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About Me

I’m LionmerterTHE (they/them). Most of what I do is copyediting, cleaning things up, adding stuff, and reading through sources. I usually stick to topics I’m already interested in, like spaceflight, cryptocurrency, and other technical areas. I enjoy starting articles from scratch and building them up.

I’m non-binary and usually stay away from LGBTQ+-related topics when editing. I know I might bring "some" bias there, so I prefer working on subjects where I can stay neutral and detached.

I studied computer science, which probably explains why I like structure and technical work.

Alongside that, I used to work with AWB for semi-automated edits, working in intervals and going through batches of similar edits. For anyone interested in AWB, I created here a prime example of how NOT to use it. Before AWB, I used to work with HotCat to expand cat trees. For transparency purposes, I always disclosed when I used any kind of LLM help for Article creation, rewordings etc. - please see LLM Disclosure.

I kinda fallen in love with Wikipedia. I like to think that, in our own ways, we’re all contributing something good, taking part in something that really matters. It’s an honour to be here, and an honour to be a Wikipedian.

Cheers,

Samantha (Sam) aka. Lion

Anecdotes

  • In 1989, a man named Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal at CERN titled “Information Management: A Proposal”, which described the system that later became the World Wide Web. His supervisor, Mike Sendall, wrote a short handwritten note on the cover of the proposal: "Vague, but exciting…”
  • The writer Oscar Wilde was known for his wit and literary success in late 19th-century London, but his personal life was deeply shaped by the social norms of his time. His relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas became public and led to a series of trials that resulted in Wilde’s imprisonment. During this period, he wrote De Profundis, a long letter reflecting on love, suffering, and identity. After his release, he lived in relative obscurity, and only later did his work and life come to be reassessed, with Wilde now regarded as both a major literary figure and an early symbol of LGBTQ+ history.
  • The artist Michelangelo, best known for works like the Sistine Chapel ceiling, wrote hundreds of poems and letters throughout his life. Many of these were dedicated to a young nobleman, Tommaso dei Cavalieri, and expressed deep emotional and aesthetic admiration. During his lifetime, such feelings were often kept discreet due to social norms. Centuries later, some of these writings were altered or gendered differently when published, before later scholarship restored their original form, offering a clearer view into the personal life behind one of the Renaissance’s most celebrated figures.
  • Leonardo da Vinci worked on the Mona Lisa for many years and never considered it truly finished. He carried the painting with him across Italy and later to France, continuing to refine it in small details rather than delivering it to the original patron. This prolonged process reflected his habit of constant experimentation and perfectionism, where observation and refinement mattered more than completion.
  • The philosopher Diogenes of Sinope lived a life of extreme simplicity, rejecting wealth, status, and social conventions. When Alexander the Great visited him and offered to grant any wish, Diogenes - who was resting in the sun - asked only that Alexander step aside because he was blocking the sunlight. The encounter became a lasting illustration of independence from power and material desire.
  • After developing Bitcoin and communicating extensively with early contributors, Satoshi Nakamoto gradually reduced his involvement and eventually disappeared from public communication, leaving the project to the community.
  • While staying at his family home during the plague years, Isaac Newton observed an apple falling from a tree. Rather than seeing it as trivial, he began thinking about why objects always fall toward the Earth, which later contributed to the development of his theory of gravity.
  • Albert Einstein, while working as a patent clerk in Bern, used his spare time to develop ideas that would later transform physics. In 1905, often referred to as his annus mirabilis (miracle year), he published a series of papers including the theory of special relativity. Despite the significance of these works, they were initially produced outside of academia, reflecting how fundamental insights can emerge independently of formal institutions.
  • The mathematician and computer pioneer Alan Turing, whose work laid the foundations of modern computing, lived much of his personal life in secrecy due to the social and legal restrictions of his time. Decades after his death, he came to be recognised not only for his contributions to science but also as a symbol of how identity and individuality can exist independently of societal expectations.
  • Late in life, Tesla lived mostly alone in New York hotels, increasingly isolated from the scientific and business worlds that had once celebrated him. He became deeply attached to feeding pigeons in the city, especially one particular white pigeon that regularly visited his window at the Hotel New Yorker.

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