Valentine Westing

The most important thing to know about me is that I forget to check the "this is a minor edit" option for 99% of my minor edits.

I'm Valentine--call me Val, if you feel the need to call me anything.

I'm a high school student living in Pittsburgh, land of terrible food and worse weather. My interests relevant to Wikipedia would mostly consist of my obsession with copyediting and adoration of grammatical structure and convention. In general, areas that I'm interested in would be music (I already know a little too much about bands and pop culture, and would like to learn more about musical theory), pop culture/media, gender studies, queer literature, historical civil rights movements, and autism spectrum disorder-related topics.

I'm terrible with Wiki markup and very absentminded in general, which, fortunately, doesn't seem to be as fatal a combination for a new user as I'd originally assumed.

Note: I use userboxes to indicate information which I believe is important to my editing experience: topics I would like to edit, styles of editing, possible biases, et cetera. If you ever see me displaying behavior which is deemed inappropriate, these lists might be rather helpful for you to understand why I'm displaying said behavior. (Please do tell me to stop, though.)

Wikipedia editing style

This user is very lazy. Please feel free to do their work for them.

Wikipedia is not censored.

This user believes that edits need
useful summaries.

YOUThis user dies a little inside whenever they see the word you in an article.

Editing interests

This user is interested in politics.

Quoth this user, "Nevermore."

MSPAThis user fondly regards MS Paint Adventures.

This user likes Horror Movies.

This user is a Doctor Who fan.

FOBThis user wants these words to make things right, but it's the wrongs that make the words come to life.

This user is interested in contributing to articles on panic attacks and related disorders.

athThis user is interested in atheism.

This user is interested in religion as a sociological and historical phenomenon.

This user is interested in revolutions.

Who I am

theyThis user prefers to be referred to using singular they.

INFPThis user has an INFP
Myers–Briggs Type Indicator

This user has been affected by depression and anxiety.

This user is a member of the LGBTQ community.

This user is autistic.

Possible editing biases

Majority Usage
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Correct GrammarThis user recognizes that if most people make the same grammatical "mistake", it ceases to be a mistake and becomes proper grammar, for grammar has no immutable or moral "right" or "wrong" and "correct grammar" is determined by majority usage.

DemThis user is a Democrat.

This user is a strong supporter of feminism.

This user supports equal rights for LGBT people.

This user is anti-capitalist.

Edit this page!

I encourage you to edit this page with anything you want to say about me (note: about me, not to me).

• I'll start: Valentine is a little trigger-happy and usually forgets to follow through on anything more complicated than reverting a single edit. This is exemplified by the fact that they've been reminded about templates at least twice so far. Treat with appropriate levels of exasperation. Valentine Westing (talk) 18:53, 1 December 2015 (UTC)