User:TheTechie/History

New account to autoconfirmed
On March 13, 2020, I registered an account with the username of Mseingth2133444. Back then, I didn't do much. I did a few generic edits and played around in my sandbox. By April 7, I became autoconfirmed. But not much long after, I left Wikipedia and forgot about my account. Until 3 years later...

The return
Three years later, in October 2023, I returned to Wikipedia. I don't exactly remember how it happened, but I think I wanted to change a setting or something which required an account. But I realized I had an account just lying around for 3 years with no edits. So I returned as a sort of trial. I liked it, so I started editing a bit, editing iOS 17 in particular. I only made one edit in November for reasons I can't remember, but in December I was back in full force.

Anti-vandalism
During my return period, or maybe even after, I discovered the sheer amount of vandalism on Wikipedia. So I wanted to help. I discovered Twinkle (and later Ultraviolet and RedWarn). So I started reverting vandalism and leaving warnings, mostly on tech-related articles. One time an IP I was trying to get to stop even removed an MFD tag for a draft I wanted to nominate for deletion. The IP was removing the MFD template so often that I was nearing 3 reverts (back then, I didn't know that 3RR didn't apply to vandalism). It was even so bad that even the extraordinary Liz got confused and left me a talk page message (can be viewed in my talk page archives). But while I was reverting vandalism, I also had a goal...

The path to extended confirmed
When I started seriously editing Wikipedia, I wanted an achievement. I decided that I would work towards extended confirmed status, as it's yet another user right (I love user rights!), and some pages that I wanted to edit were ECR protected due to lots and lots of vandalism.

On March 8, 2024, it finally happened. I became extended confirmed. It was a great achievement.

New name
Right before I got my pending changes reviewer user right, I renamed my account. Why? Well, firstly...no wait, never mind, I'll put it in a list.


 * 1) It was long to type.
 * 2) The 2133444 at the end was just nonsense in my opinion, as was Mseingth (I think Ms stood for Microsoft or something, but I can't just remember). I think I only chose that username because it wasn't taken. Shameful.
 * 3) I wanted a username that reflected my interests, and luckily TheTechie wasn't taken. So I took it.

More user permissions
Right after renaming, I got the pending changes review user right on March 23, 2024. It was amazing for me to actually get a new permission, as some articles I edited had pending changes that I couldn't do anything about. Now I could.

Later, on May 7, 2024, I got the new page reviewer right as a trial until June 8, 2024 (before which I can ask for feedback on my patrolling). This had three pluses: I could do NPP reviewing, I could do AFC reviewing (which I had really wanted to do for a long time), and I could reduce the NPP backlog (when I started I think it was 8 years for articles, last time I checked, it was under 3).

Before my trial ended, I asked the approving admin, Clovermoss, for an extension. While she didn't grant it permanently, she did extend my trial until September 7, 2024.

So that wraps up where I am now. I hope to become a rollbacker in the near future, and earn more user permissions (and maybe even be an admin one day). Thank you for reading about the history of TheTechie (hey, that's me!)