Comtesse d'Autodidactica

Oh, I'm just a girl—no. Eh. I don't know how to describe myself, really. So, I just thought I'd let the userboxes^↓ speak for themselves._/introvert
—Comtesse
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Let me explain 🖊️

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· Reverting swathes of changes, which have nothing inherently wrong with them, either because you preferred the article's previous state or your personal edits (claiming in the ES, something along the lines of: “previous edit was unnecessary”), is not helpful. Either actually improve upon said changes or let it go. If you can't improve upon the changes, maybe reflect upon why that is. Remember: Editing Wikipedia is not for posterity nor personal glory.

· Don't infer to others—nor heed the word of others—that WP guidelines are requirements to editing or, otherwise, “law”; nor that a specific article has “special editing rules,” which don't pertain to policies surrounding biographies of living people or the Protection Policy.

· "Clarity" can be subjective. If I read something and am confused by the wording, have to read it over multiple times, and it's not because I missed a word or similar—it's a good idea to merely edit that sentence for clarity. Just because you understood the previous edit doesn't mean everyone does. If people find something difficult to understand, they do. The reader comes first on WP and readability is my biggest concern after factuality and relevance.

This user boldly assumes consensus when editing Wikipedia until told otherwise.

This user believes that we should do no harm on any biographical article.

This user does not support the judgment of historical figures by modern standards.

This editor puts the reader first.

This user doesn't own anything.

This user finds edit/revert wars disruptive.

This user believes that adding relevant links is never a bad thing.

they

This user considers singular they standard English usage.

DM

Causing unintended humor, this user edits dangling modifiers.

,

This user fixes comma-splices; they are annoying.

"...,"

For quotation marks, this user would rather use "American punctuation."

. The

This user believes sentence spacing is a style choice, not a law.

This user is anal and is prone to making edits on top of their own edits and those of others.

This user dislikes policy creep and understands that some consider it a big reason for Wikipedia's decline in participation.

Wikipedia is not censored.

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en

This user is a native speaker of the English language.

en-us
-N

This user is a native speaker of American English.

en-GB
-5

This user can contribute at a professional level of British English.

en-
eng-4

This user is able to contribute with a near-native level of Anglo-English.

fr-1

Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français.

This user is female.

This user is an autodidact in a wide range of subjects they never took in school or university.

Y

This user is a member of
Generation Y.

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This user is an Agnostic atheist.

This user is a feminist.

Mind
the
Gap

This editor wants to close Wikipedia's gender gap.

Dem

This editor is a Wikidemocrat.

incl

This user is an inclusionist.

sepa

This user is a Wikipedia separatist.

This user has contributed 7 images to Wikipedia and Commons.

This editor has been awarded the
Original Barnstar

This user is an advocate of open research and open access.

This user has access to the
Wikipedia Library.

Bloomsbury

This user has access to Bloomsbury through The Wikipedia Library

BNA

This user has access to the British Newspaper Archive through The Wikipedia Library.

Gale

This user has access to Gale through The Wikipedia Library.

This user has access to JSTOR through The Wikipedia Library.

NA

This user accesses Newspaper Archive via The Wikipedia Library.

OUP

This user has access to Oxford University Press through The Wikipedia Library.

This user knows why redirects exist and how to use them effectively.

This user prefers Wikipedia articles that use citation templates rather than reftags.

~~Rollback~~

This user does NOT support giving non-admin Rollback abilites to trusted users. ±

no
ads

This user is against advertisements on Wikipedia.

ANAL 4 A

This user advocates the use of proper grammatic structure.

This user uses edit summaries.

This user believes that articles are boring without images.

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This user likes to browse random articles, and make helpful edits whenever they can.

This user primarily contributes with a mobile phone or mobile device.

This user employs a more formal style of writing in articles than in talk pages.

This editor DOES NOT USE automated or semi-automated editing tools

This user believes that one should never stop feeding one's brain.

This user is interested in history.

This user loves History.

This user is interested in
historical research.

This user is an amateur Historian.

This user is interested in the history of Europe.

This user is interested in
the history of England.

This user is interested in the History of France.

This user is interested in the history of the Republic of Ireland.

This user is interested in Scottish History

This user is interested in the ancient Celts.

This user is interested in the
Middle Ages

This user is interested in the Renaissance period.

This user is interested in the Baroque period.

This user is interested in the Enlightenment.

This user is interested in the industrial revolution.

This user is interested in the French Revolution.

This user is interested in the Napoleonic era.

This user is interested in the Victorian era.

This user is interested in
World War II

This user has an active interest in Social history.

This user is interested in labour history.

This user is interested in
United States politics

This user is interested in the United Kingdom.

This user is interested in psychology.

This user is interested in sociology.

This user is interested in archaeology.

This user enjoys writing.

This user enjoys photography.

This user takes photographs with Canon equipment

This user enjoys travelling.

This user wants to travel throughout
Europe.

This user has visited England.

This user has visited 4 of the 48 counties of England.

4

This user is an Anglophile.

This user wants to emigrate to England.

This user is a bibliophile.

This user enjoys classic literature

This user enjoys reading fiction.

This user enjoys reading historical fiction.

This user enjoys reading Fantasy.

This user enjoys reading non-fiction.

This user enjoys reading Biographies.

This user enjoys the works of
Jane Austen.

This user enjoys the works of
Thomas Hardy

This user is a cinephile.

This user enjoys World cinema.

This user loves documentaries.

This user considers Buster Keaton as the greatest of all the clowns in the history of the cinema.

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This user lives in the United States of America.

This user is of Danish ancestry.

This user is of German ancestry.

This user is of English ancestry

This user is of Irish ancestry.

This user is a native of the U.S. State of Florida.

0

This user has no children.

This user is a lucid dreamer.

This user spends most of her free time thinking about random things...

This user supports the proletariat.

This user identifies as a
Democratic Socialist.

This user supports
universal health care.

This user believes in
universal college tuition.

This user supports stem cell research.

This user supports public transit.

This user opposes conscription.

This user supports Guam Statehood.

This user supports Puerto Rico Statehood

An ancestor of this user fought for the independence of the United States of America.

This user has ancestors who fought on both sides of the Civil War.

An ancestor of this user fought for the United States in World War II.

This user has visited
the Tower of London in
London, England.

This user has visited
Stonehenge
in Wiltshire, England.

This user has visited
Bath
(^incl. the Jane Austen Centre ^& Roman Baths)
in Somerset, England.

This user has visited
Liverpool
(^incl. The Beatles Story museum ^& The Cavern Club)
in Merseyside, England.

This user has visited
Lyme Park
(^a.k.a. Pemberley^📖)
in Cheshire, England.

This user has visited 16 of the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.

16

This user has visited:
• the Los Angeles area (^incl. Hollywood, Disneyland Resort ^& the La Brea Tar Pits)
• San Diego (^incl. Mission San Diego de Alcalá, Hotel del Coronado ^& San Diego Zoo)
• San Francisco
in the U.S. State of California.

This user has visited Seattle in
the U.S. State of Washington.

This user has visited Las Vegas in
the U.S. State of Nevada.

This user has visited
the U.S. District of Columbia.

This user has visited
Historic Jamestown and
Colonial Williamsburg
in the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia.

This user has visited
Historic Savannah in
the U.S. State of Georgia.

This user has visited
Historic Charleston,
and its French Quarter district,
in the U.S. State of South Carolina.

This user has visited
🚀 Kennedy Space Center 🌌
in Merritt Island in the U.S. State of Florida.

This user has visited the
Biltmore Estate,
the ‘Largest Privately-owned Home in the US,’
in the U.S. State of North Carolina.

This user has visited
St. Augustine, Florida,
the oldest continuously-inhabited, European-settled city, on the mainland of the United States of America.

This user has visited
the ‘Southernmost Point’ in
the United States of America.

This user has visited
Great Smoky Mountains Nat'l Park in NC, TN, USA

This user loves the museums of the U.S. District of Columbia.

This user loves national parks!

This user cares about animals

This user supports animal rights.

This user firmly believes that this is a better world because of the presence of dogs.

This user's favorite YouTube channels are Georg Rockall-Schmidt, LonerBox, Qxir ^& Some More News.

This user's favourite colour is purple.

This user is interested in
European dragons.

This user loves the Autumn.

This user loves the Winter.

This user loves thunderstorms.

This user loves snow days.

This user loves vinyl records.

This user appreciates progressive rock.

This user loves alternative rock.

This user enjoys British rock.

IDM

This user enjoys braindance.

This user likes listening to Retro music.

This user enjoys classical music.

S

This user is a fan of surreal comedy.

B

This user is a fan of black or dark comedy.

This user is against the colorization of black and white movies.

This user loves films by
Stanley Kubrick.

This user is a Marxist of the Groucho variety.

Here's another clue for you all. This user was Paul.

Radiohead

This user is a Creep

This user knows that there is no dark side of the moon really — matter of fact it's all dark.

This user is a fan of David Bowie.

This user is a Nirvana fan.

This user is unable to Shake the Disease.

This user enjoys music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

MN	Ooh, chimpanzee that! This user stays informed with Monkey News.

DS

This user knows you can't fight in the War Room.

There are those who call this user... Tim.

This user didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition.

This user knows that a Lannister always pays his debts.

PEEP

This user is a member of the Hair Blair Bunch.

You will never have a boss better than this user, someone who's basically just a chilled out entertainer...

AP

This user is a fan of Alan Partridge. Ah-Haa!

HITCHER

This user has minty vision.

This user is a blonde-haired, buttercream-frosted murder cake.

I.T.

This user Knows To Call 0118999881999119725....3 In An Emergency.

Spaced

This user knows it's just a sitcom.

Barnstars ⭐

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		The Original Barnstar
		Just to thank you for your edits to the Sylvia Likens article. Much appreciated. As I said last year, it is the most painful case I have heard about, but we get the collective goal. All the best. Kieronoldham (talk) 22:46, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, Kieronoldham!

Usernames 📇

P r e v i o u sㅤ🗂️ㅤU s e r n a m e s

In the interest of transparency, I'm listing here any previous usernames I might have had on Wikipedia.
I would have only, and have only, requested a username change to reflect a change in personal taste or for online safety reasons (which, obviously, I wouldn't be able to be as open about, but would still try to explain to some degree).

🦉	Previous username	Years active	Reason for change
1.	Thewickedfae	2013–2020	This was a really old username of mine from back in the day. Just no longer felt connected with it anymore; no controversy involved.