User:Mako001

Welcome!

User page for Mako001. This account was previously known as The Alternate Mako, but I have usurped an old account that I created a few years ago and was never able to access.

I also have a few alternate accounts:

• Mako's Bot, which is an account which would be used for any future bot tasks, so shouldn't be making any edits until further notice (and after approval, obviously).
• Mako001-unconfirmed, used for testing stuff as an unconfirmed user.

• Mako002, for possible AWB use (not to be confused with this)

If you want to refer to me using less than seven characters, "Mako" will usually be fairly unambiguous.

Most of my work isn't on content creation, but I have written a couple of articles. I have also accidentally rewritten or expanded a few others, typically after encountering them whilst doing something else.

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Some other stuff

This user edits like a dog having just spotted a squirrel.

AWSTThis user's time zone is UTC+08:00.

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All editors freely license their work to the public, and no editor owns an article – any contributions can and may be mercilessly edited and redistributed. Respect copyright laws and never plagiarize from any sources. Borrowing non-free media is sometimes allowed as fair use, but editors should strive to find free alternatives first.

Wikipedia's editors should treat each other with respect and civility

Respect your fellow Wikipedians, even when you disagree. Apply Wikipedia etiquette, and do not engage in personal attacks or edit wars. Seek consensus, and never disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point. Act in good faith, and assume good faith on the part of others. Be open and welcoming to newcomers. Should conflicts arise, discuss them calmly on the appropriate talk pages, follow dispute resolution procedures, and consider that there are 6,919,243 other articles on the English Wikipedia to improve and discuss.

Wikipedia has no firm rules

Wikipedia has policies and guidelines, but they are not carved in stone; their content and interpretation can evolve over time. The principles and spirit matter more than literal wording, and sometimes improving Wikipedia requires making exceptions. Be bold, but not reckless, in updating articles. And do not agonize over making mistakes: they can be corrected easily because (almost) every past version of each article is saved.

Significant wiki-squirrel accidents

• Frood Fouladvand
• Mistake Creek massacre

Other smaller wiki-squirrel accidents have also ocurred from time to time.

Please do not request a wiki-squirrel accident, or suggest one, as they are only accidental.

Citing stuff available on the National Library of Australia

The National Library of Australia is (as far as I have ever found) virtually the only site of its kind which provides Wikipedia citations, all the others will give you BibTex, APA, and all that, but NLA give you a formatted, CS2 style, wikitext citation, whether it be on trove.nla.gov.au (old newspapers and magazines etc.), or (apparently) anywhere on nla.gov.au. They seem to know that editing Wikipedia is relatively popular in Australia.

AFL, a lighthearted jibe

Australian Rules football is a strange game played by some inhabitants of Australia, and watched and followed by many more. It is a bizarre game and generally played through the middle of winter (June to August in the Southern Hemisphere). Despite only having two teams, WA is disproportionately daft about "Footy". At around the end of winter and early spring, people "all over the country" (I.e. Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales, a bit of Queensland, and Western Australia) go nuts 'cos Grand Final weekend is coming. This excitement is expressed in several ways, such as drinking way too much beer, perhaps having a bit of a punch-up, swearing a lot, wearing your favourite team's colours, making crude jokes about the other teams (and particularly the one your favourite team will be facing next) and sometimes vandalising player's Wikipedia pages. Why this last one makes any sense is beyond me. So, next time you happen to be a bit tipsy and decide to edit Wikipedia (a really, really bad decision), feel free to edit here, instead of vandalising your least favourite player's Wikipedia page.

The Knave

A two speaker poem about WP:AGF and WP:BITE.

For my own benefit more than any other.

Poem

Ahoy! The knave is again at work, He scurrieth through the pages, He removeth and he addeth, Wreaking havoc in his wake! But wait, what of this knave, Is unlike that of a useful peasant? For useful peasants also add, And remove, all in good measure. Nay! His work is a different sort, Nought of any value doth he add, And he careth not what the value Of what he removeth may be! How dost thou surely know this? Hast the knave told thee thus, "I am come to destroy, to ruin"? Or dost thou just assume it be so? Nay! All for which he ever careth, Is for his childish amusement, As swiftly as his mess is undone He remaketh it, fourfold worse! But no! There is another side For a knave is merely one Who has not yet learned! He must be taught, and well! Nay! Taught with the rod, Blows, harshness must he feel His skull must be surely As thick as a castle wall. Ay! I'd say a greater knave, Speaketh to me now. For truly, Nothing could be e'er more foolish, Than to withhold grace where due.

My edit count...

...isn't a particularly worthwhile measure of my usefulness. Most took little effort on my part. So far, I haven't written a single Good or Featured article, and that probably won't change, since I don't really have the patience/focus to stick at writing an article for that long. Many editors with only a few hundred edits have contributed much more than I have.

WP:ROPE in action

Demonstrated marvellously at User talk:Froggeee562.

The-Site-Which-Must-Not-Be-Named

[That Wikipedia criticism site] is (probably) not run by Voldemort, but the Dark Lord and [that site] have got some things in common. When editing here, you may notice that users have an aversion towards mentioning [that site] by name, as though it will attract some sort of evil attention. And they aren't entirely wrong. Like Voldemort, users of [that site] can tell when you say [the site's name] due to the magical forces of search engines. By simply searching [the site's name] in Google, and limiting the results to Wikipedia, or using Wikipedia's own search engine, you can find any mention of [that site] and enjoy reading what is being said about [that site]. Whether this is something to be afraid of is another thing entirely, and whilst the wizarding world sure should've been afraid of saying Voldemort's name, it isn't too clear if Wikipedians should be afraid of saying Wikipediocracy's name. Oh crap, I said it!

(BTW, if any Wikipediocracy users see this, I hope you can have good laugh at our expense)

Some random images

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  Image inspired by a comment in an ANI discussion
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  Image inspired by a comment in an ANI discussion

Moved from talk page

A barnstar for you!

Hey, the answer was "yes"! :)

	The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
	Happy New Year and thank you for defending Wikipedia! ~ ToBeFree (talk) 00:46, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

Oh, I hadn't kept an eye on that thread, too busy dealing with a rather er, difficult case... Thanks very much! Mako001 (C)  (T) _{^{(The Alternate Mako)}} 01:29, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

No worries, I was just afraid that my answer wasn't a clear-enough "yes" and/or you didn't want to copy the original one for privacy reasons. So here's a shiny new one! ~ ToBeFree (talk) 03:11, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

DYK for Eumillipes

On 2 January 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Eumillipes, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that with 1,000 or more legs, Eumillipes persephone (example pictured) is the first known "true" millipede? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Eumillipes. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Eumillipes), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:02, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

		Hook update
		Your hook reached 8,410 views (700.8 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of January 2022 – nice work!

theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/she) 03:14, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

A pseudo-barnstar for you!_{^{(obviously not the original heading, that's in bold below)}}

From a blind-reverter who got upset that I popped them with rollback every time they made an edit. Mako001 (C)  (T) _{^{(The Alternate Mako)}}

What the hell do you think you're doing?!?!?

[4im icon] This is your only warning; if you vandalize Wikipedia again, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. STOP IT AT ONCE! Zhang Guilin and Wang Lei (talk) 13:45, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

Citation added to 'International response to the Spanish Civil War' page

	Citation added to 'International response to the Spanish Civil War' page
	Hi. Thanks for the feedback regarding the lack of a citation on my edit to the 'International Response to the Spanish Civil War' page. I've made the addition again and added a citation this time. Serendipity2022 (talk) 08:19, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

Muchas gracias!

		The Recent Changes Barnstar
		thx for vandal-war help! ɯɐɔ 💬 07:07, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	for helping to maintain the wiki during a huge vandalism wave --*Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page ♮ 04:36, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	Thanks for your contributions against vandalism! You beat me to the reverts so many times today!! 😀 Kpddg (talk • contribs) 13:04, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for ya!

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		Noticed your quick efforts and that's why I'm awarding you this. Congrats. Volten001 talk 15:04, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Teamwork Barnstar
	I didn't know I could give barnstars, but I want to show my appreciation for your having helped me out with the Kyushu dynasty theory and suggesting going about translating articles seen in higher regard on their native wikipedias. MaitreyaVaruna (talk) 06:28, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

Further discussion

@MaitreyaVaruna: No worries, you may want to take a look at Wp:Translate and the list of pages at the end of that page, which may help answer any questions you might have about translation. If not let me know and I'll try to help out as best I can, or ask over at the WP: Teahouse Mako001 (C)  (T)  🇺🇦 06:38, 5 April 2022 (UTC) I also wanted to say I saw a ton of revisions being removed from this page due to harassment or something. That's unfortunate it's happening to you because you seem to be a very reasonable contributor. MaitreyaVaruna (talk) 07:02, 5 April 2022 (UTC) I seem to have annoyed a long term abuser, who has since taken to dropping in every so often to post some delightful messages. I don't really mind too much, it'll take a lot more than calling me an "asswipe" or any other name, or throwing any insult (however many exclamation marks may follow it) to upset me! Mako001 (C)  (T)  🇺🇦 10:56, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Civility Barnstar
	Faced with two paths more than once today, you chose the good faith and optimism one. I appreciate that. CT55555 (talk) 04:20, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

Reply
It took a while, but I think I can now see what you see in them. There's something there. It just needs work, and someone willing to do that work. I'll be happy to support you with mentoring them, if need be. I think I might also have an idea of why they seem to behave like they do. Mako001 (C)  (T)  🇺🇦 04:32, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

		The Recent Changes Barnstar
		Thanks so much for the help with that editor on the Buffalo shooting article. I am still relatively new here and trying to help out with some recent changes work while also doing my editing. I was not sure if I could report the editor to AIV or not as yet, and having them come to my personal talk page like that was a first for me. Having an experienced editor step in with that support was helpful. Thanks. Also, what is that cabal template called? Thanks again, SC Such-change47 (talk) 11:36, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

P.S. and reply

PS - I initially posted this on your userpage by accident, got disorientated when I saw all the other barnstars there. Such-change47 (talk) 05:09, 16 May 2022 (UTC) Well, their editing before that had been troublesome, though not block-worthy, but they seemed to be out to put an undue weight to certian facts about the inventor of the Great Replacement theory. These were irrelevant for the articles lead section. After they persisted in adding it after being given the level 4 warning, then they could be reported. Given their edit summaries and such, they were definitely not intending to help build an encyclopedia. Strictly speaking, it wasn't vandalism, but if an editor is acting like they are clearly not here to build an encyclopedia, that is grounds to take them to AIV, especially when it needs urgent intervention to prevent further disruption. The cabal template is found here. Mako001 (C)  (T)  🇺🇦 05:22, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

		The Recent Changes Barnstar
		nice work with recent changes! I'm surprised I haven't given you a barnstar yet as far as I know since it feels like you're very frequently active there! happy editing 💜  melecie  talk - 06:40, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

Reply
Wow two gifts here in the space of 10 minutes! Thanks! (I think the shark picture was a gift, since we assume good faith) Mako001 (C)  (T)  🇺🇦 06:49, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thanks for always being there for me. You're one of the reasons I still stick around Wikipedia Amaekuma (talk) 22:35, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

Reply
Thanks! I really appreciate it. Keep up the good work yourself! Mako001 (C)  (T)  🇺🇦 06:22, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Editor's Barnstar
	Nearly 50,000 edits in 2022, nearly 5,000 edits this year (2023)...off to a good start! Thanks for your hard work! Tails Wx 01:28, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

Reply

@Tails Wx: Thanks! Mako001 (C)  (T)  🇺🇦 11:38, 2 March 2023 (UTC) I was taught that to respond to a compliment with "oh it's not that good" degrades the original compliment, so I didn't say any more at the time. However, I don't think edit count is particularly important. Editors with fewer edits than me have made dozens of Featured and Good Articles, and most of my edits have been made with semi-automated tools. But, still, I'm glad that they thought it was of value. Mako001 (C)  (T)  🇺🇦 04:10, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

ANI barnstar

		The Barnstar of Diplomacy
		For swallowing your pride and not giving a fuck about the ANI thread. You did something that many experienced editors would not even dare to do. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 13:35, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

Reply
@CactiStaccingCrane: Thanks! I never figured it was possible to get a barnstar out of getting taken to ANI. 😁 Mako001 (C)  (T)  🇺🇦 10:55, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for standing by me

		The Barnstar of Diplomacy
		I have just now seen your contributions in helping the articles that I created not get deleted. I appreciate you. You’re a real one. Amaekuma (talk) 09:16, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

Comments following

I wasn't impressed at the way that they were just all assuming that the articles were "paid journalism", when I don't think that any of them have even got any idea of what Nigerian journalism normally looks like, and were expecting it to conform to their own European/Western standards. As one participant said "were you expecting something from the New York Times?" Mako001 (C)  (T)  🇺🇦 09:36, 24 June 2023 (UTC) Thanks again. I really appreciate. It’s just that people tend to always follow the bandwagon here so I really appreciate you sticking up for me. Africa is already so underrepresented here and pulling down the few articles we managed to garner is unwarranted. I got so fed up with the whole scenario, I just took some days off the platform because of it and By the time I came back, voting had already been done on the pages. You’re a real one. Amaekuma (talk) 01:36, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

A barnstar!

		The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
		This Barnstar is awarded to Mako001, for standing up for the principle that governments must be accountable to the people, must be willing to take criticism as part of their job as elected officials, and must accept that knowledge is free. Well done! Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 03:03, 2 August 2023 (UTC)