urlencode — Utilities
 * tl etc — Template link
 * para — Template parameter
 * button — Button
 * pagelinks — Page links
 * la — Article links
 * ld — Draft links
 * clc / Category:... — Category link
 * LinkSummary — Link links
 * UserSummary — User links
 * IPSummary — Address links
 * re — Reply
 * u — Name/ping
 * noping — Name/noping
 * edit tag — Edit tag link
 * edit filter — Edit filter link
 * edit — Edit link
 * H:WIKICODE — Wikimarkup reference
 * WP:WARN — Standard warning templates
 * WP:WARN2 — Multi-level warning templates
 * Ds/alert — Dicretionary sanctions alert
 * OW — Deleted previous warnings in the history
 * Userpage blanked — Fake article, stale draft, etc.
 * Shared IP — Tag IP address as shared
 * Shared IP edu — Tag IP address talk page as school
 * SharedIPcolocation — Tag IP address as webhost
 * Static IP — Tag IP address as static
 * COI editnotice — Tag relevant article talk pages
 * WP:MYBIO — Help for autobio editors
 * WP:STUBS — Stub sorting types
 * Category:Cleanup_templates — Cleanup tags
 * Category:Introduction_cleanup_maintenance_templates — Lead cleanup tags
 * WP:DST — Deletion sorting lists
 * DNAU — Do Not Archive Until
 * WP:TRANS — All about transclusion
 * WP:CTT and WP:TMV — Citation cleanup tags
 * WP:PROJSCOPE — Tagging for WikiProjects
 * Template:Resolved/See_also — Sign templates
 * Template:Done/See_also — More sign templates
 * WP:RSN — Reliable Sources Noticeboard Unreliable sources Unreliable source RSN-notice
 * WP:FTN — Fringe Theories Noticeboard Fringe theories FTN Article Ftn-notice
 * WP:NPOVN — Neutral Point of View Noticeboard POV NPOVN-notice
 * WP:ELN — External Links Noticeboard
 * WP:BLPN — Biographies of Living Persons Noticeboard BLP BLP noticeboard watchlist
 * WP:COIN — Conflict Of Interest Noticeboard
 * WT:NPR — New Pages Reviewer noticeboard
 * WP:CEN — Current Events Noticeboard
 * WP:MCQ — Media Copyright Questions
 * WP:PR — Peer Review
 * WP:DBOARD — Discussions and requests list
 * WP:RSN — Reliable Sources Noticeboard
 * WP:RX — Sources Exchange
 * WP:LIB — Library
 * WP:IRS — Identifying Reliable Sources
 * WP:PUS — Potentially Unreliable Sources
 * WP:MEDRS — Medical Reliable Sources
 * WP:FRIND — Sources IRT fringe
 * WP:PARITY — Parity of sources
 * Reliable sources for medical articles
 * Reliable sources for medical articles
 * WP:ACDS — Discretionary Sanctions
 * WP:AIV — Administrator Intervention against Vandalism
 * WP:UAA — User name for Administrator Attention
 * WP:POVUSERNAME — Essay
 * WP:RPP — Request for Page Protection (increase)
 * WP:AN — Administrator Noticeboard (to discuss with/about admins or general uncategorized)
 * WP:AN3 — Administrator Noticeboard to report edit warring (3RR, etc)
 * WP:ANI — Administrator Noticeboard to report incidents
 * WP:AE — Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement (report violations of discretionary sanctions, violated 0RR/1RR decisions, request closure of discussions/deletions, etc)
 * WP:SPI — Sock Puppet Investigations (to report multiple undisclosed account usage)
 * WP:911 — Emergency, self-harm, threats
 * WP:REFUND — Request for undeletion or userfication of deleted articles
 * WP:DELREV — Deletion Review
 * WP:AfD — Articles for Deletion (closing will determine if admin must delete)
 * WP:CSD — Criteria for Speedy Deletion nomination (use AfD or MfD if unsuccessful)
 * WP:PROD — Proposed Deletion (uncontroversial, technical; use CSD, AfD or MfD if unsuccessful)
 * WP:SUPPRESS — Oversight (request deletion of outing/info/inadvertent-IP, etc)
 * WP:TfD — Templates for Deletion
 * WP:MFD — Miscellany for Deletion (user boxes, project/Wikipedia space, drafts, or other not covered by AfD/TfD/CfD/RfD) (category)
 * WP:CfD — Categories for Deletion
 * WP:FfD — Files for Deletion (images, other media)
 * WP:RfD — Redirect for Deletion
 * WP:RM — Requested Moves
 * Deletion tools — Deletion tools
 * Copyvio-revdel — WP:REVDEL request
 * CopyPatrol tool
 * WP:3O — request Third Opinion
 * WP:RfC — Request for Comment
 * WP:DR — Dispute Resolution
 * WP:M — Mediation (all parties must agree to open)
 * WP:ARB — Arbitration Committee
 * WP:ACC — request Account Creation
 * WP:UTRS — Unblock Ticket Request System
 * WP:ARCA — Arbitration Requests Clarification and Amendment (i.e. article protection change when original administrator not available, clarification to sanctions)
 * WP:RESTRICT — Editing restrictions
 * WP:EAR — Editor Assistance Requests
 * WP:RS/AC — Consensus
 * WP:PSCI — Pseudoscience
 * WP:GEVAL — False balance
 * WP:YESPOV — Facts vs opinions
 * WP:FRINGE — Fringe theories
 * MOS:ISMCAPS – He for God
 * WP:SAWW — Peace be upon him
 * MOS:CREDENTIAL — Doctor
 * MOS:HONORIFIC — Honourable
 * MOS:MED — Other animals
 * MOS:QUOTEMARKS — Straight punctuation
 * MOS:INOROUT — Punctuation in/out
 * MOS:ERA — BC/AD vs BCE/CE
 * WP:WTAF — Write the Article First
 * WP:ELNO — On permitted external links
 * MOS:HEADCAPS — Headers case
 * WP:NCPDAB — Article name disambiguation (people)
 * italic title — Useful for book articles
 * WP:USERTALKBLOG — Inappropriate content on user pages
 * WP:BON — Bots noticeboard
 * WP:BOTREQ — Bot task requests
 * WP:RAQ — SQL query requests
 * WP:EFR — Edit Filter Requests
 * Special:Tags — Edit tags
 * Special:AbuseLog — Abuse log
 * Special:AbuseFilter — Abuse filter
 * WP:EF — Edit filter
 * MediaWiki:Titleblacklist — Titles blacklist
 * WT:WPSPAM — Linkspam reporting
 * User:COIBot/Poke — COIBot report
 * WP:BLACKLIST, WP:Spam-blacklist, Spam blacklist, WP:WhiteList, Spam-whitelist, WP:SPAM, M:WM:SPAM
 * Local blacklist (talk &middot; archives &middot; logs)
 * Local whitelist (talk &middot; archives &middot; logs)
 * Global blacklist (talk &middot; archives &middot; logs)
 * XLinkBot Revertlist (talk &middot; archives &middot; logs)
 * WP:OP — Open proxy report

Awards
These are friendly ways to express appreciation and to encourage civility and efforts. For more information, please see Awards, WikiLove and Kindness_Campaign.


 * People I have thanked, and those who thanked me.

Miscellaneous
Dear Sir,  --P.Shiladitya (talk) 15:32, 23 May 2017 (UTC) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:27, 6 September 2018 (UTC)  An outbreak of crocheted creations locally has brought light relief and cheer in dark times. Here's a couple of them. Thanks for all your work pushing against the de-enlightenment of creationism, Wishing you and yours merry festivities, and a happy and healthy New Year! dave souza, talk 21:25, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

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