User:WikidSmaht

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Hi. I’m WikidSmaht/2Wikid.( I originally created and started using my account as “WikidCool”.) Apparently my username requires a bit of clarification. It’s not: bragging, serious, Wiki D Cool, Wiki dCool, or anything like that. It is: humorous( or at least I thought so), a play on “wiki” and the stereotypical Bostonian pronunciation of “wicked smart”( “wicked” being a local slang intensifier, often taking the place of the adverb very, or sometimes the adjective cool). You can also find me around the Internet as OhThatEthanMiguel, EthMiS, OhThatEthMiSGuy, AKAGamerGuy, and NintendoGaymer.

I’m 1982/m, I live in Hyde Square, Jamaica Plain, Boston, and I have high-functioning autism and a host of typical comorbid issues including physical hypersensitivity, ADHD, OCD, and advanced cognitive capacity; but according to most people I meet( which is a lot for someone autistic) you’d never know it. That’s because my “focus” is human beings and social communication; I have been explicitly studying other people and how they relate to each other since I was 7 years old. As someone who can communicate vividly and passionately about experiences with a condition that renders most victims unable to communicate at all, I aspire to build a bridge of understanding between folks like me and the NT( neurotypical) communities of the world. And because I learned to simulate sensory integration by letting ADHD and OCD play off each other, my sensory capability amount to a minor superpower, which I would like to teach to others who have the same issues.

I’ve been openly gay since the ’90s, back when that was still a big deal in high school. I like men, kitty cats, video games, theatre... In fact, I have established a major gaming social group, StreetPass Boston which I ran for years, and I majored in musical theatre and earned my Associate Degree. If you think that just involves acting and singing, think again: carpentry, fashion, dramaturgy, design, and more are all important parts of a theatre education.

I believe that, as human beings, we all have strengths and weaknesses, and every sapient being deserves to have his/her(/its?) unique strengths recognized and relied upon so as not to be or feel a burden, and his/her/its individual weaknesses known and covered without hesitation so that no one needs to suffer. When we all work together, we become something greater than the sum of our individual existence.

You may notice my idiosyncratic punctuation on talk pages and in edit summaries, it’s intentional, not ignorant. Still, until the English-writing world comes ’round to my way of thinking, you might want to watch my edits and make sure it doesn’t slip into the encyclopedia articles. ;-)

I hate the generic use of the word “you” because I think it’s confusing enough already that the singular and plural 2nd-person pronouns in English are the same. I’m trying to bring back “one” instead; it’s for clarity, not pretentious. When I do use “you”, I literally mean you, each and every individual reader without exception. As with everything I say or write, I’m not trying to “sound smart”, I really do talk this way naturally due to my upbringing and love of precision.

This user page updates sporadically( almost never), but say hi on my talk page if you like; I usually respond to comments within a week or two.

Wikocracy alerts!
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My Watchlist
Pre-order incentive (talk; hist)

User
User:WikidCool User:WikidSmaht (talk; cntrb; hist) User:2Wikid

Template
Template:Move to Wikibook (talk; hist)

Other pages I’m interested in

 * Kitten so... cute... can't... find... words... *squee* I like to look at this when my Wikistress level is getting high.
 * Asperger's syndrome

Pet Projects
I am no longer a particularly active editor, because I was overwhelmed by Wikistress and distracted by other projects.

Other
Other suggestions for myself or others to implement:
 * Scan for and eliminate horrid English like “Another thing is that”, or “‘Another thing that happens is”, or “And then what happens is”.
 * Fix list items which inappropriately begin with “And”.
 * Eliminate inappropriate overuse of the phrase “due to”.
 * My new pet peeve: the phrase “that[/those] of[ a] ______’s” is redundant. KILL IT. KILL IT WITH FIRE.

Pages I’ve created
Articles, stubs, redirects, and templates I have created( since I started using an account), in chronological order:
 * Percussive maintenance Poor percussive maintenance. I had recreated it and meant to improve it so it wouldn’t be deleted again, but I never got around to it.( It was deleted and has since been recreated again. I had all the history undeleted and keep meaning to incoporate the original version and mine into the current one.)
 * Kitty cat [0 ] A redirect page I was surprised to find didn’t exist when I first wrote a self-introduction for this user page.
 * User:WikidCool &rarr; User:WikidSmaht [0 ] The original location of this user page, and this user page. (major edits: [1 ], [2 ] [3])
 * Great Sea (Legend of Zelda) [0 ] Felt it was a different enough setting for its own article, created it with material from Hyrule.
 * Legend of Zelda series songs [0 ] Created as an alternative to several smaller, unencyclopedic articles about individual songs or groups of a few songs, I’m not sure it is in and of itself encyclopedic. Still, with lists of characters and enemies present on the Wikipedia, I have hope for it, though I know I may eventually have to accept its deletion gracefully, despite the many hours of hard work it represents.
 * Template:Move to Wikibook [0 ] Surprisingly, I could find no template more specific than   for articles destined to bet thusly transwikied, except the one specifying the Cookbooks bookshelf. This template allows an editor to specify a particular Wikibook that the content should be moved to.
 * Pansexuality [0 ] Previously a redirect, I created a stub with modified content from pansexual and bisexuality.
 * Pre-order incentive [0 ] Created this stub to explain the concept, and a redirect at pre-order bonus. It’s probably at risk for deletion, but hopefully will be improved instead.

Articles I’ve rewritten and/or made major contributions to
An alphabetical list of articles I feel I have significantly improved, with chronological links to the particular edits I am proud of:
 * Doomsday rule [1 ] This article was written with math terms like “remainder mod 7” and potentially hard for a reader uneducated or rusty in mathematics to understand, so I added examples and simplified the language.
 * Flagship (company) [1 ] Apparently created by a now-established user back when he was inexperienced, this page hadn’t been updated much, so I reworked it for style and content.
 * Legend of Zelda series [1 ] Rewrote article with minor additions.
 * Link (Legend of Zelda) [1 ] I’m particularly fond of this, my first major edit, it took days to write as well as lots of research and is essentially an overhaul of this former front-page piece on the protagonist of the Zelda series, with massive additions. (other memorable edits [1 ], [2 ])
 * Princess Zelda [1 ] My second big rewrite, in the wake of Link. (other memorable edits: [1 ])
 * The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (memorable edits, though not huge: [1 ], [2 ])
 * The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask characters [1 ], [2 ] Rewrite and cleanup.
 * The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (memorable edits, though not huge: [1 ], [2 ], [3a and 3b ])

To Merge
I’ve identified the following articles as needing to be merged:
 * Key: article &rarr; target
 * Fairy magic &rarr; ??? No idea where this could be merged, and the term is too generic to keep as a redirect afterwards.
 * Imprisoning War &rarr; Hyrule

To AfD
I’ve identified the following articles as needing to be merged or suggested for deletion:
 * To be added

AfDs I’ve started
Chronological lists of the articles I’ve suggested for deletion, and closed AfDs with the results and links to the AfD pages:
 * Dwarf (Legend of Zelda) &rarr; Legend of Zelda series on Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion.
 * Blue Fire &rarr; Legend of Zelda series on Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion.

Closed

 * I proposed( well, had someone propose as an alternative to my suggestion of a speedy) the deletion of Link's Awakening bosses. Result: Transwiki.
 * I proposed deletion of the redirect at Nightmare (Zelda) on Redirects for deletion. Result: Keep.
 * Skull Kid (Twilight Princess) ''Result: Delete.
 * Boomerang (Zelda) &rarr; Boomerang (Legend of Zelda) on Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion. Result: Keep.
 * Animals (Legend of Zelda) &rarr; Animals (Legend of Zelda) on Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion. Result: Keep.
 * Warp Songs Result: No concensus.
 * Song of Time Result: Redirect.
 * Epona's Song Result: Redirect.
 * Passing Songs (Legend of Zelda) &rarr; The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Songs on Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion. Result: Keep, change to avoid double-redirect.
 * Species Songs (Zelda) &rarr; The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask songs on Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion. Result: Delete.
 * Sage Songs &rarr; The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker songs on Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion. Result: Delete.

Credits
Well, me, obviously, but I would like to extend a hearty thanks to the users who created/contributed all the images and templates used or adapted on this page (list to come eventually), and to Jimbo Wales, the Wikimedia Foundation, and the others responsible for Wikipedia and related projects.

Last updated by WikidSmaht (talk) 12:55, 29 December 2015 (UTC).( My birthday!)